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* News about Mint

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‘

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* Comic of the week

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Enjoy life

Husse

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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.

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The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 6 Fluxbox Community Edition. Linux Mint Fluxbox Community Edition is based on Xubuntu 8.10 Intrepid, Linux 2.6.27, Fluxbox 1.0.0 and Xorg 7.4. Included is an all-new menu system, Mint-FM2, Slim as a display manager, Live CD features that should make it easier to install on low-end machines, a brand new “Software Manager”, FTP support in mintUpload, proxy support and history of updates in mintUpdate, mint4win (a Linux Mint installer for Microsoft Windows), and much more minty goodness. For a complete list of new features read: What’s new in Felicia Fluxbox CE?

Introduction to the Fluxbox Edition:

The Fluxbox Community Edition is built with the emphasis on a lightweight and yet fully functional desktop centered on the Fluxbox window manager. Even though we strive to provide out-of-the-box readiness for all your hardware and common computing tasks, Linux Mint Fluxbox CE is easily configurable to run on lower-spec hardware with the tools needed for doing so readily available.

For a list of know issues and for upgrade instructions, please visit the Release Notes.

System requirements:

  • x86 processor
  • 128 MB of system memory (RAM)
  • 2 GB of disk space for installation
  • VGA graphics card capable of 800×600 resolution
  • CD-ROM drive

Order Linux Mint 6 Fluxbox on CD:

You can order the Linux Mint 6 Fluxbox live CD for $10 from our partner on-disk.com:

http://on-disk.com/product_info.php/products_id/708

For each CD sold, on-disk.com contributes $5.41 back to our distribution.

Download Linux Mint 6 Fluxbox:

You can download Linux Mint 6 Fluxbox via torrent or via HTTP:

Size: 613MB LiveCD
MD5Sum: 501afcf7c00a2be3a2492101b336fa26

Torrent download: http://www.linuxmint.com/torrent/LinuxMint-6-Fluxbox.iso.torrent
HTTP download: http://www.linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=35

Europe:

Northern America:

Asia & Oceania:

Have fun!

Enjoy this new version of the Fluxbox edition and don’t hesitate to send us your feedback. Congratulations and thanks to the maintainer, Shane Joe Lazar, for the excellent work done on this release.

Have a lot of fun and thanks for using Linux Mint.