Chimera Linux ghosts RISC-V because there's no time for sluggish hardware
Quoting: Chimera Linux project drops RISC-V support —
The creators of the unique Chimera Linux distro are dropping support for RISC-V because kit built on the open instruction set architecture just isn't fast enough and this is holding up the development pipeline.
Chimera Linux (not to be confused with the gaming-focused ChimeraOS) is a highly unconventional Linux distro. For one thing, it's GNU-free. For a small project that's not yet reached version 1.0, it has exceptionally wide platform support: x86-64, Arm64, both little-endian and big-endian PowerPC, and RISC-V. Or RISC-V until now.
We took a look at this new distro just over two years ago. It has some ambitious goals. Most of Chimera Linux's userland originates from FreeBSD. Notably, it's not related to Alpine Linux, even though it does use that distro's apk packaging tools and the same musl C library. The platform support is especially impressive given its release status – it only entered beta at the end of last year.
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Chimera Linux Drops RISC-V Over Performance Woes
Chimera Linux is an independent Linux distribution that uses a combination of tools from FreeBSD, the LLVM toolchain, the Musl C library to deliver a unique experience to its users.
Currently, it supports a wide variety of CPU architectures like aarch64 (64-bit ARM), ppc64le (64-bit PowerPC little-endian), x86-64 (64-bit Intel/AMD), and loongarch64 (64-bit Loongson).
Unfortunately, there is some bad news that affects users of the RISC-V architecture.
What's Happening: The Chimera Linux team has decided to drop support for RISC-V hardware, citing many issues with the architecture that are beyond their control.