[ale] Has anyone tried out gOS yet?

Brian Pitts brian at polibyte.com
Sun Nov 4 00:52:53 EDT 2007


Van Loggins wrote:
> 
> 
> http://www.thinkgos.com/index.html
> 
> gOS (GreenOS) is designed to be a conceptual Google Operating System 
> that is based upon Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon. Though this is not the 
> conventional GNOME desktop 
> <http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=902&num=1#> 
> environment but an Enlightenment E17 desktop is used that is heavily 
> modified and reflects a green Google theme. The gOS provides easy access 
> to Google services such as YouTube, Google Product Search, Google 
> Calendar, and Google Maps. Also a click away are other web services such 
> as Wikipedia and Facebook.
> 

So this is the distribution used on the $199 Linux desktops Wal-mart 
sells? I see it got linux in the NYT again. 
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/01/technology/personaltech/01computer.html

-Brian



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