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Docker Official Image packaging for golang

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tianon·Sep 24, 2014

This question was asked on https://github.com/docker-library/golang/issues/11#issuecomm... too, but the main reason is that the "debian" base images are tightly controlled and kept really minimal, so it's easy to make the new images as minimal as they can be too. The Ubuntu images are also great, but they include more stuff as part of keeping a consistent experience, so they don't have the same focus on minimalism that the Debian images can.

In Docker Hub Official Repos: Announcing Language Stacks

ae0000·Sep 24, 2014

Does anyone know why debian was chosen as the source for these repos? I thought they were defaulting to ubuntu. ie. https://github.com/docker-library/golang/blob/master/1.3/Doc...

In Docker Hub Official Repos: Announcing Language Stacks