Alpine Linux (in lightweightness), but glibc?

Cyclohexane@lemmy.ml to Programming@programming.dev – 19 points –

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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What runtime do you need? If it’s Node.js, the “slim” Docker images are lightweight and based on Debian. (for example node:lts-slim)

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