Google Chrome – Questions that need answers?

By Martin Kaba • Sep 3rd, 2008 • Filed under: Browsers, Open-Source

1) Will Google continue to “sponsor” Mozilla Firefox?
2) Will Google Chrome have its own brand of extensions or will it become compatible to Firefox extensions?
3) Is Google Chrome completely Open Source – as they say?
4) Will Mozilla Firefox remain the default browser of google’s gOS?
5) What does the Mozilla developer team think of Google […]

gOS 3 Beta includes Google Gadgets

By Martin Kaba • Sep 3rd, 2008 • Filed under: Browsers, Linux Packages, Open-Source

Google recently released version 3 of the gOS Linux distribution. This new version bundles up Google Gadgets, making gOS a heavily packed web application Linux distro, given that gOS version 1.0 already includes webapps like Mozilla Firefox, Meebo, Skype, Wikipedia, Facebook and many more .
This beta release also includes Wine 1.0 for a better […]

How to Install gOS in Ubuntu

By Martin Kaba • Mar 14th, 2008 • Filed under: Ubuntu

Transforming an old PC into a super web app monster could no longer be considered an exploit with the advent of the web-based operating system gOS. This Ubuntu based OS can be freely downloaded and burnt into a LiveCD and eventually tested on any of our “worn-out” pc’s.
Better still the low ram consuming gOS […]

gOS goes 2.0 with Google Gears

By Martin Kaba • Jan 4th, 2008 • Filed under: Hardware Help, Linux Packages

The Web based Linux distribution gOS, that went on sale a couple of months ago for the handsome price of $199 without a monitor at Wal-mart would soon come out with a new version. The gOS 2.0 would have Google Gears installed as well as a new a browser-based web cam application called gBooth […]

The gOS operating system for gPC

By Martin Kaba • Nov 7th, 2007 • Filed under: Extras, Linux Advocacy, Linux Packages

gOS, the name says it all, maybe, it is rather a difficult product to present, for a simple reason, it is unique of it’s type. The producer says “consumers, who use Linux and open-source software are rare” so the need to come out with what they call “An alternative OS for the masses” […]