Re: Progress on a "spiritual" derivation of GoboLinux

On 4 May 2013 13:02, Sepero <[email protected]> wrote:
> As an addendum, I don't say all that because I dislike Gobo. I say it
> because I really like Gobo a lot (and you too Liam :)). I would like to see
> things become better.

:¬)

I'd just like to see it come back to life!

> Considering Ben's statement of maintaining the filesystem hierarchy
> standard, I've been thinking something that others might think is Crazy.
> I've been thinking a future version of Gobo (or distro like Gobo) based off
> of Ubuntu.

Until I read about MoonOS, I'd have said that was impossible. Now, I'm
not so sure.

> Leveraging off the success of Ubuntu would be a very helpful thing. Why try
> to keep building things from scratch when all the hardest work is done. Just
> focus on taking Ubuntu, and making it an improved filesystem. If it's
> possible, it would require far less work than maintaining a distro from
> scratch.

Definitely, yes.

> It would be leveraging all the websites, community, and solutions that are
> already available for Ubuntu. The number #1 distro on www.distrowatch.com
> right now is Linux Mint, an Ubuntu based distribution. Maybe the new
> Gobuntu.

True. Although I do think people place too much emphasis on
Distrowatch rankings... but that is partly because there isn't much
else.

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