A modern, general-purpose non-GNU Linux distribution
Chimera aims to be a clean and usable general-purpose Linux OS.
In order to get there, it tries to liberate itself from the common baggage of most Linux-based systems and do 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. Architecture tiering system ensures optimal support.
The distribution is in heavy development. Right now, it is a relatively complete graphical system with a multimedia stack and a web browser, capable of running Wayland and X11 environments, such as GNOME and Enlightenment. However, it is still source-based (meaning you have to compile everything yourself) and undergoes frequent refactoring, so it is not yet safe to use.
Initial bootable ISO images for x86_64 and ppc64le are now available. Check the Downloads page for links and instructions. Note that these are pre-alpha quality and are provided solely for testing purposes.
It is currently planned that the distribution will stabilize once apk-tools has released a stable 3.x version. Chimera currently relies on a Git snapshot of apk-tools.
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