The Mint Newsletter – issue 77
Written by Husse on
Wednesday, March 4th, 2009 @ 12:43 am | Main Topics
* News about Mint
Linux Mint 6 “Felicia” Fluxbox CE RC1 released!
I have forgotten to mention an interesting interview with Clem (the founder of Mint) perhaps because it is in this blog a bit down
* News about Linux
Carmack: Quake Live on Mac, Linux ‘high on my priority list’
Nouveau Becomes The Default Nvidia Driver In Fedora 11
Red Hat returns to the Linux desktop
VMware, Novell hatch virtual appliance scheme
Dreamlinux 3.5 released
The latest news about the kernel is always found here
* News about Open Source
Microsoft sues TomTom over Linux and other patent claims
Note on Microsoft TomTom Suit: Calm Down, Hope for the Best, Plan for the Worst
UK government backs open source
* News about IT
Is it Windows 7 or KDE 4?
Popular passwords include ‘1234′ and ‘password’
Experts sound scam threat warning for fake anti-virus websites.
Attacks prompt Microsoft to fix Excel flaw
* Hardware news
* Other news
March 4th, 2009 at 3:59 am
woohoo linuxmint kde4
carmack, as always great job.
kde4 is better looking than win7 ^^
nice comic lol
March 4th, 2009 at 6:47 am
Hi Husse,
I love the KDE v Windows 7 video. A great laugh. Thanks for the link.
John
March 4th, 2009 at 2:22 pm
Those xkcd comics always make me laugh
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March 8th, 2009 at 12:15 am
In a review of openSuse 11.1 by Eric Mesa is the following comment:
“Linux Mint 6 is, for the new user, the epitome of elegant and easy-to-use Linux.”
http://server.ericsbinaryworld.com/blog/2009/02/18/review-opensuse-111/
There’s also a link to a review of Felicia at:
http://server.ericsbinaryworld.com/blog/2009/02/15/review-linux-mint-6/
March 10th, 2009 at 8:13 am
Will the kde version crash on startup same to the linux mint main edition? Im using brand new hardware, all updates have been installed. The computer is a dual core 2.5 GHZ, with 2 gb ram, 750 GB hdd. The linux mint 6 main edition crashes randomly at startup, and crashes at attempts to run small programs such as flight gear, americas army, torces, even the penguin racer crashes it. It runs flawlessly when just using firefox and watching movies.
perhaps it isnt for the new user, i say this after using linux mint for several months, and after having every computer part checked for faults.
March 10th, 2009 at 11:45 pm
From the video, if those people were so dumb that they couldn’t tell from looking at the screen that the computer was running Linux KDE, then they were too dumb to have a valid opinion about Windows 7 vs Vista.
March 11th, 2009 at 1:32 pm
Thanks Husse,
Entertaining reads as usual! I just want to comment on the Microsoft vs Tom Tom suit.
http://lunduke.com/?p=220
The above article, which I tend to agree with, says that we, as the Linux community, are over hyping this court case as a Microsoft vs Linux one when it isn’t. And hence we, inadvertently, become the propagators of FUD against Linux by sensationalizing this story. Companies always evade possible suits against them and we should stop giving them reasons to think that such a thing is possible if they use Linux.
This case is not against Linux and will not affect Linux.
Quote from the article linked to in the newsletter:
“However, Microsoft says open-source software is not the intended focal point of the action. Five of the alleged patent violations relate to proprietary software.”
March 13th, 2009 at 5:04 pm
The article about weak passwords prompted me to write this short guide to creating strong passwords.
http://drsjlazar.blogspot.com/2009/03/tidbit-creating-good-password.html
March 14th, 2009 at 8:24 pm
Прекрасная, очень удачная версия LinuxMint-6 “Felicia”.
Быстрота, элегантность, безошибочность!
Спасибо разработчикам!!!
March 18th, 2009 at 3:45 am
Trying out KDE Mint 6 RC1… so far so good. Tried KDE 4.2 on some other distros and nothing but trouble, but you guys may actually get a devoted GNOME user to switch.
I look forward to future releases.
Great job as always!
PT
March 19th, 2009 at 7:14 pm
hi guy i been useing windows for 95 .
i lost faith in miscroft after buying all of the vista os ,s
xp was a night mare at the start .so linux is for me thank god i found linux mint .thanks guys please keep giveing us the up dates.