GoboLinux: Experimenting with a New Filesystem Hierarchy
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@mlnews said in GoboLinux: Experimenting with a New Filesystem Hierarchy:
https://fosspost.org/2017/01/22/gobolinux-a-linux-distribution-with-new-filesystem-hierarchy/
There are many different Linux distributions out there. Thousands of them are designed to meet different purposes (no matter how small the difference from each one). Today, we would like to introduce GoboLinux for you.
GoboLinux is a special Linux distribution which is built from scratch. It offers an alternative filesystem hierarchy. To clarify this, we all know that the common Unix hierarchy includes directories like /usr, /bin, /etc.. But that’s not the case in GoboLinux. For example the filesystem directories here are:
- /System: The system files, binaries and kernel and placed here.
- /Programs: All programs are inserted in this directory. Each program has its own folder which contains its own settings, files and data. Multiple versions of the same program can be installed easily, because each version contains its own files sepearted from the other version.
- /Users: The home folders for the system users (root and all others) are listed here. It’s like /home in Unix hierarchy.
- /Data: The data folder contains information about packages and recipes needed by the system. It also includes the “Variable” folder. Which is actually /var.
- /Mount: Mounting directory if needed. Just like normal /mnt.
From the developers point of view1), this new hierarchy is a much better design for a filesystem. It keeps everything “categorized” which allows files to be preserved in these categories easily. To maintain the backwards compatibility with Unix hierarchy, a lot of symlinks are used to point to the directories on GoboLinux. For example if you run cd /etc it will take you to /System/Settings. Thus, there’s no need to modify the applications to work on the new way of categorizing these files......
I found traditional Unix hierarchy more confortable for interactive shell use, Mac os X is a pain with all that capital letters. Seems like a tribute to the "case sensitive".
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@Francesco-Provino said in GoboLinux: Experimenting with a New Filesystem Hierarchy:
I found traditional Unix hierarchy more confortable for interactive shell use, Mac os X is a pain with all that capital letters. Seems like a tribute to the "case seinsitive".
Yeah, this is unnecessarily complicated.
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@scottalanmiller said in GoboLinux: Experimenting with a New Filesystem Hierarchy:
@Francesco-Provino said in GoboLinux: Experimenting with a New Filesystem Hierarchy:
I found traditional Unix hierarchy more confortable for interactive shell use, Mac os X is a pain with all that capital letters. Seems like a tribute to the "case seinsitive".
Yeah, this is unnecessarily complicated.
To further muddy the waters, on a default install of OS X (10.11 in my case), things are not case sensitive. However, you can set that option if you partition the drives yourself.
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@dafyre said in GoboLinux: Experimenting with a New Filesystem Hierarchy:
@scottalanmiller said in GoboLinux: Experimenting with a New Filesystem Hierarchy:
@Francesco-Provino said in GoboLinux: Experimenting with a New Filesystem Hierarchy:
I found traditional Unix hierarchy more confortable for interactive shell use, Mac os X is a pain with all that capital letters. Seems like a tribute to the "case seinsitive".
Yeah, this is unnecessarily complicated.
To further muddy the waters, on a default install of OS X (10.11 in my case), things are not case sensitive. However, you can set that option if you partition the drives yourself.
Well yeah, OSX is just ridiculous.
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@scottalanmiller said in GoboLinux: Experimenting with a New Filesystem Hierarchy:
@dafyre said in GoboLinux: Experimenting with a New Filesystem Hierarchy:
@scottalanmiller said in GoboLinux: Experimenting with a New Filesystem Hierarchy:
@Francesco-Provino said in GoboLinux: Experimenting with a New Filesystem Hierarchy:
I found traditional Unix hierarchy more confortable for interactive shell use, Mac os X is a pain with all that capital letters. Seems like a tribute to the "case seinsitive".
Yeah, this is unnecessarily complicated.
To further muddy the waters, on a default install of OS X (10.11 in my case), things are not case sensitive. However, you can set that option if you partition the drives yourself.
Well yeah, OSX is just ridiculous.
I came very close to getting a job at ABC but they wanted Mac experience (Guru was the word they used). The guy who got the job lied through his teeth (my friends works there and explained it to me). Being an honest person is hard sometimes.
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@wirestyle22 said in GoboLinux: Experimenting with a New Filesystem Hierarchy:
@scottalanmiller said in GoboLinux: Experimenting with a New Filesystem Hierarchy:
@dafyre said in GoboLinux: Experimenting with a New Filesystem Hierarchy:
@scottalanmiller said in GoboLinux: Experimenting with a New Filesystem Hierarchy:
@Francesco-Provino said in GoboLinux: Experimenting with a New Filesystem Hierarchy:
I found traditional Unix hierarchy more confortable for interactive shell use, Mac os X is a pain with all that capital letters. Seems like a tribute to the "case seinsitive".
Yeah, this is unnecessarily complicated.
To further muddy the waters, on a default install of OS X (10.11 in my case), things are not case sensitive. However, you can set that option if you partition the drives yourself.
Well yeah, OSX is just ridiculous.
Being an honest person is hard sometimes.
Not really, no... Dealing with the consequences of being an honest person is hard sometimes.
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@dafyre said in GoboLinux: Experimenting with a New Filesystem Hierarchy:
@wirestyle22 said in GoboLinux: Experimenting with a New Filesystem Hierarchy:
@scottalanmiller said in GoboLinux: Experimenting with a New Filesystem Hierarchy:
@dafyre said in GoboLinux: Experimenting with a New Filesystem Hierarchy:
@scottalanmiller said in GoboLinux: Experimenting with a New Filesystem Hierarchy:
@Francesco-Provino said in GoboLinux: Experimenting with a New Filesystem Hierarchy:
I found traditional Unix hierarchy more confortable for interactive shell use, Mac os X is a pain with all that capital letters. Seems like a tribute to the "case seinsitive".
Yeah, this is unnecessarily complicated.
To further muddy the waters, on a default install of OS X (10.11 in my case), things are not case sensitive. However, you can set that option if you partition the drives yourself.
Well yeah, OSX is just ridiculous.
Being an honest person is hard sometimes.
Not really, no... Dealing with the consequences of being an honest person is hard sometimes.
Yeah that's what I mean
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@wirestyle22 said in GoboLinux: Experimenting with a New Filesystem Hierarchy:
@scottalanmiller said in GoboLinux: Experimenting with a New Filesystem Hierarchy:
@dafyre said in GoboLinux: Experimenting with a New Filesystem Hierarchy:
@scottalanmiller said in GoboLinux: Experimenting with a New Filesystem Hierarchy:
@Francesco-Provino said in GoboLinux: Experimenting with a New Filesystem Hierarchy:
I found traditional Unix hierarchy more confortable for interactive shell use, Mac os X is a pain with all that capital letters. Seems like a tribute to the "case seinsitive".
Yeah, this is unnecessarily complicated.
To further muddy the waters, on a default install of OS X (10.11 in my case), things are not case sensitive. However, you can set that option if you partition the drives yourself.
Well yeah, OSX is just ridiculous.
I came very close to getting a job at ABC but they wanted Mac experience (Guru was the word they used). The guy who got the job lied through his teeth (my friends works there and explained it to me). Being an honest person is hard sometimes.
Who was dishonest? The guy or the company that happily hired someone without experience?
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@scottalanmiller said in GoboLinux: Experimenting with a New Filesystem Hierarchy:
@wirestyle22 said in GoboLinux: Experimenting with a New Filesystem Hierarchy:
@scottalanmiller said in GoboLinux: Experimenting with a New Filesystem Hierarchy:
@dafyre said in GoboLinux: Experimenting with a New Filesystem Hierarchy:
@scottalanmiller said in GoboLinux: Experimenting with a New Filesystem Hierarchy:
@Francesco-Provino said in GoboLinux: Experimenting with a New Filesystem Hierarchy:
I found traditional Unix hierarchy more confortable for interactive shell use, Mac os X is a pain with all that capital letters. Seems like a tribute to the "case seinsitive".
Yeah, this is unnecessarily complicated.
To further muddy the waters, on a default install of OS X (10.11 in my case), things are not case sensitive. However, you can set that option if you partition the drives yourself.
Well yeah, OSX is just ridiculous.
I came very close to getting a job at ABC but they wanted Mac experience (Guru was the word they used). The guy who got the job lied through his teeth (my friends works there and explained it to me). Being an honest person is hard sometimes.
Who was dishonest? The guy or the company that happily hired someone without experience?
They had no one with Mac experience to really test the guy properly but he knew his stuff generally. Then it came time for him to do something really simple (i honestly forget what its been a while) and he didn't know how to.
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@wirestyle22 said in GoboLinux: Experimenting with a New Filesystem Hierarchy:
@scottalanmiller said in GoboLinux: Experimenting with a New Filesystem Hierarchy:
@wirestyle22 said in GoboLinux: Experimenting with a New Filesystem Hierarchy:
@scottalanmiller said in GoboLinux: Experimenting with a New Filesystem Hierarchy:
@dafyre said in GoboLinux: Experimenting with a New Filesystem Hierarchy:
@scottalanmiller said in GoboLinux: Experimenting with a New Filesystem Hierarchy:
@Francesco-Provino said in GoboLinux: Experimenting with a New Filesystem Hierarchy:
I found traditional Unix hierarchy more confortable for interactive shell use, Mac os X is a pain with all that capital letters. Seems like a tribute to the "case seinsitive".
Yeah, this is unnecessarily complicated.
To further muddy the waters, on a default install of OS X (10.11 in my case), things are not case sensitive. However, you can set that option if you partition the drives yourself.
Well yeah, OSX is just ridiculous.
I came very close to getting a job at ABC but they wanted Mac experience (Guru was the word they used). The guy who got the job lied through his teeth (my friends works there and explained it to me). Being an honest person is hard sometimes.
Who was dishonest? The guy or the company that happily hired someone without experience?
They had no one with Mac experience to really test the guy properly but he knew his stuff generally. Then it came time for him to do something really simple (i honestly forget what its been a while) and he didn't know how to.
And they kept him on even though he lied? If so, then they did too.
