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This website is the primary source for information about GoboLinux.

GoboLinux at a glance - a visual overview of what makes this distribution unique.
Frequently Asked Questions - the first question is "what the heck is GoboLinux", so, if you're still wondering... check it out!
GoboLinux Knowledge Base - our community wiki that documents GoboLinux utilities and numerous topics oninstallingand using GoboLinux

Compile - the GoboLinux compilation system - an introduction to our build tool
GoboHide: surviving aside the legacy tree - an explanation on how GoboHide was developed and how it works.
Installing programs by hand - how to install programs "by hand" in GoboLinux without using Compile.
Release History - a page collecting the release announcements for all past releases of GoboLinux

For tweaking the distro beyond normal use!

Tweaking the GoboLinux LiveCD: a tutorial - information on how to use the GoboLinux tools to make a customized version of the GoboLinux Live CD.

Slides of some GoboLinux presentations.

GoboLinux 015 Presented at FISL 15 - Forum Internacional de Software Livre. Porto Alegre, 2014. pdf
GoboLinux: uma nova proposta para a árvore de diretórios Unix Presented at Latinoware 2007, IV Latin-American Conference on Free Software, Foz do Iguaçu, 2007. OpenOffice Impress,PDF(Portuguese)
GoboLinux. Presented at FISL 4 - Fórum Internacional de Software Livre, Porto Alegre, 2003.OpenOffice Impress (Portuguese),
GoboLinux. Presented on SDSL 2003 - Semana de Desenvolvimento em Software Livre, São Leopoldo, 2003.OpenOffice Impress (Portuguese).

This section lists scientific articles related to GoboLinux published by members of the team.

MUHAMMAD, Hisham. DETSCH, André. Uma nova proposta para a arvore de diretorios UNIX. Proceedings of the III WSL - Workshop em Software Livre, Porto Alegre, 2002.PostScript (Portuguese),LyX (Portuguese),HTML (English),PostScript (English),LyX (English).
DETSCH, André. BEDIN, Guilherme B.;. Distribuição GoboLinux. Proceedings of the IV WSL - Workshop em Software Livre, Porto Alegre, 2003.PostScript (Portuguese).
MUHAMMAD, Hisham. JEFFMAN, Rafael G.v Portabilidade e flexibilidade em software livre: a experiencia do GoboLinux Proceedings of the IV WSL - Workshop em Software Livre, Porto Alegre, 2003.PostScript (Portuguese),PDF (Portuguese).
DAMASIO, Felipe W. VILLA REAL, Lucas C.GoboHide: Uma Solução Flexível e Escalável para Inodes Ocultos no Kernel Linux Proceedings of the IV WSL - Workshop em Software Livre, Porto Alegre, 2003.PDF (Portuguese),

Older documents

Many of these are of historical interest only, but they are fun to keep around.

The Unix tree rethought: an introduction to GoboLinux - the article that originally presented GoboLinux to the world. Published onKuro5hin in 2003.
I am not clueless, or "Myths and misconceptions about the design of GoboLinux" (2004). Makes for good bed-time reading. Also in printer-friendly PDF.
The ideas behind Compile (2003) - the ideas on which Compile and the Recipes tree are based on.
Roadmap for 012 - The things we aimed for 012.
Roadmap for 011 - The things we aimed for 011. Did we skip the roadmap on 010???
Roadmap for 007 - The things we aimed for 007. Nice to read now and see that we actually did those things. :)
006 To-do list - a proto-roadmap.
Organization: is there any? - by Hisham Muhammad. A long answer to the "who is in charge of what" question.
Quick-and-dirty Porting Guide - by Hisham Muhammad. An overview on what would it take to make GoboLinux run in a different architecture.
Differences between GoboLinux and a traditional Linux system (2003) - This was written in a hurry when we were slashdotted for the first time. A relic from the beginnings of the project. :)