The Linux Mint BlogCharles Olsen and Rothgar published another episode of the mintCast podcast. Happy listening everyone!
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The Mint 6 KDE and Fluxbox Community editions were released
The special Google search in Mint will be tweaked – it is a major source of income and a minor source of irritation so we will do something about it
Twitter for Linux Mint (quick news)
* News about Linux
Sabayon Linux 4.1 “GNOME” edition released
Portable Ubuntu – run Ubuntu as a Windows application (no it’s not Wubi)
Intel Looks To Make Large Contribution To GCC
Intel aims for 2-second boot time with Moblin Linux platform
Bug Tracker Helps Mop Up Linux Kernel
Ubuntu 9.04 due April 23, includes native ARM port
The latest news about the kernel is always found here
* News about Open Source
Hungary Hungry for Open Source
* News about IT
Sentence in the Pirate Bay trial – one year jail term. This is certain to be appealed and end up in the supreme court, so it will take years before it’s closed
According to some sources Sweden would have problems with WTO and similar organisations if the sentence was not guilty (link in Swedish)
When the EU IPRED directive became Swedish law internet traffic was halved (link in Swedish but the diagram is “multilingual” 🙂 )
Facebook passes 200 million users
Spam E-mails Killing the Environment, McAfee Report Says
Canonical blog – Microsoft, FUD and the netbook market
Will Linux overtake Windows on netbooks?
Teenager Michael “Mikeyy” Mooney fears being sued for creating Twitter worm
Verizon Business 2009 Data Breach Study Finds Significant Rise in Targeted Attacks, Organized Crime Involvement
Patent infringement – Microsoft ordered to pay Uniloc $388 million
Amazon.com Disputes Hacker’s Confession
* Hardware news
The ATI Catalyst driver leaves old cards to use legacy drivers (link for Windows, but it is the same for Linux)
Intel chips get new logos, star treatment
Intel Drops A Load Of G45 Programming Documentation
Intel CEO says PC sales ‘bottomed out‘
* Other news
* Comic of the week
Credit goes to xkcd
On behalf of the team I am thrilled to announce the release of Linux Mint 6 KDE. Congratulations to Jamie Boo Birse, maintainer of this edition, for the integration of a fantastic KDE4 desktop and the excellent work he’s done for this release.
This edition is based on Kubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex, Linux 2.6.27, Xorg 7.4 and it comes with KDE 4.2 and Amarok 2.0. For a complete list of new features read: Whats new in Felicia KDE CE?
System requirements and known issues:
You need 256MB RAM to run the Live CD or install. To install, you need a minimum of 4GB of free space on your hard disk. Once installed, Linux Mint 6 KDE CE can run with 256MB RAM, but it is strongly recommended to have at least 512MB RAM.
Order Linux Mint 6 KDE on CD:
You can order the Linux Mint 6 KDE live DVD for $10 from our partner on-disk.com:
http://on-disk.com/product_info.php/products_id/709
For each CD sold, on-disk.com contributes $5.41 back to our distribution.
Download Linux Mint 6 KDE:
You can download Linux Mint 6 KDE via torrent or via HTTP:
Size: 1.1GB LiveDVD
MD5Sum: 8f51c714c8b0a63877a30b9e84bf388f
Torrent download: http://www.linuxmint.com/torrent/LinuxMint-6-KDE.iso.torrent
HTTP download: http://www.linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=37
Europe:
Northern America:
Asia & Oceania:
Have fun!
Enjoy this new version of the KDE edition and don’t hesitate to send us your feedback. Congratulations and thanks to the maintainer, Jamie Boo Birse, for the excellent work done on this release.
Have a lot of fun and thanks for using Linux Mint.