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Kevin Lucas wrote: <snip> > 1. **VIA's Open Source Notebook** --If you've been scanning the news today, you > might be under the impression that VIA Technologies had released an open-source > notebook design. The OpenNote mini-note reference design has gotten a a sudden > burst of press attention, but most of the stories don't seem to understand what's > really open about this design. [Read > more...](http://www.fsdaily.com/Industry/VIAs_Open_Source_Notebook) I read about this the other day, well, I read an Inquirer article, I didn't realise that it didn't include the whole shebang and it's just CAD files for a plastic case. That's a bit poor, but saying that, aren't VIA just as bad at releasing open source code for their hardware too? > 4. **"Big Buck Bunny" movie files released** --The shortfilm “Big Buck Bunny”, > made with the Free Software program Blender is available for download. It is > released under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license. Note that the files > are in a rather high resolution. Please use BitTorrent for download. There is also > a game planned... [Read > more...](http://www.fsdaily.com/Community/Big_Buck_Bunny_movie_files_released) Now this one interests me. Maybe this is something that we could put on at public demo days. I'm certainly going to be downloading the 720p version of this. > **ODF in MS Office? No, really!** --By Mitch Meyran. Microsoft declared yesterday > (May 21st, 2008) that Microsoft Office 2007 SP2 would include (among others such > as PDF 1.5, PDF/A and some more) built-in support for OASIS OpenDocument Format > version 1.1 (finalized, submitted to ISO, supported by OpenOffice.org, Kofffice, > GNOME office apps and their forks) while ISO-submitted OOXML support would wait > for Office 14. [Read > more...](http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/odf_ms_office_no_really) Is it April fools day again already? Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html