{"id":1003,"date":"2009-08-19T12:55:27","date_gmt":"2009-08-19T10:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.linuxmint.com\/blog\/?p=1003"},"modified":"2009-08-19T12:55:27","modified_gmt":"2009-08-19T10:55:27","slug":"the-mint-newsletter-issue-91","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/?p=1003","title":{"rendered":"The Mint Newsletter – issue 91"},"content":{"rendered":"
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* News about Mint<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Mint 7: Flash in full screen with Firefox 3.5.x – a fix<\/a><\/p>\n

Clem has commented<\/a> on a review of the Gloria KDE edition<\/div>\n

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* News about Linux<\/strong><\/p>\n

Security flaw<\/a> in the kernel discovered, it’s in all kernels for the last 8 years, but it is only local, it cannot be used remotely<\/p>\n

This is the second flaw discovered in about a month (previous one here<\/a> Standard Mint does not have a kernel that is at risk for this one) Patches exist for both<\/p>\n

Several vulnerabilities<\/a> regarding the parsing of XML data have been found – this affects some libraries in Mint, check the link to see which<\/p>\n

Debian decides<\/a> to adopt time-based release freezes<\/p>\n

Alan Cox Quits<\/a> As Linux TTY Maintainer \u2014 “I’ve Had Enough” – and Linus<\/span> Torvalds starts<\/a> programming TTY<\/p>\n

Microsoft Acknowledges<\/a> Competition from Linux<\/p>\n

Dell: Linux v Windows netbook returns<\/a> a ‘non-issue’<\/p>\n

Novell – More Support<\/a> for the openSUSE Project (not so long ago Novell fired developers for openSUSE)<\/p>\n

openSUSE Cuts Maintenance<\/a> Cycle to 18 Months<\/p>\n

Moonlight<\/a> 2.0 goes Beta<\/p>\n

A possible change of direction for Foresight Linux<\/a><\/p>\n

The latest news about the kernel is always found here<\/a><\/p>\n

* News about Open Source<\/strong><\/p>\n

KDE 4.3.0 released<\/a><\/p>\n

Khronos Releases<\/a> OpenGL 3.2 with easier portability of Direct3D applications.<\/p>\n

Nokia says Qt is the best<\/a> framework, and is to drop Symbian and makes Qt a subdomain<\/a> of Nokia.com (no more Trolltech or qtsoftware) Qt is used by KDE<\/p>\n

* News about IT<\/strong><\/p>\n

Twitter DOS attack targeted<\/a> Georgian blogger<\/p>\n

Twitter-based Botnet<\/a> Command Channel<\/p>\n

Zeus botnet\u2019s Real Host cut off<\/a> from the internet (Zeus is alleged to be the world’s biggest cybercrime botnet)<\/p>\n

Three indicted in largest<\/a> U.S. identity theft scheme, according to some sources it was simple<\/a>: Theft Of 130 Million Credit Card Numbers Didn’t Take Much<\/p>\n

Researchers hijack<\/a> computer during software update<\/p>\n

OpenDNSSEC<\/a> Launched to Help Drive Adoption of DNSSEC<\/p>\n

Researchers find<\/a> insecure BIOS ‘rootkit’ pre-loaded in laptops<\/p>\n

Bootkit bypasses<\/a> hard disk encryption<\/p>\n

Microsoft at a loss<\/a> in Word patent case?<\/p>\n

Microsoft Finally Joins<\/a> HTML 5 Standard Efforts<\/p>\n

Microsoft IE 8 shines<\/a> in Web browser security test paid for by Microsoft<\/p>\n

* Hardware news<\/strong><\/p>\n

eXtreme Power Suppply Calculator<\/a> Helps Accurately Select a PSU – more important than you may think<\/p>\n

* Other news<\/strong><\/p>\n

Microsoft and Nokia announce close cooperation<\/a>, Office Mobile comes to Nokia smartphones – could this cooperation “kill” Windows Mobile?<\/div>\n

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* Comic of the week<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Credit goes to xkcd<\/a><\/div>\n

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* More about Linux Mint<\/strong><\/p>\n

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How to donate <\/a><\/p>\n

Home page <\/a><\/p>\n

Blog<\/a> The planet <\/a> Wiki<\/a> Forum<\/a> Twitter<\/a> Mintcast<\/a><\/p>\n

* Editors comment<\/strong><\/p>\n

As always – if you find something I\u2019ve missed in the newsletter please tell me – you can post a comment.<\/p>\n

Enjoy life<\/p>\n

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* News about Mint Mint 7: Flash in full screen with Firefox 3.5.x – a fix Clem has commented on a review of the Gloria KDE edition * News about Linux Security flaw in the kernel discovered, it’s in all kernels for the last 8 years, but it is only local, it cannot be used […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main-topics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1003"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1006,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions\/1006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}