davel [he/him] to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish • edit-28 months agoAckchyually, not every Linux is a GNU Linuxmessage-square61fedilinkarrow-up1165arrow-down122file-text
arrow-up1143arrow-down1message-squareAckchyually, not every Linux is a GNU Linuxdavel [he/him] to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish • edit-28 months agomessage-square61fedilinkfile-text
Some examples: Android Alpine: Alpine Linux is built around musl libc and busybox glaucus: A simple and lightweight Linux distribution based on musl libc and toybox Chimera (alpha stage): Chimera uses a novel combination of core tools from FreeBSD, the LLVM toolchain, and the Musl C library
minus-square@GameWarriorlink11•8 months agoHonestly when I first read that I just assumed that ChimeraOS decided to go in an new direction. Also it’s not like ChimeraOS is some small super niche distro it seems relatively popular.
minus-squareq66linkfedilink1•8 months ago@GameWarrior maybe they should’ve checked better before picking an already-used name, because Chimera Linux was using it first: https://chimera-linux.org/docs/faq#what-about-chimeraos
Honestly when I first read that I just assumed that ChimeraOS decided to go in an new direction. Also it’s not like ChimeraOS is some small super niche distro it seems relatively popular.
@GameWarrior maybe they should’ve checked better before picking an already-used name, because Chimera Linux was using it first: https://chimera-linux.org/docs/faq#what-about-chimeraos