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Alpine Linux (in lightweightness), but glibc? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Yes, I know so much of Alpine's lightweightness comes from not using glibc.

But still, the other options I see are far from being slimmed down. Debian, Ubuntu server, CentOS... They all could use some cuts.

What's the most slimmed down non-desktop distro that still has a glibc base? I honestly don't care if it has its own package manager (build tool handles this for me). Just wanna use it in containers for running server apps.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I'm running this on a low resource arm64 device. I have had trouble cross compiling to arm64 musl (availability of pre compiled binaries is low).

It also caused me a bunch of random small issues. For example nodejs doesn't officially support musl binaries. Bunch of random small things, like sdkman not working on musl.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yes, weird corner cases in musl cause a lot of things to misbehave when run on musl. For example, DNS upgrade to TCP, which is required for certain queries and covered by one of the DNS RFCs, wasn't implemented in musl for the longest time, although I think it finally got implemented recently. However, there are other cases like this fwiu.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Installing Python packages with pip is a hit-and-miss too

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

nodejs doesn’t officially support musl

Correct; unofficially and it causes some issues when running a NodeJS app on Musl. @[email protected] you can try another unofficial alpine image, or just go with Debian slim

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Don't recommend that glibc Alpine image please. You can't just have 2 libc's and expect everything to just work, it's just asking for problems. Either deal with Musl or choose a different distro.