the WalMart gOS vs. the community? Nah.
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| Isn't the whole point of Free software to make it your own? No one owns the
| software, no one can stop you, or others, from customizing it. That is one of
| the Four Rights under the GPL, and you, Helios, want to take that away from a
| commercial company for putting their foot forward with some new concepts? A
| concept (shelves), by the way, I thought was a part of E17 already (since at
| least March 2007), and appear on the next release of Elive itself?
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http://gnuski.blogspot.com/2007/11/walmart-gos-vs-community.html
Ken's writings are brilliant, but he took it out on Wal-Mart (as predatory as
they are).
Given the Microsoft/Novell/Wal-Mart relationship (executives and links) and
even the recent SUSE coupons agreement, it's just good that they don't sell
SUSE PCs (with MS tax).
Related:
There's No System Like Linux for the Holidays
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| Holiday shopping season is about to hit full swing, and personal computers
| already rank high on many people's wish lists. If you're going to give the
| gift of a new PC, should you consider giving one with Linux? If the receiver
| is a tech-savvy individual, it may be the perfect gift, and the growing
| availability of preloaded machines means setup headaches are easily avoided.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/Theres-No-System-Like-Linux-for-the-Holidays-60397.html
Wal-Mart's $199 Linux PC Back In Stock
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| The gPC is one of the first Linux-based desktop machines to be offered for
| sale by a major retailer.
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=204200374
gPC - $199 C7 powered PC at Wal-Mart running gOS
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| Now gOS the OS powering the gPC is a unique OS. While I said it is a
| customized version of Ubuntu, the word 'customized' is an understatement. gOS
| highlights and encourages users to use web applications instead of the
| traditional software for their day to day computing tasks.
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http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2007/11/gpc-199-c7-powered-pc-at-wal-mart.html
gOS Unboxed: Should Microsoft Worry?
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| Microsoft's rivalry with Google heated up considerably this past year when
| rumors surfaced that Google might release its own operating system to compete
| with Windows. Has Google finally jumped into the fray with its own OS?
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http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2219310,00.asp
A short look at gOS
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| So after downloading the gOS Live ISO onto my Debian Etch system I started
| Innotek’s VirtualBox, bound the freshly downloaded ISO as a CD-ROM, made a
| 4GB virtual hard disk image for installing it, gave that virtual computer
| 256MB of RAM, and started...
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http://blog.thedebianuser.org/?p=255
Gosh, gOS is good
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| I really liked gOS. It's a cute little system with lots of functionality and
| great looks. It works well and is fast and stable on my laptop. It should
| work on any computer that any other Linux supports. Enlightenment is an
| impressive desktop environment, and the iBar is a low-overhead way to blend
| cool effects with needed functionality. I think users will like it.
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http://www.linux.com/feature/121151
ReviewLinux.Com: gOS is worth looking into....
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| Everybody is going Green. I take a quick look at the new kid on the block.
| gOS 1.0.1 was released earlier this month and I take a short screenshot tour
| of this "Green" Linux OS. Check out the short flash video too.
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http://www.reviewlinux.com/?m=show&id=8247
gOS-live 1.0 386
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| Based on Ubuntu 7.10 Linux system with an Enlightenment E17 interface, the
| PC's productivity will be almost solely derived from Google applications
| accessed through Firefox: Mail, Calendar, News, Maps and Documents &
| Spreadsheets. It also comes with OpenOffice.org 2.2 and some other freeware
| Linux favorates.
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http://linuxtracker.org/torrents-details.php?id=4822
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