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by jmakov 1138 days ago
Can somebody elaborate why would you want to use Alpine instead Clear Linux?
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vivegi 1138 days ago
Small optimized container image sizes is one of the reasons.

  alpine image is ~5 MB. [1]
  clearlinux image is ~80 MB. [2]
[1]: https://hub.docker.com/_/alpine

[2]: https://hub.docker.com/_/clearlinux/tags

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squarefoot 1138 days ago
Alpine also runs on ARM platforms, and by using musl instead of glibc it consumes a lot less resources, at the price of some (thankfully rare) incompatibilities here and there. For reference: https://wiki.musl-libc.org/functional-differences-from-glibc...
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KronisLV 1138 days ago
Link for anyone interested in Clear Linux: https://clearlinux.org/

Had heard of Alpine and used it plenty for containers, yet hadn't heard of Clear Linux before. Nowadays I just use Ubuntu for my container images (due to the same environment as my dev machine which simplifies things for me), but there's also a lot of benefit and elegance in more lightweight alternatives.

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pella 1138 days ago
Docker images ...

https://github.com/search?q=org%3Adocker-library+alpine&type...

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