Jolicloud not what I expected

#“Jolicloud not what I expected”

So after checking out CloudOS, I loaded up JoliCloud onto a thumbdrive. Tariq Krim's quick presentation at Le Web had caught my interest.

I was a bit stunned to find myself booting into Ubuntu NBR Linux. And not quickly. Hardly a new paradigm.

I create a Jolicloud account and.............

"Here are some apps you can install in your linux box. Here are some other webapps, not specific to Jolicloud"

I honestly don't get it. Mozilla Prism to run some web-apps offline. Anddddddddd?

A Cloud based Netbook needs to boot in 10 seconds or less and offer me something new, not just an aggregation of other people's bits.

If Jolicloud is HTML5 etc (like Palm Pre) that is a good thing. But it doesn't strike me as a business that can compete with Google and everyone else who offers the same thing on e.g. a stripped down Win7

Conor O'Neill

Tech guy who likes running slowly

Bandon, Cork, Ireland https://conoroneill.net