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gOS or “Good OS” is an operating system based on Ubuntu. What makes gOS special is it’s “mac” like look and feel, out of the box support for google apps like Gmail, Google Docs, Picasa, Youtube etc through a special mozilla application called prism. gOS also provides skype, wine in the default installation. Since gOS is based on Ubuntu, ubuntu users will feel right at home when using gOS. All these facts prompted me to go after gOS. With VirtualBox in hand, installing operating systems is just like installing firefox or 7zip. It’ so easy. Previously I use to shy away from trying linux, but now, I never miss to install my favourite linux distros in my windows xp machine. Thanks VirtualBox. Having tried many versions of Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSuse and PCLinuxOS, I thought of trying Solaris, but it was never easy. I ordered a free Solaris DVD from Sun but it would never install inside VirtualBox. I always viewed Solaris as something very complex to setup and needs extensive knowledge about it. My experience of installing it on VirtualBox reinforced it. I kept trying few times and eventually gave up. But this is history now. As Sun took over VirtualBox from innotek, I hope the first thing they did was to provide excellent support for Solaris in it. Recently as I was pondering the VirtualBox website, I saw that they are providing good integration with Solaris in their latest version. What do you think I would have done…? You are right. I straightaway dowloaded the latest version of VirtualBox along with OpenSolaris. (OpenSolaris iso image was only 686MB). What happened next was simply stunning… Ever had these questions in your mind..? - You are a windows user but want to try linux - You are interested in trying linux but don’t want to ditch windows either - You want linux and windows in your machine without disturbing each other - You are afraid of installing linux as it might make your machine unusable or might destroy your data If your answer is “yes”, read further… I managed to install the VirtualBox guest additions for ubuntu without any problem. And as a result, I get some excellent features like “seamless mouse integration”, shared folder access etc, between my host (windows xp) and guest (ubuntu). But when I tried to do the same for OpenSuse, I got into problem. I couldn’t run the VBoxLinuxAdditions.run . . . → Read More: Installing VirtualBox guest additions in OpenSuse Oops…finally i managed to configure my ubuntu screen resolution to the fullest. I have a Dell Vostro 1400 laptop with Windows xp professional. Ubuntu runs on my machine on top of VirtualBox. But I never enjoyed working with ubuntu, since all i was able to view the ubuntu desktop at the resolution “800×600″ only. After searching through the web, . . . → Read More: Increasing the screen resolution of Ubuntu-7.10 on VirtualBox Working on ubuntu running on top of Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 started giving me lot of problems. Some of them are: |
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