Chimera Linux ghosts RISC-V because there's no time for sluggish hardware

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 ...