gOS or Good OS is become the new competitor for operating system of Mac OS, Windows,  Ubuntu or other linux OS family. Since founded by David Liu and  gOS 3.0 final release launched on September 2008, its now favorite among newbie linux users (like me). gOS is very simple and light, the new gOS Gadget featured with Google Gadget, you can add and remove google gadget on your desktop easily.

I was remembered on 2004 when the first time install Mandriva/Mandrake on my PC, but I didn’t to much use it. As new comer on linux user again, I feel gOS very easy to operate, as clean interface as  Ubuntu if you disable the gadget on your gOS desktop.

gOS/Good OS based on the Ubuntu 8.04 distribution and gOS 3.0 Gadgets uses the GNOME desktop. Is gOS claimed a Google OS ? take a look on ThinkgOS about page. See, the board advisors are dominated by former of Google employees.

Andrea Zurek - Former Regional Sales Manager at Google, founding partner at XG Ventures and on Board of Directors at Sand Hill Angels
David Lee - Former director of Asia Pacific at Google, hired as the first international executive
Greg Lee - Former product marketing at Google
Tariq Krim - Founder and former CEO of NetVibes
Jim Zemlin - Executive Director of the Linux Foundation
Pierre Wolff - Founder and CEO of AdPassage, former executive at Inktomi, Tribe, and other Internet companies

The first top three, are the ex-googlers and part of XG-Ventures team

Watch explain gOS 3.0 Gadget

Forget about Good OS story above, time to install it and custom it. Here are 20 places may useful for gOS beginners

1. Step by Step Installing gOS 3.0 Gadgets
2. gOS Notebook Launcher
3. A video tour of gOS Gadgets 3 (beta)
4. Google Chrome Browser on gOS Gadgets with Wine
5. Tutorial: Run gOS from a USB Stick
6. gOS Install from Ubuntu onto Pendrive
7. gOS Cloud demonstration (video)
8. 10 Steps to Install gOS on EeePC
9. Howto install gOS on Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu
10. USB gOS install from Windows
11. The Unofficial gOS Forums
12 .How to run DOS programs on gOS
13. Running gOS 3.0 Beta from USB stick
14. gOS Wiki
15. gOS 3.0 Theme 1.0 (GTK 2.x Theme/Style)
16. gOS: How to Enable Automatic Login
17. 4 steps to install Good OS or gOS on Your EeePC 701 4G
18. gOS Theme 1.0: Free Download
19. gOS 3.0 Theme
20. gOS: Customize Your IBar

and here is my gOS desktop screenshot on my Dell XPS after the theme and wallpaper were changed