Chimera Linux

Chimera Linux
	Screenshot of Chimera Linux with default GNOME 44.2 desktop environment
Developer	Chimera Linux developers
OS family	Linux (Unix-like)
Working state	Current
Source model	Open source
Latest release	Rolling release / 20 April 2025
Repository	https://github.com/chimera-linux/
Marketing target	General purpose
Update method	Rolling release
Package manager	apk-tools, cports
Platforms	x86-64, aarch64, loongarch64, ppc64le, ppc64, PowerPC, RISC-V
Kernel type	Monolithic (Linux)
Userland	BSD
Default; user interface	GNOME Shell, Almquist shell
Official website	chimera-linux.org

Chimera Linux is a Linux distribution striving for the minimum complexity of system configuration while retaining and expanding on the flexibility common to general purpose Linux based systems.

It uses musl as its libc implementation, userland tools from FreeBSD, and dinit as its init system.^[2]^[3]

For package management it uses apk-tools from Alpine Linux,^[3] but Chimera does not re-use Alpine packages, but instead uses its own novel package build system.^[2]

The distribution has no upstream and defines itself as "independent" from this perspective.

^ "New Images". Archived from the original on 2025-04-24. Retrieved 2025-05-12.
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[live-1] "New Images". Archived from the original on 2025-04-24. Retrieved 2025-05-12.

[primary-about-2] Cite error: The named reference primary-about was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[lwn-3] Cite error: The named reference lwn was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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