* News about Mint
Linux Mint 8 Helena released
Upgrade path
Linux Mint 8 Helena 64-bits released
Fluxbox CE, resurrected
community.linuxmint.com (alpha)
Monthly stats November 2009 – again a “best ever” month
As usual the blog is good read
We’ve got a Mint site in Finland
The mintCast, the Mint podcast, is found here
* News about Linux
KDE news – digiKam and Kipi sprint
GNOME To Split from GNU Project after a clash with Richard Stallman?
MonoDevelop throws out GPL in favour of LGPL (somewhat related to the Gnome topic above as Miguel de Icaza is involved in both cases)
Moonlight – Microsoft has an updated patent covenant that will cover third party distributions. (Miguel de Icaza is involved again)
Ubuntu Developer Channel on Youtube
GIMP Dropped From Ubuntu 10.04
Bryce Harrington at Canonical is seeing a surge of bug reports against X.org
About the release cycle of Ubuntu
Mark Shuttleworth resigns as Canonical’s CEO – will instead focus on product design, partnerships and customers
Nouveau To Go Into Linux 2.6.33 Kernel! (Nouveau – open nvidia driver)
Nouveau Makes Its Own NV40 Firmware Replacement
System Rollback With Btrfs in Fedora 13 announced
Krita Team Seeking Sponsorship to Take Krita to Next Level
Jolicloud an Ubuntu based distribution for netbooks
New nvidia drivers just released
New AMD/ATI drivers just released
Exploring New Nepomuk Features in Mandriva Linux 2010
The latest news about the kernel is always found here
* News about Open Source
Second KOffice Developer Sprint 2009 Kickoff
Michael “Monty” Widenius, the creator of MySQL, asks for help save MySQL from “Oracle’s clutches.”
* News about IT
Italy targets Facebook, contemplates Web restrictions after Berlusconi attack
Google CEO: Secrets Are for Filthy People (really?) (A comment from Mozilla’s Asa Dotzler – use Bing!)
Microsoft ends 10-year fight with Europe on browsers
icloud claims to be your very own computer online
Fake anti-virus software brings an estimated loss to victims in excess of $150 million.
European ISPs lash out at secret ACTA negotiations
State of Mozilla and 2008 Financial Statements
Firefox, Adobe top buggiest-software list
Apple Told To Pay Patent Troll OPTi $21.7 Million
Report: Cyberattacks against the U.S. “rising sharply”
Self defending Botnets Bounce Back with Sharpened Survival Skills
Serious bug in NTP – internet’s time protocol
VirtualBox 3.1 released
Google Gears development stopped, Google will focus on HTML 5
Outstanding stock fraud spammer Alan Ralsky sentenced to jail
Worm attacking Iphones steeling bank account information
Silverlight: Universal GUI toolkit
Mininova limits its activities to Content Distribution service
Harms and Concerns Posed by NXDOMAIN Substitution
Blizzard outlines massive effort behind World of Warcraft
Microsoft’s XSS buster busted
*Hardware news
Laptop battery likely cause of fatal house fire
Open-Source Effort to Hack GSM
* Other news
A sad ending – GM set to wind down Saab
EU-USA SWIFT & TFTP agreement materials (information exchange on bank transactions) prolonged November 30 2009
The CRU hack – (Climatic Research Unit)
Korean 3D television broadcasts in Full HD just weeks away
Single-atom transistor discovered (If you wonder why the link looks funny – it’s in the Finnish language)
* Comic of the week
Credit goes to xkcd
* More about Linux Mint
How to donate
Blog The planet Wiki Forum Twitter Mintcast
* Editors comment
As always – if you find something I’ve missed in the newsletter please tell me – you can post a comment.
It’s been a month since that last newsletter, the release of Mint 8 Helena caused a surge of new posts in the forum.
Because of the changes in Ubuntu Karmic some questions are hard to answer so unfortunately we have more unanswered posts in the forum than ever.
Enjoy life
Husse
