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Preparations for the next version of Mint, Helena, is going on
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A new Mint KDE logo has been selected
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Good News, id Tech 5 Is Likely Coming To Linux (gaming engine for Rage and Doom)
GNOME 2.28 Released
ARM Joins The Linux Foundation
Virtualization Leader Citrix Joins The Linux Foundation
Ubuntu 10.04 : The Lucid Lynx. Shuttleworth says it won’t stink
Red Hat Reports Strong Second Quarter Results
Stallman says Miguel de Icaza is basically a traitor
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Nokia has packaged KOffice for Maemo 5 environment (cell phones)
Firefox With WebGL Brings Powerful 3-D Graphics to the Web
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France Passes Tough Internet Piracy Bill (the toughest?)
Microsoft sues scareware scammers
New FCC “Net Neutrality” Rules
Google Chrome Frame an open source plug-in that brings HTML5 and other open web technologies to Internet Explorer
Dell to pay $4 million in fraud case
Dell to buy Perot Systems for $3.9 billion
Palm Ditches Windows Mobile
Hacker Forum Got Hacked
Earn 43 cents every time you infect a Mac
Cisco addresses 12 individual vulnerabilities
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I have been working long hours lately and there’s a lot to do in the forum so this edition is much delayed
Enjoy life
Husse
Cool. Remember to include pppoe.conf for PPPoE connections in Helena. Refer to http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=90&t=27314
Miguel de Icaza, a “traitor”? 🙂 Ok, this is really getting ridiculous.
Ridiculous, yes – as two kids in a sand box fighting for toys 🙂
Husse: only here, there’s only one kid fighting for it, and he’s the one who wrote “share it” on that toy…
Great news batch! 🙂 I’m just surprised to see so many news that put Microsoft in a weird position. I imagine they’re not so comfortable right now.
Are you going to use the newest version of Shiki-Wise and Gnome-Colors? I’m usin them now on Gloria and much prefer them to the version that came with Gloria.
Alright, i don’t run Ubuntu Linux (tried it once) v. 7.10 (terrible)
Now since version 8.10 Ubuntu Linux has showing a fair evolution
but i still prefer to run Linux Mint (based on Ubuntu).
Now, the new codename for Ubuntu version 9.10 – Lucid Lynx…
Cruz e Credo! Cross and Creed! Horrible.
Lucille Lynx would sound better for me.
Simply a matter of taste of course… we don’t need to start a fuss.
10.04 is actually Lucid Lynx….9.10 is Karmic Koala
When will be some test version of Mint 8 release?
Darco
Ubuntu Linux 10.04
thanks for correcting my mistake and one more i will correct it now
Ubuntu Linux has been showing…
Who Knows? Maybe i am a lucid insane guy, lol…lol
Roberto, the pattern is first word adjective, second word animal, both words starting with the same letter going up a letter with each release. Lucille is a name, not an adjective.
@matt
Helllo and thanks.
Ok. English is not my language.
English grammar
adjective + noun
Portuguese Grammar
noun + adjective
Lucid Lynx – English
Lince Lúcido – Portuguese
Lynx(es) – wild cats (we don’t have them in Brazil). Perhaps in Zoos.
I agree that in this context, Lucille Lynx can be interpreted
as an offensive treatment to the Ubuntu Linux v. 10.04 codename.
Not a chance because i just wanted to say ‘Lucid Lynx” does not
sound good to me. Horrible! It’s just my personal opinion.
Best wishes
Roberto
Hey, i’m french why for this linux’s distribution there is not the same font for the desktop environment and the boot usplashscreen?
Please use same and keep the harmony!
Robert,
Your English sure is better than my Portuguese, and you are right. Lucid Lynx is an awful name.
I really don’t care.
If they droped names altogether, and just referred to version numbers, I’d find that more logical. The names are CUTE, and can see why one would affection them, but useless.
If it were up to me, I’d just code it starting with the Debian version number, 6, and suffix it with a distro version number separated by a hyphen. For example, 6-10.04, and to make things even more obvious, you could use one letter in front of the numbers, so that, no matter what number you are presented with, you would instantly know if it’s based on Redhat or Debian, for example, and if it’s generic Ubuntu or Mint, as in this example: “Mint version d5-m7”, “Ubuntu ver. d5-u9.04”. And such nomenclature could be used across the board, in the Linux community, for all colors and flavors of Linux, being considered as a standard.