Is Gobolinux active any more?

Question

Today I hear about existence of a revolutionary distro named Gobolinux. I am very interested and excited about it (in particular its file structure). Unfortunately it is not updated for a while.

Does anybody have some info about its state? Is it a live project? Is it safe to use it? Is there any other distro that uses a similar file structure?

Answer 1

According to Distrowatch's data, the distro is dormant.

With no personal experience with the distro, but taking into account:

• the above
• that the last release was on March 30, 2008
• the unique directory hierarchy,

I guess you would face quite a bit of trouble using it.

edit: from Wikipedia:

"Gobolinux has been officially made for the i686 only, and the porting to i386 remained incomplete by the time the project fell dormant. Ports have been made to embedded architectures, such as ARM and SuperH; these tasks were easily achieved with Bootstrap, a tool developed especially to automate making ports"