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geekhack Community => Other Geeky Stuff => Topic started by: iMav on Fri, 30 November 2007, 21:02:38

Title: gOS . . . it's neat
Post by: iMav on Fri, 30 November 2007, 21:02:38

http://www.thinkgos.com

A nice little Ubuntu-derived Linux distro.

Title: gOS . . . it's neat
Post by: fkeidjn on Fri, 30 November 2007, 23:41:02

Have you tried it out yourself?  It sort of looks like Mac OsX (well, Mac OsX uses the unix platform too).

Title: gOS . . . it's neat
Post by: iMav on Sat, 01 December 2007, 07:13:05

Quote from: fkeidjn

Have you tried it out yourself?  It sort of looks like Mac OsX (well, Mac OsX uses the unix platform too).

I played around with the live CD.  All things being equal, I'd rather have Ubuntu on my desktop.  But I like what the gOS folks have done.  I also like their partnership with Walmart...shipping the "gPC's".  :)

Title: gOS . . . it's neat
Post by: ashort on Sat, 01 December 2007, 08:30:16

I guess the website is being worked on right now, I get Permission Denied at the base url.

Title: gOS . . . it's neat
Post by: karlito on Sat, 01 December 2007, 12:50:02

Quote from: ashort

I guess the website is being worked on right now, I get Permission Denied at the base url.

no iMav just cant type :P

try http://www.thinkgos.com/

Title: gOS . . . it's neat
Post by: iMav on Sat, 01 December 2007, 13:02:46

Quote from: karlito

no iMav just cant type :P

Doah!

Title: gOS . . . it's neat
Post by: ashort on Sun, 02 December 2007, 12:19:31

I played with the live CD for a few minutes in a VM (man...VMs and Live CDs....WOW).  

Is the "tight Google integration" anything other than google links on the desktop?  I don't see how it's that big of a deal right now.  What am I missing?

Title: gOS . . . it's neat
Post by: iMav on Sun, 02 December 2007, 13:39:43

Quote from: ashort

I played with the live CD for a few minutes in a VM (man...VMs and Live CDs....WOW).  

Is the "tight Google integration" anything other than google links on the desktop?  I don't see how it's that big of a deal right now.  What am I missing?

It's not a "big deal".  It's simply "neat".  :)

Title: gOS . . . it's neat
Post by: xsphat on Tue, 04 December 2007, 01:33:12

I can't use it with Parallels, all I get is an f'ed up screen and a locked up program. Does this work in VMWare?

Title: gOS . . . it's neat
Post by: ashort on Tue, 04 December 2007, 06:18:56

Using gos-live-1.0.1_386.iso in VMWare Fusion worked great for me.

Title: gOS . . . it's neat
Post by: xsphat on Tue, 04 December 2007, 14:40:03

Thanks Andrew, I'll give that a shot later, baby depending.

Using Parallels, I couldn't even boot the live CD in safe graphics mode. I'll give VMWare a shot.