The Linux Mint BlogWe are currently working with Linspire to make CNR available under Linux Mint. The CNR server should host Linux Mint software and packages and the CNR client will be made compatible with our distribution.
Once this is in place focus will be put into implementing CNR capabilities into the mintInstall client.
This way you will be able to use the same mintInstall client to install software from both the Linux Mint Software Portal (mint protocol) and the CNR server (CNR protocol).
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.