Chimera Linux

I just found about this distro, which is relatively new (2021). Its specificity is that it doesn’t features any GNU software by default, which I find interesting.

  • HousePanther
    10•10 months ago

    This is kind of intriguing. I like FreeBSD’s userland tools a lot better. Have you tried running it? If not, I might see what it’s all about. The GNU toolchain is a mixed bag. Some of it is really well documented, some stuff average, and others is just a dog’s breakfast.

    • z3braOP
      4•10 months ago

      I only learnt about it today, so I couldn’t check it. I have this project of building my own distro using musl and a non GNU userland, and it is a very annoying process, so I felt like I should share this one.

      • HousePanther
        1•10 months ago

        I can only imagine that this project is not an easy one! Wishing you the best with it.

    • @LeFantome@programming.dev
      3•10 months ago

      I have been running it for a while. It is mostly awesome.

      A non-trivial amount of software assumes Glibc though and so you will have the odd hiccup because of MUSL. I think one of the goals of Chimera is to improve that situation.

      • @Zucca@sopuli.xyz
        1•10 months ago

        I have one old laptop where I installed Gentoo with musl+llvm profile. It’s fun to tinker with. If I need to run any game binaries, I guess I’d need to run some containers…