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BusyBox is available in numerous flavors that use different implementations of libc: musl-libc (as utilized in Alpine), standard glibc, and one other “tiny” variant of libc known as uclibc. This manner, you need to use BusyBox with different software program which may even be linked towards completely different libc implementations.
Debian Slim (35.9 MB)
In the event you use Debian as the bottom in your functions, the widely-used Debian Linux distribution has a minimal variant known as Debian Slim. Most of what’s excluded from Slim is documentation, assist for languages apart from English, and a few application-specific elements (e.g., documentation for KDE). These omissions alone shave down the scale of the Debian picture by round 40%.
One other Debian-based possibility is Bitnami’s minideb. The pictures for this distribution are constructed nightly and comprise the latest safety updates. Like Slim, it omits documentation, together with init-system-related elements, however features a customized install_packages script to permit operating apt non-interactively in the course of the container construct course of. The minideb picture is used as the muse for a lot of of Bitnami’s personal language runtime containers (PHP, Ruby, Node) and infrastructure functions (Redis, MariaDB).
