Do they publish an image thats suitable for a docker base?
I wonder why alpine became he defacto super slim base image over void?
I wonder why alpine became he defacto super slim base image over void?
Latest Alpine for comparison is 10 times smaller then void-musl. From what I remember Alpine by default is just smaller and more granular. If you really want to cut things down I'm sure Alpine is the best choice. Other notable difference would be with init system. Alpine with OpenRC is probably more conventional with many service scripts written for it. Void-Linux with runit is just a different blend. It is not hard to write service scripts for runit, but probably there are more scripts written for OpenRC so it's a win.
For me a big plus of Void is its build system, but I can't comment on how it compares to Alpine, because I don't know the latter. It is quite easy to add more packages all with proper cross-compilation support and builds are thinly isolated by default with unshare (but it can use bubblewrap). I am slowly implementing my own distribution based on Void, that will have ChromeOS-like updates (AB partition scheme). I want it to replace ChromeOS on my chromebooks and also have it as the OS for computers I manage for my family.
EDIT: Also as sibling commenter noted it is rolling only. It is a problem for my project that I would like to address by issuing updates only when critical software has newer versions (i.e. Firefox) and check packages against CVE database. I have seen this CVE checking on Gentoo, I'm not sure if it is cvechecker or something around eselect. Other possibility for me would be to freeze versions in step with some other stable distribution.
EDIT2: It was glsa-check tool from Gentoo.