gOS : A New Operating System Is Born
Published by mixterr November 28th, 2007 in Free, Info and news, Software.
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What is gOS?
gOS is a Linux distribution created by gOS LLC, a Los Angeles-based corporation. The company advertises it as “An alternative OS with Google Apps and other Web 2.0 apps for the masses.” The gOS distribution is based on the Ubuntu 7.10 distribution. It uses the Enlightenment 17 window manager instead of the usual GNOME or KDE desktops, allowing for lower memory and speed requirements. Therefore gOS starts to work reasonably well onsystems as low end as a 1GHz Pentium III with 256MB RAM. Due to the fact it leans heavy on on-line applications built on Web 2.0 and AJAX technology it also does not use much hard disk space for applications, the whole system fits comfortably in less than 2 GB of hard disk space.
gOS primary features include a Mac OS X-like Dock featuring icons for the following applications: Firefox web browser, Google Mail, Google News, Google Calendar, Google Maps, Google Docs and Spreadsheets, Froogle, the Blogger YouTube and Facebook online communities as well as Meebo to online chat with Yahoo! Messenger and Windows Live Messenger users, Rhythmbox (ITunes like program for music and radio), Skype, Wikipedia, and the Xine media player.
The rightmost icon is for Faqly, a system developed for gOS to offer a built in on line community based help system. Other programs can be added to the Dock as well. gOS also supports mini applications that run on the desktop, such as the clock. Also available are a number of card, board and puzzle games, the photo and picture editing program the Gimp and the OpenOffice.org office suite. Google desktop search is integrated into the top right-hand corner of the desktop. gOS is still in the alpha stage and is missing some features, the most obvious being a trashcan. via
Official website: www.thinkgos.com
Download : www.thinkgos.com/downloads
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wow interesting fact… there so much Os to choose in near future… what kind of Os will merge into the industries?
yeah now is so much OS to choose.. but i suggest to choose windows XP.. hahha
Another operating system is born — LoseThos. It’s a 64-bit, open source, PC operating system that’s not a UNIX. http://www.losethos.com