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Jolicloud is a fantastic lightweight OS for those of us unwilling to buy a copy of Windows 7. XP was miserably slow on my netbook; Jolicloud is a solid replacement.

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btpaulie Jul 24, 2010

I just installed Jolicloud 1.0 on my netbook and it's an improvement in the UI, but I still don't really see how this is leaps and bounds better than just Windows 7.

It definitely got away from looking straight up like Ubuntu Netbook Remix. Now the launcher is made entirely in HTML5 and it looks pretty nice. They also switched all the apps so that...

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chinster Jul 23, 2010

Try it out, but don't expect much

I really wanted to like Jolicloud, but it needs a lot more work before prime time. Here are a few reasons why I can't use this full time on my netbook:

- "Applications" are not really applications. When I heard that this had an app directory, I thought it would have customized apps for the netbook...

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chinster Jan 22, 2010

Installing on the HP mini 311

In the midst of attempting to install Jolicloud on the HP mini 311. First few tries didn't work, anyone else have any issues? Going to try again, will let you know if it takes this time.

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peter Dec 20, 2009

This isn't just for netbooks.

It seems like this is a Ubuntu-based Linux OS with NBR installed, optimized for netbooks (Eee PC 900 running smoothly with it), but as my recent comment to the fan page of Jolicloud of Facebook:

"Even though this is for netbooks (assuming so), it works incredibly well on my Lenovo W500. For a person who...

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VieraVy Dec 15, 2009