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GoboLinux


Last Update: 2024-02-02 02:44 UTC

GoboLinux is a modular Linux distribution - it organizes the programs in a new, logical way. Instead of having parts of a program thrown at /usr/bin, other parts at /etc and yet more parts thrown at /usr/share/something/or/another, each program gets its own directory tree, keeping them all neatly separated and allowing the user to see everything that's installed in the system and which files belong to which programs in a simple and obvious way.

Average visitor rating: 5.75/10 from 4 review(s).

GoboLinux Summary
Distribution GoboLinux
Home Page http://www.gobolinux.org/
Mailing Lists http://lists.gobolinux.org/mailman/listinfo/gobolinux-users
User Forums --
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Documentation http://www.gobolinux.org/?page=documentation
Screenshots http://www.gobolinux.org/?page=screenshots • DistroWatch Gallery
Screencasts
Download Mirrors http://www.gobolinux.org/?page=downloads • DistroWatch Torrent Archive
Bug Tracker http://bugs.gobolinux.org/
Related Websites GoboLinux Community Binary Packages • Wikipedia
Reviews 017: DistroWatch
016: DistroWatch
015: DistroWatch
014: Blogspot
013: Linux.com
010: LWN
Where To Donate, Buy or Try

Recent Related News and Releases
  Releases announcements with download links and checksums:
 • 2020-05-24: Distribution Release: GoboLinux 017
 • 2020-04-17: Development Release: GoboLinux 017 Beta
 • 2020-02-21: Development Release: GoboLinux 017 Alpha
 • 2017-04-05: Distribution Release: GoboLinux 016.01
 • 2016-12-16: Distribution Release: GoboLinux 016
 • 2016-11-09: Development Release: GoboLinux 016 Beta
 • 2016-10-10: Development Release: GoboLinux 016 Alpha
 • 2014-05-08: Distribution Release: GoboLinux 015
 • 2014-04-21: Development Release: GoboLinux 015 Beta 3
 • 2014-04-08: Development Release: GoboLinux 015 Beta 2
 • 2014-03-05: Development Release: GoboLinux 015 Beta
 • 2014-01-22: Development Release: GoboLinux 015 Alpha
 • More GoboLinux releases...

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Feature 017 016.01 015 014.01 013 012 011 010 007 006 005 Feature
Release Date 2020-05-24 2017-04-04 2014-05-07 2008-03-04 2006-11-03 2005-06-02 2004-06-04 2004-01-07 2003-10-22 2003-05-19 2002-10-11 Release Date
End Of Life                       End Of Life
Price (US$) Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Price (US$)
Image Size (MB) 1900-2000 1400-1500                   Image Size (MB)
Free Download ISO ISO ISO ISO ISO ISO ISO ISO ISO ISO ISO Free Download
Installation Graphical Graphical Graphical Graphical Graphical Graphical Graphical Graphical Graphical Graphical Graphical Installation
Default Desktop Awesome Awesome Enlightenment KDE               Default Desktop
Package Management                       Package Management
Release Model Fixed Fixed Fixed Fixed Fixed Fixed Fixed Fixed Fixed Fixed Fixed Release Model
Office Suite -- -- LibreOffice OO.o* OO.o* OO.o* OO.o* OO.o* OO.o* OO.o* KOffice, OO.o* Office Suite
Processor Architecture x86_64 x86_64 i686 i686 i686 i686 i686 i686 i686 i686 i686 Processor Architecture
Init Software SysV SysV SysV SysV SysV SysV SysV SysV SysV SysV SysV Init Software
Journaled File Systems       ext3, ReiserFS ext3, ReiserFS ext3, ReiserFS ext3, ReiserFS ext3, ReiserFS       Journaled File Systems
Multilingual de, en, es, hu, pt de, en, es, hu, pt de, en, es, hu, pt de, en, hu, pt de, en, pt de, en, pt en, pt en, pt       Multilingual
Asian Language Support -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Asian Language Support
Full Package List 017 016.01 015 014.01 013 012 011   007 006 005 Full Package List

Full Package List:   GoboLinux 013
  Number of packages: 197 (download as TXT)
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  •  AbsTK 0.3
  •  ALSA-Lib 1.0.11
  •  ALSA-Utils 1.0.11
  •  Aspell 0.60.4
  •  ATK 1.11.2
  •  Atool 0.32.0
  •  Audacious 1.1.2
  •  Audiofile 0.2.6
  •  Aumix 2.8
  •  Autoconf 2.59
  •  Automake 1.9.6
  •  Bash 3.1
  •  BC 1.06
  •  Bin 860.16.17
  •  BinUtils 2.16.1
  •  Bison 2.3
  •  BootScripts 2.1.0
  •  Bzip2 1.0.3
  •  Cairo 1.1.10
  •  Cdparanoia-IIIalpha 9.8
  •  CDRDAO 1.2.1
  •  CDRTools 2.01.01a11
  •  Compile 1.7.1
  •  ConfigTools 1.1.2
  •  CoreUtils 5.97
  •  Cpio 2.6
  •  CUPS 1.2.1
  •  CVS 1.12.13
  •  DB 4.4.20
  •  Device-Mapper 1.00.21
  •  DHCPCD 2.0.0
  •  Dialog 1.0-20060221
  •  DiffUtils 2.8.1
  •  DosFSTools 2.11
  •  DVD+RW-Tools 6.1
  •  E 2FSProgs1.39
  •  Ed 0.2
  •  Eject 2.1.5
  •  EnhancedSkel 013
  •  Expat 2.0.0
  •  File 4.17
  •  FindUtils 4.2.27
  •  Firefox 1.5.0.7
  •  Flac 1.1.2
  •  Flex 2.5.31
  •  Fontconfig 2.3.95
  •  FreeType 2.1.10
  •  Gawk 3.1.5
  •  GCC 4.1.1
  •  GDB 6.4
  •  Gettext 0.14.4
  •  GhostScript 8.54
  •  Gimp 2.2.12
  •  Gimp-Print 4.3.25
  •  GLib 2.10.3
  •  Glibc 2.4
  •  Gnupg 1.4.3
  •  Gnuplot 4.0.0
  •  GoboHide 0.11
  •  GPM 1.20.1
  •  Grep 2.5.1a
  •  Groff 1.19.2
  •  Grub 0.97
  •  GTK+ 2.8.19
  •  Gzip 1.3.5
  •  Hdparm 6.6
  •  Htop 0.6.4
  •  HwData 0.148-1
  •  ID 3Lib3.8.3
  •  ImageMagick 6.2.8-0
  •  Imake 1.0.2
  •  IMLib 1.9.15
  •  Indent 2.2.9
  •  InetUtils 1.4.2
  •  Installer 1.0.2
  •  JACK 0.100.0
  •  JPEG 6b
  •  K 3B0.12.16
  •  KBD 1.12
  •  KDE-Base 3.5.3
  •  KDE-Graphics 3.5.3
  •  KDE-I 18n-de3.5.3
  •  KDE-I 18n-pt_BR3.5.3
  •  KDE-Libs 3.5.3
  •  KDE-Multimedia 3.5.3
  •  KDE-Network 3.5.3
  •  KDE-PIM 3.5.3
  •  KDE-Utils 3.5.3
  •  Lame 3.96.1
  •  Lazy 0.24e
  •  LCMS 1.15
  •  Less 394
  •  Lesstif 0.95.0
  •  LibART_LGPL 2.3.17
  •  LibExif 0.6.13
  •  LibGlade 2.6.0
  •  LibID 3Tag0.15.1b
  •  LibIDN 0.6.3
  •  LibMad 0.15.1b
  •  LibMNG 1.0.9
  •  LibOGG 1.1.3
  •  LibPNG 1.2.10
  •  LibRSVG 2.14.4
  •  LibSamplerate 0.1.2
  •  LibSndfile 1.0.16
  •  LibStdC++ 3.3.1
  •  LibTool 1.5.22
  •  LibUngif 4.1.4
  •  LibUSB 0.1.12
  •  LibVorbis 1.1.2
  •  LibXML 22.6.24
  •  LibXSLT 1.1.15
  •  LILO 22.7.3
  •  Links 2.1pre22
  •  Linux-Headers 2.6.16.20
  •  Listener 1.2
  •  LiveCD 1.0.1
  •  Lsof 4.77
  •  M 41.4.4
  •  Make 3.81
  •  Man 1.6d
  •  Manager 1.1.2
  •  Man-Pages 2.33
  •  MC 4.6.1
  •  Mdadm 2.5.4
  •  Mesa 6.5
  •  MkTemp 1.5
  •  Module-Init-Tools 3.2.2
  •  MPlayer 1.0pre8
  •  Mtail 1.1.1
  •  Nano 1.3.11
  •  Nasm 0.98.39
  •  Ncurses 5.5
  •  Netkit-Base 0.17
  •  Net-Tools 1.60
  •  NTFSProgs 1.9.4
  •  OpenOffice 2.0.3
  •  OpenSSH 4.3p2
  •  OpenSSL 0.9.8b
  •  Pango 1.13.2
  •  Parted 1.7.1
  •  Patch 2.5.4
  •  PCIUtils 2.2.1
  •  PCRE 6.6
  •  Perl 5.8.8
  •  Perl-XML-Parser 2.34
  •  Pinfo 0.6.9
  •  Pkgconfig 0.20
  •  Popt 1.10
  •  PPP 2.4.3
  •  Procinfo 18
  •  Procps 3.2.6
  •  ProgsReiserFS 0.3.0
  •  Psmisc 22.2
  •  PyQt 3.16
  •  Python 2.4.3
  •  Qt 3.3.6
  •  QtParted 0.4.4
  •  Readline 5.1
  •  ReiserFSProgs 3.6.19
  •  RP-PPPoE 3.8
  •  Rsync 2.6.8
  •  Ruby 1.8.4
  •  Sash 3.7
  •  Scripts 2.5.5
  •  Sed 4.1.5
  •  Shadow 4.0.17
  •  SIP 4.4.5
  •  SquashFS-Tools 3.0
  •  Strace 4.5.14
  •  Subversion 1.3.2
  •  Sudo 1.6.8p12-r3
  •  SysFSUtils 1.2.0
  •  Sysklogd 1.4.1
  •  Sysvinit 2.86
  •  T 1Lib5.1.0
  •  TagLib 1.4
  •  Tar 1.15.91
  •  TeTeX 3.0
  •  Texinfo 4.8
  •  Thunderbird 1.5.0.4
  •  TIFF 3.8.2
  •  TraceRoute 1.4a12
  •  Udev 095
  •  UnsermakeSVN- 20060729
  •  Unzip 5.52
  •  Util-Linux 2.12r
  •  Vim 7.0
  •  Wget 1.10.2
  •  WindowMaker 0.92.0
  •  Wireless-Tools 28
  •  Xorg 7.1
  •  Xpdf 3.01pl2
  •  XTerm 213
  •  YAFC 1.1.1
  •  ZLib 1.2.3
  •  ZSH 4.2.6


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Version: 017
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-02-01
Votes: 0


 Honestly the best distro ive ever used.
Recently the devs started to update the packages, so most things should be pretty up-to-date including firefox ver. 131.
The package manager works as intended without any bugs.
It uses the awesome window manager with its own theme and applets which all blend in really nicely together.
Obviously the distribution is not for beginners, but for an advanced user like me its easy to learn and use due to extensive documentation.
A new and updated release is just around the corner from what i know.
The only "bad thing" about the distro could be that its not multilib but its easy to just add 32bit binaries from old 32bit versions of the distro.
Due to its uniqueness u will have distro-specific problems but the irc chat is very active and the devs will gladly help u with any problems u might have.
Overall the distro is great for more advanced users, is unique and has great documentation.


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Version: 017
Rating: 2
Date: 2022-05-10
Votes: 0


 One of the worst Linux distro, I think. I tested it using Live USB. Sadly, it was a terrible experience!

- it does not recognize my mouse (a cable one, brand Trust) so I used the notebook touchpad
- it does not recognize my Wi-Fi connection
- User Experience very poor, just a few basic software installed (and... how to install something new? Of course not the best Linux distro, in this way)
- opened window not always easy to find
- firefox 76.0.1 (the latest release is Firefox 100)
- Python not installed!!!
- great use of resources, but there are also other lightweight distro



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Version: 017
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-03-02
Votes: 3


 Just use NixOS or gentoo or slackware instead. It is not good enough to daily use, unless you are planning to contributing to the project itself. If your work isnt related to Gobolinux, then don't bother.

For a more experienced Linux user, this distro may be useful, but I can't recommend this for a beginner.

The standard set of available programs was very limited. Compile is annoying. Don't bother installing this on baremetal on your main machine.

If you want a distro that reinvents the wheel, then you found it!


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