gOS

Cuchulain

Cuchulain

Cuchulain

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Despite being a complete novice with *nix, I've finally found a distribution that I can get on with.

I installed gOS this morning (http://www.thinkgos.com/) which I believe is a customised Enlightenment window manager over the top of Ubuntu (Gutsy I think).

The biggest bugbear of all the distro's I've tried is support for the Belkin F5D7010 PCMCIA wireless NIC, but, I downloaded the windows drivers, installed ndiswrapper and ndisgtk which i downloaded on another machine and simply transferred using a memory stick and after a reboot the wireless card lit up like a christmas tree and connected to the internet straight away.

I then bravely decided to try GTKPOD for my ipod and again, installed it, installed XMMS (both from the repositories) and it found my ipod, library, playlists etc and is now letting me download all my tracks to the local HDD.

Joy!
 
FirebarUK said:
gOS is what was used on the Wal-mart machines (which were selling for $199), something you may have seen in the IT press.
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It's still on those machines. The change that was in the press a week or two back was that Walmart is now going to sell them exclusively on their web site. :)

IIRC gOS is Ubuntu-based with E as the DE.
 
FirebarUK said:
Oh thats good, I was under the impression that Wal-mart were essentially going to drop them once stock ran out.
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Stock sold out long ago! It was a mild success, depending on whose reports you read.
I don't suppose Walmart is an OcUK competitor since they won't deliver one to the UK so here it is: http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=7754614

For those of you who have only read a bit about gOS, but have never heard it pronounced:
It's pronounced Gee-Oh-Ess, or perhaps Gee- Oss
not Goss such that it would rhyme with loss.
 
I tried Gos on my Q6600, 4Gb RAM, 8800Gt. It didnt like my 8800GT, shame none of ubuntu boot prefixes worked.

Settled on ubuntu 8.04 or maybe Arch.

Gonna install Arch properly this weekend.
 
Ah ok, different model - I should have noticed the price.

Wierd, If you load up that page, whilst all the images are loading it says 'not sold online' which then changes to 'in stock' once the page loads. Conspiracy I tells you!!
 
Just tried gOS, was working happily until I tried in vain to find a console window - went into /usr/bin to double-click xterm and everything hung :confused:

Don't like this user-friendly business :p
/me goes back to gentoo
 
matja said:
Just tried gOS, was working happily until I tried in vain to find a console window - went into /usr/bin to double-click xterm and everything hung :confused:

Don't like this user-friendly business :p
/me goes back to gentoo
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Ahh gentoo, where you know if it breaks... you broke it :)
*or just havnt emerged for months and should have taken more notice of those failed dep's :P*
..Having said that, after solaris, my gentoo boxes are usually the next ones in line for the uptime prize.

//TrX
 
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