{"id":859,"date":"2007-11-23T08:17:02","date_gmt":"2007-11-23T12:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theforcefield.net\/podcast\/new-gos-reviewed-688\/"},"modified":"2007-11-23T08:17:02","modified_gmt":"2007-11-23T12:17:02","slug":"new-gos-reviewed-688","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theforcefield.net\/podcast\/new-gos-reviewed-688\/","title":{"rendered":"New gOS Reviewed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">\n<h3><strong>New gOS Reviewed<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>by Eric Vititoe<\/div>\n<p>Customers now have another choice in the cheap PC market.&nbsp; Wal-mart is now selling a $199 personal computer running gOS, a derivative of the Ubuntu Linux 7.10 distribution.&nbsp; While I haven&rsquo;t yet touched the hardware, I have downloaded, installed, and tested the operating system.<\/p>\n<p>The stock hardware for the $199 machine utilizes a VIA C7-D 1.5GHz processor, 512Mb RAM, an 80Gb hard drive, and a CD burner.&nbsp; While not a power horse, this machine will suffice for the average user.<\/p>\n<p>The new gOS is simple to use, even for someone new to Linux, as I am.&nbsp; It comes with many programs pre-installed, such as OpenOffice, GIMP, FireFox, and a host of games.&nbsp; From my experience, the average user should have no problem surfing the internet, checking email, or typing the occasional document.<\/p>\n<p>Installation is simple.&nbsp; Boot and run from the cd.&nbsp; Once in the graphical interface, you can run gOS straight from the cd, or choose to install to your hard drive.&nbsp; Simply click the install icon, answer a few questions, and it does the rest by itself.&nbsp; It even has a partitioning template for those who don&rsquo;t know how to partition the hard drive.&nbsp; Reboot after install and gOS is completely installed.<\/p>\n<p>The entire installation took less than 20 minutes on my test machine.&nbsp; My test PC is a Dell Optiplex GX270 with a 3.0GHz Pentium 4 processor, 512Mb RAM, a 40Gb hard drive, and an ATI Radeon 9800SE video card with 256Mb VRAM.<\/p>\n<p>Once installed, gOS boots fairly quickly.&nbsp; From pushing the button to the log on screen only took my test system 65 seconds, including POST.&nbsp; Another 15 seconds and it was ready to use.&nbsp; If you have a broadband connection, it will almost immediately let you know there are updates available.&nbsp; There were 36 updates available at the time of my installation.&nbsp; It advises you to install all updates for security reasons, and will do so automatically if you press the select all button.<\/p>\n<p>A second system was also used in the testing.&nbsp; A Compaq Presario 5000 series.&nbsp; This older machine has an 800MHz CPU, 256Mb RAM, 40Gb hard drive, and a stock 8Mb Vanta LT AGP video card.&nbsp; This second system was, not surprisingly, much slower.&nbsp; Installation took nearly an hour.&nbsp; After installation and updating, the Compaq took 1min 21sec to get to the log on screen, then another 25sec before it was ready to use.<\/p>\n<p>The interface is clean.&nbsp; By default, the wallpaper is a green leaf print and all windows and cursors have a green outline to them.&nbsp; All open windows have the traditional close, minimize, and maximize buttons, but in a different order and on the left of the window instead of the right.&nbsp; That took a little bit of time for me to get used to.<\/p>\n<p>Using gOS is fairly simple and straightforward.&nbsp; You are presented with a quick launch shelf at the bottom of the screen with your favorite applications.&nbsp; It is pre-populated with Xine Movie Player, Rhythmbox Music Player, Skype, and links to a variety of online applications such as Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Maps, Google, YouTube, Meebo, and more.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to use an application not on the shelf, left click any where on the desktop to bring up an application menu.&nbsp; From the menu, you can also choose administrative functions, such as changing the desktop resolution, update manager or printing.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of printing, gOS makes it easy to install a printer. The process is simple, but not all printers are supported.&nbsp; It did not have drivers for my Epson Stylus R200 or Brother MFC9700.&nbsp; I could not get my Epson working at all, but did get my Brother printer working by installing it as an MFC9600.<\/p>\n<p>The makers of gOS have not yet made the operating system multi-user friendly.&nbsp; You can only set up the system as a single user.&nbsp; They state that is a feature that they need to work on.<\/p>\n<p>Although the system found both my Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-H2 and Samsung Digimax A503 cameras, it had a little bit of a problem transferring the pictures from camera to hard drive.&nbsp; Dragging and dropping individual photos were effortless, but I received multiple &ldquo;Enlightenment&rdquo; errors when copying more than one file.&nbsp; That is definitely something that will have to be fixed in future versions. <\/p>\n<p>Overall, I found gOS very easy to install and use.&nbsp; I believe it to be a good operating system for a new Linux convert or anyone who simply needs an internet appliance.&nbsp; A little more tweaking by the developers would make it a great one.&nbsp; I give gOS 3 out of 5 penguins.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">{mos_fb_discuss:47}&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New gOS Reviewed by Eric Vititoe Customers now have another choice in the cheap PC market.&nbsp; Wal-mart is now selling a $199 personal computer running gOS, a derivative of the Ubuntu Linux 7.10 distribution.&nbsp; While I haven&rsquo;t yet touched the hardware, I have downloaded, installed, and tested the operating system. 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