gOS on the EEE PC
April 15, 2008 – 11:58 amI installed gOS on a USB pendrive, and tried it on the eee pc. Here are my first impressions.
I was curious about gOS for two reasons. I have been a heavy user of google web services for years, from sitemaps to gtalk, and gOS is specially tailored for google apps. Secondly, gOS is the operating system bundled with the Everex Cloudbook, the EEE PC 701 main concurrent on the low cost UMPC market.
The main interesting point of gOS is the desktop design. Based on Ubuntu, this linux distribution’s designers tried to reproduce the look and feel of the Mac OS X user interface, with a prominent dock at the bottom of the desktop providing shortcut to popular Google apps. You can find Gmail, Calendar, gTalk, Youtube, etc.
The gOS desktop looks good on the eee pc, and the dock bar effet can impress.
However, gOS has a few negative point. I searched but couldn’t find a wifi manager, and wifi doesn’t work out of the box. While it is rather easy to find and install an Ubuntu set of drivers for the eee pc, the lack of decent wifi support for a UMPC like the EEE is a serious drawback.
I created a video to show the boot process of gOS on the Asus eee pc, from a usb drive (you may want to jump over the loading period, it lasts for about 1mn45s…):
You can find a copy of gOS here. I used the Rocket E iso, but a version remastered for MySpace apps exists.
One Response to “gOS on the EEE PC”
It looks great. But like what you said, wifi is vital on eee. That’s what everybody needs.
By Aldrin Cantos on Apr 15, 2008