jolicloud – another Linux for Netbooks

“No sooner had I written my blurb on Netbook Linux than I came
across another alternative, Jolicloud. I had a quick look at their
web page, it makes a good first impression, and the descriptions on
it sound promising, so I decided to give it a try (things seldom
get boring around here). So, after about an hour of work, I had
this on my ASUS N10J netbook:

“It doesn’t take much looking at that image, or browsing of
their web site, before you realize that Jolicloud is a derivative
of the Ubuntu Netbook Remix. That has good and bad aspects – good,
because you could hardly choose a better, and more stable, base to
build on; bad, because it has all of the hardware restrictions and
requirements inherent in UNR, particularly for advanced graphic
(3D/GL) support, which means that it works quite well on Intel
Atom-based netbooks with Intel 945/950 chipsets, but for most
AMD/ATI/nVidia-based netbooks you have to be willing and able to
download and install proprietary graphic drivers to make it
usable”

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