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.

  • smpl@discuss.tchncs.de
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    Sounds like an interesting systemd free Linux distro and what’s not to like about the BSD userland. Thanks for sharing.

  • Jarmer@slrpnk.net
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    Oof, the most recent news posting is “entering alpha phase” which is a big no thanks for me. In addition, the main descriptive sentence says “It aims to be clean and usable while addressing the various shortcomings of an average Linux distribution.” But then doesn’t explain that. What does it consider to be shortcomings of an average distro?

  • Zucca@sopuli.xyz
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    1 year ago

    This means Chimera is not a GNU/Linux system, as it utilizes neither GNU utilities, nor GNU libc, nor GNU toolchain. The system is bootstrappable almost entirely without any GNU components (other than make) and is capable of booting without them (however, most people will have some).

    I’d guess they’ll move to some bsd make at some point.

    • CjkOvPDwQW@lemmy.pt
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      1 year ago

      Good luck with that, with the amount of Programmers that use the Gnuism for make, I would say that no developer can patch that amount of software

      • Zucca@sopuli.xyz
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        1 year ago

        Uh. That would be huge undertaking indeed.

        Let me guess all these makefile generators create gnu-style makefiles too?

        • CjkOvPDwQW@lemmy.pt
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          1 year ago

          Didn’t know that those projects existed, I have always written makefiles from begining based myself on the dwm makefiles :)

          But a quick Google search and the first project that appears say that:

          A simple makefile generator that can generate makefiles for: GNU-make targeting MinGW, clang-cl or MSVC.