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Printer maker Ricoh has appointed a new managing director to lead its Australian business, Les Richardson, who will replace the outgoing manager Nigel Shepherd.
Zimbra, the open source email software that Yahoo acquired for US$350m last year, is officially coming to Ubuntu Linux.
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The founder of the Ubuntu open-source operating system, Mark Shuttleworth, has called for Ubuntu developers to fix all software flaws found in the operating system, including, crucially, those in inherited source code.
Canonical on Tuesday released its first publicly available developer edition of Ubuntu for mobile internet devices.
The founder of the Ubuntu project has given details of a new application launcher for a version of the operating system designed to run on the new generation of small laptops, such as the Asus Eee PC.
The new version of the Ubuntu Linux operating system for mobile Internet devices and mini-notebooks will be demonstrated for the first time this week.
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Canonical, the Linux distribution maker best known for the Ubuntu Linux desktop operating system, has taken the wraps off a new release of the server edition of its product.
Canonical plans to release Hardy Heron, its newest version of Ubuntu Linux on Thursday.
OpenOffice may support Microsoft's Office Open XML standard in future, but the organisation behind the open source productivity suite anticipates that everyone including Microsoft will have "difficulty" in making the format work.
Fans of Ubuntu, the version of Linux developed by start-up Canonical and its open-source allies, now have a name and a priority for the version due in October: Intrepid Ibex will be designed to make mobile computing better.
Heading in a different direction from its main rivals, Ubuntu Linux will use KVM as its primary virtualisation software.
Ubuntu can now access Parallels Workstation for Linux, which allows users to run Windows applications, via the operating system's built-in update tool.
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