It was announced today that the Jolicloud Desktop OS will be discontinued In December.
While the Jolicloud people gave good reasons, it's sad to see as unique a distribution as Joli go this way.
The company's reason is that they are going "to entirely focus on the web with Jolicloud 2".
You will still be able to use the operating system for some time, but updates will no longer be supplied.
The company will now take JoliDrive and rename it to Jolicloud 2. The reason given was that JoliDrive has a very large user base, and so obviously that is where they should put their attention.
“JoliDrive is growing to the point where a lot of the actions that used to require an OS no longer do”, Jolicloud’s communications guru Zak Kaufman told OMGUbuntu's Joey-Elijah Sneddon via e-mail.
“Things like file management, music and video playback, can all be done using Jolidrive, available from any web browser on almost every platform”.
I personally liked the directions they where going. Joli's desktop OS was intended to feel like the online version, and yet to function well offline.
The two "desktops" merged pretty well together.
Joli OS desktop version had at one point made me reconsider my current fave, Xubuntu 12.04 LTS.
-Denny
P.S. Here's a screenshot in case you wanted to just get a glimpse at what the desktop looks like.
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