Docker Founders Hire Alpine Linux Developer to Move the Official Images from Ubuntu | Linux Today

Docker Founders Hire Alpine Linux Developer to Move the Official Images from Ubuntu

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Marius Nestor
Feb 6, 2016

Moving the official Docker images to Alpine Linux has several benefits, as Brian Christner reports in a recent blog article. First, you will see an increase in speed when downloading, installing and running the images on your Docker host.

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