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Chapter 2: Concepts & Philosophy

This is an important chapter in your GoboLinux journey. Before you begin fiddling around with the GoboLinux operating system, we highly advice thoroughly studying the following chapters.

Once you have familiarized yousrelf with the GoboLinux theory and concept, you may commence onto the the Usage chapter.

  • The GoboLinux Way
  • GoboLinux Filesystem Hierarchy
  • System Index
  • Understanding system indices
  • Alien Packaging Subsystem
  • Runner
    • 001 Quick Start
      • GoboLinux at a glance
      • Live Environment
        • QEMU
        • VirtualBox
        • GNOME Boxes
        • External storage devices
      • Installing GoboLinux
      • Post-Install Checklist
      • Known Issues and Fixes ⚠️
    • 002 Concepts
      • The GoboLinux Way
      • GoboLinux Filesystem Hierarchy
      • System Index
      • Understanding system indices
      • Alien Packaging Subsystem
      • Runner
    • 003 Usage
      • Package Management
        • Installing Software
          • Compiling from source
          • Binary packages
        • Updating
        • Removing
        • Managing Alien Packages
      • Configuration files
        • Compile.conf
        • Environment variables
        • GetAvailable
      • Startup & System Settings
        • Configuring the Boot Process
        • Boot Script Tasks
        • Boot Themes
          • Creating a boot theme
          • Implementing a boot theme
          • Testing a boot theme
      • Desktop Environments
        • Awesome
    • 004 Recipes & Packages
      • Recipe Format Specification
      • The Recipe file
        • Getting the Source
        • Recipe Types
        • Other directives
        • Hooks
        • Dynamic variables
        • Patches
        • Resources/
        • Use Flags
          • Available Use Flags
      • Writing Recipes
        • Advanced Topics
        • Binary Recipes
        • Dependencies blacklist
      • Creating Packages
      • Package Naming Guidelines
      • GitHub Contributor Workflow
    • 005 Advanced
      • GoboLinux Scripts
        • Notes on Command-Line switches
        • GoboPath
        • Guidelines for Developers
      • Steps of the compile process
      • GoboHide
      • Linux Kernel Topics
      • GoboLinux Design Quirks
        • Files that cannot be symlinks
        • Sandboxing under GoboLinux
        • Replacements for standard commands
    • 006 How-To's
      • Contributing to the Wiki
      • Manual Compile
      • Sandbox Install
      • Installing Packages from the LiveCD
      • Virtualization with Runner
      • Rescue broken Glibc upgrade
    • 007 Commands
      • AddUser
      • Alien
      • ApplyVariables
      • AttachProgram
      • AugmentCommandNotFoundDatabase
      • AutoPatch
      • BackgroundExec
      • BootDriver
      • CheckDependants
      • CheckDependencies
      • CleanModules
      • ColorMake
      • CommandNotFound
      • Compile
      • ContributeRecipe
      • Corrections
      • CreatePackage
      • DeduceName
      • Dependencies
      • DescribeProgram
      • DetachProgram
      • DisableProgram
      • Docs
      • EditRecipe
      • FetchArchive
      • FiboSandbox
      • FilterColors
      • FilterLines
      • FindPackage
      • FindQuick
      • FixAttributes
      • FixDirReference
      • FixInfo
      • Freshen
      • GenBuildInfo
      • GetAvailable
      • GetRecipe
      • GetSupportedFilesystems
      • GrepQuick
      • GrepReplace
      • GuessLatest
      • GuessProgramCase
      • Hashes
      • install
      • Installer
      • InstallPackage
      • IsExecutable
      • KeyManager
      • KillProcess
      • list
      • ListProgramFiles
      • MakeRecipe
      • MergeTree
      • NamingConventions
      • NewVersion
      • PackRecipe
      • PrepareProgram
      • PrioritizeUpdates
      • ProblemReport
      • RebuildLinks
      • RecipeLint
      • RemoveBroken
      • RemoveEmpty
      • RemoveProgram
      • Rename
      • RescueInstallPackage
      • RescueSymlinkProgram
      • Runner
      • SandboxInstall
      • SignProgram
      • StartTask
      • StopTask
      • SuggestDuplicates
      • SuggestUpdates
      • SymlinkProgram
      • SystemFind
      • SystemInfo
      • UnionSandbox
      • UnversionExecutables
      • UpdateKdeRecipe
      • UpdateRecipes
      • UpdateSettings
      • UpdateXorgRecipe
      • UpgradeSystem
      • UseFlags
      • VerifyProgram
      • VersionExecutables
      • which
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    • Community
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    • Download ISO
    • Showcases
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