gOS -- Linux Simplified?

[master_kernel]

http://www.thinkgos.com/

I saw this in Full Circle Magazine Issue 7. Does anyone know what it is?

[LaRoza]

gOS is the topic of many threads.

It is used (primarily) in the $200 computer sold at Walmart.

I tried it, it is very nice and easy to use.

(It used Google apps, mostly)

[gn2]

I believe it's installed on the PC's Wal-Mart sell, the g = green, they're promoting the PC's as being green eco-friendly low energy consumption jobs.

[master_kernel]

gOS is the topic of many threads.

It is used (primarily) in the $200 computer sold at Walmart.

I tried it, it is very nice and easy to use.

(It used Google apps, mostly)

Would you recommend it as a test OS?

[n3tfury]

Would you recommend it as a test OS?

test for what

[Martin Witte]

it is a linux distribution based on ubuntu, with the enlightenment window manager and a set of applications based on google offerings installed as defaults.see this link http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=gos for a few reviews

[master_kernel]

test for what

Not as a replacement for Ubuntu, but as a second "mess-around" OS.

[smartboyathome]

I would recommend E17 as a mess around extra instead of gOS (as gOS uses an older E17 snapshot which does have some bugs). If you install Ubuntu-minimal and then install e17, and finally the apps you want, then you will have a very nice "mess around" OS.

[LaRoza]

Would you recommend it as a test OS?

The live cd was nice (in a thread around here I posted while using it).

I wouldn't install it, I would, if I wanted it, install e17 on Ubuntu.

[hkgonra]

ok , how do you install e17 on the regular ubuntu install ?