Ubuntu 18.04 Minimal Spin Down To ~30MB Compressed / ~81MB On Disk

[aht0]

Biggest problem with Alipine is that you can't install locals so it's only good for applications that don't need localization.

Locales, also manpages etc have been removed from this Minimal Ubuntu. So Alpine's lack of locales is a void argument.

[discordian]

Biggest problem with Alipine is that you can't install locals so it's only good for applications that don't need localization.

Which means its a perfect fit for any developer, science or server appliance.

[stiiixy]

Busybox?

[webeindustry]

I know next to nothing about container architecture and performance...but I could imagine you wanting such a small footprint when you scale each instance into the hundreds if not thousands of containers. Definitely getting it that small makes it good for embedded stuff. Think Snaps installs on embedded platforms. And when the Linux Kernel is a Snap as well you have a full stack from kernel on up to be used as an embedded platform.

Yea that's not how it works. In docker your base image would be used for every container. You wouldn't have 1,000 copies for 1,000 containers using the same base image. It's useful for certain constraints, and also because why not? if it works without the bloat

[AJenbo]

Locales, also manpages etc have been removed from this Minimal Ubuntu. So Alpine's lack of locales is a void argument.

On Ubuntu you can install the locals you need on alpine you can't. Your software don't come prepackapre anywhere so you will need to make adjustments anyway.

[AJenbo]

Which means its a perfect fit for any developer, science or server appliance.

Unless that happens to be development (and testtes) of software that is translatablet, or hostihos multilingual software...