Welcome to the Linux Mint Newsletter
* News about Mint
Finally Elyssa was released
Release notes for Elyssa
We are working on the Community Editions
* News about Linux
Barack Obama uses LAMP
Ubuntu to make an edition for netbooks
* News about IT
Sweden to “follow EU rules” – adopts wide ranging wire tap law
Germany adopts an anti-terror law that would grant police the power to monitor private residences, telephones and computers.
A quarter of US computer infected with malware
US bank loses unencrypted data on 4.5m people
It doesn’t take a database expert to break into one
Legit websites more and more compromised
Wienna to switch from Linux to Vista – reason given – a “software used in a kindergarten language-learning programme called ‘Schlaumäuse’, which requires Internet Explorer, according to city officials quoted in the report”. A report states that the city could have subsidised a Firefox version of the software for a fraction of the cost of the Windows Vista migration.
* Hardware news
* Trivia and other links
* Editors comment
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I guess you ment Vienna instead of Wienna. But in this case, they don’t deserve to be written the right way 😉
The biggest LOLCOW is that the working name for the NEXT Windows release is…(DRUMROLL)
Vienna!
…go figure!