The Mint Newsletter – issue 80
* News about Mint
Both Mint 6 Felicia KDE CE and Fluxbox CE have been approved as stable and will soon be released
Both editions promise to be outstanding.
Monthly Stats – March 2009
We hope you enjoyed our April fools prank
Please update to Firefox 3.0.8 to protect from dangerous bug
* News about Linux
Debian adds (officially) a version based on the FreeBSD kernel
Red Hat CEO questions desktop’s relevance in Linux debate – not the first time
Suse Linux Enterprise 11 takes steps to work with Windows also on the desktop – Novell seems to disagree with Red Hat
CentOS 5.3 released
How Fedora got hacked last autumn – someone got hold of a valid key
What Flavor of Linux is Right For You? Mint we hope 
KDE gets its own Brainstorm
Numerous developers quit PCLinuxOS
This is interesting – a small distribution called Billix allows network installation of Damn Small Linux, Ubuntu Jaunty/Intrepid/Hardy, Fedora 10, Debian, and Centos.
The latest news about the kernel is always found here
* News about Open Source
Mono 2.4 and MonoDevelop 2.0 released
* News about IT
The downadup/Conficker worm should have done something on April 1st – nothing happened as you may have noticed
Tracking GhostNet: Investigating a Cyber Espionage Network
A new method to monetize scareware – Windows only
‘Cybercrime exceeds drug trade’ myth exploded
Researchers unveil persistent BIOS attack methods (scary – code in BIOS without the use of any vulnerability.)
HP OpenView Buffer Overflows – the potential for damage is large
Expert cites “major problem” with security policy compliance
Microsoft and TomTom Settle Patent Infringement Cases
Sun Intros VDI 3, a Sun-Only Virtual Desktop Set
Silicon Graphics goes bust for second time (Hope this is not an April fools prank – published April 1)
Sources: Google In Talks To Acquire Twitter
I.B.M. Withdraws $7 Billion Offer for Sun
* Hardware news
MIT Graphene Chip Could Reach 1,000 Gigahertz
A Step Toward Superfast Carbon Memory
Sniffing keystrokes via laser and keyboard power
A computer the size of a large matchbox
* Other news
April 7th, 2009 at 12:19 am
Is it me or did Cathbard use Bryan’s (from the Linux Action Show) comics maker software? Such a small World (unless I’m wrong of course)
April 7th, 2009 at 12:34 am
Dunno – but it kind of looks familiar
April 7th, 2009 at 8:01 am
HI,
It seems Linux Mint Fluxbox CE 6 and KDE CE 6 (Felicia) stable
has been released
http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/linuxmint.com/stable/6/community/
31 March/2009
01 April/2009
April 7th, 2009 at 8:52 am
Interview with Shuttleworth: news.softpedia.com/news/Mark-Shuttleworth-Talks-About-Ubuntu-9-04-108552.shtml
And fit-pc has its own website: http://www.fit-pc2.com
April 7th, 2009 at 10:26 am
No – not released yet
There are ISOs on our mirrors ahead of release but that may not necessarily be the right version
April 7th, 2009 at 5:12 pm
Conficker *did* do something – it’s active (ask me how I know *glares at friend’s computer*) It just hasn’t received any instructions yet.
April 7th, 2009 at 7:03 pm
Good recovery during the warmer days leading to Mint 7!
I personnaly found Cathbart less funny than the previous comic, I hope it’s just humor with a transcient cold (I understand the other guy may be asking too much to syndicate his stuff).
April 7th, 2009 at 9:29 pm
Yipeee!!!
Waiting for Linux Mint with KDE!!! Hurry guys, I’ve been checking the web twice a day, everyday for the last three weeks.
And I’m going to keep doing it!!!
Bad breath because of Gwindows???
Easy dude, take some Mint…
April 8th, 2009 at 12:03 pm
@ viktor
All the comics in the newsletter are free
Cathbard and xkcd are entirely different
April 14th, 2009 at 4:32 am
Just noticed that Linux Pro Magazine (www.linuxpromagazine.com) had a DVD insert for Linux Mint 6 Universal Edition as part of its April 2009 issue. Did anybody know about that? Kinda caught me by surprise.