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Those two, particularly Ubuntu, are the opposite of naked. Try something like Arch.
by berti 8y ago
Those two, particularly Ubuntu, are the opposite of naked. Try something like Arch.
- yjftsjthsd-h 8y agoArch? Arch ships packages with debug symbols and docs included, and takes over a hundred MB for just a base install! Alpine is way smaller; base image under 10MB, packages broken apart so you only get binaries unless you ask for more, linked with musl to make it even smaller. EDIT: This is meant to be a bit tongue-in-cheek, but I seriously do prefer Alpine over literally every other Linux distro I've yet seen for minimalism. Also geared towards embedded-type work.
- berti 8y agoFair enough, and you're quite right about Alpine being geared more for embedded. For general use I find Alpine a bit of a pain due to lack of systemd (bring on the hate ;)), and of course lack of docs hurts usability a bit. With regard to debug symbols, I like what Redhat and Debian are doing with an embedded build id linking binaries to separate debug packages.
- agumonkey 8y agoyeah come on, don't bring Alpine in the mix, we were talking about Ubuntu, not DamnSmallLinux. Alpine is great, no doubt, but it's in a class of its own.