The Linux Mint BlogWe just received a picture from AvanceIT, a Linux Mint partner based in the UK:
From http://www.linuxmint.com/partners.php: AvanceIT specialize in IT support for home users and small businesses. They make a donation of Uk£10.00 Sterling for each installation they make of Linux Mint.
Reason unknown but it was not possible to view any page in the forum except the index page and the registration pages (??) It was also possible to log in using the log in option at the bottom of the index page and use your user control panel. Judging form that the problem has lasted at least a couple of hours.
All the rest of our web services do work as they should
I have no means of fixing this – but I have alerted those who have the means
From Sunday (around 10 am UTC) it works again.
Look at Clem’s comment.
Welcome to the Linux Mint Newsletter
* News about Mint
Linux Mint 5 Review: The Gay Hacker Clems comments in the blog
A very good review that has brought up ideas to go into version 6 of Mint
Version 6 of Mint to be named Felicia
A security flaw in Elyssa
Although it’s a serious issue it is mitigated by the fact that to use it you have to log in as root when you boot or log out of the present user account into root and this would hardly go unnoticed
Some statistics about Elyssa
Donors and sponsors in May Thank you all
* News about Linux
Alberto Milone to maintain the nvidia driver for Ubuntu + new nvidia driver in Ubuntu proposed
Interview with Mark Shuttleworth
42 of the Best Commercial Linux Games
Review of Fedora 9
Mandriva Linux One Spring 2008 Review
Are there evil distros? Among other the relation of Mint to Ubuntu and Ubuntu to Debian is discussed
* News about IT
The Yahoo – Microsoft deal is dead
Latest spam technique uses hosted web services
Cyber-crooks sting South Africa for £13m
Vista’s big problem: 92 percent of developers ignoring it
* Hardware news
Nforce chipset data corruption finally solved
AMD’s physics secret revealed: It’s Havok
* Trivia and other links
* More about Linux Mint
* Editors comment
As always – if you find something I’ve missed in the newsletter please tell me – you can post a comment here
The past week has been busy and I have had internet problems so I’ve probably missed a lot