gOS 3 Gadgets (beta) targets Linux beginners and Google Gadgets lovers

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Aug 16, 2008 1:37 AM EDT
Linux.com; By Jeremy LaCroix
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I first heard of gOS when it was chosen to power the $199 Wal-Mart gPC. The third iteration of the OS, gOS 3.0 "Gadgets" Beta, was released last week. It's a great Web-focused desktop, but it doesn't offer much to experienced or current Ubuntu users. I downloaded the ISO image of gOS 3.0, burned it to a CD, and installed it on one of my test systems. I used a basic PC with a 1.7GHz AMD Duron processor and 512MB of RAM, to see how well gOS fared on an unimpressive machine.

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