GoboLinux
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5recommend
0warn against
Jan 1, 2026first mention
Sep 13, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“Re Gobo -- yes please. I love that little distro.”
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“see https://gobolinux.org/ which has more sane dirs.”
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“GoboLinux did this years ago via ViewFS”
“similar as to how GoboLinux does, but in a more free form”
“I recommend taking a look at Gobolinux”
“Re Gobo -- yes please. I love that little distro.”
“This approach was already done by GoboLinux in 2005.”
“This approach was already done by GoboLinux in 2005.”
“GoboLinux unfortunately lacks documentation”
“see https://gobolinux.org/ which has more sane dirs.”
Linux does not use this split any more. Many of these dirs were merged back together. The "/usr merge" was adopted by Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Red Hat, Arch Linux, openSUSE and other major distros: https://itsfoss.gitlab.io/post/understanding-the-linux--usr-merge/ `man file-hierarcy` defines modern Linux filesystem layout. https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/file-hierarchy.7.html
“There's no reason Linux should be like this. e.g., see https://gobolinux.org/ which has more sane dirs.”
“I haven't used GoboLinux since maybe 2007ish but I used to maintain several packages for it.”
“GoboLinux solved that already”