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Yes, I know so much of Alpine's lightweightness comes from not using glibc.

But still, the other options I see are far from being slimmed down. Debian, Ubuntu server, CentOS... They all could use some cuts.

What's the most slimmed down non-desktop distro that still has a glibc base? I honestly don't care if it has its own package manager (build tool handles this for me). Just wanna use it in containers for running server apps.

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[-] realharo@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago
[-] kinttach@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

What runtime do you need? If it’s Node.js, the “slim” Docker images are lightweight and based on Debian. (for example node:lts-slim)

[-] karlhungus@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

May be worth looking at distroless containers.

[-] tutor5051@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago
[-] a-man-from-earth@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

You can completely customize Gentoo Linux to be what you want it to be and slim it down to what you need.

[-] cyclohexane@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

My experience with gentoo docker images is that they're pretty big. I'm not sure why. Maybe the build system or the python deps make it big. I tried squashing the image layers and it was still big, so it isn't that.

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