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Chimera Linux (chimera-linux.org)

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I just found about this distro, which is relatively new (2021). Its specificity is that it doesn't features any GNU software by default, which I find interesting.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

This means Chimera is not a GNU/Linux system, as it utilizes neither GNU utilities, nor GNU libc, nor GNU toolchain. The system is bootstrappable almost entirely without any GNU components (other than make) and is capable of booting without them (however, most people will have some).

I'd guess they'll move to some bsd make at some point.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Good luck with that, with the amount of Programmers that use the Gnuism for make, I would say that no developer can patch that amount of software

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Uh. That would be huge undertaking indeed.

Let me guess all these makefile generators create gnu-style makefiles too?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Didn't know that those projects existed, I have always written makefiles from begining based myself on the dwm makefiles :)

But a quick Google search and the first project that appears say that:

A simple makefile generator that can generate makefiles for: GNU-make targeting MinGW, clang-cl or MSVC.

[–] LeFantome 1 points 1 year ago

Maybe not. The core motivation of the project is not licenses.

Presumably, GNU make was kept for technical reasons. Presumably building the universe of Linux software is going to go more smoothly with GNU make. Which make you use does not impact the resulting system like MUSL or Clang does.