The makers of Chimera Linux want to release a first alpha build of the distro in late February or early March. Chimera Linux is a BSD distro and not a GNU. It works on all architectures and runs dinit instead of systemd.
The creators of the operating system presented their progress at Fosdem 2023, a conference for open source software. There lead developer Daniel Kolesa says that Chimera at the end of this month or early next month as the first alpha build. The alpha period lasts from six months to a whole year. During that time, new features are added and existing ones are further developed. The makers also want to work on better documentation. Earlier, the makers already got Gnome working as a desktop interface.
Chimera Linux is a BSD- distribution that uses tools from FreeBSD and uses LLVM as a toolchain. Chimera runs on standard Intel and AMD chips, as well as Aarch64 and Risc-V architectures. It is striking that the distro uses dinit instead of systemd by default, which is the case with almost no other Linux distros.
The creators of the OS say that they have now got disk encryption working and that CKMS has been chosen as the kernel module. The developers are still working on updating several software packages. Chimera uses apk-tools for that. It also needs to be arranged that packages are updated automatically.
