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Ubuntu Real-Time News: Justin Uberti / juberjabber:Google voice and video – now available for Linux!  —  Google voice and video chat is now available in Gmail for Ubuntu and other Debian-based Linux distributions.  As the comments on this blog indicate,...

Ubuntu Real-Time News: Katherine Noyes / Computerworld:Don’t Count on Oracle to Keep OpenOffice.org Alive  —  Back in January, the Amsterdam-based consultancy Software Improvement Group warned government entities not to deploy OpenOffice.org until Oracle proved its commitment to treating the software...

Ubuntu Real-Time News: Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols / Computerworld:Ubuntu Linux to go multi-touch  —  I spoke with Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical, this morning, and he tells me that Canonical will be bringing true multi-touch to Ubuntu Linux in Ubuntu 10.10...

Ubuntu Real-Time News: Cory Doctorow / Guardian:Curated computing is no substitute for the personal and handmade  —  Bespoke computing experiences promise a pipe dream of safety and beauty – but the real delight lies in making your own choices  — ...

Ubuntu Real-Time News: Barry Collins / PC Pro:Dell drops Ubuntu PCs from website… for now  —  Dell has stopped selling consumer PCs preloaded with Ubuntu from its website, and doesn’t know when they’re coming back.  —  A search for...

Ubuntu Real-Time News: Russell Beattie:The end of WIMP and the rise of Touch  —  I recently bought a Lenovo IdeaPad S10-3t multi-touch tablet/netbook.  It was on sale for $200 off and I just couldn’t resist.  I figured it’d be...

Ubuntu Real-Time News: Google Open Source Blog:Introducing the Google Command Line Tool  —  Ever wanted to upload a folder full of photos to Picasa from a command prompt?  We did, a lot, last summer.  It made us want to...

Ubuntu Real-Time News: Lee Mathews / Download Squad:First Chrome OS systems to come from Acer, Dell, and HP?  —  Last month at Computex, Acer’s rumored Chrome OS netbook was nowhere to be found.  Of course, I’d already said it...

Ubuntu Real-Time News: Lee Mathews / Download Squad:Coming soon: an open source Dropbox alternative with collaboration  —  Dropbox is a great little service (and app).  Developer Hylke Bons seems to like it — but he’s got designs on building...

Ubuntu Real-Time News: Agam Shah / Network World:Canonical developing Ubuntu OS for tablets  —  Tablets with the OS could reach store shelves in the latter part of Q1 next year  —  Canonical is preparing a version of the Ubuntu OS...