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Review on Alpine Linux with Docker by Jonathan Brendemuehl

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Good alternative operating systems with Docker support

I like that it is easy to install, configure and use this Operating system for my needs as an embedded developer in C/C++ using gcc compiler which runs very well under docker containers (Ubuntu). It's not available natively but you can easily get access through github or other sources of packages such as apt-get command line tool from Ubuntu repositories - so no need to compile everything by hand! The only thing i don't really care about are some dependencies issues when compiling new programs where there might be missing libraries needed during compilation process. But those problems usually go away after installing all required external software manually via pip3 package manager instead of building them into container itself. You will have much more freedom if your goal is just running simple web server without needing any additional services installed along side of webserver application since they should already come preinstalled out of box within alpine linux distribution. Try.

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Pros
  • Very fast boot time especially considering minimalistic OS architecture
Cons
  • Some cons