{"id":152241,"date":"2025-12-21T11:11:58","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T09:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prohoster.info\/blog\/novosti-interneta\/vypusk-distributiva-chimera-20251220-sochetayushhego-yadro-linux-s-okruzheniem-freebsd"},"modified":"2025-12-21T11:11:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T09:11:59","slug":"vypusk-distributiva-chimera-20251220-sochetayushhego-yadro-linux-s-okruzheniem-freebsd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prohoster.info\/en\/blog\/news\/vypusk-distributiva-chimera-20251220-sochetayushhego-yadro-linux-s-okruzheniem-freebsd","title":{"rendered":"Release of the Chimera 20251220 distribution, combining the Linux kernel with the FreeBSD environment.","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"

An update for the Chimera Linux distribution has been released, notable for its use of the Linux kernel along with utilities from FreeBSD, the dinit system manager, and the standard C library Musl. The build is created using the Clang compiler. Live boot images have been formed for the x86_64, ppc64le, aarch64, riscv64, and ppc64 architectures in GNOME (1.8 GB), KDE (2.5 GB), and minimal environment (1 GB) variants. <\/p>\n

The project aims to create a Linux distribution with alternative tools and is developed based on the experience of developing Void Linux (the author of Chimera was a former maintainer of Void, responsible for POWER and PowerPC architectures). Like Void Linux, the project is developed using a continuous version update cycle (rolling model). User components from FreeBSD have been chosen as less complex and more suitable for lightweight and compact systems than the standard GNU tools. <\/p>\n

In addition to utilities from FreeBSD, supplied instead of packages like coreutils, findutils, diffutils, sed, and grep, the distribution involves GNU Make, util-linux, syslog-ng, udev, pam, dinit, clang, lld, libc++, and musl. Memory allocation functions in musl have been replaced with mimalloc. The ZFS file system is employed. The \/var partition does not retain its state between reboots (stateless). PipeWire is used for managing multimedia streams. By default, the Wayland display server is utilized in graphical environments. <\/p>\n

To install additional programs, both binary packages and a custom source code build system\u2014cports, which is written in Python\u2014are offered. Currently, it supports over 4000 ports. The build environment is launched in a separate unprivileged container created using the bubblewrap toolkit. The package manager APK (Alpine Package Keeper, apk-tools) is used to manage binary packages, with Flatpak available as an option. <\/p>\n

In the new release: <\/p>\n