{"id":1136,"date":"2009-11-19T13:14:57","date_gmt":"2009-11-19T11:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.linuxmint.com\/blog\/?p=1136"},"modified":"2009-11-21T15:25:43","modified_gmt":"2009-11-21T13:25:43","slug":"the-mint-newsletter-%e2%80%93-issue-97","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/?p=1136","title":{"rendered":"The Mint Newsletter \u2013 issue 97"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n

* News about Mint<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Linux Mint 8 \u201cHelena\u201d RC1 released!<\/a><\/h2>\n

Linux Mint 8 in your language – translations<\/a><\/p>\n

Which dress for Helena<\/a>?<\/p>\n

More on Mint8 Artwork<\/a><\/p>\n

The SimplicITy<\/a> computer – a computer for the elderly with Eldy<\/a> (see below) running on Linux Mint – it has received quite a bit of attention (BBC<\/a> – google for “SimplicITy eldy)<\/p>\n

Another apology to the mintCast team – the link to our podcasts were lost again – here it is<\/a>
\n<\/strong><\/div>\n

\n

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

Fedora12<\/a> was released<\/p>\n

The new default policy for Fedora 12<\/a> allows local, unprivileged users to install signed packages without root access<\/p>\n

Novell Delivers<\/a> First Commercial Solution to Build .NET Applications for Linux with Microsoft Visual Studio<\/p>\n

The embedded Linux MontaVista sold <\/a>for $50M<\/p>\n

Symantec Backs Up Linux<\/a><\/p>\n

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

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

Microsoft to Open Source the .NET <\/a>Micro Framework<\/div>\n

\n

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

Advertising<\/a> coming to your Windows 7 desktop theme<\/p>\n

NSA helped<\/a> with Windows 7 development but Microsoft Denies <\/a>Windows 7 Has NSA Backdoor<\/p>\n

HP Acquires<\/a> 3Com For $2.7 Billion<\/p>\n

EU Objects<\/a> to Oracle-Sun Deal<\/p>\n

The Jetpack 50-line Code Challenge<\/a> from Mozilla<\/p>\n

Will Chrome OS hit Mozilla? More than 90 percent of Mozilla’s income<\/a> comes from Google (link to PDF dcoument)<\/p>\n

BitTorrent in Silverlight<\/a><\/p>\n

EU: no cookies without consent<\/a>. Will EU affiliate programs be killed?<\/p>\n

Eldy<\/a> is an “easy\u00a0 software dedicated to the elderly”, from European Eldy\u2019s non-profit organization.<\/p>\n

Pirate Bay moves<\/a> to decentralized DHT protocol, kills tracker<\/p>\n

Google helps you create your site, Google sites<\/a> enhanced<\/p>\n

Hackers sentenced<\/a> for Trojan bank heist<\/p>\n

Sophisticated banking Trojan<\/a> Bebloh<\/p>\n

The botnet Koobface Abuses Google Reader<\/a> Pages<\/p>\n

Smashing<\/a> the Mega-d\/Ozdok botnet in 24 hours – this completely stopped<\/a> spam from that botnet<\/div>\n

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

Computer sales in Europe declined in 2009 so far – Dell the big looser <\/strong>according to Gartner report<\/a><\/p>\n

Qualcomm hopes Snapdragon smartbooks take bite<\/a> out of Atom (with an ARM CPU)<\/p>\n

Nokia ditching Symbian<\/a> for Maemo, German FT reports – but there are conflicting reports about this<\/p>\n

\n

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

One step towards a space elevator<\/a>
\n<\/strong><\/div>\n

\n

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

\"\"<\/a>
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

\n

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

\n

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

Husse<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

* News about Mint Linux Mint 8 \u201cHelena\u201d RC1 released! Linux Mint 8 in your language – translations Which dress for Helena? More on Mint8 Artwork The SimplicITy computer – a computer for the elderly with Eldy (see below) running on Linux Mint – it has received quite a bit of attention (BBC – google […]<\/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-1136","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\/1136","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=1136"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1141,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136\/revisions\/1141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}