Comments on: Everex to Launch gOS 2.0 and New Products http://www.linuxloop.com/news/2008/01/04/everex-to-launch-gos-20-and-new-products/ Keeping you in the loop with up-to-date Linux news. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:51:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Wonderbird http://www.linuxloop.com/news/2008/01/04/everex-to-launch-gos-20-and-new-products/comment-page-1/#comment-8912 Wonderbird Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:25:21 +0000 http://www.linuxloop.com/news/2008/01/04/everex-to-launch-gos-20-and-new-products/#comment-8912 I got one of these $379 Everex gBook computers... Great value!! I did not really mind gOS but I loaded Ubuntu 8.04 on it the day I got it (and updated the xorg.conf file to force 1440x900 resolution) I love the 15.4" high resolution display. I ordered 2Gig of DDR2 PC4200/533Mhz RAM for just under $50 which should be in soon... The 667Mhz speed listed above is wrong... I popped off most of the keys and repositioned them to take advantage of the DVORAK keyboard layout. To finally get a mass-market laptop without the Microsoft Tax that plays nice with Linux is great... The $379 price I got it for was also a no brainer. The 1.5Ghz VIA processor runs cool and you can actually use it resting on your lap for extended periods... Wireless configuration using both gOS and Ubuntu 8.04 was flawless... (Downloading Ubuntu 8.04 iso and burning it using the built in optical drive and then reinstalling from it was one of the first things I did...) I strongly recommend this to anyone who wants a no-frills Linux based laptop. (Grab one before they are gone...) I got one of these $379 Everex gBook computers… Great value!!

I did not really mind gOS but I loaded Ubuntu 8.04 on it the day I got it (and updated the xorg.conf file to force 1440×900 resolution) I love the 15.4″ high resolution display. I ordered 2Gig of DDR2 PC4200/533Mhz RAM for just under $50 which should be in soon… The 667Mhz speed listed above is wrong…

I popped off most of the keys and repositioned them to take advantage of the DVORAK keyboard layout. To finally get a mass-market laptop without the Microsoft Tax that plays nice with Linux is great…

The $379 price I got it for was also a no brainer. The 1.5Ghz VIA processor runs cool and you can actually use it resting on your lap for extended periods…

Wireless configuration using both gOS and Ubuntu 8.04 was flawless… (Downloading Ubuntu 8.04 iso and burning it using the built in optical drive and then reinstalling from it was one of the first things I did…)

I strongly recommend this to anyone who wants a no-frills Linux based laptop. (Grab one before they are gone…)

]]> By: Linux News from Linux Loop » Blog Archive » gOS for the Cloudbook to use GNOME http://www.linuxloop.com/news/2008/01/04/everex-to-launch-gos-20-and-new-products/comment-page-1/#comment-1435 Linux News from Linux Loop » Blog Archive » gOS for the Cloudbook to use GNOME Sun, 10 Feb 2008 23:10:28 +0000 http://www.linuxloop.com/news/2008/01/04/everex-to-launch-gos-20-and-new-products/#comment-1435 [...] gOS first came out on the gPC, it was criticized heavily. At CES, Everex released gOS 2.0, which I hoped would solve some of the problems people had had with the original gOS. I don’t [...] [...] gOS first came out on the gPC, it was criticized heavily. At CES, Everex released gOS 2.0, which I hoped would solve some of the problems people had had with the original gOS. I don’t [...]

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