A Linux Distro You Probably Haven't Heard Of.
Submitted by James on Wed, 2006-11-29 17:25.
I Discovered "Gobo Linux" today (http://www.gobolinux.org/) and I think I can say this is one of the more interesting distros I've encountered in quite a while. I'm not sure if their schemes are revolutionary, but definitely steps in the right direction. If they can make it work....
What am I talking about?
Gobo Linux is different because they have managed to ditch the standard UNIX directory structure (entirely). And, amazingly, they claim to still be backwards compatible with most (all?) of the UNIX based software out there.
What the heck?!
Check this out:
~] cd /
/] ls
Programs
Users
System
Files
Mount
Depotand ...
/] cd /Programs
/Programs] ls
AfterStep E2FSProgs Htop NTP Subversion
ALSA-Driver Ed HTTPD OpenOffice Sudo
ALSA-Lib Eject Hydrogen OpenSSH Swfdec
ALSA-OSS Elinks IBM-Java2 OpenSSL Synaptics
ALSA-Utils Ethereal ID3Lib Pango SysFSUtils
Ardour Expat IEEE80211 Patch Sysklogd
Audacity File IMLib2 Perl TCL
Aumix Firefox InetUtils Pkgconfig TeTeX
Autoconf Flac Intltool PodXTPro Texinfo
Automake Flex IpodSlave Popt TIFF
Bash Fontconfig Iptables PPP TiMidity++
... ... ... ... ...
So, who cares?
Well, if you haven't noticed yet, Gobo Linux has managed to one-up Apple on it's nice Application directory structure in OS X. In fact they have managed to simplify UNIX into something ... well ... logical to the layman.
Keep up the excellent work guys/gals!! If you could ever get this fine system merged into the main Linux Kernel tree I think this has the possibility to bring Linux leaps and bounds ahead of both Apple and Microsoft!
Disclaimer: I haven't actually tried their Live CD yet, but I plan to download it soon. These comments are on the basis that what they say in their FAQ is true.
James.
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