There are a lot of things that are not visible for a casual Sailfish OS user. This 3.3.0 release contains a vast number of updates for the lower level of the stack. We’ve included for example the updated toolchain, a new version of Python and many updates to core libraries such as glib2. In this blog I will go through a few of the changes and what they mean in practice for users, developers and Sailfish OS in general.
You can also read the more detailed release notes. It’s nice to see my original Jolla Phone – released in late 2013 – is still supported, as is the ill-fated Jolla Tablet from late 2015. I’m probably one of the few people in the world who actually got a Jolla Tablet, delivered straight from Hong Kong in a non-descript brown packaging, but I never seriously used it.
I really wanted one of these, yet you got it but never used it. Bastard, always one step ahead!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0UmMhTPyPw
My father switched to the original Jolla desktop OS back in the early 00’s. it was linux / browser based, used cloud storage so your identity and data followed you around and it had an nice ecosystem of apps. His PC never hung or crashed again.! He replaced it with a Chromebook / Chrome OS, and I am now wondering if the Chromebook was inspired by Jolla.
Jolla — the makers of SailfishOS — was founded in 2011, so I am going to guess the two aren’t connected
Jockm – you are correct It was JoliOS https://www.jolicloud.com/jolios/ . My timing was off too, It was late 00’s. JoliOS is considered a precursor to ChromeOS. I found it more intuitive as the app space was given equal prominence to the web space. You were either on the web or running an app. It was fast, very stable and didn’t encourage changing settings. Also it was free with no viable business model.
Ahhhh not what I expected, but I can see it. I almost wondered if you were talking about the JooJoo (nee CrunchPad): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JooJoo