GoboLinux Knowledge Base

Welcome to this wiki !

Hello and welcome to the official documentation and wiki of the GoboLinux project!

GoboLinux is quite different from your usual linux distribution. Therefore to make your journey as enjoyable possible, you should carefully read and consult the documentation.

If you have just installed GoboLinux on your PC, make sure to check out the Known Issues and Fixes section first.

How to find your way around

You can begin with the Getting Started section on the left. This should get you going. You can use your ←left/right→ for navigation. Or make use of our full-text search!

The Advanced section contains some further and advanced topics , but if you’re serious about your GoboLinux journey you should read this one, too!

The How-To’s section holds articles to solve a specific problem and guides you through step-by-step. We rely heavily on community contributions here. If you feel something important is not covered, be encouraged to submit your contribution!

The Commands section is a list of GoboLinux specific commands and tooling, that will make your life with GoboLinux much easier. They are what makes GoboLinux so enjoyable and are very much in the spirit of: „Do One Thing and Do It Well!”.

Couldn’t find what you were looking for?

GoboLinux is a very broad project, that has its roots back to 2002! Thus you may find outdated or even missing documentation… but do not despair!!

Our community is here to help you out. If you have read the documentation but still require further assistance, reach out to us on:

Please be patient, we are a small community but we do make an effort to help everybody out.

Expectations

As an experimental distribution, you might run into some bugs along the way. We encourage you to tackle these challenges on your own or with the support of our friendly community. While we can’t promise everything will be handed to you, your discoveries and solutions are invaluable to us—please share them!

If you find this documentation to be lacking in any regard please refer to this article.

GoboLinux thrives on the passion and contributions of its users, and together, we can make it even better.

Your exciting journey with GoboLinux has just begun! gobo gobo