Re: More elegant than OS X?
"Lucas C. Villa Real" <[email protected]>
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On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 3:44 PM, Răzvan Rotaru <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > At the announcement of GoboLinux 015, at FISL 15, it was Lucas stated that > GoboLinux solves the backward compatibility problem much more elegant than > OS X. I'd like to know more about that. What is OS X's solution, and why is > it less elegant that GoboLinux's. > > Cheers, > Razvan > > Greetings, That was a comment regarding the exposure of the legacy tree (/usr, /bin, /etc, and so on). If you have ever noticed it, on OS X the graphical interface hides these directories when you are browsing the directory structure of your primary drive. However, it does so at the GUI level. If you open a terminal, or if you connect to OS X through SSH, all the magic is lost: you are, all of a sudden, exposed to a different structure. In GoboLinux we instruct the kernel about which directories (or symbolic links) we want to hide from user space application. By doing so at the kernel level we give a consistent file system view to applications independently of these apps being launched from a GUI or not. That is why I state that our approach is more elegant. :-) Cheers, Lucas _______________________________________________ gobolinux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gobolinux.org/mailman/listinfo/gobolinux-users