GOS 3 on a EEE pc 901
Submitted by srlinuxx on Fri, 09/26/2008 - 04:00.
I am environment friendly, I am a botanist and probably that's the reason why I love Green. GOS a.k.a Green OS, Good OS or Google OS has always attracted me because of its aesthetics and more importantly the dominance of green (Opensuse being its alter ego). I am a fan of the environmental friendly Asus EEE pc which consumes less power and seemingly helps reduce global warming. Asus has done a great job in introducing a tiny, yet cheap laptop that would shape computing in the years to come. It would be a good combination for GOS and EEE to work together in delivering a great computing experience. So I set out to test my hypotheis by installing GOS on my new EEE 901.
Gos 3 Gadgets was released yesterday, I downloaded and installed it using a USB stick, thanks to Unetbootin. I installed GOS into the 4 GB SSD in the EEE with 600 mb for swap and the rest for / .
Open source stopped by maintainers(QC) ? Linux evolution ?
There are undercurrents in Linux that stops Linux open source community to introduce bugs into distros.
It is done by specialization, use off beat codes not in GCC compiler versions. Google may be using C++. Firefox is using maintainers on security work around(cookies in /temp).
These subtle infrastructure help small distros to adapt Linux forks, then use apps that do not change with Linux kernels. Apps using gadgets or tcl/tk usually escape open source community's attention and remain usable by themselves. Is that Debian apps(apt-get) kernel independent principle?
So, there are many protocols that Linux has to imitate, but can not subotage. Once you understand protocols(on the internet) and Linux reusable files and GCC data compression; you are well on the track of making a wonderful Linux distro that has its own core apps, not corruptable by python, GCC, etc. on each version change.