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    [–] BetaDoggo_@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    What's the deal with Alpine not using GNU? Is it a technical or ideological thing? Or is it another "because we can" type distro?

    [–] IsoSpandy@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

    It's because we can to an extreme. Extremely lightweight distro. Very nice in containers and vms. One of the most loved ones out there.

    [–] recarsion@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    I don't know if people use it on desktop but with its minimal size it's convenient as hell for docker images that don't need a lot of dependencies installed

    [–] AllOutOfBubbleGum@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

    I used it on a laptop for a while. Pretty impressive just how lightweight it is, but a bit of a grind to initially get everything working as expected. Overall, I'm a big fan.

    [–] unique_hemp@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 10 months ago

    All the core tools are actually a single executable with many symlinks to it, which makes the distro very compact. This makes it very nice as a base for Docker images.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BusyBox