Bloomberg BusinessWeek Business Exchange Advanced Search Search Search Date All Within the last week Within the last 2 weeks Within the last 30 days Within the last 60 days Within the last 90 days Within the last 180 days Within the last year Within the last two years Custom Type All Articles Podcasts Slide Shows Video Channel All Asia Business Schools Europe Global Innovation Finance Lifestyle Magazine Management Small Business Technology Top News Author Search Cancel Wednesday July 28, 2010 Available on the iPad Home Blogs Columnists Lifestyle Magazine Newsletters Slide Shows Special Reports The Debate Room Videos Finance Finance Home Companies Economy Industry News Investing Blog Learning Center People Overview Real Estate Investing Retirement Planning Sectors & Industries Stocks Stocks & Markets Technology Technology Home CEO Tech Guide Columnists Computers Consumer Electronics Digital Entertainment Internet Investing Mobile & Wireless Product Reviews Software Hands On Innovation Innovation Home Architecture Auto Design Brand Blog Columnists Design Game Room Innovation Index Marketing Media Blog NEXT Blog Management Management Home Business Schools Board of Directors Book Reviews Career Management Case Studies Columnists Jobs Leadership Management IQ Blog Team Management Small Business Small Business Home Financing Policy Sales & Marketing Small Business Blog Smart Answers Starting a Business Viewpoints Global Global Home Asia Europe Europe Insight Blog Eye on Asia Blog IDG Jolicloud 1.0, a Linux distro in progress July 27, 2010, 1:56 PM EDT More From Businessweek Wells Fargo Cuts 3,800 Jobs, Closes Consumer-Finance Business Senate Set to Pass Extension of Unemployment Benefits How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Short the Euro Microsoft Xbox Live Sales Probably Topped $1 Billion Apple iPad Sets Path to Productivity, Paperless Office Story Tools e-mail this story print this story digg this save to del.icio.us add to Business Exchange By Serdar Yegulalp Jolicloud 1.0 is a new edition of Linux aimed at non-technical netbook users, described this way by its makers: “[It] is not a traditional OS. It was built for netbook users to leverage the Cloud and make their life easier.” Think of it as a variant on the Google ChromeOS approach: This Internet operating system , as the company calls it, is little more than a Web browser plus a few other supporting technologies



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