gOS Rocket 2.0: The Operating System for the WEB2.0 Era?
gOS may sound like a familiar yet new name to most users. gOS is essentially a new Linux distribution based on Ubuntu and Enlightenment. It is a kind of new Operating System designed for modern Web 2.0 users, fully powered by Google Apps and Web 2.0 Apps, and introduces the concept of using the Web for everything.
gOS Rocket 2.0 was recently released at the Consumer Electronics Show 2008 and is now available for free download.
gOS works perfectly on low-spec computers as it uses very little RAM and processing power. It heavily relies on Web 2.0 and Ajax web technologies, and almost all applications on gOS are web-based.
gOS Rocket also comes integrated with Google Gears, suggesting that in the future, online Google applications could be used offline.
The primary UI of gOS features a Mac OSX Leopard-like Dock menu called the iBar, which includes icons for the following Google applications and services:
Google Mail
Google News
Google Calendar
Google Maps
Google Docs
Google Products
Meebo
YouTube
Blogger
Wikipedia
