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    * Based on musl libc, busybox and the Linux kernel.

As some one who is working on Go ecosystem, this drops my interesting immediately. Using musl libs means a lot of tools can't be used on this OS unless we install the glibc.

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Are there problems with go on musl, then? Not a heavy go user but I’m sure I’ve built a working go setup fairly painlessly on musl VM before. (Maybe it’s a recent problem or perhaps I’m misremembering and I did something horrid like pulling in glibc too, but I don’t think I did?)

Being unsure of my recollection, I've just bootstrapped and installed the most recent go 1.14.3 release on a pure musl x86_64 chroot. Everything I can think of to test so far is working impeccably.

In the past I have developed in Go on musl systems without problems, so unless something has changed, this should still not be a problem at all.

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