On 6 January 2017 at 00:44, <[email protected]> wrote: > I have some basic questions about GoboLinux as I'm far from a power user. > Please don't regard them as critical or snarky as I admire innovation. It > seems GoboLinux exists for education/presentation and administration. > > Education/presentation results from the links which group programs and such. > That's good. Am I correct that /bin, /boot and such are hidden by simply > making them /.bin, /.boot etc?
No you are not. There is a custom kernel extension, called GoboHide, which conceals them. They have the normal names but not the normal contents -- they are full of symlinks to files in Gobo's more human-readable directory tree. > Administration seems to be the ability to remove a program using one > directory. For instance, rm -rf /Programs/OpenOffice? Yes. > However, as > GoboLinux is designed to compile programs, It isn't. > isn't there usually an uninstall > command with the source? There may be; that is another, entirely separate question. > I'm a little hazy about the broken link > explanation for a problem program. What's the advantage again? You'll have to explain this. > And it appears I can compile a program without a recipe using conventional > methods. For instance: > > ./configure --prefix=/usr > make > make install > > The above should work? The drawback is the program wouldn't appear under > /Programs. Correct? AIUI, yes; it's still Linux. > What other advantages am I not understanding? You appear to not understand the overall concept at all yet, I'm afraid. -- Liam Proven • Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: [email protected] • Google Mail/Talk/Plus: [email protected] Twitter/Facebook/Flickr: lproven • Skype/LinkedIn/AIM/Yahoo: liamproven UK: +44 7939-087884 • ČR/WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal: +420 702 829 053 _______________________________________________ gobolinux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gobolinux.org/mailman/listinfo/gobolinux-users
