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no it didn't source: made the thing

note: i've been doing lua for two decades and am well familiar with the language itself as well as its inner workings (far less so with python), and i've been building distro tooli…

sure, in fact i updated an entire distro to a new python major version several times cbuild started iirc with python 3.8, currently it requires at least 3.12 due to some features (…

well that's just what the LWN article states, the project itself does not do that anywhere the desktops on chimera are standard (gnome/kde/xfce and a variety of compositors and win…

considering it's not a bsd nor it's trying to be like one, that question doesn't make a lot of sense?

it's absolutely the kitchen sink standard library and "complex" language that makes it worth using, because 1) it means no additional dependencies and 2) the language is expressive…

chimera does not interpose malloc, we outright patch it out inside musl, so not really something musl would support

chimera definitely goes for its own type of experience, the source of the core tools does not make that much of a difference in that (they were mostly chosen for other reasons anyw…

the above is not entirely correct, alpine does have and always had signed packages in the other aspects most distros are generally not much or at all better, since all that stuff i…

scudo requires 64-bit atomics which make libc hookup on 32-bit systems a bit of a pain but nothing that cannot be overcome it can only use the primary32 allocator on 32-bit systems…

this is misleading, apk transactions are only atomic if no pre/post-install/deinstall/upgrade hooks run, as every invocation of a hook requires a commit of everything done until th…

mozilla may not fix it, but they won't reject a patch, and if you keep it to yourself you're ensuring that it'll never get fixed you said chimera's builds are affected by this, whi…

lack of server-side decorations in mutter is primarily a technical problem that's not really easily solvable - currently the compositor code does not actually depend on any drawing…

I generally just don't want to see anybody being attacked for the work they do; I'm fine with people criticizing RMS, since that's generally because of his views that deserve to be…

that part refers solely to gratuitous use of extensions in the code, it does not refer to things like cgroups for which there are no portable equivalents, or anything else that is …

it's solely FreeBSD as an upstream for us, though Net/Open are an upstream for FreeBSD itself for some tools the tools have made big strides over the last few decades, so it's nowh…

musl is just a mandatory choice; the toolchain configuration doesn't really allow running anything else (glibc doesn't go together with clang+compiler-rt, they only very recently m…

there is a combobox to pick the repository: https://pkgs.chimera-linux.org/packages?name=xserver-xorg*&r...

i ran that when doing the initial porting: https://gist.github.com/q66/84288d3b8e70146a630f65dc1de4b683 that said, scudo is highly configurable, and the performance reflects the co…

good news for you then, since there is a full distribution of xorg in the contrib repo and it's not expected to go away anytime soon (if ever)

chimera is designed to solve many issues other distros have; this includes e.g. the poor state of toolchain security hardening (you won't find any other distro with the same practi…

i believe you are just making assumptions here; debian in this context does not count as a "simple system", if anything it's as complex as a distro can be and its packaging approac…

the point with "just working" applies to what the system ships, obviously third party whatever is outside of our control the system aims to have high quality packaging that results…

they do though, just not in the way you think; in general chimera is designed so that whatever you install from the repositories, it'll yield a working out of the box configuration…

chimera is not much like freebsd at all, besides adopting the same core tools; it's mostly designed from scratch, and does not particularly try to "emulate" anything i do like free…