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GoboLinux


Last Update: 2025-04-10 15:56 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.

Popularity (hits per day): 12 months: 228 (32), 6 months: 157 (60), 3 months: 107 (113), 4 weeks: 34 (329), 1 week: 168 (43)

Average visitor rating: 5.83/10 from 6 review(s).

GoboLinux Summary
Distribution GoboLinux
Home Page https://www.gobolinux.org/
Mailing Lists --
User Forums https://github.com/orgs/gobolinux/discussions
Alternative User Forums
Documentation https://gobolinux.org/documentation.html
https://wiki.gobolinux.org/
Screenshots http://www.gobolinux.org/?page=screenshots • DistroWatch Gallery
Screencasts
Download Mirrors http://www.gobolinux.org/?page=downloads • DistroWatch Torrent Archive
Bug Tracker https://github.com/gobolinux
Related Websites 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:
 • 2025-04-01: Distribution Release: GoboLinux 017.01
 • 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
 • More GoboLinux releases...

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Feature 017.01 017 016.01 015 014.01 013 012 011 010 007 006 005 Feature
Release Date 2025-03-31 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$) Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Price (US$)
Image Size (MB) 2300-2400 1900-2000 1400-1500                   Image Size (MB)
Free Download ISO 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 Graphical Installation
Default Desktop Awesome Awesome Awesome Enlightenment KDE               Default Desktop
Package Management                         Package Management
Release Model Fixed 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 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 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, 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 017.01 017 016.01 015 014.01 013 012 011   007 006 005 Full Package List

Full Package List:   GoboLinux 017-beta
  Number of packages: 409 (download as TXT)
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  •  AbsTK 017-GIT
  •  ACL 2.2.53
  •  Acpid 2.0.32
  •  Adwaita-Icon-Theme 3.20
  •  ALSA-Firmware 1.2.1
  •  ALSA-Lib 1.2.2
  •  ALSA-UCM-Conf 1.2.2
  •  ALSA-Utils 1.2.1
  •  APulse 0.1.12
  •  AsciiDoc 9.0.0rc2
  •  ATK 2.34.1
  •  ATKMM 2.28.0
  •  Atool 0.39.0
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  •  At-Spi2-Core 2.28.0
  •  ATTR 2.4.48
  •  Autoconf 2.69
  •  Automake 1.16.1
  •  Avahi 0.8
  •  Awesome 4.3
  •  Babl 0.1.74
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  •  BC 1.07.1
  •  BDFtoPCF 1.1
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  •  Bluez 5.53
  •  Boost 1.72.0
  •  BootScripts 017-GIT
  •  Bzip2 1.0.8
  •  CAcerts 20120211
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  •  Compile 017-GIT
  •  ConfigTools 017_beta
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  •  CryptSetup 1.7.3
  •  CUPS 2.3.1
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  •  DBus-GLib 0.110
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  •  DiffUtils 3.7
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  •  DoubleConversion 3.1.5
  •  Dracut 20200220-GIT
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  •  EFIVar 37
  •  ELFUtils 0.178
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  •  Eudev 3.2.9
  •  Exempi 2.5.1
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  •  FFmpeg 4.2.2
  •  File 5.38
  •  FindUtils 4.7.0
  •  Firefox 75.0
  •  Flex 2.6.4
  •  Fontconfig 2.13.1
  •  FreeGlut 3.2.1
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  •  GDK-Pixbuf 2.40.0
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  •  Glibc 2.30
  •  GLibmm 2.62.0
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  •  GnuTLS 3.6.12
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  •  GoboHide 1.3
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  •  Gperf 3.1
  •  GPM 1.20.7
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  •  Grep 3.4
  •  Groff 1.22.4
  •  GRUB 2.04
  •  GRUB-EFI 2.04
  •  GSLLang 8.13.3559
  •  GTK+ 3.24.13
  •  GTKMM 3.24.2
  •  Gutenprint 5.3.3
  •  Gzip 1.10
  •  HarfBuzz 2.6.4
  •  Hdparm 9.58
  •  Help2Man 1.47.12
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  •  Hplip 3.19.12
  •  Htop 2.2.0
  •  Hub 2.14.2
  •  IANA-etc 2.30
  •  ICEAuth 1.0.8
  •  IJS 0.35
  •  ImageMagick 7.0.10_4
  •  InetUtils 1.9.4
  •  Installer 017_beta
  •  Intltool 0.51.0
  •  IPRoute2 5.6.0
  •  Iptables 1.8.4
  •  ITSTool 2.0.6
  •  Json-C 0.13.1
  •  JSON-GLib 1.4.4
  •  KBD 2.2.0
  •  Kerberos 1.18
  •  Kmod 27
  •  Lame 3.100
  •  LCMS 2.9
  •  Less 551
  •  LibAIO 0.3.112
  •  LibArchive 3.4.2
  •  LibAssuan 2.5.3
  •  LibBSD 0.10.0
  •  LibCap 2.27
  •  Libconfig 1.7.2
  •  LibCroco 0.6.13
  •  LibDaemon 0.14
  •  LibDMX 1.1.4
  •  LibDRM 2.4.100
  •  LibEpoxy 1.5.4
  •  LibEvdev 1.9.0
  •  LibEvent 2.1.11
  •  LibFFI 3.3
  •  LibFontenc 1.1.4
  •  LibFS 1.0.8
  •  LibGCrypt 1.8.5
  •  LibGLVnd 1.2.0
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  •  LibiCal 3.0.7
  •  LibICE 1.0.10
  •  LibICU4C 65.1
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  •  LibIDN2 2.3.0
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  •  LibMD 1.0.1
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  •  LibOGG 1.3.4
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  •  LibTool 2.4.6
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  •  LibXres 1.2.0
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  •  LibXShmfence 1.3
  •  LibXSLT 1.1.34
  •  LibXt 1.2.0
  •  LibXtst 1.2.3
  •  LibXv 1.0.11
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  •  LibXxf86dga 1.1.5
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  •  Linux-Firmware 20200221-GIT
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  •  XZ-Utils 5.2.5
  •  ZLib 1.2.11
  •  ZSH 5.8
  •  Zstd 1.4.4


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Date: 2025-04-01
Votes: 2


 A refreshing take on the filesystem (and, for those who want the traditional one - this one is also avaliable by default, just "hidden" via gobohide by default, so you actually don't even need to use the versioned directories per se; I used GoboLinux via FHS traditional /usr/ prefix just fine - although of course, using versioned AppDirs is the whole main point behind GoboLinux, so it makes more sense to use versioned AppDirs anyway).

With a new leadership focusing on improving various means, I estimate that it may take say three months starting from April 2025 before GoboLinux will pick up more pace again. (It's been semi-dormant for quite a while.)


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Version: 017.01
Rating: 2
Date: 2025-04-01
Votes: 1


 Could not get this to boot.... I attempted three different times and three image downloads; no indication the file is corrupted; but I could not boot on two different device attempts... I don't want to throw shade on this work; but I am not sure where I can go from here... My screen boot drops out to a "dracut:/#" prompt... Image was downloaded from distrowatch onto known good USB Flash drive.and booted with other distros... So, I will give this some additional time in the mill and let others chime in... This IS NOT an April Fools review.


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Version: 017
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-02-01
Votes: 6


 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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