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Unison Technologies and the Ubuntu Linux sponsor Canonical have teamed up to offer a complete unified communications suite for small to medium-sized businesses that run Ubuntu Linux.
The deal, announced on Wednesday at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in San Francisco, will pitch the Linux-based system against Microsoft’s Unified Communications platform and see Unison’s software sold through Canonical’s online store.

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gOS today announced release 3 of its Google-oriented consumer Linux distro, adding support for Google Gadgets. gOS 3 Gadgets offers access to more than 100,000 iGoogle and Google Gadgets, says the company, and also preloads WINE 1.0 and the LXDE (Lightweight X Desktop Environment) desktop.

In January, gOS released version 2.0 of its Ubuntu-based distro. Dubbed “Rocket,” the release came only two months after release 1.0. The first release surprised the industry with its sudden popularity, due in part due to its use on the Everex Green gPC, which sold at Wal-Mart (for awhile, anyway) for only $200.

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