Upgrade Asus S101 SSD Storage (Super Talent)

If you are looking for a third party Solid State Drive (SSD) to upgrade the storage in your 10.2″ Asus S101, you are in luck. Super Talent Technology has announced three new SSD options for the high-end netbook. The S101 currently comes with three options: … Read more

Sony VAIO P Series Shipping in the US

It looks like Sony has bumped up their shipping time for some US customers for the new 8″ Sony VAIO P, at least unofficially. Originally, the VAIO P series was showing a shipping date of February 3, 2009. Engagdet has an article up showing that … Read more

Acer Aspire One D150 – This February?

blogeee.net has some photos and information on the 10.1″ Intel Atom-powered Acer Aspire One D150. It’s being called the D150, at least in France. 3-Cell battery versions will ship in February, and March will see the larger 6-cell versions. The starting price is € 329 … Read more

Jolicloud – Cloud-Based Linux for Netbooks

jolicloud Yesterday I mentioned Kuki Linux, an Ubuntu-based Linux distribution (or just the kernel if you prefer) centered around the 8.9″ Acer Aspire One.

Today, I’m mentioning a different Linux distribution, one that is focused on netbooks in general, and that’s designed around using the internet and cloud-based computing.

It’s called jolicloud (www.jolicloud.com), and in the word of it’s developers:

We love netbooks: they are cheap, compact, light and always connected via 3G.

What we didn’t like so much was the user experience so we decided to build our own.

We used Linux and made it boot faster and we optimized it for surf and cloud computing. We redesigned the interface and integrated some cool stuff.

This is how the jolicloud project started. The next step is to let you try it out and have your opinion so together we can build the best netbook experience.

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Kuki Linux

Yesterday, there was a new release (alpha) of Kuki Linux, 2.0. Kuki Linux (pronouced “cookie”) is a new Linux distribution, tailored specifically for the 8.9″ Acer Aspire One. Its developers describe it as “an out of the box experience for the Acer Aspire One.” It’s … Read more