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* News about Mint

The stable release of Mint 7 Gloria has entered the testing phase – if all goes well we are only a few days from release

Language support in Gloria

The RC1 has been reviewed several times alreday – here are some more reviews – this and this and this one in German

mintCast Episode 13 and 14 There is something strange with the links – both say episode 13

Monthly stats – April 2009 This April was the best month ever for Mint

* News about Linux

AMD Releases R600/700 Programming Guide – will it lead to better open source 3D drivers?

Zenwalk Live 6.0 release

Another critical patch from Adobe – also for *nix

The latest news about the kernel is always found here

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* News about IT

Greece halts Google Street View

Mozilla Prism introduced An application that lets users run web applications directly on their desktop

French Assembly passes ‘three strikes’ HADOPI law (it has now been passed by the senate as well)

File-Sharing in Sweden Decreasing drastically after the Pirate Bay verdict and start of the IPRED directive

US missile defence details bought on eBay

FAA’s Air-Traffic Networks Breached by Hackers

UC Berkeley computers hacked, 160,000 at risk

Heartland breach costs at $12.6M – and counting

‘Hacker’ threatens to expose health data, demands $10M

ZeusTracker and the Nuclear Option – the demise of a botnet

New Wave of “Gumblar” Hacked Sites Installs Google-targeting Malware – Windows only

The European Commission wants software makers held liable for code

* Hardware news

Intel loses chip share to AMD

Intel Fined By European Commission

Netbook runs on AA batteries

‘Echologic’ Linux netbook for Eur 130 in Spain  (link in Spanish)

* Other news

Brain scanning may be used in security checks

* Comic of the week

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Husse

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I would like to thank all the people who helped translating Gloria. The response from the community was amazing.  The ISO is being finalized today and it includes full support for the Mint tools in 37 languages: English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Swedish, Danish, Chinese, Korean, Portuguese/Br, Portuguese/Pt, Arabic, Hungarian, Lithuanian, Galician, Dutch, Russian, Polish, Norwegian, Japanese, Ukrainian, Romanian, Slovenian, Catalan, Greek, Czech, Slovak, Marathi, Norwegian [nynorsk], Croatian, Bulgarian, Turkish, Hindi, Finnish, Hebrew, Serbian and Belarussian.

Basque and Bosnian are also partially supported.

The ISO is estimated to be around 696MB including fonts for all the languages mentioned above to be displayed correctly out of the box.

The Universal Edition will also include the related language-packs for all these languages to work fully from the live DVD and in a fully localized Gnome environment.

I would also like to thank all the people who helped in testing the RC1 release of Linux Mint 7. 51 bug reports were catalogued and analyzed. And after triaging them all and releasing some fixes we’re now in a position to finalize the ISO.

The spreadsheet below shows the bugs which were looked at:

The ISO will now go into testing, and once approved by myself it will be submitted to the team and seeking Exploder’s approval for a stable release. We release when ready and if anything goes wrong we’ll just take more time so I can’t give an estimated release date but we’re getting close and we’ll make it worth the wait.

Again, many thanks to all who got involved. Many improvements were made since RC1, both in terms of bug fixes and language support and that is thanks to you.

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Many of you answered the call and helped with the translations. As you can see below we already have full support for 15 languages:

Among other things, missing translations are holding the stable release of Linux Mint 7. There are 15 languages for which only some of the tools were translated. This is a pity as efforts were made by the translators and yet some of the tools will show up in English to users speaking these languages. Some other popular languages are missing here as well.

This is an on-going effort and we’re receiving more translations every day so I’m confident about this. If you can help with the translations, please visit the translations forums and help improve the support for your language:

http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewforum.php?f=162

The sooner we’re done with this the sooner it can be integrated within Mint 7 and the sooner we’ll be able to release it as stable.

Many thanks to all the people for the help we’re getting from them.