starter questions

Hi,

i am looking for another distro and found gobolinux to have an interesting
concept.
Perhaps you could help me clarify a few of the questions i would have.
I also have to admit i am byfar no expert, i know a few basics about linux,
but i am willing to learn more.


1) Is Gobolinux building from source or does it have prepared bin
repositories?
And is in any case 'compile' your basic installation command?

2) funtoo lists Gobolinux as a gentoo fork thats how i found Gobolinux, but
on the wikipedia entry and on the gobolinux website it is said that there
was only a timelimited tryout with gentoo as base. So Gobolinux has nothing
to do anymore with gentoo?

3) How about other linux distros as base for this type of file system?
Can the Filesystem be seen and used like an abstraction layer for other
distros?
Like f.e.
a) "Parabola GNU/Linux-libre", which uses only free software. I read in
your Release Notes that you dont use propritary software, which is not teh
same as using only free software. How about the kernel? I am not
comeplettly religious when it comes to this, but would prefer free over
open soruce and open source over proprietary software, while always having
usability and simplicity as the values to messure.
b) "Tails" which is said to have very high Privacy Protection and uses from
the start TOR for connections to the internet. I intent to get a little
more serrious about my privacy but again, when it is overly complex to
install and handle. I am in these cases often conventiently ignoring the
best and go for the easiest ^^.

4) On the website a list of maintained packages was mentioned but i was not
able to find it. Would you point me towards that?
I have quite a list of applications i would like to use, but if have of
them would not run within Gobolinux, i'd rather wait a little longer to use
this distro.

5) What happens to all the libs which are not within a programm, but are
needed, the dependencies which maybe no running programms on their own. How
does Gobolinux handle those?

6) with the Linux experience i had sofar(Suse 6/7, fedora and ubuntu),
installations were at times quite troublesome especially when it came to
compilations and dependencies.
Therefor when i looked for a new distro and found 4 promising ways how
those are handled.
a) ArchBang, based on Arch Linux, pacman as the packagaemanger which uses
binaries, which but may cause havoc as these distros is going with 'rolling
updates'
b) funtoo, gentoo based, which does everything from source compilation, but
from what i read about it, it still seemed quite userfriendly, also with
another distro called 'calculate'
c) foresight, independent, had very high praise from distrowatch exactly
about their package management, but it seems still not quite ready in its
ealry stages
d) Mint, based on Ubuntu, praised to be very userfriendly(that would be
basicly me ^^ i guess)
e) Gobolinux, gentoo based(?)/independent, with a total differetn and
seemingly very simple to understand handling of files. But also still in an
early stage.
Did i summerize this nearly correctly?

Anyways the real question i guess is, while i need a development
workstation and also at some point development and life servers, which in
both cases should then in the end be linux machines, the question is would
i have to put, in the current state of Gobolinux, more time into
realisation all this then f.e. with any of the other distros i mentioned.

7) Your wiki seems to be offline, where can i get an installation howto?
If there is no such thing, how big is the download


thanks in adavance for any help you could grant me

solong
kinngrimm


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