Docker Founders Hire Alpine Linux Developer to Move the Official Images from Ubuntu

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docker-founders-hire-alpineWe wrote just two days ago about the massive Docker 1.10 release, and now it has been revealed to us that the Docker officials are considering dumping the Ubuntu Linux operating system in favor of Alpine Linux for the official images.

“Consider” is not the proper word in the sentence above because, by the looks of it, the Docker founder Solomon Hykes has already hired the developer of the Alpine Linux distribution to do all the migration work for them. “Incidentally, we have hired Natanael Copa, the awesome creator of Alpine Linux and are in the process of switching the Docker official image library from ubuntu to Alpine,”