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Chimera Linux works toward a simplified desktop

bution designed to be " simple, transparent, and easy to pick up". The distribution is built from scratch, and recently announced its first beta release.

At the same time, the project specifically disavows any association with " the so-called 'systemd-free community', which tends to spread a lot of misconceptions and frankly deranged opinions that [end] up hurting any sort of positive effort." The choice of BSD tools and lack of systemd don't really impact the day-to-day use of the system; other than substituting doas for sudo, the other command line software that I use in a normal day worked just fine. There are a handful of contributors making sure important software stays up to date, but in my research I wasn't able to find a documented process for security updates — something the distribution will almost certainly need as it grows.

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