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In other words: I like.]]>Jan 25th 2009 3:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/
People complain linux is hard to tinker with (which i would argue is BS but thats besides the point) but thats only on engadget. In all seriousness, the only thing i ever see real noobs do in the way of tinkering is change their wallpaper and very occasionally the colour of the theme in XP.

With Gnome, KDE and XFCE (the 3 most common window managers) both of those things are a point and click case (infact easier than windows even to install new themes specifically gnome). So really the goal is to make a system that people are happy with out of the box. Not just make every single option point and click.]]>Jan 25th 2009 6:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/Jan 25th 2009 7:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/
I'll take a big ol' helping of Win 7, please!]]>Jan 25th 2009 8:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/says it all about UI...]]>Jan 25th 2009 9:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/Jan 25th 2009 2:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/Jan 26th 2009 12:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/Jan 25th 2009 3:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/Jan 25th 2009 5:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/Jan 25th 2009 6:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/Jan 25th 2009 4:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/
I hope that's a serious claim because many netbooks today have over 1 GB of RAM. If this thing will be free and won't require the user to be a rocket scientist (like regular linux), i might consider installing it on mum's PC with 256 MB of RAM. The only think she does with it is looking for recipes on some cooking website.]]>Jan 25th 2009 4:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/Jan 25th 2009 5:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/
As sir John Cleese said on Michael Coogan: "He's a very talented young actor is he? I do wish he has cancer". ]]>Jan 25th 2009 4:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/
John Cleese said that about Steve Coogan.]]>Jan 25th 2009 12:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/Jan 25th 2009 4:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/Jan 25th 2009 5:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/Jan 25th 2009 7:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/
You face looks like OS X you patent offender]]>Jan 25th 2009 9:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/Jan 25th 2009 4:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/
The point is, this is more like a Smartphone OS than a full computer system, which is exactly what Netbooks are becoming, what with Built-in 3G modems and rediculous battery life.

And let's face it; the whole point of the Netbook revolution was a cheap, small, and excessively intuitive mini-computer for children and old people to get online. Then some geeks found out that they were easy and cheap, decided that they wanted, all the big brands decided to release their own versions, Microsoft got in on the act, and Netbooks just became another branch of the ever-increasingly confusing laptop tree.

Let's get back to the roots, I say. Instant-on OS and big, easy to see menus. Something that old people can tout without feeling like idiots for not being able to use it.]]>Jan 25th 2009 4:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/Jan 25th 2009 4:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/
Agree with you 100% ! I really hope Netbooks get back to their roots.
If this Jolicloud, or any other variant were to become a Netbook standard that would be great too.
What's killing the Netbooks with Linux is that each one has its own largely incompatable variant OS. Standardization would be great for the end user. More apps available and it would unite all of the various user support forums making troubleshooting/configuration information much easier to find.]]>Jan 25th 2009 5:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/
I love how the answer to too many incompatible OS's is another OS :P]]>Jan 25th 2009 6:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/
Why? Because people then view it like a regular PC, start shovelling pigware onto it, and then wonder why it won't render a 3D animation for them before suppertime. You're missing the point!

I have an EEE701 with Linux, and I use it everywhere that I WOULDN'T use a regular laptop.
#1, it has to have an SSD - so I can throw it my bag in the back of the car with my surfboards, or toss it in to go camping or backpacking.
#2, it has to have a small screen and be lightweight. see #1
#3, it has to be low power to keep it light and efficient on the juice. I don't want a hot, power-hungry, high performance CPU because I want to charge it in my car, and be able to wake up in the bush miles from power and spend 3-4 hours tapping away over a cuppa 'round the campfire.
#4, it has to be cheap, so I can do all of #1-3 without worrying about how much it'll cost me if I break it.

So to all the idiots loading it up with XP, pushing specs and prices up - buy a bl00dy laptop and stop ruining it for the rest of us!]]>Jan 25th 2009 6:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/Jan 25th 2009 9:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/
When Netbook's were first introduced Linux was a great idea because they ran low cycle CPUs with relatively small amounts of RAM. Unfortunately, the market's moved on and OEMs are shoehorning 1.6GHz (and higher) Atoms and 1 to 2 GB or RAM into them and when you do that what you really have is a small notebook which people expect to run the applications they're familiar with.

And that's what people are buying so that's the direction OEMs will continue to moves in so I it's not Windows love or anything I just don't see the point in these operating systems given the limited target demographic.

But hey, if they can make money out of this then more power to them. I just can't see how.

And no, I am not becoming another Paul Chapel. Jesus, that's a horrible thing to say.]]>Jan 25th 2009 11:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/Jan 25th 2009 4:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/
And I swear I've seen that Youtube icon before somewhere. Can't quite put my finger on it...]]>Jan 25th 2009 4:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE!]]>Jan 25th 2009 4:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/
Oh look at my post i used a western font on a computer screen how dare i copy Apple so carelessly, I'm sure they'll sue me to death in the next ten minutes......]]>Jan 25th 2009 9:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/
Tarik Krim is the guy behind www.Netvibes.com, wake up guys, not only the US is thinking or innovating.]]>Jan 25th 2009 4:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/This looks a lot like the IPHONE OS.
I think we all know where they took theri inspiration....
Just look at the YouTube icon! If that`s not enough.... hold your iPhone, or an iPhone image against it....

-.-

First Palm, now Jolicloud (next Microsoft)?]]>Jan 25th 2009 4:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/

apple fanboys...ewww]]>Jan 25th 2009 4:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/Jan 25th 2009 5:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/really ?
Have you ever seen an iPhone in your life or is it some kind of a mythical creature for you ?

What does this GUI has in common with the iPhone's one ? iCons ?
Cut the crap and go troll somewhere else.

Btw Engadget the unknown Tariq Krim is the creator of Netvibes and Generationmp3.com (a french techblog)]]>Jan 25th 2009 6:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/
Apple is the only company that has general public drones buzzing around defending it's patent portfolio, if only any of them were educated enough to know what it actually contains.]]>Jan 25th 2009 9:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/Jan 25th 2009 4:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/An what are "1 2 3 4 5 6" cyphers on the bottom of the screen? They look like page selectors for current tab. Wow! We have 1" icons on tab and 1/12" page selector. :(
I beleave these stuff CAN BE interesting OS. But it's only an assumption.]]>Jan 25th 2009 4:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/Jan 25th 2009 4:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/Jan 25th 2009 4:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/
the pic for Windows 7 was a shot of the dekstop, did you complain in that post about how it wasn't an OS it was just an interface?]]>Jan 25th 2009 5:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/So, I am the first of kind russian-ukrainian republician. :-D]]>Jan 25th 2009 5:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/
See this article at TechCrunch where they interviewed Tariq some time ago when he was getting started -
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/12/09/netvibes-founder-building-iphone-like-operating-system-for-netbooks/

check the screenshot!]]>Jan 25th 2009 6:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/Jan 25th 2009 4:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/
Anyway, it looks pretty good, and easy to navigate.]]>Jan 25th 2009 5:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/]]>Jan 25th 2009 5:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/Jan 25th 2009 5:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/Jan 25th 2009 5:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/25/jolicloud-the-os-your-netbook-has-been-screaming-for/
and if you need to run visual studio why are you even remotely concerned about a netbook running anything but windows? its not like it would could VM very easily AND run VS2005...

you're asking a lot from a ~500 dollar computer.]]>Jan 25th 2009 6:02AM