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Alpine is musl only; Void has both glibc and musl variants. Void seems more desktop-focussed than Alpine, and (at least as of a year ago) I didn't have a lot of luck with ZFS on Alpine.


IIRC you can install glibc into Alpine when an application needs it but the packages are all musl.


A glibc chroot still seems to be the recommended method: https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Running_glibc_programs


Hehehe I wrote the original wiki entry (because someone on irc asked for something like that)

I think it's still the recommended way for dependency management reasons and missing glibc-packages. If you can get your program running with the alpine glibc you should probably do that




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