Hi Neville, 
IĀ“d like to congratulate you on your acievement. 
Iām lost for words to adequately express my admiration for what you did.
The approach to a project like this is hugely professional, to say the least.
Thanks so much for introducing us to Chimera Linux in such an overwhelmingly descriptive manner.
It clearly shows that you put a lot of time and effort into getting to the bottom of things. 
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IĀ“m immensely impressed.
Many greetings from Rosika 
Hi Howard,
I did it for years, but with BSDā¦ mainly because there was noone else to do it.
My main activity was programmingā¦ all my research work required software that you could not get off the shelf. Research is like farmingā¦ you have to be a jack-of-all-tradesā¦ there is noone to do it for you.
I will repeat my quote to Bill
āThe Linux ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.ā
with apologies to Chesterton
Regards
Neville
Hi Rosika,
Thank you for your kind words,
I feel it would have been better written if you had been involved. You have all the skills of composition.
Lets hope we can try another joint effort some day.
Did you see the āTools for posting in Linuxā topic?
You might like to try that.
Regards
Neville
I am not surprised that you use to be an Adminstrator. I believe there are a few regulars on the forum that are Linux Admins.
I tested the chimera container image which is available on docker hub as chimeralinux/chimera
So it loads the image OK
I can run the container with
You get a shell prompt saying that you are in chimera-box container
You get out with exit
Lets have a look at its size. My distrobox uses docker ( not podman) so I can look with
So Chimera is 18 Mb, twice the size of Alpine (7.7Mb) , but way smaller than full Debian .
So Chimera may be a useful container image.
Epilogue 
That worked initially, but on second try distrobox enter chimera-box fails with a message saying it can not find packages to be added by apk. ?
Hi Neville,
Uh, uh. I very much doubt that. But thank you for the praise. 
I feel very honoured indeed.
I canĀ“t say I have.
I wasnĀ“t online yesterday all day long. So I have quite some catching up to do.
IĀ“ll take a look at it. Thanks for mentioning it.
Many greetings from Rosika
The warning about a long read in the newsletter was justified, but I enjoyed every minute. I decided to get Chimera, and install it in a virtual machine using virt-manager. I already knew to set the firmware-type to UEFI when I created the VM (Iāve made that mistake before).
I was able to follow your installation steps (reading ahead with each step in case you ran into trouble, so I could use your solution to avoid doing the same thing). I now have a usable chimera VM with the Plasma DE. I like it a lot, and youāre right, it boots and shuts down very fast (in a matter of seconds). My next steps will probably be to read the chimera documentation so I can learn as much about the distro as possible. I really like projects that find and follow their own path. It looks to me as if Chimera is such a project. Iāll follow it with interest.
Ernie
Hi Ernie,
Good on you. I was hoping someone would give it a try.
It may not boot quite as fast in a hard install ā¦ I have not tried that yet.
I like virt-manager. It seems to work well in Linux.
It was my mistake not setting UEFI in the VM before I installed
Yeah. There is some new initiative in Chimera. Mixes like that may be the way of the future. Why not combine all the best tools?
The Chimera documentation is excellent. That is unusual for a new distroā¦ these people have their priorities right.
Lets see what you can do with it. I feel confident I could use it for daily work.
I will be interested to hear how you react to the āapkā package manager. It seemed to work for me. They may not have all the packages you would want in their repo.
Remember, that was a beta. It has not had a proper release yet.
Regards
Neville
I like my Garuda GNU/Linux, so Iām not so sure that Iāll be making any distro-changes any time soon, but who knows? When Chimera matures a bit, I could change my mind.
So far, it seems as good as or better than apt. Command-line package managers are where I tend to go when I need to install any software. Theyāre faster, and more direct than using the GUI apps. I donāt have to wait for it to load. I just call it with a command, and let it do what I told it to do. Iāll be interested in learning a bit more about it too.
I understand that. For a beta release, Chimera seems very complete and stable. That impressed me immediately,
Ernie
Me tooā¦ I like my MX and Void. Chimera is too new
Who knows what the future Linuxes will be? It is nice to keep an open mind.
Agreed. Iāve landed on other distributions before, thinking itāll be to one for me, but then I find another that better fits me. To be honest, when Chimera becomes more mature, it may have the potential to become my next distro, but I suppose Iāll have to wait and see where the dev team takes it next.
Ernie
