On January 7, 2008, gOS released the beta version of Space – their latest iteration of gOS. It’s different for sure. It’s like OS X with an added bit of fun. gOS Space is truly a social network fan’s dream come true. But what exactly makes this operating system special? Let’s take a look at some of the bits that cause Space to stand out.
OSX-Like Operating System Without the Apple
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he’s obviously never used osx if he thinks adding a dock which can open folders in a fan-view to a linux-distribution makes it an osx-like operating system. that’s just superflous eye candy.
Agreed. An “OSX-like” open source OS should be based on GNUStep, for starters.
Except, OpenStep is like visiting 1990 again. I just tried the OpenStep live CD this morning and it was painful.
Downloading this now, but I imagine it’s not going to magically have great apps to go along with it.
A lot of people like minimalistic interfaces with pretty much no eye-candy. “Functional” is nice
granted, GS doesn’t have the greatest of apps…
You’re making the same assumption as the original article writer: that being like OSX is purely a visual quality.
At its heart, OSX *is* NextStep, just with a prettier GUI. In fact, the core objects in the Cocoa API are still named NS*.
… FTW!
gah, I can’t wait till myspace dies.
Although I’m tempted to say Linux for the vacuous can’t see that catching on. I think its a good thing to play with the appearance add a doc and try to make a cool Linux for the web generation.
With maybe a passing resemblance to OSX.
Me neither. What a horrible site. Facebook was nice and clean but it is starting to get cluttered with “apps”.
Either way, I’m getting pretty sick and tired of having to upload pictures on flickr, myspace, and facebook so that all of my friends can see them. Facebook is really nice since it lets others tag your photos which can be tedious.
Either way…someone needs to abstract all of this crap and make the sites obsolete. I should be able to post a picture to one site and have it create the appropriate albums on whatever social sites I use. I should be able to reply to people’s “walls” or people’s messages through a single abstraction and not care whether it is on myspace, or facebook, or whatever. I’m just getting tired of it all.
yeah, that would be nice.
I use flickr but lately I’ve started using picasa. Facebook was OK as far as “social networking” sites go. I just can never see the point in them. The only one that seems of any value to me is LinkedIn.
I work at a public library and it amazes me how people come in and spend their entire allotted two hours on MySpace doing… nothing. Day in and day out.
*shakes head*
There are people working on that. Or atleast making it easier to manage _your_ information.
http://www.dataportability.org/“