A modern, general-purpose non-GNU Linux distribution
Chimera is a general-purpose OS based on the Linux kernel. It aims to be clean and usable while addressing the various shortcomings of an average Linux distribution.
It does so by liberating itself from the common baggage of most Linux-based systems and doing its own thing. Software is sourced from different places and sometimes written from scratch.
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Chimera is not a GNU/Linux - its userland tools are based on
FreeBSD, LLVM serves as the system toolchain, and musl
provides the C library implementation.
Chimera aims to eliminate legacy cruft where possible to deliver a modern, general purpose, fully featured operating system that is simple but complete.
While the system uses apk-tools and therefore binary
packaging, it aims to be trivially buildable from source using a
build system and package collection created from scratch.
You can use Chimera on all kinds of processors, including Intel/AMD, ARM AArch64, POWER and RISC-V. Central build system ensures packages are available everywhere.
Today marks the day when the project enters the alpha phase. This has some implications, though it is not a release per se, considering Chimera is a rolling distribution; let’s take a look at what it means for potential users and contributors.
As of today, a new set of images has been released. This is following the complete world rebuild that has been going on the last few days.
The new images are therefore generated from these new packages, and are the last images that are released before the alpha release.