GOS (operating system)

gOS 3.1 Gadgets
Current Distribution, gOS 3.1, is based on Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS
DeveloperGood OS LLC
OS familyLinux (Unix-like)
Working stateDiscontinued
Source modelOpen source
Initial releaseNovember 1, 2007 (2007-11-01)
Latest release3.1 "Gadgets" / January 3, 2009 (2009-01-03)
Available inEnglish
Platformsx86, Netbooks
Kernel typeMonolithic (Linux)
Default
user interface
GNOME
LicenseCreative Commons Attribution Noncommercial Share Alike 3.1 Unported
Official websiteweb.archive.org/web/20081216020538/http://www.thinkgos.com/

gOS or "good OS" was an Ubuntu-based Linux distribution created by Good OS LLC, a Los Angeles-based corporation. Its CIO David Liu described that after meeting Enlightenment and open source people, he realized that his dream to bring Web 2.0 applications into mainstream use could be achieved by creating a Linux distribution that made it easy for users to access Google and Web 2.0 applications.[1] David Liu went on to create the Chinese Twitter clone called Wozai (我在), leaving gOS officially defunct.

  1. ^ Linuxjournal, March 2008, p. 58.