Just Enough Chimera Linux
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speckx

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16 hours ago

18 comments

lrvick ・ 14 hours 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

  • fuhsnn ・ 11 hours ago

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

    • lrvick ・ 9 hours ago

      100%, and it is indeed mimalloc, though you can also use glibc or mallocng if needed.

      • fuhsnn ・ 7 hours ago
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        The website you linked says mallocng?

        • lrvick ・ 2 hours ago

          Out of date. We just merged mimalloc as the default last release.

  • r0l1 ・ 14 hours ago

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

    • lrvick ・ 12 hours ago

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

      • r0l1 ・ 5 hours ago
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        I have a RTX 2080 to give away. Interested?

        • lrvick ・ 2 hours ago

          I was about to say I would need a newer gen card to test the new open kernel driver stack, but on some research it appears that the 2080 series was the first to support them, and with that new knowledge I realized I have a 2080Ti on hand already.

          So thanks for offering yours. It made me remember I actually own one!

fennec-posix ・ 11 hours 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!

  • userbinator ・ 7 hours ago

    When I last looked a few years ago, there were some efforts and successes in the far East doing "chimera Windows", mostly based on running an older userland (like XP) on a newer kernel (10).

    • networked ・ 2 hours ago

      There is the Anglophone https://loss32.org/ project for a Linux distro with a Win32 desktop. It's #loss32 on Libera Chat.

JCattheATM ・ 11 hours 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.

  • stock_toaster ・ 10 hours ago

    Chimera uses mimalloc instead of musl’s mallocng.

    https://chimera-linux.org/docs/configuration/musl

    • lrvick ・ 8 hours ago

      Alpine and Chimera however both are not reproducible or full source bootstrapped or signed and do not enforce code review. I would honestly steer clear of both for anything but low risk hobby use cases.

      IMO they should be best thought of as research projects useful for reference by distros designed for production use.

Crontab ・ 14 hours 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?

czernobog ・ 9 hours ago

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

sazz ・ 2 hours ago

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