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21st February 2009 - Link Blog

Introducing the Karmic Koala, our mascot for Ubuntu 9.10 (via) Ubuntu 9.10 will have a strong focus on cloud computing, including tools for easily creating EC2 AMIs and Eucalyptus, an open-source system for running an EC2-compatible cloud in your own data centre.

Posted 21st February 2009 at 5:19 pm

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This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 21st February 2009.

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