* News about Mint
Both Mint 6 Felicia KDE CE and Fluxbox CE have been approved as stable and will soon be released
Both editions promise to be outstanding.
Monthly Stats – March 2009
We hope you enjoyed our April fools prank
Please update to Firefox 3.0.8 to protect from dangerous bug
* News about Linux
Debian adds (officially) a version based on the FreeBSD kernel
Red Hat CEO questions desktop’s relevance in Linux debate – not the first time
Suse Linux Enterprise 11 takes steps to work with Windows also on the desktop – Novell seems to disagree with Red Hat
CentOS 5.3 released
How Fedora got hacked last autumn – someone got hold of a valid key
What Flavor of Linux is Right For You? Mint we hope 🙂
KDE gets its own Brainstorm
Numerous developers quit PCLinuxOS
This is interesting – a small distribution called Billix allows network installation of Damn Small Linux, Ubuntu Jaunty/Intrepid/Hardy, Fedora 10, Debian, and Centos.
The latest news about the kernel is always found here
* News about Open Source
Mono 2.4 and MonoDevelop 2.0 released
* News about IT
The downadup/Conficker worm should have done something on April 1st – nothing happened as you may have noticed 🙂
Tracking GhostNet: Investigating a Cyber Espionage Network
A new method to monetize scareware – Windows only
‘Cybercrime exceeds drug trade’ myth exploded
Researchers unveil persistent BIOS attack methods (scary – code in BIOS without the use of any vulnerability.)
HP OpenView Buffer Overflows – the potential for damage is large
Expert cites “major problem” with security policy compliance
Microsoft and TomTom Settle Patent Infringement Cases
Sun Intros VDI 3, a Sun-Only Virtual Desktop Set
Silicon Graphics goes bust for second time (Hope this is not an April fools prank – published April 1)
Sources: Google In Talks To Acquire Twitter
I.B.M. Withdraws $7 Billion Offer for Sun
* Hardware news
MIT Graphene Chip Could Reach 1,000 Gigahertz
A Step Toward Superfast Carbon Memory
Sniffing keystrokes via laser and keyboard power
A computer the size of a large matchbox
* Other news
Is it me or did Cathbard use Bryan’s (from the Linux Action Show) comics maker software? Such a small World (unless I’m wrong of course) 🙂
Dunno – but it kind of looks familiar
HI,
It seems Linux Mint Fluxbox CE 6 and KDE CE 6 (Felicia) stable
has been released
http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/linuxmint.com/stable/6/community/
31 March/2009
01 April/2009
Interview with Shuttleworth: news.softpedia.com/news/Mark-Shuttleworth-Talks-About-Ubuntu-9-04-108552.shtml
And fit-pc has its own website: http://www.fit-pc2.com
No – not released yet
There are ISOs on our mirrors ahead of release but that may not necessarily be the right version
Conficker *did* do something – it’s active (ask me how I know *glares at friend’s computer*) It just hasn’t received any instructions yet.
Good recovery during the warmer days leading to Mint 7!
I personnaly found Cathbart less funny than the previous comic, I hope it’s just humor with a transcient cold (I understand the other guy may be asking too much to syndicate his stuff).
Yipeee!!!
Waiting for Linux Mint with KDE!!! Hurry guys, I’ve been checking the web twice a day, everyday for the last three weeks.
And I’m going to keep doing it!!!
Bad breath because of Gwindows???
Easy dude, take some Mint…
@ viktor
All the comics in the newsletter are free
Cathbard and xkcd are entirely different 🙂
Just noticed that Linux Pro Magazine (www.linuxpromagazine.com) had a DVD insert for Linux Mint 6 Universal Edition as part of its April 2009 issue. Did anybody know about that? Kinda caught me by surprise.