Greetings, everybody! After several months of development, testing, and polishing, we are pleased to announce the release of GoboLinux 016.
GoboLinux is an alternative Linux distribution that was born in 2002 from the desire to try new approaches for filesystem organization within the Linux ecosystem. As a result, the distro introduced a novel filesystem hierarchy that enabled a sound representation of all system programs, without running into the problems that conventional package managers do. This release continues to pave the road for new experiments: we are featuring Runner, a virtualization tool of our own that creates views of the /System/Index tree based on the Dependencies file of each program. Instead of using full-fledged containers just to avoid library conflicts when running an executable, Runner builds a custom mount table for the process by dynamically overlaying the correct parts of the /Programs tree on /System/Index -- something that's only feasible thanks to GoboLinux' filesystem hierarchy rearrangement. GoboLinux 016 also marks the debut of GoboNet, our own daemon-free network manager. GoboNet is a simple wireless networking tool that "just works" in the common case and doesn't get in the way when you need to tweak things yourself. It does not use DBus or any daemon of its own: it only launches the DHCP client to handle dynamic IP addresses, manages Wi-Fi passwords and provides a command-line API for ease of use and scripting. GoboLinux 016 features a minimalistic yet comfortable desktop based on the Awesome window manager. Awesome is well-known as an excellent tiling WM, but its Lua scripting capabilities makes it extremely customizable. In Gobo, we tuned it so it ships with a setup based on floating windows which should be familiar to all users, while keeping all the power features of Awesome at hand. The desktop environment also features some widgets developed in-house that integrate nicely with the no-frills philosophy of GoboLinux. That includes a wi-fi widget that uses GoboNet, a battery widget indicator, and a custom audio widget that launches and communicates with AlsaMixer. The ISO is available for downloading at http://gobolinux.org We hope you enjoy it as much as we do! Lucas and Hisham, on behalf of the GoboLinux team
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