asia.cnet.com — gOS--a company known for its debut in the US$199 Wal-Mart gPC and Netbooks--announced the details of gOS 3 Gadgets, the newest version of its Linux OS for consumers.The main feature of gOS 3 Gadgets is its ability to instantly launch Google Gadgets for Linux on start-up, allowing users access to more than 100,000 Google Gadgets applications.
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bullsfan03Aug 11, 2008
i tested this out at work--- While a very nice OS, the not being able to edit the dock bothered me a bit.
Closed AccountAug 12, 2008
LXDE looks nice but when i boot with it the panel app continuously crashes and reloads. Know what i can do about that?
raynevandunemAug 12, 2008
Isn't that the fault of the GNU/Linux-centric developers who could one-up the commercial, closed-source and/or Windows-only devs' applications in quality on, say, an Ubuntu or Fedora-exclusive basis?As rapid and flashy as the rise of gOS as a commercially-viable desktop distro has been within the course of the last year or so, I don't think that the absence of Wine in gOS or some other commercially-viable desktop distro will convince software houses to port the apps natively to "GNU/Linux+whatever DE's preferred widget toolkit" anymore than the inclusion of Wine does. It'll probably make it (far) less viable to Wal-Mart customers.Instead, gOS's makers should push the OS forward as a viable alternative to Windows and Mac OS X by advertising the benefits that lie with gOS on the desktop that aren't available with Windows or OS X, if any such advantages exist. That, and a little marketing to the teenagers would take distros like gOS pretty far.
atomic1fireAug 12, 2008
But then again,if thats what drives adoption, then that might be whats needed.and besides, if the developers are porting to wine, and then the actual linux developers are making better software, then more will go with the actual os programs
atomic1fireAug 12, 2008
I was not completely impressed with Gos (at least the version I used in qemu)the bling(*shudders at the site of a gold mouse pointer*) theme was a dumb insert, and the actual theme gos2 had the 3 buttons positioned on the other side, with a dot replacing the X, and it was difficult to find compatible themes.and the other apps might have sounded cool at gos's conception, I think they should have relied on something like prism to make it possible, instead of making shortcuts on firefox which didn't give an apps feel at all.and on a completely unrelated notice, Digg needs to fix comments, it makes this bouncy movement (that blocks text) if you type too much, and the only way to fix it is post then edit, which causes that timer to activate.
mordakAug 12, 2008
You're splitting hairs. Use it and tell me what it resembles afterward. It's f**king Gnome okay.
carzorstelatisAug 13, 2008
@sx66gns:You lost me when you said "suggests AVG". AVG is a POS - its web scanner can't run on the same computer as Firefox 3 without crashing.
donna1234Nov 8, 2008
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