GoboLinux is an alternative Linux distribution which redefines the entire filesystem hierarchy.
This modular Linux distribution organizes the programs in your system in a logical way. Instead of having parts of a program stored at /usr/bin, other parts at /etc and yet more parts located at /usr/share/something/or/another, each program gets its own directory tree, keeping them all neatly separated and allowing you to see everything that’s installed in the system and which files belong to which programs in a simple and obvious way.
To maintain backwards compatibility with traditional Unix/Linux apps, there are symbolic links that mimic the Unix tree.
In GoboLinux you don’t need a package database because the filesystem is the database.
| Working state: | Active |
| Desktop: | Awesome |
| Init Software: | SysV |
| Package Management: | - |
| Release Model: | Fixed |
| Platforms: | x86_64 |
| Home Page: | gobolinux.org |
| Developer: | GoboLinux dev team |
| This article is part of our Big List of Active Linux Distros which is currently under development. |
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