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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. Read more at Linux.com

gOS is an interesting Ubuntu GNU/Linux offshoot. We’ve reviewed it and interviewed gOS founder Daniel Liu. Now, in this video, you can see the distro in action before you decide whether it is something you want to download and play with for yourself. Remember that this video was made with a beta version of gOS [...]

gOS today announced release 3 of its Google-oriented consumer Linux distro, adding support for Google Gadgets. gOS 3 Gadgets offers access to more than 100,000 iGoogle and Google Gadgets, says the company, and also preloads WINE 1.0 and the LXDE (Lightweight X Desktop Environment) desktop. In January, gOS released version 2.0 of its Ubuntu-based distro. [...]

You will all no doubt be aware that a few months back I reviewed the original gOS, and I was enthusiastic about it. In my opinion, the original gOS was a great Linux distribution for the average computer user – someone who used it to write up a few documents, send a few emails, and [...]

While Linux remains popular among enthusiasts, its adoption among casual PC users lacks the power to really threaten Microsoft Windows. However a small handful of groups still create operating systems designed to make the transition over to Linux a little bit easier and less intimidating. To that end, the makers of the Good OS distribution [...]