Comparing Netbook Desktops - Part 3, Jolicloud
Third in the sequence of Linux netbook desktops I am going to compare is Jolicloud. Doing this comparison might be a bit unfair right now, because the next release of Jolicloud, 1.1, is due out literally "any day now", there have been several posts about it in The Jolicloud Blog. But I have had Jolicloud 1.0 installed for some time now, and I think it stands up to the comparison with the others pretty well, so I'm going ahead with it. Besides, it's easy to get into a never-ending wait cycle with Linux distributions, because there is always a new release of something or another coming "real soon now".
Jolicloud 1.0 was derived from the Ubuntu Netbook Remix 9.04 (that was before it was re-christened as an "Edition" rather than a "Remix"), with some (but not all) packages updated to the Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.04. That inheratance is important for this comparison, because some important parts of the desktop and user interface still work the "old" Ubuntu Netbook way, rather than the "new" Unity way. However, the majority of the desktop has been rewritten by Jolicloud in HTML 5, and is completely different from Ubuntu Netbook (both old and new). When you first start Jolicloud, the desktop looks like this:
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