That's today. Debian was the recommended base image previously, and Alpine grew in popularity despite of this. The issues were more around DNS resolution base

That's today. Debian was the recommended base image previously, and Alpine grew in popularity despite of this. The issues were more around DNS resolution based on musl not having the same bugs as glic (I believe, this is from memory). At the end of the day, I suppose the community has spoken, and docker backed that up by hiring an Alpine developer, and I suppose the rest is history. Not that I intend to be having a go at Alpine, all distros go through this. I was just making the point it's a fairly small distro in contributor numbers, and it seems to have become fairly important to the eco system.