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minus-squareBetaDoggo_@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·6 months agoWhat’s the deal with Alpine not using GNU? Is it a technical or ideological thing? Or is it another “because we can” type distro?
minus-squareunique_hemp@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up3·6 months agoAll the core tools are actually a single executable with many symlinks to it, which makes the distro very compact. This makes it very nice as a base for Docker images. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BusyBox
What’s the deal with Alpine not using GNU? Is it a technical or ideological thing? Or is it another “because we can” type distro?
All the core tools are actually a single executable with many symlinks to it, which makes the distro very compact. This makes it very nice as a base for Docker images.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BusyBox