The gOS is out on cd

I'm now running the gOS they finally shrank it down under 700 megs so you can put it on cd, now m not going to spew a lot of blah blah because I just started to use it this morning. I haven't even loaded it into my desk top yet. But my first impression is: This is going to certainly could compete in the mass market, the only trouble I have is when you change the desk top around you can loose your way in the shuffle, if they put a default button for the settings to bring it to the as is in the opening screen that would be great.

you can get it from of course a link in distro watch (excellent linux site)

New Skype For Linux wohooo

One of the things I had to give up when i made the move to linux is the video confrencing with my father now Skype is offering a new version of Skype which will allow some cams to work with skype again. Although this is new and with that comes the same old warning. I installed it today running mandriva very cool ... so I guess Ill be seeing you (literally)