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Submission + - GNOME Foundation Defends OOXML involvement (pcworld.com)

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on Tuesday November 27, 2007 @07:56AM

angrykeyboarder writes: "The GNOME foundation has recently been criticized for it's supposed "endorsement" of Microsoft's OOXML format. They have since issued a statement clarifying the matter."

Submission + - Myanmar Goes Offline (pcmag.com)

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on Thursday October 04, 2007 @08:12PM

angrykeyboarder writes: "Myanmar has been completely taken off the Internet. If you know anyone there, don't expect to hear from them for a while...."

Submission + - Many Linux users work with multiple OS platforms (linux.com)

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on Saturday July 21, 2007 @09:09PM

angrykeyboarder writes: "Many Linux users in fact use multiple Operating Systems. While this isn't a surprise or big news, it does demonstrate that despite the desire of many in the Linux community, Linux alone does not meet the OS needs of everyone.

The author of an article on Linux.com took an informal survey of people on a Linux Users Group mailing list and found 75% of the (rather small sample of 25) respondents also used Windows or Mac OSX.

In addition, the author himself states that he 'recently received a new MacBook Pro running Mac OS X 10.4 from our corporate [Sourceforge, Inc. parent company of Sourceforge, Slashdot and Linux.com] headquarters' for use with some non-Linux apps."

Submission + - 500 Giabyte DVD-sized discs? (arstechnica.com)

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on Saturday July 07, 2007 @05:48PM

angrykeyboarder writes: "Scientists have discovered a way to fit 500 GB of data on DVD-sized discs. Now all we need is the hardware to go along with the discs."

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