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Docker Images To Be Based On Alpine Linux (brianchristner.io)

Posted by timothy on from the blaupunkt-no-longer-available dept.

New submitter Tenebrousedge writes: Docker container sizes continue a race to the bottom with a couple of environments weighing in at less than 10MB. Following on the heels of this week's story regarding small images based on Alpine Linux, it appears that the official Docker images will be moving from Debian/Ubuntu to Alpine Linux in the near future. How low will they go?

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  1. Summaries, how do they work? by bgarcia · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So, WTF is docker? I thought docker was some Apple UI concept, but I have no idea what it is in Linux.

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    1. Re: Summaries, how do they work? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      In other words, its nothing new, but now with new added lack of security oversight because administration is hard and therefore worthless in todays race to the bottom.

    2. Re:Summaries, how do they work? by mjm1231 · · Score: 3, Insightful

      I've been running linux as my main OS on my personal computers for about a dozen years. I browse through Slashdot nearly every day. I have never heard of Docker. I work in a Windows world and don't do application development. I'm not sure why you think this would be on the radar of every single reader of Slashdot.

      This failure to explain, or even link to an explanation, of the core concept of a summary is probably one of the biggest recurring editorial failures on Slashdot. (And yeah, that's saying something.) Technology has a lot of specialized branches. I know plenty of application developers who don't know anything about networking, or network admins who don't know anything about databases or writing code, etc. etc.

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