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@chimera in case people don't know what that means

Get the latest official RaspberryPi OS image boot your pi from it.

When it's done with it's initial setup. Enter in a terminal

sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade -y
sudo rpi-eeprom-update

# If it shows that there is a newer eeprom 
# version than the installed one do

sudo rpi--eeprom-update -a
sudo reboot

# if you are up to date than there's
# nothing to do. You can
# continue with Chimera Linux

#raspberrypi5 #chimeralinux

Gonna build a bunch of new #ChimeraLinux (live) images today.

We have updated Kernels including Raspberry Pi 3/4/5 moving from 6.12 LTS to 6.18 LTS a bunch of #KDE updates

Gonna build a bunch of new #ChimeraLinux (live) images today.

We have updated Kernels including Raspberry Pi 3/4/5 moving from 6.12 LTS to 6.18 LTS a bunch of #KDE updates

Gonna build a bunch of new #ChimeraLinux (live) images today.

We have updated Kernels including Raspberry Pi 3/4/5 moving from 6.12 LTS to 6.18 LTS a bunch of #KDE updates

Had to setup a NFS share and realized that I haven't done so since the Solaris 8 days.

Good thing that my setup is for a trusted network.
so quickly writing a /etc/exports and adding the correct line to the clients /etc/fstab don't forget to add a ,noauto there and done.

,nobootwait doesn't seem to be a thing anymore.

I'm not looking forward to the Kerberos fuckery

Oh and before anyone asks to get a NFS server running on Chimera Linux all you have to do is

doas apk add nfs-utils-server-dinit
doas dinitctl enable nfs-server
# write your /etc/exports file
doas exportfs -a

#linux #nfs #nfsv4 #chimeralinux

Had to setup a NFS share and realized that I haven't done so since the Solaris 8 days.

Good thing that my setup is for a trusted network.
so quickly writing a /etc/exports and adding the correct line to the clients /etc/fstab don't forget to add a ,noauto there and done.

,nobootwait doesn't seem to be a thing anymore.

I'm not looking forward to the Kerberos fuckery

Oh and before anyone asks to get a NFS server running on Chimera Linux all you have to do is

doas apk add nfs-utils-server-dinit
doas dinictl nfs-utils-server-dinit
#write your /etc/exports file
doas exportfs -a

#linux #nfs #nfsv4 #chimeralinux

Had to setup a NFS share and realized that I haven't done so since the Solaris 8 days.

Good thing that my setup is for a trusted network.
so quickly writing a /etc/exports and adding the correct line to the clients /etc/fstab don't forget to add a ,noauto there and done.

,nobootwait doesn't seem to be a thing anymore.

I'm not looking forward to the Kerberos fuckery

Oh and before anyone asks to get a NFS server running on Chimera Linux all you have to do is

doas apk add nfs-utils-server-dinit
doas dinictl nfs-utils-server-dinit
#write your /etc/exports file
doas exportfs -a

#linux #nfs #nfsv4 #chimeralinux

Had to setup a NFS share and realized that I haven't done so since the Solaris 8 days.

Good thing that my setup is for a trusted network.
so quickly writing a /etc/exports and adding the correct line to the clients /etc/fstab don't forget to add a ,noauto there and done.

,nobootwait doesn't seem to be a thing anymore.

I'm not looking forward to the Kerberos fuckery

Oh and before anyone asks to get a NFS server running on Chimera Linux all you have to do is

doas apk add nfs-utils-server-dinit
doas dinitctl enable nfs-server
# write your /etc/exports file
doas exportfs -a

#linux #nfs #nfsv4 #chimeralinux

Just notice that I have a couple a gigs free web space from my ISP so decided to put up my #chimeraLinux live images there

If you find bugs don't tell me. They will be fixed next build or not.

The use of this images is completely at your own risk an as is.

Do not bother the Chimera Linux project with anything related to this images.

The images are AMD64 (x86 64) only.
Update: Now also holds a Raspberry Pi (3/4/5) image ready for use on a SD. It's KDE only. Generic AARCH64 KDE iso added

Both the GNOME and the KDE live images contain fastfetch, Firefox, Thunderbird, Libre Office, ufw, flatpak and Bash in addition to what's in the offical Chimera Live images

The base image is a streight rebuild of the offical base image with no additions.
base now comes with qemu guest agent and vdaget.

The images will be updated whenever I feel like it.

https://c.1und1.de/@1632165589407503469/fVfz_5G2xzpIEFlMtFCZVQ

I hope that's okay @q66 ?

#linux #liveimage

Just Enough Chimera Linux

https://www.dwarmstrong.org/chimera-install-zfs/

#HackerNews #ChimeraLinux #ZFS #LinuxTech #OpenSource #SoftwareDevelopment

Updated post!

Chimera Linux is a delightful community-driven distribution built from scratch that does things differently: `musl` instead of the typical `glibc` for C library, `dinit` over `systemd` for system init, and a userland derived from FreeBSD core tools.

I show the choices I make to create an encrypted, minimal system with "just enough" to provide a solid foundation to build upon further:

https://www.dwarmstrong.org/chimera-install-zfs/

#ChimeraLinux #ZFS #ZFSBootMenu

Chimera Linux does things differently: the distro is built from scratch, musl instead of glibc, init is dinit, FreeBSD userland, ...

Fresh install on my Thinkpad using OpenZFS and ZFSBootMenu. Curious to explore further. I'm thinking of a setup where Chimera is my desktop and FreeBSD on a home server.

#ChimeraLinux #musl #dinit #FreeBSD #ZFS #ZFSBootMenu

Chimera Linux does things differently: the distro is built from scratch, musl instead of glibc, init is dinit, FreeBSD userland, ...

Fresh install on my Thinkpad using OpenZFS and ZFSBootMenu. Curious to explore further. I'm thinking of a setup where Chimera is my desktop and FreeBSD on a home server.

#ChimeraLinux #musl #dinit #FreeBSD #ZFS #ZFSBootMenu

Chimera Linux does things differently: the distro is built from scratch, musl instead of glibc, init is dinit, FreeBSD userland, ...

Fresh install on my Thinkpad using OpenZFS and ZFSBootMenu. Curious to explore further. I'm thinking of a setup where Chimera is my desktop and FreeBSD on a home server.

#ChimeraLinux #musl #dinit #FreeBSD #ZFS #ZFSBootMenu

Chimera Linux does things differently: the distro is built from scratch, musl instead of glibc, init is dinit, FreeBSD userland, ...

Fresh install on my Thinkpad using OpenZFS and ZFSBootMenu. Curious to explore further. I'm thinking of a setup where Chimera is my desktop and FreeBSD on a home server.

#ChimeraLinux #musl #dinit #FreeBSD #ZFS #ZFSBootMenu

Chimera Linux does things differently: the distro is built from scratch, musl instead of glibc, init is dinit, FreeBSD userland, ...

Fresh install on my Thinkpad using OpenZFS and ZFSBootMenu. Curious to explore further. I'm thinking of a setup where Chimera is my desktop and FreeBSD on a home server.

#ChimeraLinux #musl #dinit #FreeBSD #ZFS #ZFSBootMenu

Chimera Linux ( @chimera ) running KDE ( @kde ) Plasma 6.6.1 on an Asus V1Jp Notebook from 2006
CPU: Intel Core 2 T5600
GPU: AMD Mobility Radeon X1700
RAM: 3 GB DDR2 667 MHz / PC2-5300
HDD: Western Digital WD5000BEVT Scorpio Blue 500GB 5400 RPM*

*Note: Can't justify to waste a SSD on this old machine with the current market pricing

#screenshot #chimeraLinux #kde #kdeplasma #linux #asus #notebook

Huuuuge thank you to @chimera for their very clear and stress relieving stance on "generative" AI, as well as other unpleasant things that go against the values one should expect of FLOSS projects. You may have earned yourself a new user based on that alone!
Time to boot up an old laptop and see how it runs~!

Also, side note: "Chimera" Linux. Idek if I'm pronouncing that correctly when I say it out loud, but whichever way I try ends up sounding nice. I like that name (and your colour scheme. :3

#ChimeraLinux #Linux #OpenSource #FLOSS #FOSS #FuckAI #NoAI #GenerativeAI #GenAI #LLM #LLMs

Been doing a little anecdotal cross comparing Alpine versus Chimera for little things that I stub my toe on every once in a while.

I notice that Chimera already has Plasma 6.6 since it is a rolling release. I expect for Alpine it'll come with 3.24 in May. Which is fine of course - no one died waiting for a point release. Ha.

I wanted to dump ImageMagick for an alternative method to CLI bulk convert webp images. Alpine has libwepb-tools and ffmpeg (fishing with nukes), but wanted to try gmic. It is in (a)testing but complains that libImath is not available. Edge has it so will be in 3.24 I guess. Chimera installed it without issue.

Alpine doesn't rely on Flatpak as much for the stuff I use compared to Chimera but that's no big deal, especially coming from Debian.

I have nothing scientific (metrics) to back this up but Chimera seems to run like a scalded cat in a VM, even compared to Alpine after coming from Debian. May need to reinstall on real hardware & verify.

Fun!

#Linux #AlpineLinux #ChimeraLinux

Per this list (https://noai.starlightnet.work/list.html), Chimera Linux and ElementaryOS don't allow LLMs to slop up things.

This doesn't address the problem of the kernel and systemd doing it, of course.

#ChimeraLinux #ElementaryOS #NoAI #slop

Updating a Chimera Linux VM that I haven't started up in over a month.

Neato, kernel 6.19.5 and Plasma 6.6...

#Linux #Chimera #ChimeraLinux

I have committed crimes against Chimera Linux.

#ChimeraLinux

#FediAsks What is the best way to enable zram with dinit? I've tried a post on the Artix forums and I've followed the setup according to the Chimera services description, but neither work for me. Obviously sth I'm missing 🤔
#ChimeraLinux #dinit

@txt_file #chimeralinux hs PLM on the todo list to figure out what needs doing to make it work with dinit and turnstile but for now we're just keep running SDDM as it's not discontinued.

I packaged Snow 1.3.0 for Chimera Linux. I wonder if this is the first time it's been run on a Loongarch machine.

#ChimeraLinux #RetroComputing #Macintosh

I've had no luck with any of the Wayland desktops I've tried on this loongarch machine. All fail to start with one error or another related to graphics. X11 XFCE session seems to be working ok though.

Performance is not amazing but seems decent. E.g. browsing the modern web seems fine, including JS heavy sites like Mastodon and Mattermost. Speedometer result and allsorts build time for reference.

(this toot posted from the machine)

#xfce #loongarch #ChimeraLinux

I've had no luck with any of the Wayland desktops I've tried on this loongarch machine. All fail to start with one error or another related to graphics. X11 XFCE session seems to be working ok though.

Performance is not amazing but seems decent. E.g. browsing the modern web seems fine, including JS heavy sites like Mastodon and Mattermost. Speedometer result and allsorts build time for reference.

(this toot posted from the machine)

#xfce #loongarch #ChimeraLinux

I've had no luck with any of the Wayland desktops I've tried on this loongarch machine. All fail to start with one error or another related to graphics. X11 XFCE session seems to be working ok though.

Performance is not amazing but seems decent. E.g. browsing the modern web seems fine, including JS heavy sites like Mastodon and Mattermost. Speedometer result and allsorts build time for reference.

(this toot posted from the machine)

#xfce #loongarch #ChimeraLinux

I've had no luck with any of the Wayland desktops I've tried on this loongarch machine. All fail to start with one error or another related to graphics. X11 XFCE session seems to be working ok though.

Performance is not amazing but seems decent. E.g. browsing the modern web seems fine, including JS heavy sites like Mastodon and Mattermost. Speedometer result and allsorts build time for reference.

(this toot posted from the machine)

#xfce #loongarch #ChimeraLinux

I've had no luck with any of the Wayland desktops I've tried on this loongarch machine. All fail to start with one error or another related to graphics. X11 XFCE session seems to be working ok though.

Performance is not amazing but seems decent. E.g. browsing the modern web seems fine, including JS heavy sites like Mastodon and Mattermost. Speedometer result and allsorts build time for reference.

(this toot posted from the machine)

#xfce #loongarch #ChimeraLinux

I got Chimera installed on the loongarch mini-PC. Installation was very smooth, basically identical to an x86_64 install. I also installed GNOME, but gnome-shell is unstable. I can log in and poke around for a brief amount of time, but then it crashes and I'm back at the login screen. Looks like I have my first project there.

#ChimeraLinux #loongarch

I got Chimera installed on the loongarch mini-PC. Installation was very smooth, basically identical to an x86_64 install. I also installed GNOME, but gnome-shell is unstable. I can log in and poke around for a brief amount of time, but then it crashes and I'm back at the login screen. Looks like I have my first project there.

#ChimeraLinux #loongarch

I got Chimera installed on the loongarch mini-PC. Installation was very smooth, basically identical to an x86_64 install. I also installed GNOME, but gnome-shell is unstable. I can log in and poke around for a brief amount of time, but then it crashes and I'm back at the login screen. Looks like I have my first project there.

#ChimeraLinux #loongarch

I got Chimera installed on the loongarch mini-PC. Installation was very smooth, basically identical to an x86_64 install. I also installed GNOME, but gnome-shell is unstable. I can log in and poke around for a brief amount of time, but then it crashes and I'm back at the login screen. Looks like I have my first project there.

#ChimeraLinux #loongarch

I got Chimera installed on the loongarch mini-PC. Installation was very smooth, basically identical to an x86_64 install. I also installed GNOME, but gnome-shell is unstable. I can log in and poke around for a brief amount of time, but then it crashes and I'm back at the login screen. Looks like I have my first project there.

#ChimeraLinux #loongarch

Spent the evening messing around with Alpine Linux (refresher) and Chimera Linux (all new to me) as full Plasma desktops.

Not sure which one I like better but they both kinda impress upon me that perhaps 'mainstream' Linux is headed in the wrong direction. They both feel lean, mean, and up to date compared to other 'normal' distros.

All the main productivity apps are available via flatpak so being musl based doesn't matter except for Nvidia drivers and perhaps dev work that explicitly requires GNU libs/tools.

Intrigued by the BSD userland on Chimera. Does this make Chimera a 'real UNIX'? Ha! A UNIX Kernel required technically I guess.

Chimera's repos aren't as full as Alpine's but flatpak makes it not matter. Mind you, this was before realizing there was a 'user repo' that could be configured. Similar to AUR in a way...perhaps?

Dinit is cool, seems very similar to Alpine's initrc.

Will have to do some experiments on physical hardware (zfs).

#ChimeraLinux #AlpineLinux #Linux #Desktop #DesktopLinux

@transicorn age 48 happily running #chimeraLinux on anything I can get my hands on. After 34 years of #linux it just feels nice to work with a fast, clean , well thought out Distribution with a very nice community that gives a fuck and doesn't suck up to some Corporate Overlords.

Linux for the People by the People. As it should be.

Sent some dollars to the #FreeBSD Foundation in their year-end donation drive as a small token of my appreciation for the code that powers most of https://github.com/chimera-linux/chimerautils

#ChimeraLinux

Got some time today and finished the initial setup of the Raspberry Pi 500+

It's running KDE Plasma 6.5.3 on Chimera Linux, Kernel Version 6.12.60-0-rpi

It always impresses me how much snapier Chimera feels on a Pi compared to Raspberry Pi OS (Debian Trixie)

In case anyone wants to try a similar setup (ROOT on btrfs, SWAP partition, ZSWAP, KDE) to mine I posted a thread how I did it a while ago

https://tech.lgbt/@TheOneDoc/114025829219311283

and here's the fix for the SDDM hickup mentioned in there

https://tech.lgbt/@TheOneDoc/114049037887110429

#chimeraLinux #kde #kdeplasma #raspberrypi #raspberrypi500plus #screenshot

New Chimera Linux RaspberryPi Image created and about to be written on a KingSpec XG7000 2TB SSD drive

#screenshot #raspberrypi #raspberrypiimager #chimeralinux

So my Raspberry Pi 500+ has finally arrived today.

Guess I'll have to figure out if anything needs packaging for #chimeraLinux

my guess would be

https://github.com/raspberrypi/keyboard-firmware

and

https://github.com/raspberrypi/rpi-keyboard-config

#raspberrypi500plus

I think Chimera Linux is an intriguing mix of components: Linux kernel, FreeBSD userland, apk package manager, (non-systemd) dinit. I checked it out briefly last year. Now I want to take a second, closer look.

Installed Chimera Linux with Root-on-ZFS with ZFS native encryption and ZFSBootMenu as bootloader on a VM. Time to explore!

#ChimeraLinux #Linux #FreeBSD #apk #dinit #ZFS #ZFSBootMenu

• Boots into #ChimeraLinux Plasma live USB
• Ok, pretty standard Plasma, nice wallpaper, let's see...
• No Firefox? Konqueror? In 2025? That's what you're going with? OK, ok, not hatin'...!
• Install icon? No?
• Application launcher, ok, i-n-s-t-a-l-l... uhh... nothing?
• Ok Konqueror, konquer this web search for me...
• Reads docs... ok! NO INSTALLER. Hmmm!
• Ok, I could totally lazy out by just installing the #Fedora #Sway spin, but honestly, the instructions aren't too bad, and they support #FDE, which is always a plus
• To be continued...

I'm always positively surprised when I see that reaction is packaged in a Linux distribution. Today it is in Chimera Linux!
https://pkgs.chimera-linux.org/packages?name=reaction
#reactionrust #ChimeraLinux

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Correct Missing something?

#EuropeanLinuxOS

Ireland
#Linux Mint
#Solus (Ireland)
#ZorinOS (Ireland)

Germany
#OpenSUSE
#CachyOS (Owned Germ/Russ)
#TuxedoOS

Austria/France/Germany
#ManjaroLinux

France
#Lubuntu

Greece
# MXLinux (+USA)
#AntiX

Poland
#SparkyLinux

Netherlands
#EndeavourOS
#NixOS
#postmarketOS

Nowray
#Alpine
#DebianEdu / #Skolelinux

Spain
#VoidLinux
#ChimeraLinux
#LuberriLinux

Belgium
#ArcoLinux

UK
#Ubuntu
#KDEneon

Italy
#VanillaOS
#Parrot
#openmamba
#Ufficio Zero

Correct Missing something?

I've been talking about it for months, but I finally followed Jami Kettunen's instructions and got Chimera Linux installed in my Yoga Slim 7x ARM laptop.

Windows was crashing every few days (while unattended) with the error "The system has rebooted without cleanly shutting down first. This error is caused because the system stopped responding and the hardware watchdog triggered a system reset." even after a full restore.

I'm hoping Linux is more stable.

#ChimeraLinux #Linux #SnapdragonX #ARM

New post: Trying to Get Chimera Linux Running on Pentium Class Hardware

I'm going to hit pause on this whole i586 Chimera saga, but have written it up so the effort is not entirely in vain. https://www.wezm.net/v2/posts/2025/chimera-i586/

#ChimeraLinux #Linux #Pentium #ALIX

New post: Trying to Get Chimera Linux Running on Pentium Class Hardware

I'm going to hit pause on this whole i586 Chimera saga, but have written it up so the effort is not entirely in vain. https://www.wezm.net/v2/posts/2025/chimera-i586/

#ChimeraLinux #Linux #Pentium #ALIX

New post: Trying to Get Chimera Linux Running on Pentium Class Hardware

I'm going to hit pause on this whole i586 Chimera saga, but have written it up so the effort is not entirely in vain. https://www.wezm.net/v2/posts/2025/chimera-i586/

#ChimeraLinux #Linux #Pentium #ALIX