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, and for VIA-based netbooks you're basically out of luck. That may sound a bit restrictive, but the fact is that the vast majority of netbooks on the market today are Atom-based (ASUS, Acer, HP, Lenova, and so on), so it's going to be just fine in most cases.
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