Jolicloud the iPhone-like Next Generation Netbook Operating System
Netbooks are selling like hotcakes nowadays. However, there’s one inovative person thought that the current OS for netbooks aren’t good enough. Reason? Netbook’s small keyboards, small screen and underpowered hardwares restricts the user experience of it.
Netvibes founder, Tariq Krim is building a new stack of software codenamed Jolicloud. Installation of Jolicloud into the netbooks will replace any operating system that is installed on the netbook with a stripped down Linux operating system and custom browser.
Interestingly, Jolicloud is an iPhone-like interface targeting to give users a better user experience. It has large icons and small hardware resource usage to maximize the potential of netbooks. Jolicloud will support touch screen too. Great stuff for easy navigation given netbooks small screens.
Take a look at the screenshot below:
Jolicloud also utilized Prism application as bookmark sites. Tariq also planning to have application platform for third party developers to build more custom applications for Jolicloud. In my opinion, that’s a great step looking forward similar to the current hype of having third party applications built by developers just like Facebook.
Currently, Jolicloud is not ready to be launched yet. More details need to be sort out and private beta is in the plan to be launched soon. Watch out for this space.
Source: Techcrunch
cool, it will be free or what?
As of now it’s still in development. More news to be out soon. But they will have private beta first.
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