gOS: The Ubuntu giant killer?
Submitted by srlinuxx on Wed, 08/13/2008 - 12:32.
The history of computing is one of giants being toppled. Remember DEC and Wang? No? Well, that says a lot.
A giant is in the process of being toppled right now. Arguably, Microsoft is thrashing about in death throes as the era of personal computing ends.
At the moment, Ubuntu is the giant of the Linux world. If giants are always being toppled, and if you read any of the social networking sites such as Digg, you might get the impression that gOS is just about to do that. Is it true? Is gOS an Ubuntu killer?
Let’s take a look at the newest beta release—”3.0 Gadgets Beta“—to find out.
giant killer by Foobar layout ? Zoom by font size ? Unified apps
We are all for it. This unifies Google, Firefox and others by FVWM.
But, watch out for symlink of file names.
Then you still need your own website for portal to collect bug reports and synaptic to the repository for packages and bug fixings.
gOs is still very far away by not having their own website to extend their own operating system, using instead Google and Firefox cloud computing. Any one version of gOs can be changed(replacing apps in squashfs) online to many versions(different USB devices in squashfs execution area for instant-on embedded solution), without your own config(s)? There is gold in them hills(own website)?
Footnote:
Recent computer architecture has changed in the netbooks towards cpu, USB and flash cards. So, L2 cache is used for execution of the operating system. USB(127 ports) is the hyperpipelines. And nand flash card will have execution area that can be replaced by rotation if transistors fail. So that, squashfs will save memory usage. execution area will list the apps, and apps can be stored on a server or internal ftp. Swap area in flash card will support prefetch data to L2 cache in cpu?
Strange headline
Since gOS is just Ubuntu with a simplified UI slapped on top, it doesn't really make sense that gOS is out to topple Ubuntu. If anything, this just reinforces how successful and flexible Ubuntu is, with so many other 'distros' really being cosmetic re-packagings of Ubuntu.
Further, the author seems to be unaware of Ubuntu Netbook Remix, which is basically aimed at the same kind of machines that gOS is aimed at - a simplified UI aimed at smaller screened netbooks and MID's. It makes very good use of screen real estate and minimizing the UI and app borders. I've never been that impressed with gOS because having a special icon for gmail and Google docs and Google calendar etc is not really that innovative. These things are all browser based so you're just opening a website in Firefox. These are just bookmarks.
re: strange headline
Since gOS is just Ubuntu with a simplified UI slapped on top, it doesn't really make sense that gOS is out to topple Ubuntu.
Well, folks like to use Ubuntu in the title to get hits I think.
I thought gOS was cute. I like what they did with E. Only like you said, those icons for opening Firefox at different sites didn't do much for me. I just deleted those.