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Bear with me this is  the first edition in the blog and I have not found a preview option

* News about Mint

Beta 032 of Elyssa (main edition) has been out some time now. There seems to be few serious bugs, but of course there is always something found in a beta. There will probably be another beta, Clem has to fill in the details on that. I have found this beta very good except for problems with Firefox so I’m convinced the final version will be a smash hit

Security flaw in the handling of SSL. This would effect Mint editions from Cassandra onwards. Please update your systems http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-612-1

The latest “Wallpaper of the week” http://linuxmint.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=12474

* News about Linux

Wine 1.0-rc1 was released on May 9  http://www.winehq.org/

Warning for brute force SSH attacks http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11518

Mark Shuttleworth talks about the Ubuntu release cycle and a possible collaboration with the other, large distributions on a coordinated major / minor release cycle http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/146

Fedora 9 has been released http://fedoraproject.org/

Mono has reached a milestone and releases Moonlight http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2008/May-13-1.html

* News about IT

HP buys EDS in for 13.9 billion dollars http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9942681-7.html

The battle between Microsoft and Yahoo goes on (and on) No link needed

CBS buys Cnet http://valleywag.com/390709/cbs-buys-cnet-networks-for-18-billion

New data highlights botnets http://www.marshal.com/trace/traceitem.asp?article=637

Paypal is vulnerable to XSS http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/16/paypal_page_succumbs_to_xss/

* Hardware news

ASUS is to ship motherboards with a built in Linux so you don’t have to start the computer (fully) to do simple tasks http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/05/prweb942944.htm

* Editors comment

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

So far we’ve had the newsletter in the wiki, but it is better to use the blog for this.

I will continue as before with news about Mint and a selection of news from the IT sector and publish the letter on Mondays or Tuesdays

Husse

PS The first newsletter in the blog soon to come

After many sleepless nights and a lot of work I am delighted to announce that the first release candidate for Linux Mint 5 Elyssa was released and that it is now available for download. A lot of changes and improvements were made since Daryna so make sure to read the “What’s new in Elyssa” section of the Release Notes.

Links: Release Notes & Download mirrors

Please report bugs here in the forums: http://www.linuxmint.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=0&t=12393

I would like to thank the team for the hard work put into this, Exploder for his responsiveness and for all the testing he’s done over the week-end and Jernau, the artist who signed 100% of the artwork used in this released. Many thanks also to Carlos who’s still working on improving various parts of the website and to Kronophage who is rapidly adding applications to the Software Portal.

Have fun with the first ISO of Elyssa and don’t hesitate to send us comments and feedback.