* News about Mint
Linux Mint 5 Elyssa KDE Community Edition is released
If you have RC1 (aka beta045) you don’t need to do anything. The difference between the two is that a bug that duplicated some folders in home is fixed
Linux Mint 5 Elyssa Fluxbox Community Edition RC1 is released
Keep your eyes open – more news soon.
* News about Linux
The next Ubuntu is to be called Jaunty Jackalope (let’s hope it becomes more than a myth…)
The talks at Ubuntu Developer Week are found here
Ubuntu puts all man pages on the internet
Mark Shuttleworth on design, user experience and development
Lenovo denies ditching Linux
The spread of the Linux virus Linux/Rst-B according to Sophos (quite a few root infected boxes out there)
The latest news about the kernel is always found here
* News about IT
The invaluable NoScript for Firefox plug-in just got a tad better.
A new version of VLC
ZoooS takes OpenOffice to web
Google to have data center at sea?
HP is trying to make Windows better
The Association of National Advertisers (US) wants the pact between Google and Yahoo stopped
Google-backed satellite project aims to give 3 billion more people Net access
Google closes hole in Single Sign-On service
Language of text messages can give you away
French oppose sinister government database
The major Internet outages so far in 2008
Phishing Cyber Gang Upgrades to Fast-Flux Botnet
Study: Weak Passwords Still Main Security Defense
San Francisco hunts for mystery device on city network
Threat From DNS Bug Isn’t Over, Experts Say
* Hardware news
Cisco pushes ‘network memory‘ to alleviate high-speed bottlenecks
Intel vPro and the future of tech support
Ultrasound to give feel to games
Startup introduces ‘unclonable’ chip technology
USB-stick with hardware AES-encryption has been cracked
* Trivia and other links
Scientists get death threats over Large Hadron Collider (because of the risk of creating black holes) and it has already been hacked.
VMware Fusion Helps CERN Physicists Analyze Data From Coolest Place on Earth
* More about Linux Mint
How to donate
You find the Wallpaper of the Month in the Blog
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Enjoy life
Husse
I’ve updated my repos (multiverse) and cannot find the newest version of vlc (0.9.2). The repos only list 0.8.6e. How long until this is updated, because that is the only way I can download the new version according to the vlc site. 🙁
Another great newsletter, btw. Thanks, Husse.
VLC is in the part of the repos that Ubuntu maintains, I do hope they get the new version there soon
Whatta great selection of news!! I read them all. Congrats!!
yea, common VLC update!
I would just say one thing about Linux Mint. “If looks can kill, then i am already………..DEAD”. It has got killer looks.
I have Xubuntu Intrepid installed and vlc 0.9.2 isn’t in the repo.
I did find a test release for Intrepid on launchpad.
It now requires QT4 and takes 74.9MB to install. 🙁
I am definitely not putting VLC in Linux Mint 6 Felicia XFCE CE.
Using VLC 0.9.2 in Windows keeps using up my RAM and I have 1Gig of RAM.
I had only Firefox and VLC running and it would pop-up telling me to close VLC.(not enough memory)
Now what am I suppose to use. 🙁
Ok I found VLC 0.9.2 for hardy, I new I seen it was somewhere.
Add these to your sources.list
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/c-korn/ubuntu hardy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/c-korn/ubuntu hardy main
Linux-Mint-x64
http://linux.softpedia.com/get/System/Operating-Systems/Linux-Distributions/Linux-Mint-x64-41443.shtml
is fake or what? why is not specified on http://www.linuxmint.com ????
Thanks, merlwiz79. Unfortunately, I got a few errors from the terminal about dpkg with an error code (1) and now vlc won’t open. I guess that source you posted doesn’t work. Idk. I’m not proficient enough yet to understand what I need to do next.
Thanks for the attempt.
@mmzeller
apt remove vlc vlc-nox
apt autoremove
Then
apt install vlc-nox vlc
This should give you 0.9.3
Haven’t tested it yet but the last one was slow for me.
The videos was skipping frames like crazy just to keep in sync with the audio. 🙁
I guess I’ll just stay with mplayer in Linux and Window Media player in Windows.