▲ 115 ▼ Alpine Linux does not make the news (drewdevault.com) submitted 3 years ago by pnutzh4x0r@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml 37 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 4 points 3 years ago (2 children) Alpine's main thing is musl. musl is a lot better than glib, but you have to compile for it, which means no proprietary software. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 years ago (1 child) Why is musl better than glibc? Looking at the licence, it's just your classic corporate cuckolding that always leads to a net decrease in upstream contributions permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 2 points 3 years ago yeah, fair enough, that's a good point. Also now that I think about it, the dns resolution in musl is pretty bad, too. But I do appreciate that musl is designed to be lighter weight than glib, and that it supports static linking. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Drito@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 years ago The glibc can be introduced by an Alpine fork, so Alpine can stay pure. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 years ago (1 child) Why is musl better than glibc? Looking at the licence, it's just your classic corporate cuckolding that always leads to a net decrease in upstream contributions permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 2 points 3 years ago yeah, fair enough, that's a good point. Also now that I think about it, the dns resolution in musl is pretty bad, too. But I do appreciate that musl is designed to be lighter weight than glib, and that it supports static linking. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 2 points 3 years ago yeah, fair enough, that's a good point. Also now that I think about it, the dns resolution in musl is pretty bad, too. But I do appreciate that musl is designed to be lighter weight than glib, and that it supports static linking. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Drito@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 years ago The glibc can be introduced by an Alpine fork, so Alpine can stay pure. permalink fedilink source parent