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Chimera Linux (chimera-linux.org)
submitted 1 year ago by wgs to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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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[-] Zucca@sopuli.xyz 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Alpine is also GNU-free afaik.

EDIT: Except for the GCC toolchain.

[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 21 points 1 year ago

It's a lot of things-free, to be fair

[-] wgs 8 points 1 year ago

That's kind of the point though, as it's now used as a base for many containers ;)

[-] monotrox@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Its still amazing how easy it is to use, you can get a desktop environment running in a couple of minutes and apk is insanely fast and easy

Would have probably tried as my main PC distro if NVIDIA drivers would work on it :(

[-] reggie@lemmy.fmhy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Chimera Linux actually uses apk or Alpine Package Keeper as its package manager, they acknowledge this but despite that market themselves as if they did something revolutionary that has never been done before

[-] baronvonj@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

had the same thought, not sure if Alpine is built with LLVM though.

[-] Zucca@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

Yup. It uses GCC toolchain afaik.

[-] wgs 2 points 1 year ago

That's right ! It uses BusyBox as its userland which was my main problem with it (though you can easily install GNU coreutils).

[-] LeFantome@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

Alpine is still GCC based in the very least.

[-] Zucca@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

Indeed it seems so.

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