Why Linux is portrayed as a Penguin?
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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).
Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.
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I recently found myself forced to give a shit, when one of our projects started doing weird shit after switching to an Alpine-based docker image.
Can you elaborate? I'm aware alpine uses non-GNU stuff like musl & busybox. But overall, they're not too far off.
Here's one https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65181012/does-alpine-have-known-dns-issue-within-kubernetes
It was a dependency resolution issue. Npm couldn't install one of the packages without some package.json gymnastics, and those same gymnastics somehow fucked with our debian based images that we use for development. I can't say much more because I honestly don't know what exactly happened. I just diagnosed the issue and forwarded it to our resident node guru, who took it from there.