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mintCast – Episode 9

Linux Mint 4.0 Daryna reaches end-of-life

Linux Mint now has a forum at LinuxQuestions.org

New packages are continuously added to the community repositories – merlwiz79 has made a .deb that makes the “software-sources” application work on Mint

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LINUX MASCOT: Tux to make way for Tasmanian Devil

And this is what’s new in the latest kernel 2.6.29

Gnome 2.26 released

The ext4 data loss issue (by one of the devs)

Chromium on Ubuntu ! [HOW TO]

digiKam 0.10.0 release for KDE4

The latest news about the kernel is always found here

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Richard Stallman: You may be running non-free programs on your computer every day without realizing it—through your web browser.

Khronos Launches Initiative to Create Open Royalty Free Standard for Accelerated 3D on the Web

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Microsoft, Lexmark to cross-license patents

TomTom gets allies in Microsoft Linux patent lawsuit fight

The next version of Firefox will be 3.5 not 3.1

Flaw makes Twitter vulnerable to serious viral attack

Facebook could be monitored by the UK government

Facebook defends its security and privacy tools

Songbird Bug Accidentally Wipes Users’ iPods, but the Bug Bites the Dust

Pwn2Own 2009 Day 1 – Safari, Internet Explorer, and Firefox Taken Down by Four Zero-Day Exploits

Safari Cracked in Seconds at Pwn2Own Hacking Competition

Researcher hacks just-launched IE8

First worm directed at home routers – infects devices which has weak username/passwords

The downadup/Conficker worm will do something on April 1st – probably no funny april fools joke

Microsoft and Yahoo talking again

Semantic Search Could Secure Google’s Future

Firewalls often do not filter ipv6 which is a major security hole (link in Swedish – sorry no good link in English)

Romanian police arrest Pentagon hack suspect

Aussie ISP pulls out of firewall trial

Pirate Bay Announces IPREDATOR Global Anonymity Service

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This is a bit odd – Credit card skimming malware targeting ATMs

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Linux Mint 4.0 Daryna will reach end of life on April 18, 2009. This release was based on Ubuntu 7.10 which is planned to reach end-of-life at the same date.

Repositories will remain open for another while but no more updates or security fixes will be made available. Users of Linux Mint 4.0 Daryna are asked to migrate to Linux Mint 5 LTS Elyssa (Long Term Release which will be supported until April 2011) or Linux Mint 6 Felicia (which will be supported until April 2010).

Announcement from Ubuntu: “As with the earlier releases, Ubuntu committed to ongoing security and critical fixes for a period of 18 months. The support period is now nearing its end and Ubuntu 7.10 will reach end of life on Saturday, April 18, 2009. At that time, Ubuntu Security Notices will no longer include information or updated packages for Ubuntu 7.10.”

Note: Linux Mint follows the Ubuntu release cycle with a new release every 6 months, a lifespan of about 1.5 years per release and 3 years per LTS release. LTS stands for Long Term Support. Linux Mint 5 is an LTS release.

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Many thanks to the following donors and sponsors for financially supporting Linux Mint:

Donors:

– $100 (12th donation), Az Van (newW2 – USA)
– $100, R Muir-G. (UK)
– $100, Robert C. (USA)
– $100, Gary M. (USA)
– $72 (2 donations), David F. (Ireland)
– $71, Matteo P. (Italy)
– $55, Andres V. (Colombia)
– $50, Jerry B. (USA)
– $50, Dan K. (USA)
– $50, Robert D. (USA)
– $50, Henri-Charles T. (Canada)
– $45, Glenn W. (Norway)
– $36, Marco R. (Italy)
– $36, Angelika H. (Germany)
– $30, Jim L. (USA)
– $28, Marcos Antonio S. (Italy)
– $28, Frank H. (Germany)
– $28, Chris-Stavros C. (Greece)
– $25 (3rd donation), Philippe W. (Switzerland)
– $25 (2nd donation), Scott H. (USA)
– $25 (2nd donation), John Westervelt (dutchmaster – USA)
– $25, Lisa B. (USA)
– $20, Leonardo F. G. (Brazil)
– $20, Eric H. (USA)
– $14, Alexander R. (UK)
– $14, Carlo del F. (Italy)
– $14, Renzi D. (Italy)
– $14, Fabio B. (Netherlands)
– $14, Victor V. (Germany)
– $11, Harry C. (USA)
– $10, April S. (USA)
– $10, James W. (USA)
– $10, Stefan S. (Canada)
– $10, Ruth McK. (USA)
– $10, Carl S. PsyD (USA)
– $10 (8th donation), Phillip Blake (antiquexray – USA)
– $5, Thomas D. (UK)
– $3, CMOS (Norway)
– $0.5, Tim K. (USA)

Sponsors:

– $70, Philippe Lotz (alsaphil – France)
– $50, Linux-Onlineshop (Germany) – http://www.linux-onlineshop.de
– $45, Linux Compatible Poker (USA) – http://www.linuxcompatiblepoker.com
– $40, Az Van (newW2 – USA)
– $20, TOPIMMOBILIEN (Tim – Germany) – http://www.immobilien-es.com
– $10, Jim Rogers (USA)
– $7, Jesse Burroughs (JpBя – USA)
– $7, Panagiotis Papasaikas (Greece) – http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/ppapasai/
– $5, Dimitris Athanasiou (RHO, Greece) – http://www.speedtest.gr
– $5, Vassilis Skoullis (Greece)
– $5, linuxmint-fr.org (ludal – France) – http://www.linuxmint-fr.org
– $5, linuxmint-italia.org (Pietro Martino / prior123 – Italy) – http://www.linuxmint-italia.org
– $5, Guillermo Enrique Guglietti (Canada) – http://www.urbancsa.org
– $5, Alex P.
– $2, Joerg Dreckmann (Germany)
– $1, Lintelligence.de. (d00p – Germany) – http://www.lintelligence.de
– $1, Linuxmint.de (d00p – Germany) – http://www.linuxmint.de
– $1, Ian Egland (Echolynx – USA)
– $1, BusinessSale – http://www.webvaluer.org
– $1, very-clever.com – http://www.very-clever.com
– $1, Busybits – http://www.busybits.com
– $1, linboo.com – http://www.linboo.com
– $0.5 Martijn van Loon (aapiethaaap – Netherlands)

Money raised in December

* Donations: $1318.5
* Sponsors: $288.5

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