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why is it so much smaller than debian slim?

• Rapzid 3y ago
  It's not, Debian slim is ~28.8MB compressed.
  • ploxiln 3y ago
    If you want to compare compressed size, then alpine is 3.25MB
    • derkades 3y ago
      The parent comment was comparing Ubuntu and Debian-slim
• yjftsjthsd-h 3y ago
  Fewer features (including less "we've supported doing that for 20 years and we're not cutting it now"), packages separated into parts (ex. where debian might separate "foo" into "foo" for the main package and "foo-dev" for headers, alpine will also break out "foo-doc" with manpages and such), general emphasis on being small rather than full-featured.