> At the distro level, it is ridiculous that so long after Alpine Linux, the chasm between them and Debian/RHEL remains. A minimal Linux install shouldn’t be 1G

> At the distro level, it is ridiculous that so long after Alpine Linux, the chasm between them and Debian/RHEL remains. A minimal Linux install shouldn’t be 1GB… I would say this is a feature and not a bug. Alpine Linux is largely designed to be run in containerized environments so you can have an extremely small footprint cause you don't have to ship stuff like a desktop or really anything beyond the very very basics. Compare that to Ubuntu which for the 5GB download is the "Desktop" variant that comes with much more software