Just timing various things on my hp mini 2140
Jolicloud boot from cold 27.33secs
Jolicloud time from login to screen display 21.91
Jolicloud time from to logon from sleep 6.01 secs
Windows 7 boot from cold 41.03 secs
Windows 7 time from login to screen display 26.03 secs
Windows 7 time from to logon from sleep 2.86 secs
I’ve been watching this with interest, however I’m still sticking to Windows 7 on my netbook. Jolicloud is about to enter into Pre-Beta and we are dropping the invitations. We consider the product and its installation stable and simple enough for a broader release.At Jolicloud, we believe people should be able to switch operating system on their netbooks. Like the adoption of Firefox made the web 2.0 possible, enabling users to switch OS will accelerate the growth and benefits of open cloud computing
via Jolicloud – Blog.
Yesterday Google announced that they are open-sourcing Chromium OS.
We are doing this early, a year before Google Chrome OS will be ready for users, because we are eager to engage with partners, the open source community and developers. As with the Google Chrome browser, development will be done in the open from this point on. This means the code is free, accessible to anyone and open for contributions. The Chromium OS project includes our current code base, user interface experiments and some initial designs for ongoing development. This is the initial sketch and we will color it in over the course of the next year.
via Official Google Blog.
I just spend many hours trying to track down why my HP Mini wouldn’t connect to my home Wifi network when I set my channel to 13.
After installing varying drivers, I still couldn’t get it to work, so eventually I downloaded the latest drivers, then I searched the registry for Broadcom, and found 3 entries with a Country setting of US. I changed these to GB, re-booted and my HP Mini can now see my Wifi network on channel 13.
This is very interesting news, I have been running Windows 7 RC on my netbook, but if google can delivery an OS that boots and gets you onto the net in seconds, as they state, I think it could be a very compelling offering. Official Google Blog: Introducing the Google Chrome OS. Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010. Because we’re already talking to partners about the project, and we’ll soon be working with the open source community, we wanted to share our vision now so everyone understands what we are trying to achieve.
Speed, simplicity and security are the key aspects of Google Chrome OS. We’re designing the OS to be fast and lightweight, to start up and get you onto the web in a few seconds. The user interface is minimal to stay out of your way, and most of the user experience takes place on the web. And as we did for the Google Chrome browser, we are going back to the basics and completely redesigning the underlying security architecture of the OS so that users don’t have to deal with viruses, malware and security updates. It should just work.
Google Chrome OS will run on both x86 as well as ARM chips and we are working with multiple OEMs to bring a number of netbooks to market next year. The software architecture is simple — Google Chrome running within a new windowing system on top of a Linux kernel. For application developers, the web is the platform. All web-based applications will automatically work and new applications can be written using your favorite web technologies. And of course, these apps will run not only on Google Chrome OS, but on any standards-based browser on Windows, Mac and Linux thereby giving developers the largest user base of any platform.
I’ve just got my hands on this tiny Netbook. My aim is to use this to supplement my work notebook, I’ll be doing the blogging, web site maintenance, and basic picture editing and cataloging on this system whilst I’m on holidays, or travelling outside of work. First impressions are very good, I’ve upped the memory to 2gb, started removing any unwanted programs, installed Live Mesh, Google Chrome and Lightroom, and all seems well. This is my first attempt at posting an HD video, so any feedback on the quality would be appreciated!
HP have recently started shipping a netbook designed for ladies, and I personally think it’s a very striking design, which I think will sell well. I’m aiming to get a netbook myself shortly to supplement my work notebook.
