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In 2002 NewDeal sold GEOS to a company known as Breadbox Computer Company LLC, which then took it and rebranded it as Breadbox Ensemble.
The "Ensemble" part came from the old GeoWorks Ensemble (i.e. GeoWorks with the bundled Office suite). The Office suite is of course bundled here.
In addition to the commercially available versions (that were allegedly only sold to educational clients but also alledgedly could be purchased from various third parties), there was a freely downloadable "Ensemble Lite" version that lacked all the applications and the internet connectivity stuff.
Of course Breadbox is long since defunct now, and 4.1.3 is the last release they ever marketed, back in 2009. Imagine that, it lasted all the way up to the release of Windows 7!
Apparently a company (or individual) going by the name of Blueway Softworks bought out the rights to GEOS and open-sourced it. It doesn't appear that anyone has actually taken it upon themselves to craft a new release though.

This is the Breadbox Ensemble installer, which is basically the same as with previous versions.

The Breadbox Ensemble splash screen.

Here is the default desktop. As you can see, even in 2009 this still looks like Windows 95. It even performs well on positively ancient computers.
Visually similar to NDO 3.2, however title bars now have gradients, there are some new themes, there are 256-colour icons, and a few new applications.

The "Express" menu now has program groups.

There is also now a screensaver. |