gOS vs Xubuntu

[Chang An]

Hello, I was wondering if gOS lighter on system requirements than Xubuntu?
E17 vs Xfce.
Anyone have any ideas? Also whats the drag and drop support like in E17 with Fileman? I'm not a huge fan of Thunar. Im using Xubuntu on an old machine with AWN for a dock and its kind of buggy. So I'm thinking of switching to gOS. Anyone compare these to distros or have thoughts on how they stack up against each other?
Thanks

[loell]

a technical talk regarding e17 vs xfce vs gnome

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2856531066533504890&q=desktop+on+a+diet&total=7&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=1

on xfce's side , how can e17 be lighter, if all apps executed in e17 is still gtk based? ;)

[Chang An]

Thanks but I can watch google video here. I get this message

"Thanks for your interest in Google Video.
Currently, the playback feature of Google Video isn't available in your country.
We hope to make this feature available more widely in the future, and we really appreciate your patience."

If it has a youtube video I can watch it.

[K.Mandla]

I tried elive and got a better response than Xubuntu. That being said, I think straight XFCE will be faster than Xubuntu, and Ubuntu with e17 over top will probably be faster than elive. I think your best bet will be to try out gOS and tell us what you think. ;)

[rfruth]

I'me going to give gos a whirl on my 'new' ebay machine :KS

[Chang An]

I left Xubuntu because it was not fast enough on my pc.

I tried Fluxbuntu and it was the fastest distro I ever tried but to many quirks I didn't have the patience to figure out. For example it does not auto mount external drives and you have to set run commands for all the files to tell them what to do or what program to open it when you click on it. If I installed Fluxbuntu on a spare pc and not on the whole drive of my work pc I might have stuck with it and been happy in the log run.

Then I tried gOS. It was pretty fast. Maybe just as fast or faster than Xubuntu. I had some problems such as I could not mount my NTFS external drive and the mouse wheel didn't work. I tried to edit my xorg settings to fix the mouse wheel and I managed to wreck the xorg settings.

So then I tried Elive. It was just as fast as gOS maybe faster. E17 gets some getting used to. Everything worked ok except sometimes I would install downloaded debs and the would not show up in any menu. Also I did not like the proprietary software that was bundled with it.

So after all that I just went back to Xubuntu cause everything works for me on it. I'm not using AWN or enabling the composite function now so it runs faster than before.
I went through all those distros in about 2 days. :) Good times

[meborc]

I left Xubuntu because it was not fast enough on my pc.

I tried Fluxbuntu and it was the fastest distro I ever tried but to many quirks I didn't have the patience to figure out. For example it does not auto mount external drives and you have to set run commands for all the files to tell them what to do or what program to open it when you click on it. If I installed Fluxbuntu on a spare pc and not on the whole drive of my work pc I might have stuck with it and been happy in the log run.

Then I tried gOS. It was pretty fast. Maybe just as fast or faster than Xubuntu. I had some problems such as I could not mount my NTFS external drive and the mouse wheel didn't work. I tried to edit my xorg settings to fix the mouse wheel and I managed to wreck the xorg settings.

So then I tried Elive. It was just as fast as gOS maybe faster. E17 gets some getting used to. Everything worked ok except sometimes I would install downloaded debs and the would not show up in any menu. Also I did not like the proprietary software that was bundled with it.

So after all that I just went back to Xubuntu cause everything works for me on it. I'm not using AWN or enabling the composite function now so it runs faster than before.
I went through all those distros in about 2 days. :) Good times

i have the same experience... in the sence that i have now moved from xubuntu to fluxbuntu...

xubuntu just wasn't as fast any more... so i swiched... and i'm loving it!

some pointers:
* the automount is fixed by creating a .ivman folder in your home dir
* you only need to do the file assotsiation once... after that it is set up and the file opens the program it needs when double-clicking (meaning if you have set the run action for jpg to xzgv, then all the jpg files will be opened with that program)

this is the sweetest distro experience i have had since the release of breezy :D

[juxtaposed]

on xfce's side , how can e17 be lighter, if all apps executed in e17 is still gtk based?

I thought xfce and it's software was GTK...

[loell]

I thought xfce and it's software was GTK...

yeah, and?

my point was and still is, that currently in e17, users still uses gtk apps mostly, which of course xfce does too, so why does e17 any lighter than xfce at that current state? I think that e17 will only be lighter when all equivalent desktop apps will use EWL(Enlightenment Widget Library) and Etk.

[smartboyathome]

yeah, and?

my point was and still is, that currently in e17, users still uses gtk apps mostly, which of course xfce does too, so why does e17 any lighter than xfce at that current state? I think that e17 will only be lighter when all equivalent desktop apps will use EWL(Enlightenment Widget Library) and Etk.

I thought this too, and this is why I am looking for good equivalents to GTK apps (and have found SOME, though others I am not so sure of...).

[go_beep_yourself]

Has anyone tried install greenos-desktop meta package in Ubuntu?

[Crumpets and Jam]

I tried both gOS and Xubuntu on my old laptop. Xubuntu proved to be way more stable. This is understandable since gOS is still in very early stages.

I think gOS looks looks promising for people new to the Linux operating system, but as a relatively experienced user, I prefer Xubuntu at this present time.

[-gabe-noob-]

I know Xubuntu is VERY light, on my system it IS lightning gOS was just as quick IMO but i never checked out ram usage. I'm using another desktop with E17, OpenGeu and it uses:
around 300 mb of ram with Open office up this internet window up (2 tabs) and writing a CD image of gOS lol (I'm switching back to gOS for simplicity 'cause this is my work machine.)

[pante]

An informative review of gOS can be found at http://www.insidesocal.com/click/2007/12/more_reasons_gos_is_nowhere_ne.html

Compares gOS, Ubuntu, Wolvix, Slackware, Xubuntu and Debian.

[cardinals_fan]

Xfce is great - try Zenwalk for a real Xfce desktop (Xubuntu is a bit half-baked, IMHO). I don't like E17 and gOS is no longer based off it anyway.

[-gabe-noob-]

That review you sent, is either old, or incredably biased.

for the first part I've not had to reset my clock EVER since i've been using gOS...

if you've used gOS you'd know its almost as intuitive as a mac, and is definately more intuitive then Ubuntu.

edit: It was posted on december 27, gOS was a bit buggy back then, but I had no problems using it for a Week on a critical system in february and I'll probably be using it on this system for quite a while (now that I've gotten over not haveing the compiz cube :P

[imagecko]

I like gOS more than Xubuntu.
I think its too bad the gOS-guys are switching to Gnome. I think it will just be yet another too-similar-to-ubuntu-derivats...
I liked the idea with gOS. Maybe I should start working on a e17-distro myself...

[MattBD]

I like gOS more than Xubuntu.
I think its too bad the gOS-guys are switching to Gnome. I think it will just be yet another too-similar-to-ubuntu-derivats...
I liked the idea with gOS. Maybe I should start working on a e17-distro myself...

Open Geu (formerly Geubuntu) is a really good E-17 distro. It looks great and performs well.

[emshains]

I picked gOS mainly because it didnt require a fast computer and it was with based on ubuntu. After a while I switched back to Gutsy gibbon, because gOS had many problems, starting with sound and video, and then going back to the browsing the file system. And it wasnt as fast as promised and yet it didnt offer as much as gutsy for me.
Like youtube was a lot slower and i couldnt set up java.

Havent tried xubuntu thou, but now im not planning to either.

[darthchaosofrspw]

Hello, I was wondering if gOS lighter on system requirements than Xubuntu?
E17 vs Xfce.
Anyone have any ideas? Also whats the drag and drop support like in E17 with Fileman? I'm not a huge fan of Thunar. Im using Xubuntu on an old machine with AWN for a dock and its kind of buggy. So I'm thinking of switching to gOS. Anyone compare these to distros or have thoughts on how they stack up against each other?
Thanks

Dunno, but at least XFCE is nowhere near as unstable as Enlightenment DR17.

I'm seriously considering creating a couple unofficial XFCE versions of gOS. One based on Xubuntu Feisty (with Beryl), and one based on Xubuntu Gutsy (with Compiz-Fusion), and a future one based on Xubuntu Hardy.