I really miss using Gobo. Haven't found a distro nearly as easy to use. A
revamped rootless would be wonderful. Unfortunately, I just don't have
time.
How is everyone?
On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 11:09 AM, teique <tei...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think Gobolinux should become GobolinuxPackageManager to work with all
> distros!
>
> In the "Gobolinux Way" of managing packages,
> I would highlight:
>
> 0) we have an organized packages filesystem hierarchy that is easy to
> understand, track and maintain using any simple/normal filemanager.
>
> 1) we can have concurrent application versions installed at the same time;
> if you upgrade your system and something goes wrong, it is easy to
> downgrade any package needed (without uninstalling any version of it), or
> at any time just use an old version of the application.
>
> 2) [at that time, I thought on this but dont remember having tested it] we
> can have libraries (".so" files) with the same name for different
> applications; when it runs with LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it is granted no conflict
> will ever happen; but such libs would never become global either.
>
> I dont have much knowledge tho.. would someone hightlight something else
> that could be attractive when using on other distros?
>
>
> On 24/08/13 10:35, Ben Francis wrote:
>
>>
>> Vladimir,
>>
>> It's not dead. The pulse is still there, and a motivated
>> developer/sysadmin can make it sing again. Hisham and friends moved the
>> ball a long way. Someone else can pick it up and keep Gobolinux going. The
>> documents are there. It just takes effort.
>>
>> The use case I see for Gobolinux is an organization that wants a sane
>> filesystem hierarchy and doesn't want the viruses packaged for the
>> mainstream Linux distributions. There is value in not being a big target.
>>
>> On Aug 21, 2013 3:21 PM, "Vladimir A. Pavlov" <p...@bk.ru <mailto:
>> p...@bk.ru>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>> What is the current status of GoboLinux?
>>
>> I see some recipe updates on the main page of gobolinux.org
>> <http://gobolinux.org>
>>
>> but there are no newer isos/news/blog posts and the forum does
>> not seem to work (the latter can be an issue with my provider though).
>>
>> Is the project alive? I'd really like to try it but I wouldn't
>> like to spend
>> my time installing and learning it if it's coming to the end of
>> the road.
>>
>> I guess there are people that upgrade recipes at least. What are
>> your plans for GoboLinux's future? I understand that ideal systems
>> does not need revolutions and just upgrading packages would be
>> just fine. But I see gcc-4.6.1 and glibc-2.15 as the latest package
>> versions at svn.gobolinux.org <http://svn.gobolinux.org> and those
>>
>> are too old for an alive
>> distro. Is there another place where the development continues today?
>>
>> Does it worth to try GoboLinux these days?
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