by ·10 Comments

* News about Mint

Linux Mint 6 “Felicia” x64 RC1 released!

Linux Mint 7 will be named “Gloria”

mintInstall 5.3.6 – faster refresh

We have had some problems in the forum – Mint is ever more popular and our servers become overloaded. We will soon have a new server and better bandwidth

* News about Linux

The latest news about the kernel is always found here

Debian 5 release approaches… binary blobs included

Btrfs (the file system) aims for the mainline

openSUSE Project Announces csync

* News about IT

SSL broken! Hackers create rogue CA certificate using MD5 collisions (this is serious)

The worm Downadup infected Swedish hospital including equipment used on patients causing severe danger (Swedish only link)

Weak Password Brings ‘Happiness’ to Twitter Hacker

Jobs: Hormone imbalance causing weight loss

OLPC – Refocusing on our mission

China targets Google, Baidu in latest ‘Net filth crackdown

Police set to step up hacking of home PCs (UK)

Private firm may track all email and calls in the UK

Reply-all e-mail storm hits State Department

* Hardware news

Accell introduces their USB 2.0 to VGA Adapter at CES – dual monitors even if you don’t have a video card with dual possibility

Freescale chip targets sub-$200 netbook market

Rumor that Google is developing its own router

* Trivia and other links

Maybe a bit…..

* More about Linux Mint

How to donate

Home page

Blog The planet Wiki Forum

* Editors comment

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

Enjoy life

Husse

by ·21 Comments

A new version of mintInstall was added to Romeo for Linux Mint 5 Elyssa and Linux Mint 6 Felicia.

Changes:

– The refresh process is now much faster. If data is already present (icons, mint files, screenshots) it doesn’t get downloaded again.

From Romeo to Stable branches of the repository:

– Romeo is where new packages go first. We rely on your feedback to assess their quality and whether or not they should be moved to the “main” section of the repositories. So please tell us what you think and if you experience any problem.

– We’re supporting both the latest version of Linux Mint (version 6 Felicia) and the latest LTS version of Linux Mint (version 5 Elyssa). When giving feedback, please make sure to mention which version you’re currently running.

by ·185 Comments

Linux Mint 7, based on Ubuntu 9.04 “Jaunty Jackalope”, and planned to be released in May 2009, will be codenamed “Gloria”.

Question to Linux Mint users: In Mint 6, mintMenu was labeled “Menu” instead of getting the traditional release codename (“Felicia”). Do you think it should remain “Menu” in future releases or would you prefer us to use the codenames again?

Edit: Thanks for all your comments. It looks like the right thing to do is to name the menu “Menu” but to also have a tooltip on it showing not only the codename but also the version and edition of Linux Mint. Since the text is easily configurable I don’t want to add that choice to mintAssistant. I released an upgrade in Romeo for mintMenu to show that information in the tooltip.