Wesley Moore announced that he is winding down Casuarina Linux, the glibc-based distribution he built as a derivative of Chimera Linux, after failing to attract co-maintainers. He writes that he assumed most of the hard work was done once the system bootstrapped and that maintenance would mostly mean updating packages, but that no one else stepped up to share the load, and that the project ran into problems such as C++ standard libraries not coexisting when everything was built against LLVM’s libc++ while also providing GNU libstdc++. Package updates stop at the end of October 2026 depending on how his migration to another distribution goes, the infrastructure stays up until the end of 2026, and there are no plans yet to retire the package repository or website.
Solo maintainer winds down the Casuarina Linux distribution
Wesley Moore announced that he is winding down Casuarina Linux, the glibc-based distribution he built as a derivative of Chimera Linux, after failing to attract co-maintainers. He writes that he assumed most of the hard work was done once the system bootstrapped and that maintenance would mostly mean updating packages, but that no one else stepped up to share the load, and that the project ran into problems such as C++ standard libraries not coexisting when everything was built against LLVM's libc++ while also providing GNU libstdc++. Package updates stop at the end of October 2026 depending on how his migration to another distribution goes, the infrastructure stays up until the end of 2026, and there are no plans yet to retire the package repository or website.
Source: Casuarina