Alpine Linux in the Browser

• go

  2,067 119,564 10.0 Go

  The Go programming language

  

I'd run it mostly for cloud projects that need to be lightweight. I just ran into a quite unpleasant issue with Alpine and Go where Go compiled as a shared library with musl cannot work in Alpine. In fact it segfaults and doesn't give any indication as to why it segfaults (the stack is even corrupted if you try to use gdb). You can read about it here: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/13492

Of course one could argue that's mostly Go's fault...

• distroless

  122 17,695 9.3 Starlark

  🥑 Language focused docker images, minus the operating system.

  

For code that compiles into a binary like Rust, distroless is another option for a minimal image that doesn't run into the compiling issues of Alpine.

https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/distroless

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• manylinux

  13 1,348 8.8 Shell

  Python wheels that work on any linux (almost)

  

Just to clarify for anyone who isn't aware, the "compiling issues", at least historically, have been that that Alpine uses musl, and PyPI's manylinux wheels are built against old glibc versions. So stuff like numpy that would trivially and quickly install from whl on glibc distros (like a bare-bones Ubuntu image) trigger compilations and the installation of build-only dependencies on Alpine.

That said, it looks like as of late-2021, at least some projects are offering musllinux wheels as well, per the discussion here: https://github.com/pypa/manylinux/issues/37 (not numpy, though: https://pypi.org/project/numpy/#files)

• v86

  153 19,092 9.0 Rust

  x86 PC emulator and x86-to-wasm JIT, running in the browser

How about any x86 OS in the browser, with JIT translation to WASM and including network access?

https://copy.sh/v86/

To be fair, I believe Bellard's JS x86 emulator predates this (and WASM) by several years :)

• docker-node

  62 8,060 8.2 Shell

  Official Docker Image for Node.js :whale: :turtle: :rocket:

  

Node is about 60mb on it's own.

Taking a peak at the official dockerfile for alpine node (https://github.com/nodejs/docker-node/blob/28ad5e0e5d0e80df4...), they're also pulling in the following packages

        && apk add --no-cache --virtual .build-deps-full \

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