{"id":1076,"date":"2009-10-21T15:20:54","date_gmt":"2009-10-21T13:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.linuxmint.com\/blog\/?p=1076"},"modified":"2009-10-21T20:13:13","modified_gmt":"2009-10-21T18:13:13","slug":"the-mint-newsletter-%e2%80%93-issue-95-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/?p=1076","title":{"rendered":"The Mint Newsletter \u2013 issue 95"},"content":{"rendered":"
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* News about Mint<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Preparations for the next version of Mint, Helena, is going on<\/p>\n

Miscellaneous<\/a> news from Mint<\/p>\n

Windows license refund donated<\/a> to Mint<\/p>\n

Linux Mint 7 User Guide updated to version 1.0.7<\/a><\/p>\n

A new website<\/a> has been launched for Dutch speaking minters<\/div>\n

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

Google Summer of Code has again been a huge success for KDE<\/a> this year.<\/p>\n

The cost<\/a> to develop KDE would be about US $ 175 million<\/p>\n

Ubuntu to store<\/a> copies of all users’ address books<\/p>\n

Pulse Audio developer angry<\/a> with Ubuntu for the way Ubuntu implements Pulse audio<\/p>\n

Gentoo celebrates 10 years<\/a> with a live DVD<\/p>\n

Novell creates the openSUSE Boosters<\/a> team<\/p>\n

Stallman<\/a> and de Icaza<\/a> <\/strong>quarrel (again….)<\/p>\n

Debian<\/a> pushes development of kFreeBSD port<\/p>\n

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

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

OpenSSH celebrates it’s 10 year anniversary with the release<\/a> of version 5.3<\/div>\n
The London Stock Exchange will switch<\/a> to a Linux-based platform trading system, but it’s not because of a love of open source.<\/div>\n
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* News about IT<\/strong><\/p>\n

EU and Microsoft reach anti-trust agreement<\/a><\/p>\n

Comedy<\/a> Is an Uninvited Guest at Microsoft’s ‘House Party’ (for Windows 7)<\/p>\n

The “porn industry” behind<\/a> Google’s temporary removal of Pirate Bay? Seems plausible …..<\/p>\n

Informed P2P User Act<\/a> (in the US) to clamp down on filesharing software<\/p>\n

Music piracy costs money; does fighting it cost more<\/a>?<\/p>\n

OPERATION PHISH PHRY Major Cyber Fraud Takedown<\/a><\/p>\n

Microsoft and Red Hat announce the certification<\/a> of their operating systems, on each other virtualization platforms<\/p>\n

Facebook Now Has 30,000 Servers<\/a><\/p>\n

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

Dell releases world\u2019s first Moblin<\/a> netbook<\/p>\n

DRAM study<\/a> turns assumptions about errors upside down<\/p>\n

World\u2019s Smallest<\/a> Linux Networking Server<\/p>\n

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

EGNOS \u2018Open Service\u2019 available<\/a> – provides better precision in satellite navigation in Europe<\/p>\n

The Nobel prize for physics in 2009<\/a> was awarded for things now in daily use in IT – fibre optics and CCD – the base for the digital camera<\/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 \u2013 if you find something I\u2019ve missed in the newsletter please tell me \u2013 you can post a comment.<\/p>\n

It’s been\u00a0 while since that last newsletter but although a lot is happening behind the scenes there has not been much to report<\/p>\n

Enjoy life<\/p>\n

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