Comments on: Chrome OS vs. Jolicloud: Similar on the Surface

By: no name

no name — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 13:48:36 +0000

jolicloud is better :D for now…..

By: Aaron

Aaron — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 09:33:27 +0000

total agree. The fact that Jolicloud has the ability to work without being connected to the internet and run native app’s makes it much more usable

By: Aaron Christianson

Aaron Christianson — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 13:25:33 +0000

another important difference: Jolicloud can run Linux apps natively and most Windows apps in a WINE compatibility layer. You can get a full office sweet, photo editors, media players net-telephony, games, programing utilities, VPN services, file sync; not to mention complete control over every aspect of your system through a GNU/Linux shell terminal… Jolicloud is a full-featured operating system that can provide a complete application suite offline.

It happens to do this in a fast, light Linux and HTML5 environment, similar to Chrome, but the differences are substantial.

By: jacobwg

jacobwg — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 23:10:33 +0000

Jolicloud is based on Ubuntu, though, so the mentioned lack of app support really doesn’t exist on Jolicloud, while Google’s Chrome OS is, at least for now, restricted to web-based apps.

Chrome OS seems very unimpressively like a fullscreen browser, while projects like Jolicloud have some additional potential due to the addition of native apps. Now where Google will go with it’s whole native code in the browser thing will be interesting to watch.