GoboLinux is winning. \o/

[rubyFeedback]

The title I chose is a bit promo of course, but the content is more important - see the following link at Alpine Linux:

https://alpinelinux.org/posts/2025-10-01-usr-merge.html

Relevant part/snippet:

"[...] change the base filesystem hierarchy. In the future, /lib, /bin, and /sbin will be symbolic links to their /usr counterparts, and every package shall be installed under the /usr paths. For now, /usr/bin and /usr/sbin will continue to be independent paths, but that might change if the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) gets updated. [...]"

It is also hilarious how they refer to the FHS changing now. Hisham once wrote how the FHS is totally arbitrary - and now another linux distribution agrees. I kind of find this part interesting.

[nuc1eon]

This is very interesting, thanks for sharing.

Me for my part, I am quite uninterested whether GoboLinux as a "philosophy" succeeds. I don't think that was ever the intention either. Hisham has created GoboLinux out of a personal "itch", to get his work done faster.

For me, that is all GoboLinux is about. An OS I feel comfy to work with/in. Whether anyone outside considers it a good idea or would like to follow that idea is entirely up to them and I am not concerned about it.

The closest definition I have of "winning" in the context of GoboLinux, is that the distribution actually get usable and used by people who are interested enough to dogfeed their own contributions back. So far that is the biggest archilles heel (since a big FOSS project like this needs contributors).

For it to be used by a decent amount of people, we have to have enough value, which is not the case right now frankly.

[nuc1eon]

On that note, currently there's an interesting discussion taking place: https://lwn.net/Articles/1032947/

Fedora considering switching from "FHS" to systemd file-hierarchy.