any one tired gos (googles oparting system)
ave just been mucking about on the pc with googles operating sytem thats free from http://www.thinkgos.com/
has anyone tried installing this yet, its only under 600 mb fits on a cd and can be run as a live cd to begin with and there is an option later on to install it if you wanted too.
from what i heard it is based on ubuntu
and to run it on top of windows it recomeds trying it with vmware
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From what I can gather this new gOS is based on Linux Ubuntu distro but with a somewhat better front end shell - Enlightened its called.
Once up and running it does offer some advantages over Windows / Mac
firstly as you say its free so you can run a legal PC without paying out M$ prices
secondly it will run on a lower spec PC, so for some users this means you can get a really cheap PC and get this running for very little cost
thirdly its not so over bloated like M$ priducts so it will run faster.
Also Linux is no where near as prone to Virus attacks etc etc so security is better
So for a basic office apps / internet / email Pc this is aneat solution.
However installing additional apps / drivers can still be a bit of an art so not really from techno phobes
I will give it a go on an old PC and see how it fares
EliTom
From what I can gather this new gOS is based on Linux Ubuntu distro but with a somewhat better front end shell - Enlightened its called.
Once up and running it does offer some advantages over Windows / Mac
firstly as you say its free so you can run a legal PC without paying out M$ prices
secondly it will run on a lower spec PC, so for some users this means you can get a really cheap PC and get this running for very little cost
thirdly its not so over bloated like M$ priducts so it will run faster.
Also Linux is no where near as prone to Virus attacks etc etc so security is better
So for a basic office apps / internet / email Pc this is aneat solution.
However installing additional apps / drivers can still be a bit of an art so not really from techno phobes
I will give it a go on an old PC and see how it fares
EliTom
Thanks for the advice EliTom
Yep thats true
gOS apparantly stands for Good Operating System
gOS Rocket is based on the Ubuntu 7.10 distribution. It uses the Enlightenment 17 window manager instead of the usual GNOME or KDE desktops
However Google is heavily intergrated into gOS
Many of the documents created with Rocket, such as Google Docs documents, can be saved on Google servers instead of on the local hard disk, so Rocket can work with very small hard disks. In this respect a gOS Rocket PC has many similarities with a Thin client, but gOS Rocket also integrated Google Gears, which suggests that in the future the on-line google applications can be used while off-line.
info taken from wiki
EliTom