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Community => Off Topic => Topic started by: Odin on November 09, 2006, 05:58:44 am

Title: GoboLinux
Post by: Odin on November 09, 2006, 05:58:44 am

Stupid shit or just different?

See for yourself: GoboLinux Home Page (http://gobolinux.org/)
Or: At a glance (http://gobolinux.org/index.php?page=at_a_glance)

Apparently it's a distro that uses different directories in the root filesystem, like for example:

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/
/Programs
/Users
/System
/Files
/Mount
/Depot

Instead of(on a fresh install of Ubuntu 6.10):

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/
/bin
/debootstrap
/home
/media
/proc
/srv
/usr
/boot
/dev
/initrd
/lib
/mnt
/root
/sys
/var
/cdrom
/etc
/lost+found
/opt
/sbin
/tmp

Dumb? Or just weird? If they cleaned up their packaging system(or used apt, or some other reputable package manager), do you think it would help people switch because of how simple the root is?

Title: GoboLinux
Post by: David on November 09, 2006, 11:08:16 pm

For people who are just switching, the root is irelivent.
For people who want to fiddle with stuff etc it will be very annoying

Title: GoboLinux
Post by: Exclamation on November 10, 2006, 04:15:17 am

I remember were we talking about this the other day.

To linux users the root filesystem layout is what it is. They know where everything is and how its structured. Its how its been forever.

For new users it may help them understand where stuff is installed since they like to reference everything back to windows.

In terms of switching, like i said it may help new users but if you look at it from the other side, it might just be better for them to get used to the regular system because its basicly the standard for all distros. For example if a new user starting using Gobolinux then decides to try another distro, they might be lost.

Either way, package management is the key and Gobolinux's way doesn't sound very good. Dependency management is very important.

Title: GoboLinux
Post by: Seafoideach on November 10, 2006, 12:52:41 pm

Another possible problem with it is software installation. How much tweaking would things need to work (if you're compiling or whatever)? Even if it's an extra thing in the command for installing, it still makes things worse for new users. Instead of doing

./compile
make
make install

or whatever (as most instuctions say), they'd have to do something more like

./compile
make
make install -different_file_path_thing



Time for me to go to bed.

Title: Re: GoboLinux
Post by: Taiyo.uk on November 13, 2006, 01:38:19 am

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/Programs
/Users
/System
/Files
/Mount
/Depot
OBJECTION!