Discussion
Just Enough Chimera Linux
lrvick: For those that like the LLVM/musl/mimalloc choices of chimera, but also want signed commits, signed reviews, container-native design, full source bootstrapping, 100% deterministic builds, and multi-party-signed artifacts check out https://stagex.tools
Crontab: Speaking of OpenZFS encryption, has there ever been any third party review of the source code? Or any testing of any kind of its effectiveness?
JCattheATM: This seems interesting, but I've been using Alpine as a desktop distro wth ZFS for years now, it has native support and ZBM is available in the community repo. Not sure what advantages Chimera would add.
stock_toaster: Chimera uses mimalloc instead of musl’s mallocng.https://chimera-linux.org/docs/configuration/musl
czernobog: Very cool and interesting.. Just found out it was started by a previous Void Linux maintainer, Void linux is great as well!
lrvick: Alpine and Chimera however both are not reproducible or full source bootstrapped or signed and do not enforce code review. I would honestly steer clear of both for anything but low risk hobby use cases.IMO they should be best thought of as research projects useful for reference by distros designed for production use.
fuhsnn: Don't get mimalloc and mallocng mixed up though, completely different animals.
lrvick: 100%, and it is indeed mimalloc, though you can also use glibc or mallocng if needed.
fuhsnn: The website you linked says mallocng?
fennec-posix: Now this is WHY I love UNIX and UNIX-likes, the fact you can chop and change core components like the Kernel, Userspace, Init, etc. and (within compatibility limits i.e. MUSL/GLIBC) run a hybrid system like Chimera.Would I run Chimera as a daily-drive? Probably not. Is it cool that someone can? Absolutely!
userbinator: When I last looked a few years ago, there were some efforts and successes in the far East doing "chimera Windows", mostly based on running an older userland (like XP) on a newer kernel (10).
r0l1: Really love that project. Is there any planned support for NVIDIA drivers and runtime?
lrvick: If anyone sponsors buying me modern Nvidia cards with open kernel support, I would gladly test and support them.
r0l1: I have a RTX 2080 to give away. Interested?
lrvick: Out of date. We just merged mimalloc as the default last release.
lieks: I've switched to Chimera from Alpine a few months ago. It's much nicer for desktop use. The service supervision is great, and many things that require some setup on Alpine just work out of the box. The packaging system is nicer too, though it does have less stuff already packaged.
