Exploder found a problem in BETA 044 which was supposed to be released this week. It’s related to language support so we decided to postpone the release of RC1 until we get this fixed.
Wallpaper Of The Month, August issue, Vote time
Well, it’s that time of the month, the very first Wallpaper Of The Month vote is now underway.
We have some incredible submissions this month, and I hope all of you will check out the amazing artwork done by our artist, and vote for you favorite.
The voting is done on the forums at Wallpaper Of The Month Voting
I am also going to be posting all winners to the linuxmint-art.org site, giving full credits to the original artist, so be on the lookout for them.
So head on over to the forums and vote for your favorite wallpaper, and let the artist know what you think.
Weekly Newsletter – Issue 54
Welcome to the Linux Mint Newsletter
* News about Mint
Elyssa XFCE Community Edition RC1 (BETA 025) released
Upcoming releases (More details here )
Preliminary dates
Friday 25 /07–> KDE CE RC1
Friday 01/08 –> XFCE CE Stable
Friday 08/08 –> KDE CE Stable
Wallpaper Of The Week is changing format. It will change to “of the Month”
Linux Mint 5 Article: The Perfect Desktop
* News about Linux
The New and Improved Ubuntu QA
KDE 4.1 RC1 Release Announcement
42 of the Best Free Linux Video Software
Torvalds attacks IT industry ‘security circus’
The new openSUSE Build Service tool (mentioned in the previous newsletter) used for Open-Xchange Server edition. The edition is immediately available for eight of the most popular Linux distributions (including Ubuntu)
* News about IT
Find out the name behind a Gmail address.
A project to secure the quality of Open Source financed by the EU
Europe Grants First Privacy Certification – EuroPriSe (Found in Dark Reading)
Cybercrime, Cosa Nostra-Style – sadly it’s getting worse
Record profit for Microsoft
* Hardware news
Oyster card system clams up
European Union regulators have expanded their antitrust case against Intel
* Trivia and other links
* More about Linux Mint
You find the Wallpaper of the Month in the Blog
* Editors comment
As always – if you find something I’ve missed in the newsletter please tell me – you can post a comment here
Enjoy life
Husse