Mastodawn

konstruct-960T-BF64.gguf 18h ago

Time for the third distro hop of the month, destination : #ChimeraLinux ! Greener pastures, hopefully?

Bryan Redeagle

1d ago

Okay. Now that I'm back home. It's time to install Chimera on my laptop.

#Linux #ChimeraLinux

Bryan Redeagle

3d ago

I think I'm going to give Chimera Linux a try. It looks weird, but in a good way.

#linux #ChimeraLinux

Root Moose 3d ago

Been doing a little anecdotal cross comparing Alpine versus Chimera for little things that I stub my toe on every once in a while.

I notice that Chimera already has Plasma 6.6 since it is a rolling release. I expect for Alpine it'll come with 3.24 in May. Which is fine of course - no one died waiting for a point release. Ha.

I wanted to dump ImageMagick for an alternative method to CLI bulk convert webp images. Alpine has libwepb-tools and ffmpeg (fishing with nukes), but wanted to try gmic. It is in (a)testing but complains that libImath is not available. Edge has it so will be in 3.24 I guess. Chimera installed it without issue.

Alpine doesn't rely on Flatpak as much for the stuff I use compared to Chimera but that's no big deal, especially coming from Debian.

I have nothing scientific (metrics) to back this up but Chimera seems to run like a scalded cat in a VM, even compared to Alpine after coming from Debian. May need to reinstall on real hardware & verify.

Fun!

#Linux #AlpineLinux #ChimeraLinux

Taffer 🇨🇦

Mar 14

Per this list (https://noai.starlightnet.work/list.html), Chimera Linux and ElementaryOS don't allow LLMs to slop up things.

This doesn't address the problem of the kernel and systemd doing it, of course.

#ChimeraLinux #ElementaryOS #NoAI #slop

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pfriedma Mar 13

Now seems to be as good of a time as any to plug @chimera #chimeraLinux
Which is great if, for reasons, you're interested in something without systemd, or most gnu for that matter as it uses freebsd user tools and llvm/clang.

It also happens to be wicked snappy even on very modest hardware

Root Moose Mar 6

Updating a Chimera Linux VM that I haven't started up in over a month.

Neato, kernel 6.19.5 and Plasma 6.6...

#Linux #Chimera #ChimeraLinux