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* News about Mint

Linux Mint 7 “Gloria” released!

How to upgrade Mint 6 Felicia to Mint 7 Gloria

Gloria is a success! We have more visitors to our forum and irc than ever before.

The Monthly Stats – May 2009 confirms the impression – the best ever month

The forum was flooded with spam on May 30 and 31. On June 1 we implemented counter spam measures in the registration process. The result is truly amazing. From what I (Husse) can see as admin this stopped about 50+ spambots from registering every day!

mintCast Episode 15

* News about Linux

Ubuntu Picks Up X Input 2 Support In PPA

Canonical developers aim to make Android apps run on Ubuntu

HP snubs Moblin, rolls out Mi Linux-Atom netbook

Linux distributor joins Moblin

KOffice 2.0.0 Released

The CentOS-5.3 i386 Live CD is released

According to IBM a Global Survey Shows Linux Desktop Easier to Deploy Than Expexpected   The survey has also been interpreted as the exact opposite..

Transmission 1.61 Plugs CSRF Hole – a cross site scripting vulnerability in the browser interface – anyone using a version prior to 1.61 and the browser interface is at risk

550 Days Later, Unreal Tournament 3 for Linux Appears Dead

The latest news about the kernel is always found here

* News about Open Source

OpenSolaris 2009.06 released

Compliance Is The Goal – FSF on the lawsuit against Cisco

“Ubuntu One” name creates confusion (Mark Shuttleworth’s response)

* News about IT

New DNS Bug and Fix Announced

EU pushes music industry to open up online rights

IBM exec calls Vista the best recruiter for Linux

Google Wave a new communication service introduced

Russian company Digital Sky Technologies takes $200m stake in Facebook – value drops

Pornographic videos flood YouTube

Mozilla Labs Introducing Jetpack, Call for Participation

University of Michigan first to sign new digitization agreement with Google

* Hardware news

A Laptop Cooled with Ionic Wind

Gainward and Palit blast AMD for their GPU product policy

* Other news

eBay fakes: L’Oreal fail in High Court test case

* Comic of the week

Credit goes to cathbards-grove

* More about Linux Mint

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* Editors comment

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

Due to the apparent success of Gloria and subsequent growth in the number of posts in the forum I find it difficult to do everything in time.

That is  why this newsletter is so late

Enjoy life

Husse

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Edit: The repositories are working fine again. Sorry for the downtime and the inconvenience.

Original message below:

We’re experiencing problems with the server hosting our repositories. As we can’t access it remotely we’ve ordered a manual intervention and we’re currently waiting for this to happen.

In the meantime you can use Linux Mint just as you did before but:

  • mintUpdate will be slower to refresh (it will try to download the latest safety rules from that server, then timeout, then work normally)
  • you will see error messages when updating your APT cache
  • the website http://packages.linuxmint.com will be unavailable
  • you SHOULD NOT upgrade from Mint 6 to Mint 7 (wait until this problem is solved before upgrading, otherwise you’ll miss all the packages maintained by Mint and you’ll only get an update on the Ubuntu package base itself)

Our apologies for the inconvenience. We’re trying to fix this problem as quick as possible.

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Donations & Sponsorships:

Many thanks to the following donors and sponsors for financially supporting Linux Mint:

Donors:

  • $147, Andrew K. (Russia)
  • $147, Daniel F. (Germany)
  • $147, Rodney M. (Australia)
  • $110, Aleksandr A. (Russia)
  • $100, 12EasyHosting (USA)
  • $100, Loyal B. (USA)
  • $100, Terry B. (USA)
  • $100, Reject the Herd (USA)
  • $77, Peter T. (Australia)
  • $74, David N. (Czech Republic)
  • $74 (2nd donation), Eric H. (Germany)
  • $74, Marwan B. (Ireland)
  • $73 (5th donation), John Trapp (foggytown – USA)
  • $72, Sean R. (USA)
  • $60 (2nd donation), William R. (USA)
  • $50 (3rd donation), Arron J. (UK)
  • $50 (2nd donation), Barry Patterson (UK) – http://www.redsandstonehill.net
  • $50, Lauro F. (Switzerland)
  • $50, Paul M. (UK)
  • $50, Andrew F. (Australia)
  • $50, S R W. (Malaysia)
  • $50, Krishna M. (USA)
  • $50, Rodney C. (USA)
  • $50, Scott P. (USA)
  • $44 (2nd donation), Uwe S. (Germany)
  • $44, Jonas G. (Sweden)
  • $41 (5th donation), Peter Fitzsimons (UK)
  • $35, Fernando G. (Mexico)
  • $30, Lipton C. (UK)
  • $30, Bernard B. (USA)
  • $30, Juergen G. (Canada)
  • $29 (3rd donation), Marco R. (Italy)
  • $29 (2nd donation), Peter Kasbergen (PiEp – Netherlands) –  http://www.piep.nu/
  • $29, Gilles J. (France)
  • $29, Frans N. (Netherlands)
  • $29, Diego C. (Ireland)
  • $25 (2nd donation), William S. (USA)
  • $25, James M. (USA)
  • $25, Michael F. (USA)
  • $25, Colin C. (Canada)
  • $25, Joel O. (USA)
  • $25, Daniel B. (USA)
  • $25, Joseph K. (USA)
  • $25, Mike E. (USA)
  • $22, Stephen P. (UK)
  • $20 (2nd donation), David S. (UK)
  • $20 (2nd donation), Carl K. (USA)
  • $20, Paul G. (USA)
  • $20, Mike D. (USA)
  • $20, Dale B. (USA)
  • $20, Paul G. (USA)
  • $20, Sam R. (USA)
  • $20, Sebastian C. (Australia)
  • $20, Bill E. (USA)
  • $20, Kenneth S. (USA)
  • $20, Gary V. (USA)
  • $15, Kostas G. (Greece)
  • $15, Ole P. (Denmark)
  • $15, Herman V. (Belgium)
  • $15, Pavel U. (Czech Republic)
  • $15, Jakub G. (Poland)
  • $25, Richard G. (USA)
  • $15, Tim K. (Germany)
  • $15, Urs M. (Switzerland)
  • $15, Daniel W. (Switzerland)
  • $15, Catalin T. (Romania)
  • $15, David B. (Ireland)
  • $15, Andrew A. (USA)
  • $15, Nikos A. (Greece)
  • $15, Pawe P. (Poland)
  • $15, Carl B. (Belgium)
  • $15, Zak McG. (Australia)
  • $10 (9th donation), Phillip Blake (USA)
  • $10 (2nd donation), Justin Peterson (USA) – http://www.jp23.net/
  • $10 (2nd donation), David Morris (DPMorris – USA)
  • $10, Garry K. (USA)
  • $10, Jonathan H. (New Zealand)
  • $10, Clemens N. (USA)
  • $10, Mark C. (UK)
  • $10, Csaba S.  (Hungary)
  • $9, Georgetta B. (Romania)
  • $9, Agostino G. (Italy)
  • $8, Clyde N. (USA)
  • $7, Monika P. (Estonia)
  • $7, Lennart B. (Germany)
  • $5, Jose P. (USA)
  • $5, Marijan D. (Croatia)
  • $5, Khalil S. (USA)
  • $2, Bruno L. (Brazil)
  • $1, Zekeriya t K. (Turkey)
  • $1, Julie S. (USA)

    Sponsors:

    Money raised in May:

    * Donations: $3135
    * Sponsors: $396

    http://www.linuxmint.com/donors.php
    http://www.linuxmint.com/sponsors.php

    User Stats:

    Repartition of Linux Mint users across releases:

    • Linux Mint 4.0 Daryna: 4%
    • Linux Mint 5 Elyssa LTS: 11%
    • Linux Mint 6 Felicia: 37%
    • Linux Mint 7 Gloria: 48%

    Web Stats:

    • Visits: 1,378,407 (+12.45%)
    • Pageviews: 2,689,945 (+15.06%)
    • Page impressions: 1,425,021
    • Search queries: 2,564,610
    • Forum users: 16650
    • Forum posts: 146441

    Rankings:

    • Distrowatch (popularity ranking): 1408 (3rd)
    • Distrowatch (traffic share): 4.3% (2nd)
    • Alexa (website ranking): 31,388th

    Events:

    Summary:

    • We’ve received a fantastic amount of support from the community last month. Donations have never been so high. 91 people donated money in May for a total of $3135. That’s about 3 times the average we normally get.
    • All indicators show a boom in the size of our user base.
    • Among Distrowatch visitors, Linux Mint (4.3%) has twice as many users as Mandriva (2.1%) and Fedora (1.8%) and 3 times as many as OpenSuse (1.4%).
    • The Overall income is up 33%, and May 2009 was the best month ever since the start of the distribution.