[q66]

chimera is designed to solve many issues other distros have; this includes e.g. the poor state of toolchain security hardening (you won't find any other distro with the same practical scope that's more strongly hardened in builds)

cbuild is also designed to solve real issues, particularly proper sandboxing and linting of builds to allow for a small team to maintain it while at the same time being fast and ensuring correctness (distro build systems often tend to be bash/make monstrosities that do nowhere near enough where they need to while doing too much where they shouldn't)

i used to work on void, and there are good reasons i went to start a new project instead; this includes poor quality packaging for a lot of void stuff (by part caused by xbps-src design choices), poor platform support (all non-x86 stuff is buggy, partly because of cross-compiling and not running unit tests for things being built) and state of infrastructure, design issues of xbps itself (lack of solver, poor implementation of shlibs system and virtual packages, etc.), lacking service management (no oneshots, no transparent/standardized support for user services, no support for dependencies, no support for service-integrated dbus activation etc.), lots of stuff sticks with legacy nonsense where systemd has taken over and improved things in the meantime (e.g. handling of dbus, user management and tmpfiles management, user services as mentioned before, etc), and so on and so on

we are also addressing the whole thing with "everybody has adopted systemd and its functionality, and distros without systemd have instead stuck their head in the sand and pretend systemd is the devil and implement none of the stuff people want" which is leading to increased dependence on systemd in various upstreams, and an increasing amount of bad hacks in non-systemd systems

supporting a lot of architectures is not something to regret, it's a good goal to have and aids keeping the ecosystem healthy as well as giving people the choice of running the system on hardware they like; any pain caused by supporting multiple archs pays off several times

[Phelinofist]

While I'm a die hard Arch user and also kinda like systemd, I think the goals you have are good for the whole FOSS space overall, so I hope you succeed! :)

[Levitating]

I think your build system already puts you way ahead of many distro's. And I think there can only come good for depending less on mainstream GNU utilities/libraries and systemd tools. I for one completely agree that the sourcecode of most BSD utilities is far more readable than GNU's. And it's a shame systemd is so dependant on the mainstream stack.

As for architectures, do you not run into many architecture specific problems?

I think Chimera Linux is definitely a project I want to keep an eye on.