Just Enough Chimera Linux

fennec-posix•about 3 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!

lrvick•about 6 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•about 3 hours ago

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

lrvick•14 minutes ago

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

r0l1•about 6 hours ago

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

lrvick•about 4 hours ago

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

czernobog•30 minutes ago

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

JCattheATM•about 3 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•about 2 hours ago

Chimera uses mimalloc instead of musl’s mallocng.

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

lrvick•11 minutes 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•about 6 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?

Just Enough Chimera Linux

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