GoboLinux News

New Hungarian website on GoboLinux

GoboLinux team — 2008-05-29T19:48:36+01:00

Zoltán Viola contacted us to announce a new website created by the Hungarian community of GoboLinux users: gobolinux.info, featuring a wiki and forums. Zoltán also pointed us to a free e-book on GoboLinux he wrote, licensed under a Creative Commons license and available in PDF here (in Hungarian). Impressive work!

New version of Compile and Scripts

GoboLinux team — 2008-05-05T21:58:31+01:00

It's time for a new release of our new tools Scripts and Compile! This Scripts release holds quite a few new additions and changes, such as: "use flags", support for FUSE-based union filesystem backends, hints upon the execution of commands not found and a brand new archival tool, supporting LZMA/7Z.

Compile now supports Mercurial and Bazaar repositories, Cabal packages and now features an integrated tool to make contribution of recipes more easy.

The update is simple, as usual: Just run 'InstallPackage Scripts 2.9.0' and 'InstallPackage Compile 1.11.0' to get the latest and greatest. Please check the full announcement for more details.

GoboLinux dev interview at Norwegian website

GoboLinux team — 2008-04-24T13:09:00+01:00

Hisham Muhammad was interviewed by Norwegian website hardware.no. Check out the feature in English or translated to Norwegian. Thanks to Robin Heggelund Hansen for the coverage.

GoboLinux distributes 4000 CDs at FISL 9.0

GoboLinux team — 2008-04-18T07:32:00+01:00

The GoboLinux team is distributing 4000 GoboLinux 014.01 CDs for free at the 9th International Forum on Free Software (FISL 9.0) in Porto Alegre, Brazil. It's a great opportunity to spread the word about the distro and talk to a lot of people about the project. We hope to post pictures from the event soon!

Last but not least important, we'd like to thank UniLaSalle for the sponsorship that made this possible.

GoboLinux.org in Turkish!

GoboLinux team — 2008-04-09T20:30:00+01:00

The language bar at the top of the page continues to grow: GoboLinux.org is now available in eleven languages. Turkish is the latest language to join the list, thanks to the efforts of Fatih Altınok.

GoboLinux 014.01

GoboLinux team — 2008-04-02T23:02:00+01:00

We are very happy to introduce GoboLinux 014.01, the new release of GoboLinux, the Linux distribution with an alternative file system structure. This release is our first "point release", providing a stability update for our latest major release, GoboLinux 014, which was released three months ago.

Read the detailed release notes for more information and the full list of packages, including a list of which packages have changed from 014 to 014.01.

Once again, thanks to everybody who contributed with feedback, bug reports, bug fixes, recipes, translations...

GoboLinux 014.01 beta1

GoboLinux team — 2008-03-26T16:14:00+01:00

We're proud to announce GoboLinux 014.01-beta1. This is the first beta of what is to become our first bugfixes-only release, 014.01. This is shaping up to be a pretty solid release, so please help us out by testing this thoroughly.

Here are the download links: (MD5: 4ab92728113d934a658a296009d4d43a)

calica.com
kundor.org
More mirrors should follow.

Here is the link to the full announcement at the GoboLinux mailing list.

Yes, it's the first time we're doing a "point release"... but as we all know, this is definitely a project that was never attached to any dogmas. :-)

GoboLinux.org in Japanese!

GoboLinux team — 2008-03-16T20:34:00+01:00

It is always a major landmark when we see the GoboLinux.org page written with an entirely different character set. We are happy to announce gobolinux.org in Japanese! Many thanks to Sipieter Nicolas for the translation work.

NetBSD interviews GoboLinux developer on Package Management and Build System

GoboLinux team — 2008-03-13T08:44:00+01:00

The fine guys from NetBSD are celebrating the 10 years of pkgsrc, and the cake is a series of interviews on their very own pkgsrc and on alternative package management and build systems. Our developer Lucas Villa Real gives an overview there on the GoboLinux way of organizing programs, so seize the open gates to join the party and read the whole series!

Programming Arena Contest at FISL 9.0

GoboLinux team — 2008-03-11T02:04:00+01:00

This year's International Forum on Free Software (Porto Alegre, Brazil, April 17-19 2008) will feature GoboLinux challenges as the entry point to their Programming Arena contest. The challenges were taken from the bug tracker and represent real bugs or desired features. We'd like to thank all participants in advance and wish them all good luck!

New version of tools

GoboLinux team — 2008-02-01T12:44:00+01:00

New versions of Scripts (2.8.3) and Compile (1.10.1) are out! Please update yours by running "InstallPackage Scripts" and "InstallPackage Compile".

These new versions feature support for dynamic user/group creation in recipes and packages, support for the GIT distributed version control system, improvements in the infrastructure used by Manager, Scripts and Freshen and some assorted bug fixes.

The full announcement and change logs can be seen here.

GoboLinux.org in Italian!

GoboLinux team — 2008-01-14T01:19:00+01:00

Announcing a new language available in the GoboLinux website is always fun. We're happy to present gobolinux.org in Italian! Many thanks to Giambattista Bloisi and Daniele Maccari for the initiative and the hard work in translating the site.

As a side note, now the languages of all World Cup winners are available in gobolinux.org. ;-)

GoboLinux 014

GoboLinux team — 2008-01-01T19:08:43+01:00

We are pleased to introduce GoboLinux 014, the new major release of GoboLinux, the Linux distribution with an alternative directory structure. Major upgrades include KDE 3.5.8, Glibc 2.5 and Xorg 7.2, as well as new versions of the GoboLinux management tools.

Read the detailed release notes for more information and the full list of packages.

Thanks to everybody who contributed by testing the development snapshots, submitting bug reports, fixing bugs, writing recipes...

...and a happy new year to everyone! :-)

GoboLinux presentation at Latinoware 2007 is online

GoboLinux team — 2007-12-09T12:18:00+01:00

Last week Hisham Muhammad gave a talk at Latinoware 2007, the IV Latin-American Conference on Free Software, which took place at Itaipu, the largest hydroelectric power plant in the world. The slides for the talk (in Portuguese) are available at the documentation page, in ODF and PDF formats.

We would also like to thank Frank Alcântara and the Latinoware organizing team for the invitation and the excellent event!

Interview feature with GoboLinux developer

GoboLinux team — 2007-11-15T15:18:00+01:00

Packtpub.com is featuring an article with our very own Lucas Villa Real in a pretty nice interview about the past, present and future of GoboLinux. Check it out! Thanks to Mayank Sharma for the coverage.

GoboLinux.org in Swedish!

GoboLinux team — 2007-10-03T08:25:00+01:00

First it was "ã", then "ß", then "я", then "ő", then "è", then "ñ"... and now "å"! GoboLinux.org continues to stress the Unicode capabilities of your browser by integrating one more language to the website. :) We're happy to announce gobolinux.org in Swedish! Many thanks to Jonas Karlsson for his hard work translating the site. Or as the Swedish chef would have said: "Bork, bork bork!"

GoboLinux 014 development snapshots

GoboLinux team — 2007-09-29T08:30:00+01:00

For the process of stabilizing the GoboLinux 014 ISO and get it ready for release, we are now starting a series of development snapshots. The idea is to make it easier for people to see where we're at now, and to make it easier for people willing to help in testing out the release to "jump in" and get it to a state real close to where the live development is.

The latest snapshot is always available at the downloads page.

All feedback is greatly welcome. Please give it a spin and report any problems in the bug tracker.

Scripts 2.7.0, Compile 1.9.0, ChrootCompile 1.0.3

GoboLinux team — 2007-09-11T06:32:00+01:00

New versions of the GoboLinux tools were announced, featuring a number of bugfixes. The new version of Scripts also includes reworked signing/verification functionallity and Scripts+Compile now has real support for GConf schemes, which is required for Gnome, and desktop files database, for better file type association and to update e.g. XFCE menu directly when installing/removing applications.
Have a look at the mailing list announcement for installation instructions and the full change log.

New online recipe viewer

GoboLinux team — 2007-07-24T12:12:00+01:00

The GoboLinux website now has a new online search tool for recipes: recipes.gobolinux.org, which you can also access from the "chef hat" icon on this page. It has many nice features such as search by descriptions, crosslinked dependencies and the ability to view files from recipes. Many thanks to mpb, who is the developer and maintainer.

Wallpaper contest: vote!

GoboLinux team — 2007-06-26T09:23:00+01:00

Help deciding which will be the default wallpaper for GoboLinux 014. The poll is open until Sunday, June 24. Thanks to everyone who contributed wallpapers.

Update: The poll is now closed and the results are in! Congratulations to Molfar for his winning entry!

Forum is up and running

GoboLinux team — 2007-06-18T12:43:00+01:00

After a brief testing period, we are now ready to announce our new online forum. This is a new space for GoboLinux users to discuss the distro, share tips and help each other. Feel free to join in at forum.gobolinux.org. Thanks to Michael Homer for hosting and setting up the new forum. We'd also like to extend our thanks to the fine folks at PakistanOpenSource for their time hosting the old forum.