The votes were cast, and they are all in. The winner is clear.

Congratulations go out to akaNed for winning the 1st issue of Wallpaper Of The Month, his great work on this wallpaper got him a very well deserved win.

(see the full posting on the forums)

This wallpaper has been submited to the linuxmint-art.org site, and cen be found HERE.

The submissions section for the September issue has been started, and is currently ongoing, so get your artwork ready, and post it HERE, and you could be the next winner.

KDE CE

Boo is experiencing problems with the installer. Language packs are correctly downloaded but not correctly installed by Ubiquity. This results in the selected language not being used by KDE and it’s delaying the release of KDE CE RC1. At this stage we believe the problem comes from a conflict in the Ubuntu repositories.

XFCE CE

Merlwiz finished his work on this edition. The ISO should be uploaded to our servers very soon now and it will then be tested by Exploder to see if it can be released.

x64

I started working on the x64 Edition. Since I’m starting from scratch on this edition there’s a lot of work involved but the progress is good so far and things are going fine. It’s too soon to know how long it will take for this edition to be ready yet.

Fluxbox CE

Shane submitted BETA 042 to Exploder, who only reported 4 bugs.. none of which were major issues. The next ISO from Shane is likely to pass Exploder’s tests and we’ll then be looking at a public release.

Other developments

mintInstall 4.0 has been in Romeo for a while now. Please provide feedback about it so we can move it to Elyssa.

mintUpdate 2.8 is going to bring a lot of changes and improvements to our update manager. It should be released in Romeo in the days to come. Please translate it (in the forums) as much as you can.

Flash 10 beta 2 is in Romeo. Please provide as much feedback as possible so it can make its way towards Elyssa.

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* News about Mint

KDE CE RC1 Delayed This has been (mainly) because of a problem with localization – downloaded languages did not install. Even with a DVD sized ISO we can’t have all language packs in the ISO – bandwidth comes with a prize.

We get an increasing amount of spam in the forum (we are popular :)) but it’s becoming quite a nuisance….

* News about Linux

KDE 4.1 released

Google Gadgets for Linux

RealPlayer update fixes critical security holes which are for Linux as well

Launchpad to become open source in the next 12 months

Shuttleworth challenges open source to out-pretty Apple

Intel mobile Linux stack dumps Ubuntu

* News about IT

Microsoft donates cash to Apache

Speculation over back door in Skype

Google hits a milestone: found 1 trillion (as in 1,000,000,000,000) unique URLs on the web at once!

The dark side of the internet is growing. An infested site discovered  every 5 seconds

Here’s someone leaving the dark side (MS developer goes to open source)

* Hardware news

Some nvidia mobile GPUs are flawed Dell releases BIOS update to alleviate. I think we may have a few people in the forum with this problem. It’s Geforce 8400M and 8600M that are affected.

D-Wave’s Orion: The First Commercial Quantum Computer?

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