[ale] Has anyone tried out gOS yet?

[Scott Castaline]

Brian Pitts wrote:
> 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 $199 Linux desktops Wal-mart 
> sells? I see it got linux in the NYT again. 
> http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/01/technology/personaltech/01computer.html
>
> -Brian
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I especially liked the reference to no M$ tax paid, I wonder what the 
tax collector's (M$) response will be to this offer.