{"id":1088,"date":"2009-11-07T14:26:39","date_gmt":"2009-11-07T12:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.linuxmint.com\/blog\/?p=1088"},"modified":"2009-11-09T00:02:45","modified_gmt":"2009-11-08T22:02:45","slug":"the-mint-newsletter-%e2%80%93-issue-96","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/?p=1088","title":{"rendered":"The Mint Newsletter \u2013 issue 96"},"content":{"rendered":"
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* News about Mint<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Preparations for the next version of Mint, Helena, is going on and as our Twitter<\/a> indicates we are testing the first internal betas of Mint 8 Helena<\/p>\n

Mint 8 \u2013 Boot sequence<\/a> will be different<\/p>\n

Monthly stats \u2013 October 2009<\/a><\/div>\n

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

Ubuntu 9.10<\/a>, Karmic Koala, was released.<\/p>\n

Mandriva<\/a> Linux 2010 was released<\/p>\n

GNOME 3.0 May Not Come Until September 2010<\/a><\/p>\n

IBM and Ubuntu roll Linux<\/a> for U.S desktops vs Windows 7<\/p>\n

Is Kubuntu Caught<\/a> in a Downward Spiral?<\/p>\n

An open source version of Linux client<\/a> is being developed for Skype<\/p>\n

Security Hole in Kernel Allows Privilege Extensions<\/a> – if you run ” cat \/proc\/sys\/vm\/mmap_min_addr ” and get a vaule higher than zero you are OK. This is an old bug coming to life again<\/p>\n

USB stick security flaw<\/a> puts data at risk – the cracked operating system in this case is Linux kernel 2.6.26<\/a><\/p>\n

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

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

Drupal Moves<\/a> Into the White House<\/p>\n

ApacheCon US 2009 was sponsored<\/a> by Microsoft and thawte<\/p>\n

Richard Stallman wants<\/a> the European Commission to block the acquisition of MySQL by Oracle with its proposed acquisition of Sun.<\/p>\n

Red Hat invests<\/a> in the MySQL open source database competitor EnterpriseDB – this could have an impact on the Oracle – MySQL “problem”<\/div>\n

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

A compromise <\/strong>was reached <\/a>on the EU Telecom package and the amendment suggestion 138.<\/p>\n

(Link to a Swedish page, but the compromise text is found in English – I have not been able to find any other good link)
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CIA Buys<\/a> Stake in Firm That Monitors Blogs, Tweets<\/p>\n

Mark Shuttleworth praise<\/a>s “excellent” Windows 7<\/p>\n

Cnet review<\/a> of Windows 7<\/p>\n

640,000 sites and approximately 5.8 million pages were infected in Q3’09<\/a><\/p>\n

Facebook Wins $711 Million<\/a> In Case Against ‘Spam King’<\/p>\n

The Windows exploit Gumblar<\/a> is Reloaded<\/p>\n

Internet phone systems become<\/a> the fraudster’s tool<\/p>\n

Facebook users hit by botnet<\/a> attack (When I googled this I saw that most hits were in Slavic languages)<\/div>\n

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

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New material would allow a fingernail-sized chip store a terabyte<\/a><\/p>\n

Tilera To Release<\/a> 100-Core Processor<\/div>\n

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

Nokia “Only” Wants $200<\/a> Million From Apple In iPhone Patent Suit<\/p>\n

Linus Torvalds gives<\/a> Windows 7 thumbs up \ud83d\ude42<\/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\u2019s been\u00a0 while since that last newsletter, unfortunately I have too much to do to publish more often.<\/p>\n

Enjoy life<\/p>\n

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