Doesn't look too pretty in the screenshots.Looks pretty plain jane.Is like other systems,say windows? Will it detect my modem? Sorry,noob.

whats everyones take on making jnode multithreaded to improve its performance?

It can only make a bootable JVM layer to adopt so many kind of opensource's VM like jikesRVM, openJDK and Harmony etc. so we provide opportunity to compile on the fly and to change VM on the fly !-)
remember the JNode goal:
The goal is to get an simple to use and install Java operating system for personal use. Any java application should run on it, fast & secure!

Making VM itself doesn't make any effort on this goal. anyway, I don't prefer to implement VM in its main branch. It's not what Jnode should be. Anyone interest in VM could start a subproject and get involve in it.

I was unable to find the download of iso / image file of jnode os.

From where, I can find?

I have posted on my blog some screenshots of JNode running in JPC. great !