Development

ChimeraOS Development

Table of Contents

• About
• Resources
  • Repositories
  • Packages
  • Videos
• Sprint/Kanban Board
• ChimeraOS Technical Overview
  • frzr

About

This page is for holding development documentation and how to get involved

Resources

The main set of repositories can be found here.

• chimeraos: Primary repository for the operating system.

• chimera-data: Holds frequently changing data used by chimera (Proton GE lists, game tweaks, game compatibility db); chimera automatically downloads this data at the start of the gaming session through hooks in steamos-compositor-plus. This repo is separated from the chimera repo so we can update the data without rolling new releases of Chimera or ChimeraOS.

• chimeraos.github.io: Web page content

• chimera: The ChimeraOS web interface. Formally known as "Steam Buddy".

• steamos-compositor-plus: A fork of the steamos compositor with some game compatibility fixes

• install-media: Defines and builds the installation media through GitHub Actions

• frzr: A deployment and automatic update mechanism for operating systems

Repositories

Packages

Videos

• ArchConf 2020 talk

Sprint/Kanban Board

The current list of backlog and current task can be found here.

ChimeraOS Technical Overview

frzr

frzr is the A/B btrfs update system which downloads system images from the ChimeraOS repo. Available channels are unstable, testing, stable. Unstable has completely untested builds directly from GitHub Actions and most poeple should never use it. Testing images have at least been verified to boot, but might contain problems that require manual intervention to recover from. Stable are fully tested images that should be used by everyday users.