Chimera Linux: a Linux distribution based on FreeBSD userland and LLVM

Re:Chimera Linux: a Linux distribution based on FreeBSD user... by dTal on Saturday July 03, 2021 @11:27AM (#27722222)

I'm getting a lot of mileage out of Void Linux. It's more like Arch than Ubuntu, but otherwise it fits your description. It's very easy to configure and administrate, mostly by virtue of doing nothing "weird" - just a simple init system, a powerful package manager, and utterly standard everything else (the Arch wiki works well for it).

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Re:Chimera Linux: a Linux distribution based on FreeBSD user... by flatiron on Saturday July 03, 2021 @02:33PM (#27723721)

Sounds like arch with extra steps. Why use it and not arch?

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Re:Chimera Linux: a Linux distribution based on FreeBSD user... by dTal on Sunday July 04, 2021 @06:54AM (#27728722)

Why use Arch and not Void? I am aware of several points of superiority - a better package manager, larger repos, wider architecture support and multiple libcs - and no points of inferiority. Well okay, one - Void's commitment to supporting musl occasionally leads to feature lags, since they won't push updates that break musl. The general feel of the system is more stable than Arch.

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Re:Chimera Linux: a Linux distribution based on FreeBSD user... by duncaen on Saturday July 03, 2021 @04:15PM (#27724538)

What extra steps? Arch is missing debug packages, a package manager that can detect bad partial updates, different architectures etc.

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Re:Chimera Linux: a Linux distribution based on FreeBSD user... by horlux on Sunday July 04, 2021 @05:09AM (#27728268)

void pkg manager is also way way faster than pacman, lack of systemd is nice a feature too (personally)

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