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A Month on Chimera Linux

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Re: A Month on Chimera Linux

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h »

smitty1e wrote: post #2

The chied point here seems to be the non-GNU (other than Make) chassis. Other than that, just running Alpine would seem less "exciting".

I'm not sure i follow; Alpine is already not GNU? (At least, not at runtime (coreutils/libc); I think it might use GCC.)

That said, an actual BSD/Linux is neat just like a GNU/BSD system (RIP Debian/kFreeBSD:(... ).

Re: A Month on Chimera Linux

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Post by wezm »

dxxvi wrote: post #4

Why does the top panel of the terminal take so much space? Is it a gnome thing? I wonder what she/he ran that took 6166MB. CLion?

Yes that’s a GNOME thing. It doesn’t take much to fill up 8Gb these days. I had a few different things running on other workspaces when I took that screenshot: Firefox with a bunch of tabs, CLion (usually good for ~2Gb), Obsidian, some other stuff.

Re: A Month on Chimera Linux

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Post by lemper »

iirc, plain linux cannot be compiled without gcc. pretty sure there's this project (which, for the life of me, i can't remember the namełthat makes it possible to do so. so, does chimaera uses that project's work?

Re: A Month on Chimera Linux

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Post by reocha »

lemper wrote: post #6

iirc, plain linux cannot be compiled without gcc. pretty sure there's this project (which, for the life of me, i can't remember the namełthat makes it possible to do so. so, does chimaera uses that project's work?

The Linux kernel can be compiled using llvm: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/kbuild/llvm.html

Re: A Month on Chimera Linux

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h »

lemper wrote: post #6

iirc, plain linux cannot be compiled without gcc. pretty sure there's this project (which, for the life of me, i can't remember the namełthat makes it possible to do so. so, does chimaera uses that project's work?

That used to be true, but the work to compile Linux with clang was mainlined a while ago now. And IIRC Google builds their kernels with it (including Android and ChromeOS) so it's definitely getting used/tested.

Re: A Month on Chimera Linux

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Post by wezm »

lemper wrote: post #6

iirc, plain linux cannot be compiled without gcc. pretty sure there's this project (which, for the life of me, i can't remember the namełthat makes it possible to do so. so, does chimaera uses that project's work?

In addition to what reocha said, ClangBuiltLinux is the project you're probably thinking of. They track issues building with clang and provide CI: https://clangbuiltlinux.github.io/
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