Guest ThunderRiver Posted May 10, 2003 Share Posted May 10, 2003 Check out http://www.gobolinux.org/ Their distro has brilliant new ideas about its linux structure.. In GoboLinux, each program lives in its own directory, like this:/Programs/Netkit-Base/0.17/bin/ping/Programs/LibPNG/1.2.5/lib/libpng.so.3(and so on)For each category of files, there is a directory under /System/Links collecting symlinks of the programs' files./System/Links/Executables/ping/System/Links/Libraries/libpng.so.3(and so on)Traditional Unix paths are also symlinks, to the /System/Links strucutre:/bin -> /System/Links/Executables/usr/bin -> /System/Links/Executables/usr/lib -> /System/Links/Libraries(and so on)Some screenshots are available here http://www.gobolinux.org/index.php?screenshotsKeep in mind that the site may load quite slowly because it is being slashdoted Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruno Posted May 10, 2003 Share Posted May 10, 2003 ThunderRiver,Very interesting approach, love to read more about it but: site may load quite slowly because it is being slashdotedThe site is overloaded !I will come back to it though ! Bruno Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greengeek Posted May 11, 2003 Share Posted May 11, 2003 I don't know that I agree with having all these new versions of Linux, I really think that they should be working on the main distros to make it more user friendly.Joy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest genaldar Posted May 11, 2003 Share Posted May 11, 2003 I don't know that I agree with having all these new versions of Linux, I really think that they should be working on the main distros to make it more user friendly.JoyThats the beauty, and the flaw in linux. Anyone can make a distro, or a project. So many overlapping projects exist. Look at sourceforge, you'll find tons of examples.btw I love the approach, in fact for almost 4 years I've been talking about a similar file structure. In mine the program and files stay in the traditional path, but there is a folder called programs full of shortcuts to the folders of programs. That way the file structure is intact, but its more friendly to newbs from the windows world. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SonicDragon Posted May 11, 2003 Share Posted May 11, 2003 Thats the beauty, and the flaw in linux.Good way to put it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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