Our domain linuxmint.com was down between Friday night and Sunday morning.

Not only did that mean that the website was unavailable but also our forums, the repository, the portal and the rules used by mintUpdate to bring you automatic updates.

This was caused by a problem with our registrar which DNS usually routes to our server.

We will be looking into changing registrars in the future to ensure that this doesn’t happen again.

ATI cards owners will be delighted: AMD released a new video driver… Xgl is no longer needed to enjoy 3D Effects:

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=887&num=1

Also in the news this week; Intensified efforts in making more hardware work under Linux:

http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/devices_lacking_linux_support_needed.html

Thanks to Merlwiz for these two links.

A driver for the Broadcom 4318 chipset (Dell wireless 1390 card) was added to mintWifi. Thanks to Jason F. for sending it to us.