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