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[Linoman]

images/news/google.jpggOS is a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu that's designed to make it easy to interface with web-based applications like Gmail, YouTube, and Meebo. It uses the slightly OS X-like Enlightenment desktop environment, and the developers have been pushing it as a good operating system for low powered netbooks, thanks to its integration with web applications.

The latest version of gOS goes a few steps further, by emphasizing the web browser above all else. gOS Cloud is a stripped down Linux distro that can load in just a few seconds. And instead of loading a typical desktop, the first window it opens is a web browser (which looks suspiciously like Google Chrome.
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[m.oreilly]

downloading it now. be fun to play with

[hog]

Oh, interesting, as I'm still watching that Acer Aspire one rather closely...

[Christopholofigus]

I have played with gOS quite a bit. It was a fun OS. They also have one themed after MySpace as well.

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I'm downloading the newest one now...Cloud (umm, where is it?). I'll throw it in a VM and play later

It is the gOS Gadgets 3.0 from what M.o. says. I'm going to try it as a dual in my lappy.

Edited by Christopholofigus, 03 December 2008 - 06:54 AM.

[m.oreilly]

it works, make a great netbook os (i'm in it now, pretty nifty)

[m.oreilly]

christo, i don't have the google page w/ the dock. i wonder if i am just running the gos ( though it is the iteration they posted...)

[hog]

I wish I could install it on my PSP. lol.