Today’s tip of the day comes from UbuntuGeek’s How to Install gOS on Ubuntu:
Would you like to buy me a beer?The gOS distribution is based on the Ubuntu 7.10 distribution. It uses the Enlightenment 17 window manager instead of the usual GNOME or KDE desktops, allowing for lower memory and speed requirements. Therefore gOS starts to work reasonably well on systems as low end as a 1GHz Pentium III with 256MB RAM. Due to the fact it leans heavy on on-line applications built on Web 2.0 and AJAX technology it also does not use much hard disk space for applications, the whole system fits comfortably in less than 2 GB of hard disk space.
Open your sources.list file add the gOS Repositories
For Ubuntu Users
gksu gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
For Kubuntu Users
kdesu kate /etc/apt/sources.list
For Xubuntu Users
gksu mousepad /etc/apt/sources.list
Enter these lines
# gOS Repositories
deb http://packages.thinkgos.com/gos/ painful main
deb-src http://packages.thinkgos.com/gos/ painful mainImport the key
wget http://www.thinkgos.com/files/gos_repo_key.asc
sudo apt-key add gos_repo_key.asc
rm gos_repo_key.asc
sudo aptitude update
Install gOS on Ubuntu
sudo aptitude install greenos-desktop xorg
Remove gOS on Ubuntu
The following will then remove the entire Environment for you.
sudo aptitude remove greenos-desktop
The Environment will be available from the Sessions menu
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