Designed for Netbooks and Nettops

Jan 4, 2009 22:01 GMT  ·  By

ThinkGOS was proud to announce today the immediate availability of gOS Gadgets 3.1, based on Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS (Hardy Heron). gOS Gadgets 3.1 will offer you access to over 100,000 iGoogle and Google gadgets, all with the help of a pre-installed version of the popular Google Gadgets application. Designed for today's Nettops and Netbooks, the gOS Gadgets operating system is the best edition of a Linux distribution to have debuted at Wal-Mart stores less than one year ago.

For advanced users, gOS Gadgets includes Google Mail, Calendar and Documents, which will be launched in Mozilla Prism windows so they can look like real desktop applications. Moreover, it provides the newest version of the Wine software, so you can run dozens of Microsoft Windows programs.

gOS Gadgets 3.1 is the most addictive Linux operating system, based on the popular Ubuntu OS, with a Mac OS X look, and being compatible with thousands of Windows applications.

gOS Gadgets 3.1 features some interesting tools, which will aid users in their daily routines and special tasks alike:

· Wine - a software for running Windows applications under the Linux environment; · Google Gadgets - provides a vast gadgets collection, but it also offers the possibility to install 3rd party widgets; · Mozilla Prism - an application that "extracts" web applications from the browser and runs them as standalone programs; · Firefox 3.0 - the award winning web browser, which offers a more secure, faster and very customizable browsing experience; · Skype - a very popular VoIP communication software and instant messenger.

The minimum requirements for gOS Gadgets 3.1 are:

· 700 MHz x86 processor · 384 MB of RAM · 8 GB of HDD space · Graphics card capable of 1024x768 resolution · Sound card · Internet connection

You can download and test gOS Gadgets 3.1 right now from Softpedia.