I just received the best New Years gift! A perfect stranger took the time to write a comprehensive Thank You and comment on one of my gOS tutorials.

I remember my first days in Linux, I was completely lost, asking millions of questions, feeling like an idiot most of the time and wondering if I’d ever catch on?

The tables have turned a little, and I gotta say, it feels great to be able to help someone else!

I’m one happy LinuxChick tonight, Thank you Todd.

The Firefox Web browser community has created thousands of wonderful extensions that make surfing and working with the Internet fun and productive. While many extensions are homes runs, here are a few that just don’t make it out of the ballpark.

This is a good one to end the year on,Baldy

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Yes it is that time of the year and as we look back at the year that was we just shake our heads and say it has to be better this year. As the new year draws near don’t forget that the Chinese have been doing this a lot longer than we westerners and this going to be the Year of the Rat, so buy a rat this year it will bring you luck for the entire year. If a rat is not in your cup of tea just try to have a safe and happy holiday and decide how you can help to change the situation that the world is in now. It only takes one person to start a trend don’t forget that. I also have to say a special thank you to LinuxChick for the help she has given me this year not to mention the happiness she has supplied me. So a big kiss and hug for her. And another thank you goes out to you the visitor, whom without this site and the others that I maintain would be useless. So thank you and I hope to see you all next year.

Baldy

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The Australian Government has announced that they will be joining China as one of the few countries globally that broadly censor the internet

Yikes! Seems the AU Government is going all out when it comes to “protecting it’s citizens”

Source: Tech Crunch

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Microsoft has taken its marketing push for Windows Vista and Windows Live into enemy territory by offering demonstration videos on YouTube. The new channel was launched December 21.

I guess the old saying stand true: “If you can’t beat ‘em or in Microsoft’s case Buy ‘em, Join ‘em!!

Source: TEch Crunch

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Howto Edit the Favorites Menu in gOS

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Howto Install XChat in gOS

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I’ve been running gOS via VMware for a couple days now and I’m sad to say, “I’m not overly impressed”. Some of the issues I’ve found so far are discussed below.

For someone that’s used several different Linux distro’s over the last 4 years, getting around, fixing problems and general setup wasn’t to hard. That being said, 90% of the people using gOS are NOT that familiar with Linux, these of course, are the people having trouble!

The so called “Support” is basically a joke. They promote it as “People helping People” But, other than a few people who really know what they’re talking about, it’s really just a big group of new users, lost and floundering around in Linux. Don’t get me wrong, I applaud all those that are jumping in and helping out where they can. My problems is that this “Support” should have been thought out a bit more. Did the developers really think the average user, most only familiar with Windows, would be able to turn on their new gOS machine and have no problems. I feel sorry for these people, I remember what it was like to try to do anything in Linux when I started, it’s overwhelming to say the least!

The Faqly design seems unorganized and messy, it’s hard to navigate, a basic message board setup would have been much easier to work with, search in and post to.

There should have been more time spend on doing up some documenation, a wiki, something! It’s slim pickings to find anything in the way of help online at all.

As for the OS it’s self, enlightenment makes for a pretty nice looking desktop, or Mac ripoff as it could also be described, but it would not have been my choice for a distribution marketed towareds new users. KDE or Gnome would have been easier and felt much more familiar to someone that’s only ever seen a Windows desktop.

Package management is also another issue I have. Usually with Linux it’s a problem with lack of package management, but with gOS it’s a case of OVERKILL! It would have been so much simpler to have only ONE application looking after adding and removing programs, searching and installing updates etc. It’s very confusing for new users to have 3 or 4 different programs that do the exact same thing. Synaptic is a great piece of software, why not just use it?

Also concerning package management, there should have been a big notice, the very first time gOS boots up, warning users that they won’t be able to download and install Windows software or use their old software on their new computer. How hard would it have been to explain this? There is a link on the desktop called “About gOS” that would have been the perfect place to tell users this important piece of information!

Now, not to completely rip gOS apart, there are things I do like, even in a VMware install, it runs remarkably fast, that was a nice surprise.

In conclusion, I’m not saying gOS couldn’t be a good operating system, but it needs a lot of work in several areas. The main one being support!

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Howto Install KDE in gOS

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Here’s a great link for gOS. It’s a step by step of the install and setup procedure over at howtoforge.

We can thank Raven for this link, great work!

This tutorial shows how you can set up a gOS 1.0.1 desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop The Perfect Desktop

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