"Earlier this week Everex launched the gPC TC2502, which is a sub-USD 200 PC sold at a major US retailer, but what makes this unique is that it runs the gOS. The gOS (GreenOS) is designed to be a conceptual Google Operating System that is based upon Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon. Though this is not the conventional GNOME desktop environment but an Enlightenment E17 desktop is used that is heavily modified and reflects a green Google theme. The gOS provides easy access to Google services such as YouTube, Google Product Search, Google Calendar, and Google Maps. Also a click away are other web services such as Wikipedia and Facebook. This isn't a pure Internet desktop but Xine, Skype, OpenOffice.org, and other applications are available for this Linux LiveCD. We've been trying the gOS out for a while and it's a rather nice slim desktop Linux distribution that would be perfect for Internet cafes and other public places." More screenshots.
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Sorry but noone that recommends Visual Basic could be taken seriously 
I'm afraid you might want to get yourself a job ;-) and look around at what an awful lot of companies are using to develop software with. There is an absolute ton of classical VB around (hence the uproar when Microsoft basically abandoned it), and no one is moving wholesale to VB.Net any time soon (VB.Net is useless anyway because it gives up what made VB actually useful - simplicity without the esoteric parts of OO programming). It's fashionable to make snide remarks about VB, but they're usually made by people who haven't used it, don't know how to use it and are somewhat cut off from reality. An awful lot of organisations use VB and various components to integrate applications with their office suites, create spreadsheet output etc. etc.
.net - sure, they have a point, as does Java. I would prefer the latter using RCP.
It's impossible for anyone who recommends Java and RCP to be taken seriously. It's still a very long way from being a straightforward RAD environment for anyone to use - and it doesn't have Open Office plug-in components or anything rich that's ready to use. You get that from Microsoft.
That's somewhat off-topic though.
The issue still stands. Whatever you use, there are components available within Windows, and Office also, that bind everything together in an integrated way. When you change your theme and colours in Windows the changes are instantaneous, and no one has to make excuses such as different toolkits being used as to why it doesn't happen.
Whining about this won't make a difference. This gOS is the latest in a long line of alternative desktops over the past seven or eight years that offers nothing new at all.
Edited 2007-11-05 20:19
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2005-07-06
Enlighten us ol' wise one.
Sadly, I'm going to tell you to have a look at Windows. Look at how you can program within Windows in an environment such as Visual Basic and start reusing elements of the office suite and desktop in your own applications. Look at how various elements of the desktop and MS Office are available via APIs to each other, and how both use as much as possible and can be used by others. Can you do that with gOS? No, you can't.
On a far simpler level, I doubt that when you change the theme or colours on this gOS desktop environment (if you even can) that the theme and colours of Open Office or any other application would change as well.
It's called integration, and few get it. You don't have to particularly wise to get this at all ;-).