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A call was made on the forums to all artists within the community. The goal is to produce promotional materials for Linux Mint:

Linux Mint is becoming an important project and so it’s time for it to get good promotional material and to give people the means to efficiently promote it. In comparison to other projects, we’ve made almost no efforts at marketing Linux Mint. I guess you’re all aware of the marketing campaigns lead by Microsoft and Apple, and we can also appreciate the quality of the material provided by projects such as Fedora and OpenSUSE. Our desktop is among the best available, we’re growing fast and it’s been done with people talking to people and our popularity slowly spreading from ear to ear […]

If you want to take part and help producing marketing/promotional materials, please visit this forum thread: http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=26870

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* News about Mint

Linux Mint 7 “Gloria” released!

How to upgrade Mint 6 Felicia to Mint 7 Gloria

Gloria is a success! We have more visitors to our forum and irc than ever before.

The Monthly Stats – May 2009 confirms the impression – the best ever month

The forum was flooded with spam on May 30 and 31. On June 1 we implemented counter spam measures in the registration process. The result is truly amazing. From what I (Husse) can see as admin this stopped about 50+ spambots from registering every day!

mintCast Episode 15

* News about Linux

Ubuntu Picks Up X Input 2 Support In PPA

Canonical developers aim to make Android apps run on Ubuntu

HP snubs Moblin, rolls out Mi Linux-Atom netbook

Linux distributor joins Moblin

KOffice 2.0.0 Released

The CentOS-5.3 i386 Live CD is released

According to IBM a Global Survey Shows Linux Desktop Easier to Deploy Than Expexpected   The survey has also been interpreted as the exact opposite..

Transmission 1.61 Plugs CSRF Hole – a cross site scripting vulnerability in the browser interface – anyone using a version prior to 1.61 and the browser interface is at risk

550 Days Later, Unreal Tournament 3 for Linux Appears Dead

The latest news about the kernel is always found here

* News about Open Source

OpenSolaris 2009.06 released

Compliance Is The Goal – FSF on the lawsuit against Cisco

“Ubuntu One” name creates confusion (Mark Shuttleworth’s response)

* News about IT

New DNS Bug and Fix Announced

EU pushes music industry to open up online rights

IBM exec calls Vista the best recruiter for Linux

Google Wave a new communication service introduced

Russian company Digital Sky Technologies takes $200m stake in Facebook – value drops

Pornographic videos flood YouTube

Mozilla Labs Introducing Jetpack, Call for Participation

University of Michigan first to sign new digitization agreement with Google

* Hardware news

A Laptop Cooled with Ionic Wind

Gainward and Palit blast AMD for their GPU product policy

* Other news

eBay fakes: L’Oreal fail in High Court test case

* Comic of the week

Credit goes to cathbards-grove

* More about Linux Mint

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* Editors comment

As always – if you find something I’ve missed in the newsletter please tell me – you can post a comment.

Due to the apparent success of Gloria and subsequent growth in the number of posts in the forum I find it difficult to do everything in time.

That is  why this newsletter is so late

Enjoy life

Husse

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Edit: The repositories are working fine again. Sorry for the downtime and the inconvenience.

Original message below:

We’re experiencing problems with the server hosting our repositories. As we can’t access it remotely we’ve ordered a manual intervention and we’re currently waiting for this to happen.

In the meantime you can use Linux Mint just as you did before but:

  • mintUpdate will be slower to refresh (it will try to download the latest safety rules from that server, then timeout, then work normally)
  • you will see error messages when updating your APT cache
  • the website http://packages.linuxmint.com will be unavailable
  • you SHOULD NOT upgrade from Mint 6 to Mint 7 (wait until this problem is solved before upgrading, otherwise you’ll miss all the packages maintained by Mint and you’ll only get an update on the Ubuntu package base itself)

Our apologies for the inconvenience. We’re trying to fix this problem as quick as possible.