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Expand Up @@ -175,11 +175,10 @@ need to install, thus reducing the overall size of all images on your system.

This image is based on the popular
[Alpine Linux project](https://alpinelinux.org), available in
[the `alpine` official image](https://hub.docker.com/_/alpine). Alpine Linux is
much smaller than most distribution base images (~5MB), and thus leads to much
slimmer images in general.
[the `alpine` official image](https://hub.docker.com/_/alpine). Alpine Linux is significantly smaller than most distribution base images (~5MB),
which helps reduce overall image size.

This variant is highly recommended when final image size being as small as
This variant is recommended when minimizing final image size is important.
possible is desired. The main caveat to note is that it does use
[musl libc](https://musl.libc.org/) instead of
[glibc and friends](https://www.etalabs.net/compare_libcs.html), so certain
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