Everex Cloudbook to Ship with Improved gOS - GNOME to Replace Enlightenment
by atticus ~ February 13, 2008
Earl Malmrose, the CTO of ZaReason, informed CLICK during the sixth annual Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE 6X) that the gOS version on Everex Cloudbook is going to use GNOME instead of Enlightenment.
Here is what ZaReason has to say about it:
The short and simple explanation is that gOS was using Enlightenment. They worked as hard as they could within that environment, but in the final analysis, they needed more so they switched to GNOME.
What does this mean for you? Your Cloudbook will be more solid than ever, justifying the two phrases: “It’s worth the wait” and “good things come in small packages.”
Well, this probably explains the postponement of Everex Cloudbook’s availability from 25 January 2008 to 15 February 2008.
What do you think of the switch from Enlightenment to GNOME? Or are you going to install Windows either way? Personally, I will give gOS a try, if it does not suit me, I might just run Windows XP.
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February 13th, 2008 at 1:56 am
I’ll give gOS a try, and if it doesn’t work out I’ll switch to standard Ubuntu. I might have a XP partition on the device, but have not yet acquired the license for it (and I don’t run improperly licensed stuff). Most of the stuff I want to use the Cloudbook for actually requires Linux - go figure ;-)
I did a quick test of the standard gOS on my blog, and my biggest problem was that I was not used to the enlightenment window manager, so I think switching to Gnome was a good idea.
February 13th, 2008 at 4:52 am
I haven’t been keeping up with linux for quite some time. What’s this Enlightenment? I’ve only heard of KDE and GNOME. I’ll just switch to Windows. Cloudbook with Windows license is still cheaper than the Windows Nanobooks you can find in the market!
February 13th, 2008 at 5:08 pm
enlightenment is a windows manager. There’s a few dozen windows managers available for linux. KDE and Gnome are desktop environments. If they’re trying to get people from the windows world I’m not surprised they’re modifying it to run gnome instead of enlightenment. You get a lot more features using a DE, however you also get the added bloat and slowdowns. I’d rather run a basic WM like iceWM or fluxbox than gnome/kde on a pc of this size and power. I wonder if they’ll have an option to run enlightenment instead.
March 25th, 2008 at 11:38 pm
The thing about Enlightenment is that the DR17 release has been in the beta phase for what seems like a decade, and Enlightenment DR17 has some bugs that affects its usefulness. However, if somebody borks the GNOME-based gOS install on their Cloudbook, they have to send it back to Everex because the Cloudbook doesn’t come with a recovery disk. Easiest solution to that is to get a USB CD/DVD burner, install a program called Remastersys on the GNOME-based gOS (you need Remastersys 2.0.2 from linuxmint dot com slash repository), run “sudo remastersys backup gos-gnome-backup.iso”, and burn the ISO image (located in /home/remastersys) to a CD or DVD (CD if under 700 MB, DVD if over 700 MB).
March 25th, 2008 at 11:38 pm
BTW, and this is coming from the guy who released gOS 2.0 Ultimate Edition. lol