Chimera Linux
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5recommend
0warn against
Nov 17, 2025first mention
Oct 31, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“we use quite a few of their llvm patches and are very thankful for their work”
“You might have luck looking for patches there if you ever need them.”
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“I've always thought this was extremely interesting: https://chimera-linux.org/”
“It's much nicer for desktop use.”
switched from Alpine Linuxon “Just Enough Chimera Linux”
“Have a look at Chimera Linux if you want to give it a try”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
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All comments 13
“I'd love to run Chimera Linux (BSD userland)”
“I use Chimera Linux and I have thought about starting a repo just for the stuff that I have ported.”
“we use quite a few of their llvm patches and are very thankful for their work”
“You might have luck looking for patches there if you ever need them.”
“It runs Chimera Linux now”
“I've always thought this was extremely interesting: https://chimera-linux.org/”
“Not sure I'll try it because I have my setup very refined”
“It's much nicer for desktop use.”
“chimera linux started as a void linux fork until it became it's own thing”
“Is it cool that someone can? Absolutely!”
“Chimera Linux is doing something like this”
“Chimera does, it also has a FreeBSD userland AFAIU.”
“Have a look at Chimera Linux if you want to give it a try”