hybrid-d77

Chimera Linux · Sway + Waybar · dinit — live ISO + installer.

What is hybrid-d77?

Chimera Linux pairs a Linux kernel with a BSD userland (FreeBSD’s chimerautils) and apk (the same package format as Alpine, built through its own, unrelated cports/cbuild system). The “hybrid” in the name is exactly that: a genuine hybrid of the BSD and Linux worlds, not just a marketing word.

Named deliberately without “chimera” in it — unlike d77void, which stays permanently tied to Void’s own name, this one stays clear of the base distro’s name on purpose.

Highlights

Init is dinit, not systemd or runit.
Waybar, ported from an already-working sway config (an earlier yambar setup was tried first and dropped after real bugs showed up on actual hardware).
No greeter or display manager — a plain getty login: prompt straight into Sway via .profile, /etc/motd documenting credentials, the same convention d77void itself uses with anon/voidlinux.
A patched chimera-installer with real Groups/Services checklists, disk Partition/Filesystems, Network and Keymap steps — none of which exist in the stock installer.

Status

Confirmed working end to end on real hardware (not just a VM), including the destructive disk-partitioning path: live boot → doas h77-installer → Network → Keymap → Partition (cfdisk) → Filesystems → SystemRoot → Kernel → Packages → Bootloader → Install, into a working Sway/Waybar desktop.

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The h77-* packages themselves are built and published separately, as GitHub Releases.

Source: github.com/dani-77/hybrid-d77