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[DEV] Trying out Chimera Linux
tle:
Please note the distro is still being in heavy development
This Linux distro is developed by q66, yes the same person behind the Void Linux distro. It has distinctive differences to other distros:
* Adopt BSD userland utils
* Run musl C instead of glibc
* dinit instead of upstart or ..systemd
* support many archs for example riscv, ppc64le, x86_64, etc
* Adopt apk as package manager
* Use clang/LLVM instead of GCC
* GNOME as the de facto DE
The installation process is quite straight forward and primitive as this stage as it does not offer you any installer yet. The GNOME 43 is quite snappy compared to that of Fedora 37 despite of lacking some core gnome softwares (q66 will be adding them in the near future). Some features are not working correctly for example setting datetime in GNOME control center. There will be some hurdles to overcome to workaround GNOME integration with systemd. Overall I think this is a promising distro that would be supersede Void Linux in the near future.
tle:
And yes it does play games nicely
MauryG5:
Good news, what about navigation browsers? Can Firefox and Chromium run like on Debian?
tle:
Firefox ESR runs fine. There is no package for Chromium but I don't see why it would not run
MauryG5:
Ah so currently Chromium only works under Debian, there are no packages for other distributions as far as I understand ... Too bad
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