I just installed chimaera on a 21" 2008 Intel
iMac that will now be donated to a small school.

So thank you Devuan team and community!

It would have been e-waste as it's no longer possible to
refresh the OS (El Capitan, the highest version that could
be installed) because Apple no longer provides support for
refreshing it from the recovery partition. I found this out
the hard way: The recovery process bricked the still-working
El Capitan after Apple's repository reported, "no packages
available". (I had thought refreshing the OS would be a good
way to fix a disk error that DiskUtility reported but could
not fix.)

I had installed the rEfind boot loader, which creates a menu
of all bootable partitions, to test the devuan ISO. The
subsequent install process didn't overwrite the boot sector
but put grub on the partition's boot record.

Thanks to the Debian project and Devuan, this valuable
hardware can have a new life. I'm grateful!

--
Joel Roth