Thursday, August 14, 2008

GoboLinux file system hirerachy done right!

In a previous rant I complained about the nonsense that is the file system hierarchy in most Unix and Unix-like OSes. NeXTSTEP and its successor Mac OS X done away with it in favor of a more logical file system hierarchy. Recently I learned about GoboLinux, and its breakthrough feature is its file system hierarchy. GoboLinux did away with the nonsense of the File System Hierarchy Standard in favor of a simpler NeXTSTEP/Mac OS X like hierarchy. All your apps are placed in /Programs/ and thus the hierarchy becomes the package manager.

There are other interesting aspects about GoboLinux, more about them here and here.

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