00:09, December 16, 2016, "Lucas C. Villa Real" <luca...@gobolinux.org>:
Greetings, everybody!
After several months of development, testing, and polishing, we are pleased to announce the release of GoboLinux 016.GoboLinux
is an alternative Linux distribution that was born in 2002 from the
desire to try new approaches for filesystem organization within the
Linux ecosystem. As a result, the distro introduced a novel filesystem
hierarchy that enabled a sound representation of all system programs,
without running into the problems that conventional package managers do.This
release continues to pave the road for new experiments: we are
featuring Runner, a virtualization tool of our own that creates views
of the /System/Index tree based on the Dependencies file of each
program. Instead of using full-fledged containers just to avoid library
conflicts when running an executable, Runner builds a custom mount table
for the process by dynamically overlaying the correct parts of the
/Programs tree on /System/Index -- something that's only feasible
thanks to GoboLinux' filesystem hierarchy rearrangement.GoboLinux
016 also marks the debut of GoboNet, our own daemon-free network
manager. GoboNet is a simple wireless networking tool that "just works"
in the common case and doesn't get in the way when you need to tweak
things yourself. It does not use DBus or any daemon of its own: it only
launches the DHCP client to handle dynamic IP addresses, manages Wi-Fi
passwords and provides a command-line API for ease of use and scripting.GoboLinux
016 features a minimalistic yet comfortable desktop based on the
Awesome window manager. Awesome is well-known as an excellent tiling WM,
but
its Lua scripting capabilities makes it extremely customizable. In Gobo,
we
tuned it so it ships with a setup based on floating windows which should
be
familiar to all users, while keeping all the power features of Awesome
at
hand. The desktop environment also features some widgets developed
in-house that integrate nicely with the no-frills philosophy of
GoboLinux. That includes a wi-fi widget that uses GoboNet, a battery
widget indicator, and a custom audio widget that launches and
communicates with AlsaMixer.The ISO is available for downloading at http://gobolinux.orgWe hope you enjoy it as much as we do!Lucas and Hisham, on behalf of the GoboLinux team_______________________________________________
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