[gobolinux-users] Freshen

[Tom Connell]

Paul Dann wrote:
>   Unfortunately, Gobolinux is still a relatively new system with a 
> very dedicated but still quite small set of developers, and problems 
> like these are still cropping up quite often.  I'm worried that if 
> you're hoping for a system that requires little or no command line 
> fiddling, you may be disappointed by the current vesion of Gobolinux.  
> The developers are wonderful at helping out when something goes wrong, 
> but the system is just not quite at the sit-back-and-relax stage yet.  
> Not in every aspect, anyway.  If you really want to get away from the 
> command line, may I recommend a more mainstream distribution like 
> Ubuntu?  You can always install the rootless Gobolinux on Ubuntu, so 
> you could have your cake and eat it ;)
Yes I appreciate this!

My first essay in GoboLinux was a few months back! Then it was a hard 
disk install on a pc that finally died on me. Gobo did turn out to be 
unusable for me for various reasons and I dumped it from that machine! I 
currently use PCLinuxOS 2007 and dual boot with Windows XP, but I do 
like the concept of Gobo and have kept in touch through the mailing list!

Having recently found an easy to use virtualisation environment (Virtual 
Box) and having noted that there had been major updates to the system 
management scripts I decided to try again, but as a virtual system 
running under windows!

I did hit major problems by failing to understand how the system was 
updated and got a screwed kernel, but I seem now to have got round that 
although the system may be compromised by the odd antics that were 
necessary to revive it!

I am interested in doing my bit as a desktop user to help debug the 
products like Freshen etc so will soldier on! When 014 is final I will 
probably scrap this install and start again from there, but hopefully I 
shall have learnt enough not to get the same problems again!

Tom