GoboLinux - the alternative Linux distribution

Documentation

This website is the primary source of information about GoboLinux.

Starting points

Things you'll probably want to read first:

GoboLinux at a glance - a visual overview of what makes this distribution unique.
Frequently Asked Questions - the first question is "what the heck is GoboLinux", so, if you're still wondering... check it out!
GoboLinux Knowledge Base - our community wiki.

Articles

Informal pieces written by GoboLinux developers, which hopefully will shine some light on the spirit of the project and on what goes on the dev's heads. :) Most of these are just emails sent to gobo-l which were considered worth keeping.

The Unix tree rethought: an introduction to GoboLinux - the article that presented GoboLinux to the world. Published on Kuro5hin.
I am not clueless - or, "Myths and misconceptions about the design of GoboLinux". Makes for good bed-time reading. Also in printer-friendly PDF.
The ideas behind Compile - the ideas on which Compile and the Recipes tree are based on.
Going Embedded with GoboLinux - a step-by-step guide to port GoboLinux to an embedded architecture.
GoboHide: surviving aside the legacy tree - an explanation on how GoboHide was developed and how it works.
ChrootCompile - an overview - the design principles of ChrootCompile, a dynamic generator of compilation environments.
Tweaking the GoboLinux LiveCD: a tutorial - information on how to use the GoboLinux tools to make a customized version of the GoboLinux Live CD.
Manager - the graphical front-end for the GoboLinux management tools.

Press

Websites that covered GoboLinux:

Slashdot on The Unix tree rethought.
Slashdot on The ideas behind Compile
Slashdot on I am not clueless
digg
reddit
TuxMachines
OSNews
Linux Weekly News
CapnKirby
Linux+ - Distro of the Month for August 2005.
Linux.com
Symlink.ch (in German)
LinuxFr (in French)
Bittivuoto (in Finnish)
Slashzone.ru (in Russian)
HUP (in Hungarian)
WhatsUp (in Hebrew)
PuntBarra (in Catalan)
Portal.bg (in Bulgarian)
Slashdot Japan (in Japanese)
Linux.pl (in Polish)
Root.cz (in Czech)
Magyar LiveCD közösségi portál (in Hungarian)
Pro-Linux: Das Gobo-Paradox (in German)
Hardware.no (in Norwegian and in English)

Academic publications

This section will list scientific articles related to GoboLinux published by members of the team.

MUHAMMAD, Hisham. DETSCH, André. Uma nova proposta para a arvore de diretorios UNIX. Proceedings of the III WSL - Workshop em Software Livre, Porto Alegre, 2002. PostScript (Portuguese), LyX (Portuguese), HTML (English), PostScript (English), LyX (English).
DETSCH, André. BEDIN, Guilherme B.;. Distribuição GoboLinux. Proceedings of the IV WSL - Workshop em Software Livre, Porto Alegre, 2003. PostScript (Portuguese).
MUHAMMAD, Hisham. JEFFMAN, Rafael G.v Portabilidade e flexibilidade em software livre: a experiencia do GoboLinux Proceedings of the IV WSL - Workshop em Software Livre, Porto Alegre, 2003. PostScript (Portuguese), PDF (Portuguese).
DAMASIO, Felipe W. VILLA REAL, Lucas C.GoboHide: Uma Solução Flexível e Escalável para Inodes Ocultos no Kernel Linux Proceedings of the IV WSL - Workshop em Software Livre, Porto Alegre, 2003. PDF (Portuguese),

Presentation slides

This section will list the slides of some GoboLinux presentations.

GoboLinux: uma nova proposta para a árvore de diretórios Unix Presented at Latinoware 2007, IV Latin-American Conference on Free Software, Foz do Iguaçu, 2007. OpenOffice Impress, PDF (Portuguese)
GoboLinux. Presented on IV FSL - Fórum Internacional de Software Livre, Porto Alegre, 2003. OpenOffice Impress (Portuguese),
GoboLinux. Presented on SDSL 2003 - Semana de Desenvolvimento em Software Livre, São Leopoldo, 2003. OpenOffice Impress (Portuguese).

Older docs

Outdated documents, of historical interest only.

Roadmap for 012 - The things we aimed for 012.
Roadmap for 011 - The things we aimed for 011. Did we skip the roadmap on 010???
Roadmap for 007 - The things we aimed for 007. Nice to read now and see that we actually did those things. :)
006 To-do list - a proto-roadmap.
Organization: is there any? - by Hisham Muhammad. A long answer to the "who is in charge of what" question.
Quick-and-dirty Porting Guide - by Hisham Muhammad. An overview on what would it take to make GoboLinux run in a different architecture.
Differences between GoboLinux and a traditional Linux system - a brief summary of the differences. Not detailed, but still recommended reading if you are installing.