Jolicloud The Free OS For Netbooks

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Hands-on with an alpha of the Jolicloud netbook distro

Jolicloud is a Linux-based netbook OS that is built on top of Canonical's Ubuntu Netbook Remix. It uses Mozilla's Prism environment to make Web applications accessible outside of the browser.

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Preview of Jolicloud: The social Netbook OS

How it works

Jolicloud centers on a directory of applications that can be sorted by genre, release date, and popularity. To download or remove them from your computer, you just click on their icon and it does the rest. Jolicloud groups both Web apps and software programs under the same name umbrella, and both are added and removed from your system in the same manner. There's also a normal add and remove programs tool just like you get in Windows, but it's easier to do it from Jolicloud's rounded and simplistic interface.

To install or uninstall "applications" you can head to Jolicloud's online directory.

One of the big draws to Jolicloud is that it takes this list of apps you have installed and backs it up. If you have multiple computers running Jolicloud that share the same account, it syncs up those apps, including any log-ins or shared data. This puts less of an importance on what hardware you're using, meaning you can hop from machine to machine and get right back to what you were doing on the other.

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Welcome to Jolicloud, a cool new OS for your netbook

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Super Easy To Manage

A Social OS

Super Easy To Update

Open To Popular Standards

Optimized For Web Applications

Runs Linux, AIR and Windows applications

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Jolicloud Open O/S for Netbooks

http://www.netbooknews.com - Sascha Pallenberg does a full walk through of the Robby Alpha Release of Jolicloud, a new cloud O/S for Netbooks

Sources:

1. Hands-on with an alpha of the Jolicloud netbook distro - Ars Technica
2. Preview of Jolicloud: The social Netbook OS | Web Crawler - CNET News
3. Jolicloud, a cool new OS for your netbook
4. YouTube - Jolicloud Open O/S for Netbooks

Related:

1. Jolicloud beta gets a thorough going over, Microsoft still not worried
2. Jolicloud The Free OS For Netbooks Ready For Prime Time?

SLAX Linux -- Pocket Operating System

clipped from www.slax.org Slax - your pocket operating system Slax is a modern, portable, small and fast Linux operating system with a modular approach and outstanding design. Despite its small size, Slax provides a wide collection of pre-installed software for daily use, including a well organized graphical user interface and useful recovery tools for system administrators. clipped from www.slax.org Key features Slax 6 is small Slax 6 is portable Slax 6 is feature rich Slax 6 is multilingual clipped from www.dedoimedo.com SLAX Linux - Your pocket operating system - Review SLAX is a small, live Linux distro, based on Slackware. It aims to be light, friendly and useful. It's meant to fit onto antique USB thumb drives and run well on old hardware. And it features the sexy KDE desktop. Plus there's a revolutionary modules management. This fine list of features made it a worthy candidate for testing. The version chosen for this review was 6.0.9. Applications Modules clipped from www.youtube.com Slax FAQ: Installing Slax on USB Flash Drive clipped from www.youtube.com Slax Presentation

Sources:

1. Slax: your pocket operating system
2. Slax: documentation key features
3. SLAX Linux - Your pocket operating system - Review
4. YouTube - Slax FAQ: Installing Slax on USB Flash Drive
5. YouTube - Slax Presentation

Google's Open-Source Chrome OS

Clipped from: Google joins battle with Microsoft with Chrome operating system - Times Online

Google joins battle with Microsoft with Chrome operating system

Google Chrome OS is a development of its “Chrome” web browser. The search giant initially aims to put the new system on small low-cost computers known as “netbooks”, which have been selling better than more powerful PCs. Google said that it believed the software will eventually be used on PCs as well.

Clipped from: Official Google Blog: Introducing the Google Chrome OS

[...] today, we're announcing a new project that's a natural extension of Google Chrome — the Google Chrome Operating System. It's our attempt to re-think what operating systems should be.

Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010. Because we're already talking to partners about the project, and we'll soon be working with the open source community, we wanted to share our vision now so everyone understands what we are trying to achieve.
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Google Chrome OS will run on both x86 as well as ARM chips and we are working with multiple OEMs to bring a number of netbooks to market next year. The software architecture is simple — Google Chrome running within a new windowing system on top of a Linux kernel. For application developers, the web is the platform. All web-based applications will automatically work and new applications can be written using your favorite web technologies. And of course, these apps will run not only on Google Chrome OS, but on any standards-based browser on Windows, Mac and Linux thereby giving developers the largest user base of any platform.

Clipped from: Google Drops A Nuclear Bomb On Microsoft. And It’s Made of Chrome.

Google Drops A Nuclear Bomb On Microsoft. And It’s Made of Chrome.

[...] This is Google dropping the mother of bombs on its chief rival, Microsoft. It even says as much in the first paragraph of its post, “However, the operating systems that browsers run on were designed in an era where there was no web.” Yeah, who do you think they mean by that?
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What Google is doing is not recreating a new kind of OS, they’re creating the best way to not need one at all.

So why release this new OS instead of using Android? After all, it has already been successfully ported to netbooks. Google admits that there is some overlap there. But a key difference they don’t mention is the ability to run on the x86 architecture.

Clipped from: Gizmodo - Google Chrome OS for PCs: Look Out Windows and OS X - Google Chrome OS

Google Chrome OS for PCs: Look Out Windows and OS X

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Still, Windows and OSX will always have a spacious home in the computer world, undoubtedly. Some apps will always require native architecture, and the businessmen, code-monkeys, graphic designers, video editors and other connoisseurs of nuanced computing would be foolhardy to try and work strictly in the cloud.

But the final hurdle for Google to overcome is easy, accessible online storage. Will they be able to go after Amazon's S3 cloud servers? And perhaps more importantly, will they be able to offer the service for free? If they can let us really extend our hard drives into the cloud, look out. Chrome OS will be a force to be reckoned with.

Sources:

1. Google joins battle with Microsoft with Chrome operating system - Times Online
2. Official Google Blog: Introducing the Google Chrome OS
3. Google Drops A Nuclear Bomb On Microsoft. And It’s Made of Chrome.
4. Gizmodo - Google Chrome OS for PCs: Look Out Windows and OS X - Google Chrome OS

Related:

1. Google Announces Chrome OS - PC World
2. Meet Chrome, Google’s Windows Killer
3. Sources: Google OS lives (and it's coming to a netbook near you) - Ars Technica

5 Desktop Operating Systems

clipped from itbusinessedge.newsvine.com 5 of the best desktop operating systems you never used Blogger John Sheesley discusses five lesser-used operating systems that provide nice alternatives to Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. Sheesley says OS/2, NeXT, BeOS, DESQview and GEOS are overlooked, underrated and have been crushed by the big guys. clipped from blogs.techrepublic.com.com OS/2 NeXT BeOS DESQview GEOS / GeoWorks So there you have 5 of the best operating systems you probably never used. Each introduced innovations that we still use today, as well as some we’re still trying to catch up with even though the programs debuted in the 20th century. In each case, they were overlooked, underrated, and ultimately crushed by the Microsoft steamroller. There are plenty of OSes I left off the list: CP/M, TRS-DOS, LDOS, DR-DOS and others (which I encourage you to remind me of.) We’ll try to cover those in the future as well.