Just Enough Chimera Linux

[−] lrvick 31d ago

For those that like the LLVM/musl/mimalloc choices of chimera, but also want signed commits, signed reviews, container-native design, full source bootstrapping, 100% deterministic builds, and multi-party-signed artifacts check out https://stagex.tools

[−] r0l1 31d ago

Really love that project. Is there any planned support for NVIDIA drivers and runtime?

[−] lrvick 31d ago

If anyone sponsors buying me modern Nvidia cards with open kernel support, I would gladly test and support them.

[−] fuhsnn 31d ago

Don't get mimalloc and mallocng mixed up though, completely different animals.

[−] fennec-posix 31d ago

Now this is WHY I love UNIX and UNIX-likes, the fact you can chop and change core components like the Kernel, Userspace, Init, etc. and (within compatibility limits i.e. MUSL/GLIBC) run a hybrid system like Chimera.

Would I run Chimera as a daily-drive? Probably not. Is it cool that someone can? Absolutely!

[−] Crontab 31d ago

Speaking of OpenZFS encryption, has there ever been any third party review of the source code? Or any testing of any kind of its effectiveness?

[−] JCattheATM 31d ago

This seems interesting, but I've been using Alpine as a desktop distro wth ZFS for years now, it has native support and ZBM is available in the community repo. Not sure what advantages Chimera would add.

[−] czernobog 31d ago

Very cool and interesting.. Just found out it was started by a previous Void Linux maintainer, Void linux is great as well!

[−] boltzmann64 31d ago

if you want a stable chimera linux as a daily driver, go to voidlinux.org. chimera linux started as a void linux fork until it became it's own thing. they share the same dna. cbuild started as a xbps-src fork.

[−] sazz 31d ago

I don't need politics on my desktop, so no to Chimera Linux.

Just Enough Chimera Linux (dwarmstrong.org)

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