Download gOS, the notGoogle Green Operating System, Right Now
If you’re me (you’re not), you may find the idea of the gOS pretty interesting. As far as I can tell, it’s a lightweight Linux distribution, based on the excellent Ubuntu, that strips everything down to the essentials for the family, with a clean, easy to undertand interface that just does what the hell you need, and nothing else.
The best part? You don’t need the gPC to get it, and you don’t need to wait. Nelson Minar, a former Googler whose blog I read, was chastising the online media for dropping the ball and poorly reporting the gPC/gOS story (especially TechCrunch, which still hasn’t issued a correction), when he gave the details behind the gOS: gOS is a project of Dave Liu, and the official website is thinkgos.com.
The official website doesn’t have the OS for download right now, but fans are uploading it to torrent sites, including LinuxTracker, which has the 728 megabyte ISO available as a torrent. If you want to try gOS and see if it’s the right operating system for your family, download it right now. There are already 11 seeders and 83 leechers, so expect a brisk download.
If you are running gOS, which isn’t a Google operating system, let me know how well it works for you.
I have been running the CD of gOS for a few days now in Live mode (On two different intel based pc’s) and its very impressive, as a regular Ubuntu user there were a few things missing, but then again if I installed it i could add these from the Ubuntu repository. I would recommend that everyone gives it a try as it does things in a very practical way, and having google apps as well as open office is a nice idea.
I only found about it on the day before its download release, It isnt to be found on www.distrowatch.com yet, its come in under the radar, which is exiting. I hope it does well
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“728 megabyte ISO”?
isn’t it 728 GIGA?
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728 gigabyte ISO? I think you’re confused with Vista Ultimate.
Comment by Tim | November 5, 2007
Can you really imagine it being over 700 gigabytes? That’s 1000 cds or something like 90 DVDs.Could take a lifetime to download.
Comment by Nathan Weinberg | November 6, 2007
Gigabytes??? Are you serious? I’m downloading the .iso from the official site http://www.thinkgos.com/downloads.html
and the file size is around 715MB (megabytes). Whats your story?
Comment by kokushta | November 6, 2007
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try,try
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