Jolicloud 1.0
MRP:
NA
Digit Rating: Excellent
4.5/5
NA
Features:
NA
Performance:
NA
Value:
NA
Design:
PROS
- Easy to use pleasant interface
- Supports both native and web applications
- Good selection of applications in directory
- Integrated social features
CONS
- Application synchronization is not very flexible
- Applications from third-party sources cannot be added to the main menu
Summary
Jolicloud is a Linux distro which manages ease of use, without sacrificing on features and flexibility. It introduces a new social way to discover and install applications which works very well. This distro is a must-try for any netbook owner.
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When we first looked at Jolicloud, it was a very different OS; even in its preliminary beta stage, it was a powerful contender as a cloud Linux distribution, and in the time that has elapsed since, it has only improved.
Jolicloud in its final release is currently only available to those brave souls who have been there since its initial beta release phase; luckily I was one of them. Any of you who decided to try out Jolicloud back then are probably eligible for an upgrade to 1.0.
The first version of Jolicloud brought with it the simplified installation process for both web-apps and native apps, and the pre-final version made a switch -- from Firefox as the default browser, and Mozilla Prism for creating web-apps -- to Google Chromium and Chromium for web apps as well. Being a Firefox fan, I was perhaps a little upset by this move, but seeing that Firefox is still available as a browser, and the fact that it pretty much doesn’t matter what is used to run web-apps since there is no browser-chrome involved, this move suits the distro well.
Even the Jolicloud home interface is built on Chromium
In this final release we see a huge face-lift, the Ubuntu-netbook-like interface has been abandoned in favour of an improved interface based entirely on HTML5. This only affects the main screen though, as the task-bar / title-bar combination panel remains.
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