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Chimera Linux (chimera-linux.org)

submitted 1 year ago by wgs@lemmy.sdf.org to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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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.

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[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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 points 1 year 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...