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The second public beta of Elyssa was released. Beta 032 was a success, but some changes have to be made

Questions about Elyssa?

* LinuxMint-Art.org

A new website, similar to gnome-look.org and maintained by the people behind opendesktop.org, was made available for us reports Clem

Latest wallpaper of the week

* News about Linux

Ubuntu developers on Youtube

Open CourseWare for Linux Geeks  a collection of free courses in Linux

The number of bugs in open source decreases

42 of the Best Free Linux Games

* News about IT

Power plants open to hacker attack

New security in Firefox

Napster challenges Itunes

Microsoft will add support for pdf and odf in SP2 for Office 2007

* Hardware news

New warning about possible dangers with cellphones

Permanent Denial-of-Service Attack Sabotages Hardware

German passports to contain video display

* Editors comment

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Linux Mint 5 Elyssa RC2 (BETA 048) was released today. It comes with the brand new Firefox 3 RC1, Flash 10, improved printing and bluetooth support and a lot of bug fixes. The changes are described here in the forums: http://linuxmint.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=0&t=12853

Links: Release Notes & Download mirrors

Please report bugs here in the forums: http://linuxmint.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=0&t=12853

This time I would like to thank not the team but the community itself. You’ve been great at reporting bugs and describing issues and annoyances with RC1 (BETA 032). The quality of your feedback was outstanding and it really helped us making Mint 5 better.

Have fun with this better Elyssa and don’t hesitate to send us comments and feedback. The Stable release should come in a week or two and after that we should be looking at the first x64 or KDE ISOs.

A new website, similar to gnome-look.org and maintained by the people behind opendesktop.org, was made available for us, for our artists and for our community, to gather icons, wallpapers, splash screens and artwork in general specific to our distribution. This new website is LinuxMint-Art.org and it’s available here: http://www.linuxmint-art.org

I would like to thank McLovin, from the MintArt project, thanks to whom this was made possible and I would like to encourage everybody to participate in making this website an excellent resource for our community.

Note: The BETA for today’s “potential/eventual” (as it needs approval from Exploder first) release is already built, but I will make sure to add this website as a predefined Firefox bookmark before Mint 5 goes final.