Docker Has No Plans on Ditching Ubuntu in Favour of Alpine Linux - Report | Linux Today

Docker Has No Plans on Ditching Ubuntu in Favour of Alpine Linux – Report

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Marius Nestor
Feb 10, 2016

Now, while those rumours have been partially confirmed by Docker, in the way that they indeed hired Alpine Linux’s Natanael Copa, they came as a surprise to Canonical, who apparently had no idea what’s going on, considering the fact that they have an active partnership with Docker Inc.

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Marius Nestor

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