GoboLinux 016 Arrives After 2 Years with Its Own Filesystem Virtualization Tool | Linux Today

GoboLinux 016 Arrives After 2 Years with Its Own Filesystem Virtualization Tool

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Marius Nestor
Dec 19, 2016

Shipping with the minimalist Awesome window manager as default desktop environment, GoboLinux 016 arrives two and a half years after the previous version in attempt to make the computer operating system more simpler and functional than before by implementing various innovative, un-Unix-like technologies. It appears that GoboLinux 016 is a major release featuring numerous in-house built tools and core components, including its own container-free filesystem virtualization called Runner, as well as own daemon-free network manager called GoboNet.

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Marius Nestor

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