When the author mentioned musl libc I was rather expecting them to say they switched. It seems rather more patches are required for uclibc support than for musl, while musl has the advantage of an active community. uclibc on the other hand hasn't seen a release for years (prompting someone to start up http://www.uclibc-ng.org/). Projects such as buildroot and openwrt maintain patches both to uclibc and to applications they wish to compile.

uClibc seems to cover a lot more of the GNU extensions, so it probably is more convenient from that point of view (seeing as gnulib is somewhat incomplete), but otherwise I agree. musl quickly seems to be becoming the premier libc out there, and Felker's leadership has been stellar thus far.

This sounds interesting. Sounds like Alpine Linux, which I Googled recently and was very intrigued after the first mention I had heard of it.

http://alpinelinux.org/

Already down it seems, so :

https://archive.today/xviTV

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:1y7wk6m...

Interesting read even though based on the title I was hoping to find something about some non-posixy Linux distro.

I can't think of any reason I'd want any less POSIX. In fact more is probably better for us all.

I guess that its more beyond POSIX only