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Submission + - Richard Stallman (GNU) missing in Peru after quake (wikinews.org)

Submitted by so sue mee on Friday August 17, 2007 @01:39AM

so sue mee writes: Wikinews has learned that Richard Stallman, the founder of the GNU Project, might be missing in Peru after a massive 8.0 earthquake struck the country on August 15. http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Reports:_Richard_Stall man%2C_founder_of_GNU_Project_missing_in_Peru

Submission + - The next net billionaires

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on Thursday February 22, 2007 @04:27PM

An anonymous reader writes: A year ago Business 2.0 Magazine tagged a startup named YouTube as a young company to watch. Here are the 25 startups to keep an eye on in 2007. Broken into 5 categories of 5 each: Social media, video, mobile, advertising, and enterprise.

Software Missing From Vista's "Official Apps" 288

Posted by Zonk on Thursday February 22, 2007 @04:27PM from the big-holes dept.

PetManimal writes "Microsoft has just released a list of 800 applications it says are 'officially supported' on Windows Vista. What's special about this list, however, are the programs that are not included: 'Popular Windows software that is conspicuously missing from Microsoft's list includes Adobe Systems Inc.'s entire line of graphics and multimedia software, Symantec Corp.'s security products, as well as the Mozilla Foundation's open-source Firefox Web browser, Skype Ltd.'s free voice-over-IP software and the OpenOffice.org alternative to Microsoft Office.' Another area in which Vista has found to be lacking is gaming, as discussed earlier on Slashdot."

Submission + - Dell Considers Offering Linux on Laptops

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s31523

on Thursday February 22, 2007 @03:26PM

s31523 writes: "Apparently a Dell sponsored blog has turned up a popular request: offer Linux as an option on laptops. According to the article the company is seriously considering the request and "plan to post a statement on the blog this week explaining how they will react"."

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