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Looks like Jolicloud stole Ubuntu's thunder
By Fabio on Thursday August 27th 2009 08:18 | Category: software
A few days ago Ubuntu annouced the development of a new kind of installer which would revolutionize desktop Linux installation procedures. Well looks like Jolicloud beat them to the punch.
Although being based on the latest stable Ubuntu Netbook Remix release the guys at Jolicloud came up with a perfectly functional instler which wraps up pretty much all the features Ubuntu described in their announcement a few days ago.
It's a simple interface that shows users a list of applications they can than browse through. Each application is shown by it's logo and has a big "install" button positioned directly under it. Also the installations can be qued and updated all from within this same slick interface, pretty awesome indeed.
Ubuntu as awesome as it is however said we'd have to wait for their similar system to come out somewhere in between the 9.10 and 11.04 release. Note that in case of the latter this means waiting for another year and a half. So all and all I think Jolicloud has done a great job at presenting such a functional installer already, maybe the guys at Canonical can have a little chat with the Joli crew.
However there is more to Jolicloud than just a neat software browser/installer.
Jolicloud comes literally installed on top of Ubuntu Netbook Remix, so it has a rock solid base and has welded several popular cloud services directly to it's host. Jolicloud offers amongst others a Facebook(duuhh) and Twitter(duuhh) service.
If I'd have to make a comparison I'd say it's pretty similar to what Intel has done with its Moblin project.
I suggest that you check it out.
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