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Don't get mimalloc and mallocng mixed up though, completely different animals.

Really love that project. Is there any planned support for NVIDIA drivers and runtime?

If anyone sponsors buying me modern Nvidia cards with open kernel support, I would gladly test and support them.

Now this is WHY I love UNIX and UNIX-likes, the fact you can chop and change core components like the Kernel, Userspace, Init, etc. and (within compatibility limits i.e. MUSL/GLIBC) run a hybrid system like Chimera.

Would I run Chimera as a daily-drive? Probably not. Is it cool that someone can? Absolutely!

This seems interesting, but I've been using Alpine as a desktop distro wth ZFS for years now, it has native support and ZBM is available in the community repo. Not sure what advantages Chimera would add.

Chimera uses mimalloc instead of musl’s mallocng.

https://chimera-linux.org/docs/configuration/musl

Speaking of OpenZFS encryption, has there ever been any third party review of the source code? Or any testing of any kind of its effectiveness?