[snowpalmer]

Really excited to see this get active again. GoboLinux sets itself apart from other distributions being one of the few that tackle a drastic change to the filesystem. They keep compatibility with the filesystem hierarchy standard via symlinks but that is mostly hidden from the user.

For those wondering about more information there is definitely a better writeup about the file system layout on wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GoboLinux

As well as more recently written slides

http://gobolinux.org/doc/fisl2014/GoboLinux-015.pdf

I'd say the filesystem is really the differentiator here. Back when I first tried it out boot times were insanely fast compared to other distros of the day. However I'm sure that gap has been shortened (if not inversed.. haven't tried the latest version.)

Not saying the filesystem had anything to do with the boottimes. That was because they use a different boot system.