4 ms·
Alpine is a joy. I use it as a very small and lightweight distro for various containers on my Proxmox server. I do wish there were a glibc-based Linux that had
by NelsonMinar 2y ago
Alpine is a joy. I use it as a very small and lightweight distro for various containers on my Proxmox server.
I do wish there were a glibc-based Linux that had an emphasis on being small. Not as small as Alpine, of course, but something without systemd and snap and 100MB of files for locales I'll never use.
- bradfa 2y agoYou can always build your own with a distro build system like OpenEmbedded, if you want to have ultimate control. But a minbase Debian install is reasonably small by today's standards. Doing this using the Debian installer is not as easy as doing it using a tool like debos if you're trying to build a disk image or file system tarball to make a container (then you don't need the kernel). A Debian bookworm minbase container (no kernel or locales, with ca-certificates, does have systemd) works out to about 71MB gzip compressed or 212MB uncompressed (about 78MB compressed and 235MB uncompressed if you add 1 locale). That's definitely not small but it is *reasonably* small in my book today.
- NelsonMinar 2y agooh interesting. The Debian you get using the Proxmox LXC template installs to 540MB. (Compare 10MB Alpine, 178MB OpenSUSE). But I don't think they put any effort into making it a small container. Getting down to 235MB is pretty good. (Hilariously, 4MB of Alpine's 10MB is libcrypto.)
- bradfa 2y agoBusybox replaces a LOT of much larger apps if you’re ok with a much reduced feature set. That’s probably much of the savings.
- UncleSlacky 2y agoMaybe antiX?