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Re:Musl 1.2.4 adds TCP DNS fallback by synergy20 on Sunday July 30, 2023 @04:58PM (#36935902)
why is it so much smaller than debian slim?
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Re:Musl 1.2.4 adds TCP DNS fallback by yjftsjthsd-h on Sunday July 30, 2023 @05:08PM (#36935990)
Fewer features (including less "we've supported doing that for 20 years and we're not cutting it now"), packages separated into parts (ex. where debian might separate "foo" into "foo" for the main package and "foo-dev" for headers, alpine will also break out "foo-doc" with manpages and such), general emphasis on being small rather than full-featured.
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Re:Musl 1.2.4 adds TCP DNS fallback by Rapzid on Sunday July 30, 2023 @05:01PM (#36935924)
It's not, Debian slim is ~28.8MB compressed.
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Re:Musl 1.2.4 adds TCP DNS fallback by ploxiln on Sunday July 30, 2023 @09:06PM (#36937790)
If you want to compare compressed size, then alpine is 3.25MB
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Re:Musl 1.2.4 adds TCP DNS fallback by derkades on Monday July 31, 2023 @07:26AM (#36941073)
The parent comment was comparing Ubuntu and Debian-slim
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