I discovered GoboLinux not long ago and was disappointed to see it was no longer being maintained. It’s exciting to see some folks are picking it back up again.
The idea rocks… Love it!
… Something that added to a Gentoo distribution would be amazing …
First Amarok 3, now this‽
Edit: The previous release was four years ago? I was pretty sure it was abandoned earlier
Not to offend, but the entire premise of this distro is about directory names, which seems a bit…dated. What are the other selling points?
I think the main premise is that every version of every software has its own installation prefix. This allows you to mix&match different versions, perform atomic upgrades, etc. You can think of it as a proto-Nix. TBH I don’t see much point in it now that Nix(OS) and Guix exist, or, if you don’t like their purity, stal/IX.
Well Nix and other immutable distros are about versioning with binary compatible layers that will be repeatable. Directory structure is already baked-in, so that’s sort of my point.
This project, from the docs at least, seemed like a week intentioned thing that has been handled and passed over in a different way.
Not sure I follow you entirely, but I think we agree.
I haven’t tried it yet but the concept just seems a lot more intuitive in a way that systems like NixOS and Guix SD arent. I haven’t tried those either though so maybe I’m just ignorant 🤷
When switching from Windows, it was very confusing to me, that program files where all over the place. It was before (almost) every distro switched to the /usr directory, so it was even worse than it is now. Even now, when I understand more about Linux than before, I still prefer the Windows way.
I think that this hierarchy is nice for people moving from Windows, but experienced enough that they could understand the docs and tweak the OS.
I was actually surprised that this distro was designed with more experienced people in mind, I thought it was for beginners.
Doesn’t Windows leave program files and data all over the place too?
Yes, most people aren’t aware of it as they’ve seen inside Program Files and assumed that was all the program’s data.
