Alpine's libc is intentionally non-standard* and Alpine (at least, some of their members) explicitly state that Alpine is not GNU Linux while most other distros

Alpine's libc is intentionally non-standard* and Alpine (at least, some of their members) explicitly state that Alpine is not GNU Linux while most other distros people use are :) distroless is picking up a lot of interest especially with its recent uptick in its adoption in the kubernetes community.