I remember I once came accross an e-mail on a mailing list which discribed how to install Gobohide on debian/ubuntu. I can't find it anymore. I can't find the page which contains the patches either. Would someone give me a link to the e-mail or give me some steps to using it on my distrobution? Also, would using it mess it up in any way?
You can get the patch from the recipe tarball. If it applies cleanly, it should work - you just need to enable it in the config. I think it's under "Miscellaneous filesystems" (or just set CONFIG_GOBOHIDE_FS=y manually in .config if you can't find it).
You'll also need the userspace binary to control it from here (which also has the patches).
If you're not going to build the latest kernel you should use the patch from the recipe version that matches the kernel you are going to build as much as possible. It increases the chance of having the patch apply cleanly.
I don't know how to build a kernel under debian/ubuntu, but I think there should be a directory with patchset, where you place the GoboHide patch. You can probably find more information on this in the debian/ubuntu documentation or on their forum.
And, no, it would not mess up anything. GoboHide only hides the directories, but they're still accessable, so applications would not notice.
GoboHide does not transfer anything. It is not the reason for the filesystem layout, just a helper to hide the legacy links. To use the GoboLinux filesystem layout you need Scripts. If you want to run it under another another distribution you should use rootless GoboLinux.
The patch you need for GoboHide is just the GoboHide patch (link to the patch for Linux 2.6.23.8).