GOS 3 Gadgets, when a Linux Google
Yet another variant on Debian, GOS was founded on the basis of Ubuntu 8.04.1, to which is lighter and definitely oriented cloud computing. E ‘operating system ideal for NETBOOK?
“Find a Good Operating System”: the slogan of gos for the newly created version 3 might seem less original, were it not that the G reads Good (indeed, Buono), but Google is pronounced. Maybe in Mountain View that some people will not jump for joy to see approached its name to a Linux distribution of the most interesting without obtaining anything, but so goes life.
David Liu, enterprising boss of Good OS LLC, a company that leads the project forward GOS can not just gongolare: from its twenty-two years is in your hands a product of absolute interest “GOS 3 Gadgets arrived. Perfect for NETBOOK “reads the homepage of the website. Verissimo, but not only for NETBOOK, would be added.
If the Everex Ubuntu scale …
The idea behind GOS goes back a year ago when the U.S. chain Wal-Mart began selling a PC at low cost – 199 dollars, 136 euros to change and change – with hardware sub compared to the current trends and a system very slightly operational: the Everex GPC TC2502 Green has made itself heard and given rise to a line of notebook PCs and low end – including NETBOOK Everex Cloudbook – that have adopted GOS.
Behind GOS there is nothing revolutionary, but rather a Linux very well aware for ease of use, Ubuntu, and a collection of software right now oriented cloud computing: All versions of GOS rely on Web 2.0 Ajax and technology, to save space and computational power on the local level. If the version 2, called Rocket, has seen the light of the April scorslo in three separate versions – one of which is dedicated to MySpace – the fledgling version 3 is Google-centric.
Xcompmgr and Google Gadgets: a happy marriage
There is no doubt: GOS 3.0 Gadgets is a distribution-oriented desktop. Already available for free download – just under 700 Mbytes, and then able to enter a normal CD – can be used both ways Live only be installed on a hard disk, with the same ability to resize partitions specific Ubuntu.
What changes with the project targato Canonical is the window manager: Having worked in previous versions Enlightenment and Avant Window Navigator, it now Xcompmgr GOS give up a gear. Graphics cards obsolete, in this way, living a second youth simply abandoning a 3D effects of last generation, but without giving up an attractive appearance with a good support for transparencies.
The topic is off by default, although in the final few sliders do not: it is not just a bug (an example: Adjust the volume without resorting to the wheel mouse is impossible). By downloading the Gtk theme of the previous beta things are returning to work properly.
It said the software was made in Google: Gadgets are the true masters of the stage and appear in the version without sidebar (although you can restore it easily). Picasa is installed, and although this is a non-native (Wine is necessary to make it work) is very fast. And, given that the eye wants its part, the dock-style bar called Apple Wbar manages a large number of launcher from Firefox to Skype, from OpenOffice to Pidgin, to a set of Google services which are displayed in perfect Web 2.0-style thanks to Prism, one of the most interesting projects from Mozilla. In random order, are within reach Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Maps, Reader, News, Finance, Blogger and YouTube. And for incontentabili, install Google Gears to work offline with Docs and Reader – and with Zoho Writer and Remember The Milk – is a snap.
Simple, born on the Web. And fast
The rest of the software is not less: there is all that offers a modern Linux distribution, which is the necessary and even more to exploit fully what provides the network. The standard installation is complete in itself, although no different (and profits) proprietary components – from Adobe Flash or Java runtime to various multimedia codecs and Truetype Microsoft – which simply added to the repository ubuntu-restricted-extras.
Under the skin, there is Ubuntu, which means that GOS can take without problems all software created for this distribution is not a secondary issue. Above is a green carpet under the brand name of Big G: a combination that can make competing machines obsolete – during our reality check, GOS 3 Gadgets has given impetus to a glaze and IBM T23 which still bore the sticker Windows 2000 Professional – with far more modern machinery, but above all suggests that a simple consideration.
If GOS has enthused about a notebook that has significantly lower benefits to a current NETBOOK, what can I do with the small pests from four hundred euros or so at the end of 2008?
