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Welcome to the Linux Mint Newsletter

* News about Mint

The second public beta of Elyssa was released. Beta 032 was a success, but some changes have to be made

Questions about Elyssa?

* LinuxMint-Art.org

A new website, similar to gnome-look.org and maintained by the people behind opendesktop.org, was made available for us reports Clem

Latest wallpaper of the week

* News about Linux

Ubuntu developers on Youtube

Open CourseWare for Linux Geeks  a collection of free courses in Linux

The number of bugs in open source decreases

42 of the Best Free Linux Games

* News about IT

Power plants open to hacker attack

New security in Firefox

Napster challenges Itunes

Microsoft will add support for pdf and odf in SP2 for Office 2007

* Hardware news

New warning about possible dangers with cellphones

Permanent Denial-of-Service Attack Sabotages Hardware

German passports to contain video display

* Editors comment

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

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So here we are, April is almost over and after a tough competition here’s what the All Stars table looks like:

1 Kronophage — 2.773 pts, 23 games. * Congrats! *
2 MeansWell — 2.064 pts, 19 games.
3 oOp — 0.620 pts, 6 games.
4 Pulpie — 0.491 pts, 3 games.
5 BlakeBird — 0.488 pts, 4 games.
6 Max — 0.321 pts, 3 games.
7 Marco — 0.278 pts, 3 games.
8 Toby_ — 0.194 pts, 2 games.
9 kancerman — 0.155 pts, 1 games.
10 sick — 0.131 pts, 1 games.
There were 14 users playing 69 games.

Congratulations to Kronophage. He was 3rd last month and is at the top of the table this month.

The Quizz bot will reset the stats on the 1st of May. If you haven’t joined the Quizz yet, it’s very easy:

– In Linux Mint: open up Xchat-Gnome (or Konversation) then when it’s connected join the #pimpmymint channel.
– On other platforms: Launch your favorite IRC client, connect to the irc.spotchat.org server and join the #pimpmymint channel.

Note: Make sure to register your nickname with Nickserv so that the Quizz bot can remember you the next time you log in