[Chugalug] Thoughts on gOS

[Chad Smith]

I'm playing with a new distro built on Ubuntu that is being sold in Walmart
stores on a $199 desktop, with plans for a $299 laptop early next year.

It's called gOS.  http://www.thinkgos.com/

What the guy who started calls it is "Linux for Human Beings (who shop at
Walmart)."  building, of course, on the Ubuntu theme of "Linux for Human
Beings".  It's a super easy interface with links to Web Apps (like Facebook,
YouTube, Google Docs, etc.) instead of programs.  (Although the major
programs like Firefox, OpenOffice.org, GIMP, are still included, they're
just not in the "Dock".)

The interface looks more like Mac OS than Windows, or even "normal Linux
distros" - (which I know there's no such thing since Linux is so wide.)

I know this isn't a distro for hard core Linux users - but what of the
appeal to the masses?  Is this just another version of Lindows, doomed to
suffer the same fact, or is web intergration a Good Thing (tm) for Linux to
start doing.

(For more on web app intregration with the desktop - see such projects /
commerical software as Mozilla's Prism
http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2007/10/prism-mozillas-take-on-desktop-web-apps/,
Adobe's Air,
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/air/ and Microsoft's Silverlight.
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/air/)

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- Chad Smith
http://www.chadwsmith.com/
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