Jan 13 2008
gOS debuts newest version of its Linux OS, gOS Rocket on the Everex CloudBook at Lunch@Piero’s during CES 2008
gOS stirred up excitement at Lunch@Piero’s during CES 2008 as the new open source startup dedicated to taking open source mainstream. Its new alternative operating system, called gOS, is based on Linux, designed to fit the modern consumer, and focuses on cloud computing, aggregating and making Google- and web-based applications easily accessible. In November 2007, gOS launched a $199 desktop, the gPC into Wal-Mart with Everex. In the first two weeks, the Everex gPC sold out of Walmart, and tens of thousands of developers downloaded gOS or purchased the gOS developer kit that sold through ClubIT.com. gOS 2.0 launches with Google Gears, an improved user interface, and new applications for users and developers to download on January 7, 2008, and with a second wave of hardware products for consumers in early 2008. At Lunch@Piero’s, gOS debuted its newest operating system gOS Rocket on the Cloudbook, an ultra mobile notebook; gOS also showed the gBooth and gCam, a web and Linux friendly photo booth and webcam, examples of gOS efforts to bring open source peripherals to consumer markets.
