{"id":1190,"date":"2009-12-15T14:22:13","date_gmt":"2009-12-15T12:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.linuxmint.com\/blog\/?p=1190"},"modified":"2009-12-18T21:40:12","modified_gmt":"2009-12-18T19:40:12","slug":"the-mint-newsletter-%e2%80%93-issue-97-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/?p=1190","title":{"rendered":"The Mint Newsletter \u2013 issue 98"},"content":{"rendered":"
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* News about Mint<\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n

Linux Mint 8 Helena released<\/a><\/p>\n

Upgrade path<\/a><\/p>\n

Linux Mint 8 Helena 64-bits released<\/a><\/p>\n

Fluxbox CE, resurrected<\/a><\/p>\n

community.linuxmint.com (alpha<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Monthly stats November<\/a> 2009 – again a “best ever” month<\/p>\n

As usual the blog<\/a> is good read<\/p>\n

We’ve got a Mint site<\/a> in Finland<\/p>\n

The mintCast, the Mint podcast, is\u00a0 found here <\/a><\/p>\n

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

KDE news<\/a> – digiKam and Kipi sprint<\/p>\n

GNOME To Split<\/a> from GNU Project after a clash with Richard Stallman?<\/p>\n

MonoDevelop throws out GPL in favour of LGPL<\/a> (somewhat related to the Gnome topic above as Miguel de Icaza is involved in both cases)<\/p>\n

Moonlight – Microsoft has an updated patent covenant<\/a> that will cover third party distributions. (Miguel de Icaza is involved again)<\/p>\n

Ubuntu Developer Channel<\/a> on Youtube<\/p>\n

GIMP Dropped<\/a> From Ubuntu 10.04<\/p>\n

Bryce Harrington at Canonical is seeing a surge of bug reports<\/a> against X.org<\/p>\n

About the release cycle<\/a> of Ubuntu<\/p>\n

Mark Shuttleworth resigns<\/a> as Canonical’s CEO – will instead focus on product design, partnerships and customers<\/p>\n

Nouveau To Go Into Linux 2.6.33 <\/a>Kernel! (Nouveau – open nvidia driver)<\/p>\n

Nouveau Makes Its Own NV40 Firmware Replacement<\/a><\/p>\n

System Rollback With Btrfs in Fedora 13<\/a> announced<\/p>\n

Krita Team Seeking Sponsorship<\/a> to Take Krita to Next Level<\/p>\n

Jolicloud<\/a> an Ubuntu based distribution for netbooks<\/p>\n

New nvidia drivers<\/a> just released<\/p>\n

New AMD\/ATI drivers<\/a> just released<\/p>\n

Exploring New Nepomuk Features<\/a> in Mandriva Linux 2010<\/p>\n

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

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

Second KOffice Developer Sprint 2009 Kickoff<\/a><\/p>\n

Michael “Monty” Widenius, the creator of MySQL, asks for help<\/a> save MySQL from “Oracle’s clutches.”<\/div>\n

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

Italy targets Facebook, contemplates Web restrictions<\/a> after Berlusconi attack<\/p>\n

Google CEO: Secrets<\/a> Are for Filthy People (really?) (A comment<\/a> from Mozilla’s Asa Dotzler – use Bing!)<\/p>\n

Microsoft ends 10-year fight<\/a> with Europe on browsers<\/p>\n

icloud claims to be your very own computer online<\/a><\/p>\n

Fake anti-virus <\/a>software brings an estimated loss to victims in excess of $150 million.<\/p>\n

European ISPs lash out<\/a> at secret ACTA negotiations<\/p>\n

State of Mozilla<\/a> and 2008 Financial Statements<\/p>\n

Firefox, Adobe top buggiest-software list<\/a><\/p>\n

Apple Told To Pay<\/a> Patent Troll OPTi $21.7 Million<\/p>\n

Report: Cyberattacks<\/a> against the U.S. “rising sharply”<\/p>\n

Self defending Botnets<\/a> Bounce Back with Sharpened Survival Skills<\/p>\n

Serious bug<\/a> in NTP – internet’s time protocol<\/p>\n

VirtualBox 3.1 released<\/a><\/p>\n

Google Gears development stopped<\/a>, Google will focus on HTML 5<\/p>\n

Outstanding stock fraud spammer Alan Ralsky sentenced<\/a> to jail<\/p>\n

Worm attacking<\/a> Iphones steeling bank account information<\/p>\n

Silverlight<\/a>: Universal GUI toolkit<\/p>\n

Mininova<\/a> limits its activities to Content Distribution service<\/p>\n

Harms and Concerns Posed<\/a> by NXDOMAIN Substitution<\/p>\n

Blizzard outlines massive effort<\/a> behind World of Warcraft<\/p>\n

Microsoft’s XSS buster busted<\/a><\/div>\n

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

Laptop battery likely cause<\/a> of fatal house fire<\/p>\n

Open-Source Effort to Hack<\/a> GSM<\/p>\n

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

A sad ending – GM set to wind down Saab<\/a><\/p>\n

EU-USA SWIFT & TFTP agreement<\/a> materials (information exchange on bank transactions) prolonged November 30 2009<\/p>\n

The CRU hack<\/a> – (Climatic Research Unit)<\/p>\n

Korean 3D television broadcasts in Full HD just weeks away<\/a><\/p>\n

Single-atom transistor discovered<\/a> (If you wonder why the link looks funny – it’s in the Finnish language)<\/p>\n

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

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<\/strong>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 a month since that last newsletter,\u00a0 the release of Mint 8 Helena caused a surge of new posts in the forum.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Enjoy life<\/p>\n

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