[ariadneconill]

We have contributed the majority of our improvements in such a way that other APK distributions, including Alpine, can make use of them, and the original plan was to just leverage Alpine for all of this. Indeed, we even sponsored the refactoring of musl's DNS implementation that allows it to support DNS over TCP now.

But we heard overwhelming demand for glibc support from customers. So we built a companion distribution for customers who needed to run GNU/Linux workloads, but still wanted to leverage the advantages of Alpine.