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.
Honestly, of you don't need to game, alpine is pretty great. Now if you absolutely need glibc… just use Arch, it's the most lightweight sane person distro I can think of, unless you wanna compile Gentoo that is
You messed with Debian's netinstall images? Just enough for you to get on-line and apt-get the packages you acually want, although the ISO does about take up a whole CDR.
Debian even has "slim" docker images that are pretty small.
Debian slim is my go to!
Why don't you want Musl?
I'm running this on a low resource arm64 device. I have had trouble cross compiling to arm64 musl (availability of pre compiled binaries is low).
It also caused me a bunch of random small issues. For example nodejs doesn't officially support musl binaries. Bunch of random small things, like sdkman not working on musl.
nodejs doesn’t officially support musl
Correct; unofficially and it causes some issues when running a NodeJS app on Musl. @cyclohexane@lemmy.ml you can try another unofficial alpine image, or just go with Debian slim
Don't recommend that glibc Alpine image please. You can't just have 2 libc's and expect everything to just work, it's just asking for problems. Either deal with Musl or choose a different distro.
