Re: starter questions

On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 11:25 AM, kinn grimm <[email protected]>
wrote:

> 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.
>
>
Hi Kinn,

Let me add a bit more of information on top of Jonas' and Joel's answers.

>
> 1) Is Gobolinux building from source or does it have prepared bin
> repositories?
> And is in any case 'compile' your basic installation command?
>
>
We are no longer maintaining the bin repository. It does exist, it may have
a few packages there, but there are no efforts on populating it.


> 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?
>
>
That information is not correct. GoboLinux has never had anything to do
with Gentoo. It has always been built from scratch without relying on any
specific resources from other distros.

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?
>

Yes, we have something called "GoboLinux Rootless". It's a script that lets
you compile packages onto your home directory using the GoboLinux Compile
tool.


> 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.
>

We do ship a bunch of firmware (from the linux-firmware.git community repos
at kernel.org) with the ISO so that basic hardware functionality can be
provided out of the box. If I recall correctly that is the only "cloudy"
aspect when it comes to software licensing terms.  Users are still free to
submit recipes to compile non-free software. Afterwards it is up to the
final user to accept or refuse the licensing terms when building their
packages.


> 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.
>

If you look into production servers, you will likely want to let the distro
maintainers go through the effort of preparing new packages to fix e.g.
security holes as soon as they are announced. We have a small community,
which means that you won't have that kind of support here. In other words,
you are on your own.

Lucas

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