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wacky · Post by **wacky** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 9:07 pm

I've been playing with gOS over the last few days. Not sure what 'g' in gOS stands for. It certainly doesn't stand for Google although the desktop is very heavily biased towards Google apps and websites. May be 'g' stands for green as the predominant background colour is green. gOS is being shipped with the $199 PC being sold at WalMart in the US. gOS is actually a cut down version of Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) desktop. It's been very heavily customised to give it a new look and feel. Desktop is based on Enlightenment which is a 'light weight' window manager compared to Gnome or KDE. Short cuts to the various apps are displayed in a Mac style dock bar at the bottom of the screen. These icons grow in size as you move the cursor over them which I think is a neat touch although the novelty wears off after a little while.
If all you want from your desktop is web surfing, email and document writing through OpenOffice or Google Docs, then gOS is an interesting option. Having said that I've had no problems installing several server packages. By default it uses the standard Ubuntu package repositories. I've been running it in VMware without any issues. A VMware image for gOS is available on VMware site. You can also get iso image for installation from various sites.
Give it a whirl and let us know what you think about it.

x2oxen · Post by **x2oxen** » Fri Dec 14, 2007 1:06 pm

Am using it on my vmware and i feel it will be a good idea to attract some windows users towards linux

shakeel_jee7 · Post by **shakeel_jee7** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 4:59 pm

x2oxen wrote:Am using it on my vmware and i feel it will be a good idea to attract some windows users towards linux

AA

Dear!

Where can I get "gOS" CD/DVD here in Pakistan and currently which version is available?

x2oxen · Post by **x2oxen** » Sat Dec 22, 2007 12:09 pm

Well am not sure its available in dvd/cd in pakistan but you can easily download an iso image from internet. Just give a try to google about i!

Post by **LinuxFreaK** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 8:32 am

Dear wacky,
Salam,

wacky wrote:I've been playing with gOS over the last few days. Not sure what 'g' in gOS stands for. It certainly doesn't stand for Google although the desktop is very heavily biased towards Google apps and websites. May be 'g' stands for green as the predominant background colour is green. gOS is being shipped with the $199 PC being sold at WalMart in the US. gOS is actually a cut down version of Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) desktop. It's been very heavily customised to give it a new look and feel. Desktop is based on Enlightenment which is a 'light weight' window manager compared to Gnome or KDE. Short cuts to the various apps are displayed in a Mac style dock bar at the bottom of the screen. These icons grow in size as you move the cursor over them which I think is a neat touch although the novelty wears off after a little while.
If all you want from your desktop is web surfing, email and document writing through OpenOffice or Google Docs, then gOS is an interesting option. Having said that I've had no problems installing several server packages. By default it uses the standard Ubuntu package repositories. I've been running it in VMware without any issues. A VMware image for gOS is available on VMware site. You can also get iso image for installation from various sites.
Give it a whirl and let us know what you think about it.

FYI, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOS_(Linux_distribution)

Best Regards.

sfh1975 · Post by **sfh1975** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 10:33 pm

gOS is short for gOS!

x2oxen · Post by **x2oxen** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 5:00 am

sfh1975 wrote:gOS is short for gOS!

Does this making any sense to any 1?

Manners Taliban · Post by **lambda** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 2:47 pm

sfh1975 · Post by **sfh1975** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 7:54 pm

x2oxen wrote:
sfh1975 wrote:gOS is short for gOS!
Does this making any sense to any 1?

I apologize!
gOS is short for GreenOS.
Sorry.

shakeel_jee7 · Post by **shakeel_jee7** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 2:23 pm

I have Downloaded and tried GreenOS, they tried to make it, like Mac OS X Desktop (Dock), but it is very far away from real Mac OS X desktop.
It is very Child-like desktop, and not suited for many Linux users!!!

If someone like to Change his/her Ubuntu Desktop to nearly match the Mac OS X Leopard Desktop, then please visit the link:

http://www.winmatrix.com/forums/index.p ... opic=15593

and

http://www.howtoforge.com/mac4lin_make_ ... like_a_mac

http://phorolinux.com/how-to-install-av ... ibbon.html

x2oxen · Post by **x2oxen** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 11:24 pm

lambda wrote:yes.

You should join dumb school rather than any *nix forum cause u r good to understand anything unsaid!

Manners Taliban · Post by **lambda** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 1:11 pm

x2oxen wrote:You should join dumb school rather than any *nix forum cause u r good to understand anything unsaid!

wait a minute. if i should "join dumb school" because i can understand anything unsaid, does that mean you're not even able to join "dumb school"? you're that bad?

how terrible for you!

x2oxen · Post by **x2oxen** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 5:51 pm

Yes bad enough to not to join dumb school wherever you already exist!

osmansiddiq · Post by **osmansiddiq** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 3:25 am

gOS 2.0 "Rocket" To Blast Off Next Week

more here
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=a ... =959&num=1
and here
http://pcburn.com/article.php?sid=2491

gOS

gOS

Re: gOS

gOS 2.0 "Rocket" To Blast Off Next Week