gOS: the perfect Operating System

jayhel · 06-29-2008, 05:00 PM

Is it true that gOS is the perfect Operating System?

http://www.thinkgos.com/

billymayday · 06-29-2008, 05:05 PM

Isn't this just Ubuntu with myspace friendly apps?

jayhel · 06-29-2008, 06:37 PM

No. It is an Internet custom-made OS. The Internet is not limited to My Space

billymayday · 06-29-2008, 06:43 PM

From the dominant graphic on the homepage you posted

Quote:

A linux operating system designed for the 100,000,000 myspace users

I don't know what an internet custom-made OS is meant to mean, but the homepage doesn't even mention the word internet, but has myspace 5 times (out of not many words).

Who are you trying to kid?

jayhel · 06-29-2008, 07:07 PM

I am not kidding.
If one gives it a try (the installation is a breeze
http://thinkgos.com/os-downloads/gos-space), it is evident that it is an Internet custom-made OS.
The way it is presented puts the "My Space tag" on it.
However, I am not sure if this is a good presentation strategy

gOS Space certainly is a new (revolutionary) concept of a free Internet OS

billymayday · 06-29-2008, 07:44 PM

I'll actually havea look at it. I quite liked some aspects of evolution in elive, but didn't like the look they'd given it, so a fresh approach may be good.

it would help if the Gos people put some info on their download page as to what each version does. I finally worked out that one has extra myspace apps, I assume one is gnome based and the other is evolution based

Anyway, I'm downloading all but the gnome version to have a look at

oskar · 06-29-2008, 08:29 PM

I tried it when it was still in development... not my piece of pie. I never liked enlightment, they did a pretty good job with it, but still.
Anyway, it's still ubuntu. Another window manager, and a couple of hyperlinks on the desktop won't make a night and day difference.

pixellany · 06-29-2008, 08:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jayhel

Is it true that gOS is the perfect Operating System?

No........

Freemor · 06-29-2008, 08:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by billymayday

Isn't this just Ubuntu with myspace friendly apps?

Yep, as you can see here

They tend to run a version behind right now but looks like they might be catching up in their development cycle.

Basically it's a specialized O/S for ULCPC's and Net PC's

On the up side Distro's like this are probably a major reason m$ decided to keep XP around for ULCPC/Net PC's

billymayday · 06-29-2008, 08:56 PM

Well, I can't get their enlightenment LiveCD to boot for some reason (I've burnt it twice, once with cdrecord and once with nero from windows, and the md5sum checked out), so I guess I'll give it a miss for now. Don't havea blamk dvd on hand for the "space" version.