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The Perfect Desktop - gOS 3.0 Gadgets This tutorial shows how you can set up a gOS 3.0 Gadgets desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure system without DRM restrictions that works even on old hardware, and the best thing is: all software comes free of charge. gOS is a lightweight Linux distribution, based on Ubuntu 8.04, that comes with Google Apps and some other Web 2.0 applications; gOS 3.0 Gadgets uses the GNOME desktop.

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By: loxley

Consider using Virtualbox, it's open source, VMWare is not.

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I had a bit of spare time this weekend, so i took the cd with gOS and pushed it into my HP E-pc 40. Very easy installation, nice theme colors and the bottom menu i like it.
But so little info on the internet about the new OS.

I want to recommend it to anyone new to Linux (like me ). Works out of the box, not easy to find you way.

By: Anonymous

Falco might consider mentioning in his tutorial that in partitioning the disk, th choice of "Guided-Use Entire Disk" is only a good choice if you plan to totally destroy anything on the target hard drive. I can just see the 14-year-old who follows this guide and blows away his family's computer, all the data, and the OEM OS installation. That will win "Linux for beginners" a lot of fans.

By: stone

I'm trying to run gOS on my 32-bit pentium IV desktop and as the system tries to book to X windows then this command appears

BusyBox v1.1.3 (Debian 1:1.1.3-5ubuntu12) Built-in shell (ash)
 Enter 'help; for a list of built-in commands.

 (initramfs)

 what should i do. What does it mean?

Any help.

By: mahjongg

The appearance of busybox (she "swiss knife" for software engineers), is a sure sign that during the install a crash occurred, either because of failing hardware, or because of a serious bug (not very likely), or because the system ran out of memory (at least 512MB should work fine), or files on the install medium are missing (bad burn, or damaged .ISO file).

 Check that the CD works on another computer, if not its certain that the CD is bad.

 If your system has enough memory, try pressing F4 in the boot menu, and choose "safe boot", if that works you may have an unsupported video system.