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| 2008-03-27 |
Development Release: GoboLinux 014.01 Beta 1 |
| Carlo Calica has announced a beta release of GoboLinux 014.01, a desktop Linux distribution featuring a radically redesigned file system hierarchy: "I'm proud to announce GoboLinux 014.01-beta1. This is shaping up to be a pretty solid release. Please test this thoroughly; we'll be pressing 4,000 CDs for the International Forum on Free Software and the deadline is April 1st. Major changes: PostInstall working; OpenSSH keygen moved to task; scripts 2.8.4 branch snapshot - manpage and other fixes; X.Org 7.2-r6- fixes xcb lock for Skype; OpenOffice.org 2.3.1 - xdg entries and correct symbolic links; MPlayer 1.0rc2 - subtitle font symbolic link fixed and security update; KDE - a kdmrc fix to existing package; Subversion now supports http:// URLs; APR and APT-Utils updated for Subversion. Still to do: Linux 2.6.24.3 - better driver support." Read the full release announcement for further details. Download: GoboLinux-014.01-beta1.iso (670MB, MD5). |
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| About GoboLinux |
| GoboLinux is a Linux distribution that breaks away from the historical UNIX directory hierarchy. Basically, this means that there are no directories such as /usr and /etc. The main idea of the alternative hierarchy is to store all files belonging to an application in its own separate subtree; therefore we have directories such as /Programs/GCC/2.95.3/lib. To allow the system to find these files, they are logically grouped in directories such as /System/Links/Executables, which, you guessed it, contains symbolic links to all executable files inside the Programs hierarchy. To maintain backwards compatibility with traditional Unix/Linux apps, there are symbolic links that mimic the Unix tree, such as "/usr/bin -> /System/Links/Executables", and "/sbin -> /System/Links/Executables" (this example shows that arbitrary differentiations between files of the same category were also removed). |
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