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

Re:Chimera Linux: a Linux distribution based on FreeBSD user... by e12e on Saturday July 03, 2021 @12:00PM (#27722516)

> 386BSD (of which FreeBSD is based) is an independent lineage to GNU and was released under the BSD licence. Thus also independent to GPL.

Is there a non-gnu c compiler? I could only find: https://github.com/386bsd/386bsd/tree/2.0/usr/src/usr.bin/gc...

People tend to forget that Linux was a small project that provided a gpl kernel for the GNU system - not the other way around (hence GNU/Linux, Android/Linux, GNU/kFreeBSD etc).

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Re:Chimera Linux: a Linux distribution based on FreeBSD user... by laumars on Saturday July 03, 2021 @03:55PM (#27724344)

I don’t think anyone in this thread would have forgotten that fact. The Op themselves mentioned Hurd (what was and still is intended to be the GNU kernel) so they clearly weren’t obvious to your point.

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Re:Chimera Linux: a Linux distribution based on FreeBSD user... by drewg123 on Saturday July 03, 2021 @03:26PM (#27724089)

The desire for a non-gpl compiler is part of what drove the development of llvm. llvm is the default compiler on FreeBSD. Compilers are hard, and it took a while.

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