Comment by 👻 darkghost
Re: "The impulsive distro test"
The classical Chimera is something like a lion with a goats head and a snake's tail. Real chimeras exist in animals but tend to be the mixing of two embryos to produce one individual. You may not know you're a chimera until genetic testing finds something odd. It's also one reason why DNA evidence isn't 100% certain.
The reference is to using an unholy combination of the Linux kernel, BSD userland, LLVM/clang compiler, and android package manager. I've had to kill -9 three_goats just to curry favor with the gods so they don't smite me for even thinking about running this.
2025-04-06 · 1 year ago
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🚀 stack · 2025-04-06 at 13:50:
I am getting too old to distro-hop, as proven by my FreeBSD fiasco. Well, not really a fiasco but I ended up really frustrated with getting every little bit to work right, annoyed by weird poorly documented ABI and stack alignment issues (only matters if you code in Assembler right to the kernel), and wound up losing the drive by somehow screwing up ZFS.
I also tried Alpine and some other small distro I can't even remember, and gave up rather quickly because I didn't feel like spending a week getting WiFi to work or get it to wake up after (permanently) suspending or whatever.
So I am sticking to XUbuntu for now, which is way better than anything else I tried so far, and most things work well right out of the box.
👻 darkghost [OP] · 2025-04-06 at 14:31:
I spent about an hour and a half trying to get chimera to boot. Time not well spent, particularly after a 60 hour work week.
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The impulsive distro test — I decided to embark on a distro test. But which one? There's so many choices. Some distros get no love. So many you may not have heard of. Let's shine a spotlight on one. Let's try the distro at the less than enviable position of #100 on DistroWatch.com. Today's winner is... Chimera Linux! Here is the description per DistroWatch: "Chimera Linux is an independent distribution which uses an unusual combination of technologies behind the scenes. Chimera Linux uses BSD...