Chimera Linux

[xeno74]

First official non-testing Chimera Linux 32-bit PowerPC images have released today.
If you haven't heard of it - it's a relatively new distribution founded by the creator of Void Linux PPC that's built with a little non-standard building blocks at it's core (core tools from freebsd, llvm, musl).

https://chimera-linux.org

[Skateman]

Chimera Linux up and running on my e5500 x4 Computer. (With some issues but working)



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[Roland]

Chimera Linux up and running on my e5500 x4 Computer. (With some issues but working)

Great news!

How did you install it? Did you start from the ISO image or the rootfs?

Is there any decent WWW-browser for it?

[xeno74]

Chimera Linux up and running on my e5500 x4 Computer. (With some issues but working)

Great, with Wayland! Which issues are there?

[Skateman]

Hi i started with the rootfs.

1: Download chimera-linux-ppc-ROOTFS-20250214-full.tar.gz
2: Extract chimera-linux-ppc-ROOTFS-20250214-full.tar.gz to a partition:
Tar -xvf chimera-linux-ppc-ROOTFS-20250214-full.tar.gz -C /mounted partition
3: Boot Chimera linux and login with root - chimera
4: Create a user
useradd amigaone
passwd amigaone (and set a user password i used “amigaone”)
5: Add user to groups
usermod -a -G wheel,kvm amigaone
6: Set a hostname
echo chimera > /etc/hostname
7: Start the network
dinitctl enable dhcpcd
8: Set your timezone
ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Amsterdam /etc/localtime
9: setup display manager
Apk add gdm
Enable the service using the command dinitctl enable gdm
10: setup Desktop environment
Apk add gnome
11: update mesa driver
apk add chimera-repo-user && apk update && apk add mesa-amber
12: enable network manager
dinitctl enable networkmanager
Reboot system!

Give it a try..

[Roland]

@Skateman

Thanks for the instructions! I will try it when I find some free time...

[xeno74]

FYI:

the graphical isos aren't going to work well in general due to mesa being broken on big endian upstream, the unresponsiveness is probably due to it attempting to start display manager in a loop and failing

so don't bother with anything but base and install whatever graphical stuff later (alongside mesa-amber to replace regular mesa, since that should have working gpu drivers) and don't bother with anything wayland on ppc32 because the gpus are never going to be new enough