gOS 3 Gadgets is designed to help PC OEMs make more affordable, consumer friendly NetBooks and NetTops using an open source, small application platform called Google Gadgets for Linux.

gOS 3 Gadgets features a new, more stable release of Google Gadgets for Linux, giving users access to over 100,000 Google and iGoogle Gadgets that decorate the desktop with live, personalized Internet content, such as news, stocks, weather, Google calendar, Flickr photos, YouTube videos and more.

gOS 3 Gadgets also features a beautiful user interface with big icons that launch Google applications in Mozilla Prism, a special browser that makes web applications feel more like desktop applications. gOS 3 Gadgets final release is available for download.

gOS 3 Gadgets will also preload WINE, LXDE, and other Google software for Linux. gOS 3 Gadgets includes LXDE (Lightweight X Desktop Environment) applications in the renewed effort to develop a more lightweight desktop, the company said.

Good OS completed the final version after a seven-week beta period of testing, improvement and customer feedback. During this time, gOS 3 Gadgets BETA became the first commercial distribution to pre-load Google Gadgets for Linux, reached the second highest place on DistroWatch at one point, and achieved more than 100,000 downloads. The Register called gOS 3 Gadgets BETA a “Mac-like Linux that serves the Windows crowd.”

Founded in 2007 and based in the Silicon Valley and Taipei, Good OS is a new startup dedicated to bringing Linux mainstream and building cloud computers. In November 2007, gOS debuted in the $199 Everex gPC at Wal-Mart stores nationwide and online. In the first two weeks, the Everex gPC (a computer that works With Google, not Microsoft) sold out of Wal-Mart. Later, gOS was featured in the Everex CloudBook, the first NetBook to launch after the Asus Eeepc.