Likely more important for users, however, is the fact that the new writable API will likely mean easier content sharing.

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Writable DVDs will provide about 4.7 gigabytes of memory to consumers, and some commercially produced DVD formats could provide manufacturers with as much as 18 gigabytes of memory to play in.

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The shift from a read-only to writable API marks a shift in strategy for Digg, which in recent months has focused on growing via social media sites like Facebook and Twitter.

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Now that the root file system is writable, evasi0n changes a file called launchd.conf that alters the configuration of launchd so that the changes evasi0n makes to it are repeated every time it runs.

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