Re:Oasis: Small statically-linked Linux system
by josephg on Sunday August 14, 2022 @07:35PM
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> CC is another one for most C build systems, goroot.
The benefit docker provides here is giving users a simple, reproducible, downloadable environment with no external dependencies.
I'm not saying Docker is useless in the current build environment. On the contrary - Having a convenient way to sandbox, ship and execute arbitrary execution environments and statically linked executables is really useful.
I think this is such a great idea we should make debian work closer to this model. Nix is a fantastic step in this direction and it'd be great if more distributions followed suit.
Debian and friends fill your hard drive with of weird, non-reproducible versions of various dynamically linked libraries. The fact I can't take a binary on my x86_64 linux machine and run it on your x86_64 linux machine is an embarrassment. Moving toward static linking and fully reproducible builds would be a tremendous help here.
Docker feels like a kludgy hack. I'd love a world where docker isn't necessary because its best ideas have been lowered into the OS itself.
The benefit docker provides here is giving users a simple, reproducible, downloadable environment with no external dependencies.
I'm not saying Docker is useless in the current build environment. On the contrary - Having a convenient way to sandbox, ship and execute arbitrary execution environments and statically linked executables is really useful.
I think this is such a great idea we should make debian work closer to this model. Nix is a fantastic step in this direction and it'd be great if more distributions followed suit.
Debian and friends fill your hard drive with of weird, non-reproducible versions of various dynamically linked libraries. The fact I can't take a binary on my x86_64 linux machine and run it on your x86_64 linux machine is an embarrassment. Moving toward static linking and fully reproducible builds would be a tremendous help here.
Docker feels like a kludgy hack. I'd love a world where docker isn't necessary because its best ideas have been lowered into the OS itself.