I fancy a change!

[Freston]

The rt2500 chipset shouldn't give you problems, should it?? Even the BSD's support that one out of the box.

[bigtomrodney]

Yeah, I saw that already. I am still curious as to why Google would shut them down?? Wouldn't the distro be like free advertising for Google??

Ah they probably wouldn't. I just meant how a lot of things like this end up with either a buyout or shutdown. Not specifically this case though.

[Chris H]

The rt2500 chipset shouldn't give you problems, should it?? Even the BSD's support that one out of the box.

It's slowly getting better!

Aside from the inherent rate problem which needs to be modified each boot.

[schwim]

Mint rocks. As for wireless, I've had problems with every linux distro I've ever tried to set it up on. I still use Win for traveling because I can't trust linux to work wirelessly when I need it to.

gOS has no affiliation with Google, they just used their apps to flesh out the features of the OS. It's design was for the value priced DE that was going to be offered at Wally world and initially, the developers even stated that the OS would probably perform poorly on hardware other than what the computer they designed it for came with. Then of course, the superstore decided that they couldn't sell one billion of them to Joe flagwaver and dropped the pc from their lineup. That left gOS without their commercial outlet.

[Freston]

It's slowly getting better!

Aside from the inherent rate problem which needs to be modified each boot.

Weird. A good example of 'your mileage may vary'?
I have two machines with that chipset. One (a 450Mhz) works flawlessly, and never caused any problems. The other refuses service all together. The latter is a crappy laptop which causes nothing but problems (overheating, loose space bar, faltering shift key, dying battery) but the wireless woes seem to be IRQ/BIOS related and can probably be fixed.


Anyway, from what I understand is that the driver from Ralink themselves isn't as good as the driver from serialmonkey, although the latter is probably the one your distro shipped with. Anyway, if you are worried about the wireless driver then this may be of interest to you.

[Chris H]

I think I will do a detailed review of these on me blog sometime soon.

But for now,

gOS looks fantastic, probably the best looking distro wouldn be an understatement imo. Just works out of the box, lovely integration of google goodness/badness into a desktop. After that its all downhill!

For my laptop it is just so processor intensive as a standard install. Overheated and shutdown 3 times just updating the repos . Then I broke it trying to get compiz working. Editing xorg.conf was a no go as it is one of them there minimal xorg.conf setups. Then I discovered that using the online google apps means you cannot login to the google toolbar where I keep all my bookmarks Tried to edit the icon dock bar, clicked on refresh and it disappeared, no way to get it back. Beyond the standard install it seems a bit flakey. Big killer was the google groups for gOS where they state they have no plans to upgrade the base from Ubuntu 8.04 to 8.10

After that I gave up.

Dreamlinux was a revelation. Simple install if you know what youŕe doing. Nice implementation of xfce, almost everything working. Was wondering why the fonts were so bad then realised I was using a low resolution. Tried to change it but shafted the display. Simple edit to a real xorg.conf file was all that was needed to get things going again! Works well with my phone as a usb device and rhythmbox syncs nicely with it as an mtp device.

Really, really nice. Is now my main distro on the laptop. A good result methinks.