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To really hammer this home: Alpine uses musl instead of glibc for the C standard library. This has caused me all types of trouble in unexpected places. I'm all

To really hammer this home: Alpine uses musl instead of glibc for the C standard library. This has caused me all types of trouble in unexpected places. I'm all for suggestions for a better base OS in small docker containers, mostly to run nginx, php, postgress, mysql, redis, and python.

autotune 11mo ago
How about debian-slim?
- dotancohen 11mo ago
  I actually have used that, thank you. Excellent choice.
throwaway2037 11mo ago
> Alpine uses musl instead of glibc for the C standard library. This has caused me all types of trouble in unexpected places. I have no experience with alternative C libs. Can you share some example issues?
- dotancohen 11mo ago
  DNS queries randomly failing: https://purplecarrot.co.uk/post/2021-09-04-does_alpine-resolve_dns_properly/ https://purplecarrot.co.uk/post/2021-09-04-does_alpine-resol...
  - LeFantome 11mo ago
    Not an issue anymore
    - dotancohen 11mo ago
      Really? I seen to remember this being considered "not a bug" by some narrow view of the issue.
      - lproven 11mo ago
        Fixed over 2 years ago, as I reported at the time. https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/16/alpine_linux_318/ https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/16/alpine_linux_318/
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- lproven 11mo ago
  > I have no experience with alternative C libs. Can you share some example issues? No precompiled Linux stuff runs. No Chrome, no 3rd party Electron apps work unless specifically ported. For me, no Slack, no Panwriter, no Ferdium. Flatpak works, sort of, with restrictions. Snap doesn't.