if I have to choose between Rocket and Space, I prefer to choose Rocket. Because it looks ‘original’ rather than Space.

but, don’t limit yourself to Rocket or Space. We will see another breakthrough from you…

That installation is just as easy on my macbook as it possibly can be using wubi!
-and that everything just works…

Wubi is a good idea. I think gOS will probably be one of the better ways to get Windows people interested in Linux anyways.

I currently run Ubuntu 8.04 with AWN. So the question is what can gOS 3.0 do for me and tempt me to come over to you?

Beautiful Interface
gOS is beautiful. gOS 3.0 I am sure will also be. I originally loaded the E17 version because your use of iTask NG was outstanding and gave me a lovely interface on my older PC. If you are staying with Gnome and AWN then I would like you to give me a straight ‘out of the DVD’ multi-option interface. Lots of nice ‘theme packs’.

Workhorse
I would like the distro to be a general workhorse rather than a Facebook special. I’d like you to cherry pick the coolest tools too. Favourite music player that you use? put it in! Bespoke AWN applets?

Make it easy for us to show you off? Desktop video recording? HowTo to get them up on youtube?

Ubuntu linked
You’re doing this already. Make sure that we can update and upgrade the Ubuntu base and still keep our gOSness.

Documentation
Oh yes. Perhaps as a minimum something built in that runs through what makes gOS unique. Guides and walk throughs on how to do cool things? HTML would do.

Just some quick thoughts and best wishes.

Do up a light-weight version that runs great on lower end machines while still maintaining a great user experience and have a high-end version. I’m currently running gOS 2.0 E off an 8GB usb stick and it boots up faster than windows ever could. I haven’t tried gOS Space yet, mostly because I really don’t like myspace, but it looks great just the same! Keep up the great work guys!

I think gOS would be great using 8.04 as a core not saying it isnt great now but 8.04 has some really nice advancements.

I was so fine with gOS, the upgrade did not work, then I took 8.04. We have to be patient gOS is really great, I do read a lot of newspapers on the web, I found Tomboy very interesting kjots also.
gOS what else ? :)

This is a great OS, i would like to see the following:
1.) Make it work with the bios issue on older systems, I cant get a Intel810 P3 to boot or load, but the other Ubuntu distros will boot. I have issues with all of them with the Intel 810 video, driver doesnt work right and cannot detect correctly.
2.) Nvidia & ATI latest drivers for gaming
3.) WINE Integration to load windows apps and games!!
4.) Pretty Graphical Desktop, a combo of space and rocket, like the OSX feel and 3D coolness.
5.) Admin Tools
6.) The ability to run VMWare server and Xen easily for running Virtual operating systems
7.)Open Office Standard & Firefox Standard
8.)Windows Networking – Easy tool to join it to windows Active Directory (Samba Integration)
9.)Games – Add cool Flash Games!
10.) Need a best of bread Media Player and Internet Audio Streaming & CD/DVD burning software.
11.)Wireless working easily with all major wireless chipsets, Scanner and Easy connection ability with WEP, WPA, WPA2, LEAP, RADIUS support.
12.) Keep it pretty with lots of great backgrounds and themes available, Video Game screen saver would be cool!
13.) Would love to see a server version also, especially to replace Microsofts and OSX server small business server line
14.) May need a DVD version for all the new features
15.) USB stick version or creator
16.) Antivirus software built in or easily downloaded and install easily
17.) Keep it as intuitive and easy to use as possible!
18.) Get it to 8.04 quick! Add more and more please…. lol

Sorry guys just wanted to through out a ton of stuff that would make this the best OS ever!!

Thanks for the awesome work!!

I am not sure if it is there now or not, but parental controls to limit smaller children’s internet access would be great. I think space looked great. I would like to see you build on the awn dock. Maybe add a linux section to link to training on gOS, ubuntu, and other linux product for new users.

I would like an very light eee Gos for eee pc 701.

OpenChrome 9 IGA drivers !!! Unbutu does not come with them and you have to do some major reprogramming in order for the video drivers to work.

This has been an issue for that last 3 releases of Unbutu, and it is all over their forums, but they have yet to integrate these drivers into their distro.

I’d love to see an official XFCE version of gOS (gOS Rocket X, I guess), perhaps even an XFCE version of gOS Space.

drivers for the asus eee pc, maybe another dock (one tht is less glitchy and uses less cpu)….and stick with the rocket look, space was nice but i didnt like it (to mutch like mac, i didnt mind that but it looked sooo horrible i made a custom metacity
link= http://www.esnips.com/doc/c3422f5d-5fa8-4735-8042-da24731623d7/gOs-windowboarder.tar

Hi, users :)

Well, I am using 10 years Windows, but last moths were REALLY hard. I reinstal win several times during last 3 months and it this system makes me sick. For example, today I have to uninstal Service pack 3 for xp to uninstall other programs. Of course the uninstalation of service pack go wrong …

But this is of course toppic about new features in gos, right ? : )
During reinstalation I try several times instal gos. Yes instalation si simple, but till the point where the user choose place, where to install gos. I am total dummy in linux and other coding stuff, so I was really afraid if linux will cooperate with windows participation. And if yes, if it will be passible to run both systems ? I have lot of work on my win disk so it would be really pleasure to dont bother with such things, as bad cooperation of linux and win disk participations.

(I mean this ntfs, fat32)

I think that gOS is very well done. The additions to it should be minor.My only gripe about Linux has been webcams and wireless. I would like there to be different gOS themes and wallpapers in the distribution, if they are not there already. Thank you for the excellent work.

I would like to see Picasa. Thanks!

In 8.04 version Rhythbox will not load folders like 7.10 does. I use and Icybox NAS to store everyones music, videos etc. This has been a real pain since upgrading so I tought i wouldd go back to 7.10 but with your version as it looked and is interesting

Here’s what I’d like to see…

Reorganize the “menu” so it is easier to use. Currently the gOS menu is much more disorganized compared to the typical gnome pull down menu, ie, applications,etc…

Add a default program that allows the user to make a remaster on CD or usb.

Add selinux as a default program.

Reduce the iso to fit on a CD.

Promote a community forum where users can go to discuss gOS technical problems. etc…

Eliminate any association with “google”. Unfortunately, many people new to gOS think that the “g” stands for google.

What I would like to see is a more student/teacher version out there so that it could be used in schools and in other places.
Right now I am working on a project to get a new computer lab up and running for my high school by using old or new cmputers coming in from donations and updating them by using os that are approved by the school board. When I should them this operating system gos they freaked out because of the youtube, myspace, etc. . . (its all blocked at the school) So if you made a more teacher/ student operating system it would be great.
The only thing i could think that can be uprade would be that we could drag and drop our own icons onto the launch pad panel.

If you would like me to join the project please contact me at pusherlumber44@gmail.com

High School Student Programmer. You may have better luck with the school board using edubuntu. It probably already has the features you are looking for currently.

More information on this website is needed youve got to really sell it to some users like apple does.

make it more EEE friendly althought could this cause a conflict of interests since the cloudbook is competition?

in Gos3 i want to see more customised apps to Gos so like a photo manager

I’ve just downloaded gOS Space. And to my surprise The Awn Dock is no where near as good as the Enlightenment System. I’ve got to admit that I’m not much of a GNOME or KDE Fan. I prefer Enlightenment. Stick with E17 it’s really good. I’m Finding gOS Space a little to Mac ish. Anyone read my gOS blog (Which urgently needs updating.) You’ll see what I mean.

So far, what I’ve noticed about the new gOS is that it’s just Ubuntu with a (If i do say so, Beautiful) theme on, (It actually looks better then Vista and Mac OS X) and a few extra menu congiurations and a fancy splash.

Here’s what I’d like to see in 3.0,

1. a Spacey name like gOS Saturn or Jupiter (Sorry Neptune’s already been taken by Microsoft)
2. Keep the System preferences thing in the gOS Main Menu thing. It’s so much better then anything I’ve used.
3. Open Office 3.0
4. a Better browser (Or a lighter wheight one which loads faster.) Like K-Meleon Browser, would be an excellent Idea.
5, Please there has to be a new version of skype around somewhere for linux??? Using this dated version is such a drag.
6. Offline G-Mail access.
7. A Funky new UI (Keep the green thing, it’s uniquely you.)
8.A easier to use Dock. As the original dock I used in gOS 2.0 was deleted I made a new shelf and Put an iBar on it with scrolling. Was much better then the annoyingly slow AWM Dock.
9. A better splash screen. People get scared when they See white text on black backgrounds when there PC turns on. Multiple Times I’ve accidentally pressed a button and it has not booted at all.
10. Better Power Meter.
11. Why not base it on FaceBook – Google and MySpace have their own so why not FaceBook?
12. Keep the Media Center thing. Love being able to listen to what I want when I want for free.

Updates arent much of an issue to me. Sure 8.04 would be good but it’s not that urgent.

When I updated my download this morning I didnt even think about getting a new Distro, just after installing this gOS Space thing.

And yes a guide would be great!

Kudos to the gOS team your doing a great job.

gOS_User

A large tech/computer market is the Teens and High Schoolers. Half the people at my school wouldnt consider it unless it could play games. Games are fun (and a waste of time too.) and gOS currently does not support that many that I know of.

gOS 3 on the PS3 nuff said

One area of gOS space that really needs improvement is the GDM splash. Its doesn’t match the rest of the space theme, and the whitish gray with a black line in the middle looks cheap. How about a nice blue GDM splash that would flow into the already nice log in splash screen ?

Thanks Joesph I looked into edubuntu and it looks like something that the school might like to use.

gOS seems to be great and it’s so nice to see something that’s clean and more user friendly, available for you, if you want to put linux on your machine. A couple of suggestions:

- make the iso fit on a cd – you can always add programs easily at a later date: you could provide a list of recommended ones.

- love the mac-like interface. Keep trying to make it simple, uncluttered and functional.

- Get some good, (not resource intensive) strong drop shadows on windows.

- Keep going in a more ‘document-centric’ direction. Would love to see application menu bar in a panel at the top of the screen.

- keep it quite lightweight and capable of being run on old-ish hardware.

- introduce something similar to apple’s expose in order to switch windows more painlessly:shortcut key? mouse gesture?

Keep going with the good work, and I look forward to using the next generation gOS.

a Kernel that works !
PLEASE do not use the Kernel that came standard with Ubuntu 8.04 as this thing has HUGE Problems.
Many people like me can’t use Ubuntu 8.04 with the Kernel that comes with this distro whereas Ubuntu 7.10/gOS Space 2.9 runs perfectly.

I’d like a version that can be put on a USB drive (stick) that is persistent and can launch both from the stick when put into a usb port or when you reboot the machine…I know don’t ask for much now will I haha. My thinking is that then people can carry there own things around, I have an 8 gig stick so I can do all my “stuff” on that then take it home and achieve at will but some place don’t want you restarting their machines to get your pen drive to work the way you want it so I’m thinking having both, if possible, shows that Linux is truly the operating system for the people as it won’t upset them when used…..I hope I’m making sense here.

I want a easier web set up for wireless cards. Also would like to see a administrative set up that would have the tool bar set up, but instead of the facebook stuff the administrator account would have stuff like “set up the internet” set up driver, set up screen size, set up sound etc. That would make it nice for people porting over from windows. Or you could put in a nice set up wizard with all those items, you sound, screen, internet etc.

I want gos 3.0 can support chinese and install system from harddisk.

WELL DONE GOS..HOPEFULLY CAN ADD REMOTE ACCESS SUCH AS HAMACHI…TO ACCESS WINDOWS PC FROM GOS..FANTASTIC!!!

Wubi installer. IF i could install inside windows i would switch to gOS form ubuntu 8.04 in a wag of a dogs tail. Wubi or similar installer would send gOS into the top 10 Distros

I’d like to see the cx700m drivers from linux.via.com.tw working with the cloudbook :) as well as the wifid button and various other cloudbook buttons.
Keep up the great work, you guys are the best.
Rob

I agree with kris. Wubi or similar would be nice. I don’t like to reformat my hard drive to dual boot. It would be nice to be able to install inside of Windows without reformatting.

I would like to see the following:
>Flock (perfect browser for social networks)
>GIMP for picture editing (3D & 2D)
>Picasa
>More video and audio codecs
>WINE (Pretty please)
>PDF reader (needed badly)
>support for newer GPUs
>An updating tool similar to one ‘MINT’ is using

I love gOS space but with the ubuntu 7.10 platform my headphone jack doesn’t work. In short I would just like it to change platforms, I currently use ubuntu 8.04 that is made to look like gOS space
hit me up if you would like a screenshot NOsPamlukeofny@gmail.com but remove NOsPam

i would love to see PS3 support.
Great Job!!!!

I think gOS needs to stop aping Apple in every way.

Combine gOS Rocket and Space together in one. At setup, you can have where you can select feature you want and don’t. With the dock, be able to have the image underneath or not. Combine to make it more easier to choose which one— because you won’t have to choose!

Know what I think Vulcan,you should stop aping all the other Apple marks that have said the same thing.Know what the big difference is between Apple and gOS 3.0??????
gOS 3.0 is FREE….FREE….FREE
I dont have to spend $1500 on a laptop to get it.

iso image that’ll fit on a regular blank CD, that is, one that’s less than 700 MB, or give us a DVD iso image.

Some security application, please…

You can see a review of g OS at http://linuxbsdos.com on June 3, 2008.

I’d like to see a Synaptic that actually works, not one that says it can’t load itself due to 404 errors at the thinkgos website. Or are you still doing server updates…..?

On the distribution site, please launch and support some ‘official’ torrents as they are easier to download.

The one torrent I’ve found for GOS 2.9 has just 1 seed.

Create the BomB OS and the hardware manufacturers will come, people will come and the social networkers will come!
Need
USB stick OS and DVD, just throw everything in there! 4GB isnt much now a days with DVD and USB sticks cheap at 4GB. Dont be affraid of the 4GB, its the future people!! Lets GOS!!!
We just basically want every function you could ask for! lol
Make an OS as functional as OSX and Windows and you have a winner!

Please, Please keep HTTP downloads. Torrents are not easier to download and especially in corporate environments where torrents are being watched.

Able to upgrade an existing Ubuntu installation to gOS.
That is easy for the Ubuntu-users.

A lower resolution for the Live CD

I love everything you have.. and do really hope people jump the wincrap ship and come to the right side of life…. but because people like winblows I think you need more drag and drop and be able to make shortcuts to desktop of opitions or files/folders I use many times like …winblows has mycomputer on desktop so you can get to doc,pic,files,ect…. well can you put root drive/computer on desktop??.. and the copy and paste seems to only work sometimes with somethings but not with others, can it work with everything I love to cut and paste? well you get the idea and even IF you can’t make the changes I’m still Gos SOLD!!!

A good file manager like Finder

I think the gOS is cool. Doing a great job. Keep it up.

Now what I want to see in 3.0.
Easy setup
Read NTFS Paritions to get to my data.
Chat: Google Talk and Skype
Email: Gmail and Thunderbird
Web Browsers: Firefox and Flock
Web Page desin: Kompozer or NVU or some other editer.
Office: OpenOffice.org some of PDF Reader.
Media: To play MP3s, Watch Videos, Burn DVDs and CDs, Make MP3s, Audio DVDs and CDs, Easy program to make Slide Shows, and Videos on to DVDs Also watch DVDs.
Security: Antivirus, Antispam, Antispyware, and Firewall.
Plus what all the others are coming up with looks good as well.

Make it work with the newest Mac Book Pros out of the box!

Broadcom 43xx wireless
Sound
keyboard backlights
Fn Keys
Multi media keys, i.e. volume screen brightness etc.
NVIDIA 8200GT 1900×1200 resolution
iSight
Motion detector
Compiz fusion 7.5

If You guys can do that i’ll pay money for it!!!

1.better zync for gmail,calendar etc…
2. more web apps like zoho office…
3. maybe a Facebook or hi5 edition…

if i said osx that might sound a little smart… sorry

but really good luck and all.

Keep tightly integrated with Google services – particular Google apps (mail, calendar, docs etc) and also if one use hosted Google domain services. Don’t bloat it…

Oh yeah… and if you could be the first OSOS (open source operating system) to REALLY prepare for tight integration with Adobe CS3 that would be extremely helpfull to MANY users. Mayby by using the latest wine optimized by Google (to get Picase running on nix) – should be quite steady.

J’utilise gOS 2.0 parce que trouve je l’idée de base originale (E17): Avec pas grand chose, on obtiend de superbes effets, mais je me suis résigné à passer sous rocket 2.0 G (gnome) parce que je ne supportais plus le gestionnaire de fenêtre sous e17 (mal conçu pour moi). Et finalement, j’en suis content à quelques exceptions près: – le graphisme des icones ( désignant les dossiers) n’est pas formidable. – Basé sur ubuntu 7.10, il faut quand même disposer de 394 mo et d’un processeur de 1 ghz pour pouvoir le faire tourner (je reste persuadé qu’avec opengeu geubuntu ou elive, il y aurait besoin de moins de ressources pour obtenir les mêmes effets voire plus comme par exemple les splashscreens animés, etc… un gOs, good OS parce que green OS, une petite config, c’est toujours meilleur pour l’environnement).
-Et enfin, vous aurez compris que m’exprimant de la sorte, j’utilise une traduction française de gOS, or, beaucoup de choses importantes non pas été traduite… J’imagine que ce n’est pas une priorité et je comprends pourquoi… cependant, ce serait une bonne chose.
Pour résumer, gOS 3.0 devrait demander moins de ressources que gOS 2.0 pour des effets visuels supérieurs, utiliser de jolies icônes au graphisme supérieur à celui de la version actuelle, avoir un gestionnaire de fenêtre aussi efficace et maniable que nautilus et finallement s’ouvrir à l’international avec des traductions plus complètes que sous la version gOS 2.0.
Voilà ce que j’aimerai voir sous gOS 3.0.

@Ryedog

I hear you, 4gb isn’t much not days, except when you try to down load it on a 1mb ADSL line, that would take a very long time, 2 days I’d think. An “everything install” disk would be a nice feature, but something that fits on a cd with the ability to download additional machine specific packages either during install or post install would be better for many of us. Again, I think your idea is good, but it should be on the menu, not the menu if you know what I mean.

Italian language support!
Great distro anyway, thanks!

I’d definitely look for support for the new class of ultraportable cheap notebooks. I myself am using the HP Mini-note which has trouble with drivers when it comes to GOS (uses a Via processor, video card, and network card). There is Minbuntu which is a Ubuntu distro that supports the Mininote, but I’d like a GOS version that does too. Just adding a few more drivers would do wonders.

Finally adding gOS 3.0 to WuBi would be great as gOS is one of the more attractive OS’s available.

I really love gOS, I tried Rocket first and it didnt support Japanese language by the default. (Space supported but my laptop was too weak for it) I think this distro would be the best if supports all world languages.

A working google toolbar with FF3

A new nautilus Interface integrating things like PICLENS interface for all kind of files, a kind of linux quick look. With 3d movement. just hae a look at piclens.com you’ll see what I mean. that would be really great.

I use the Rocket E (Enlightenment) as a persistent Live CD off a 4 GB USB drive. I was even able to get Lotus Notes installed and I also store all my secure data on a TrueCrypt volume. I am taking my GOS live USB stick on vacation this summer. When I get to various relative’s homes I will have my Lotus Notes, a few games for the kids (Gcompris and KidsPlay), my best MP3s, and a movie or two i ripped with ACID. Just boot what ever computer they happen to have with my GOS Live USB stick and I am set to work, play, and show off a little. THANKS GOS!