Alpine Linux is the ultimate minimalist distroIt replaces heavy libraries with smaller onesCredit: Hannah Stryker / How-To GeekAlpine is a Linux distro that takes minimalism to the extreme. For comparison, the Ubuntu Server image is around 3GB, and requires 5GB of free disk space to install. That makes Alpine Linux literally a few orders of magnitude smaller than Ubuntu. With Alpine Linux, I can run hundreds of containers for the same storage cost of my existing 12-15 Ubuntu Server containers. Ubuntu Server usually sits around 100MB.