I finally got all my ducks in a row and got around to burning a copy of Joli OS to a CD-R at work. I started grunging around for a machine to use it with and got sidetracked by several UPS units which needed to have their lead-acid batteries removed so that I could eventually recycle them. When I got the batteries removed and pitched the UPS units and cleaned up the space I realized that I had run out of time to do what I originally was going to do with Joli OS. So instead of using the CD-R that I burned I just set up Joli OS in a new VirtualBox container and watched it chug along.

Joli OS really impressed me. It was mostly successful in keeping the CLI hidden from the user and I quite liked all the integration with Google Docs and Dropbox that was available. I started to muse about how one could use this new “OS”. I thought it would be a great use for a computer without a hard drive. I’m always looking for a competent operating system that can be run live off a CD-R, and mount Dropbox or Box.net as its primary user-space filesystem and run like that forever. I will have to do some more tinkering to see if I can coax Joli OS into doing just that.

So far I’m very impressed with what I’ve seen and I’m looking forward to exploring more about Joli OS and Joli Cloud.