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by hisham_hm
1957 days ago
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They are contemporaries: GoboLinux is as old as Nix, and older than NixOS. There were other similar ideas around (GNU Stow), but I think Gobo was the first that went "let's make a full OS out of this". I would say Gobo and NixOS follow roughly the same philosophy, with Nix adding the functional aspect on top, which is pretty neat. But yes, one of the motivations for Gobo was to make it easy to revert versions of programs, with commands for enabling/disabling their symlinks, and even keeping multiple versions at the same time. We didn't do full-system snapshots, but handled it on a program-by-program basis, which was our main interest at the time (tinkering with the latest window manager!). |
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