* News about Mint

The forum has moved to Canada – works much better now.

For the time being activation and notification mail are not sent, unknown why

The XFCE Community Edition (CE) is almost ready for its final release

The KDE and Fluxbox CEs are almost ready for their first RC to be released

* News about Linux

Finally Lenny has appeared! Good news for all Debian fans

Sidux 2009-1 has been released

HP ditches Linux netbooks in Europe

Plasma Team Looks at the Future

Real-time Linux gains accelerated graphics

Moonlight 1.0 goes live

Russian Federation Commits to Red Hat Open Source

CCP To Discontinue EVE Online Support For Linux

Cuba launches own Linux variant to counter Microsoft

The latest news about the kernel is always found here

* News about Open Source

LiMo Foundation gets ready for next-generation platform

* News about IT

All EU states have to compel operators to log all network traffic – verdict in the EU court

French navy surrenders to the Conficker (aka downadup) worm. It is not alone – the French and British airforces were also hit. The newsletter has earlier reported about Swedish hospitals being hit with this worm

Microsoft offers $250,000 reward for Downadup culprits

One in ten has had his/her identity stolen

German Interior minister’s website pwned in wiretap protest

Microsoft gets 10,000th patent

Stora Enso sells Summa mill site (in Finland) to Google for EUR 40 mln

Obama Orders 60-Day Cyber-security Review

Facebook spammers seize control of 1.5 million user group

Comments in Digg.com Used to Distribute Malware, Says PandaLabs

PC power tweaks can save a packet, says Gartner

The “toolbox” Parted Magic has been released in version 3.6

* Hardware news

AMD finally goes DDR3

Intel pledges $7 billion to upgrade U.S. factories

The first Ion-based product is a nettop; to launch before June, says Nvidia

* Other news

Android Vulnerability So Dangerous, Owners Warned Not to Use Phone’s Web Browser

Europe gets first petaflops super computer

2 big satellites collide 500 miles over Siberia

* Comic of the week

Credit goes to xkcd – http://xkcd.com/

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* News about Mint

Linux Mint 6 x64 released!

mintCast – Episode6

Monthly Stats – January 2009

* News about Linux

KDE 4.2.0 Release Announcement

Nomad & Compiz++ To Merge Back Into Compiz

Dell Offers Enterprise Linux Operating System from Novell to Address Growing Market for Thin Clients

There’s a problem with Google Earth 5 a solution can be found here

* News about Open Source

VMware ships open source Linux VDI client

Multiple Serious Vulnerabilities in OpenX Ad Server

* News about IT

Removing admin rights stymies 92% of Microsoft’s bugs – and maybe 92% of programs as well… This is one reason why Linux is safe – you don’t run in “admin mode” (I sincerely hope :))

Malware infection that began with windshield fliers

SANS is a good source for information about security threats

Corporations are inadvertently becoming the number 1 security threat to their own customers, according to new IBM X-Force® annual report

Google looks to structured data

French court fines Google over trade marked keywords

The Firefox update to 3.0.6 is out. It fixes a couple of vulnerabilities, one of them labeled critical. (The Mint version is on its way)

Microsoft force-installs Firefox extension

Operating System Market Share (oh how small it is for Linux…)

Google error “This site may harm your computer” (January 31st)

VirtualBox Gets Accelerated Direct3D Support

FBI warns of money mule scams

DNS Amplification Variation Used in Recent DDoS Attacks

February 2009 report highlighting Registrars that have a concentration spam, abuse and illicit activity.

* Hardware news

Lenovo posts loss, returns to Chinese management

Motorola losses widen as Q4 phone sales tumble 51%

OLPC XO-2 to be open source hardware

Nano-size fridges to cool CPUs

TCG spec to be foundation of storage encryption

* Other news

Google – The Internet Bus Project

New speed record for reliable reading of optical data – 640 Gbits/second

Australian Company Launches ‘Smart’ Watch Phones

Subatomic nanoholograms smash 1-bit-per-atom barrier

Motorola disses Windows Mobile: Android “more competitive”

Feds: IT admin plotted to erase Fannie Mae

NEC Layoffs Job Cut: fires 20000 employees

* Comic of the week

Credit goes to xkcd – http://xkcd.com/

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