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- Built entirely with LLVM
- No GNU components in base system
- FreeBSD-based userland
- Binary packaging based, with a fast source build system
- Bootstrappable
- Portable
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Ugh, not to be confused with: https://chimeraos.org/
I don’t see the benefits. What is better in FreeBSD’s userland? What exactly is LLVM?
One possible advantage of FreeBSD’s userland compared to for example plain Debian is the ports system, which might be a matter of taste, workflow and infrastructure and so on.LLVM is an alternative for gcc the GNU C compiler. I actually liked Debian GNU/kFreeBSD a lot years ago, FreeBSD kernel and Debian user land.
Funnily enough this distribution doesn’t use that port system.
Indeed. In the meantime I read that the Chimera Linux author is not fond of the ports system.
Thanks for the links. I always thought BSD kernel with Linux userland would be cool (for me). I’ll try that out.
:+1 Also, for historic purposes : https://www.debian.org/ports/netbsd/
Looks interesting. By using Linux kernel, we may see better hardware support, while at the same time, keep the original user experience of FreeBSD. But it requires tedious work to maintain, say, keeping up with FreeBSD base update is not easy.
