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.

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

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Enjoy life

Husse

I’m planning the following three releases:

Friday 25 /07–> KDE CE RC1
Friday 01/08 –> XFCE CE Stable
Friday 08/08 –> KDE CE Stable

I’ll also be rolling out an R2 on Main and its new Universal Edition. Once all of this is out I’ll be experimenting with the x64 edition.

Shane is also working on the Fluxbox CE but I’m not sure how it will fit into all this at this stage, in terms of delays and schedule.

Note: The Universal edition will replace the Light Edition. It will come without codecs but with a .mint file to install them on the desktop, it will contain language packs for all major languages, a vanilla Grub (non-graphical) and it will come as a DVD.

Note: We’ll release “when ready”, as usual. Dates don’t mean much to us and that’s why we usually don’t communicate them. I’m only giving these dates to give people an idea but if something needs fixing then we’ll be releasing later that that of course.