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Comment by Animats | Hacker News Reader

Well, having an entire copy of Linux in a container is a bit much.

This seems like a trade-off we're already okay with making.

    $ du -h /boot/vmlinuz-4.4.0-93-generic 
    6.8M    /boot/vmlinuz-4.4.0-93-generic
    $ du -h /usr/bin/docker
    12M     /usr/bin/docker

I think you're misunderstanding what GP means by "linux" on purpose.

And conveniently forgetting that docker is written in Go, so the binary also has the runtime and all used libraries baked in