On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 08:02:25PM -0500, Christopher Browne via talk wrote: > I'd like to hear a bit about the "new kid on the block," Alpine Linux. > > This is in heavy use by Docker folk; the general idea of it was to > establish a small distribution without a lot of "cruft" that's suitable as > a container OS. > > They made some interesting choices: > - Used to use uClibc as its libc, now uses musl, both being smaller and > simpler than glibc > - uses OpenRC as its init system > - well, of course, they created their own package management system... > - has some supposed hardening of the kernel > - I find it interesting that a Linux kernel is around 3MB in size, but > there are something like 130MB of kernel modules, which seems a bit > ridiculous > > Threat or offer ;-) is that I could prep a bit of material about Alpine, > covering what I was interested in discovering; if someone has experience > with it, that would be better than whatever I'd blather about ;-)
Well in the case of docker's use, there is no init system in most cases where it is used. It is certainly a lot smaller (often I see images shrink by 80% when switching to alpine). Docker of course doesn't use the alpine kernel build either, just the packages for the applications. -- Len Sorensen --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
