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Support for cloud computing will be a major feature of the October release of Ubuntu
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Ubuntu will target cloud computing with October release

By Peter Sayer
Support for cloud computing will be a major feature of the October release of Ubuntu, the Linux distribution maintained by Canonical, company CEO Mark Shuttleworth announced in an e-mail to the Ubuntu developers mailing list on Friday. Read full story


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