{"id":1247,"date":"2010-01-27T12:29:48","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T10:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.linuxmint.com\/blog\/?p=1247"},"modified":"2010-01-27T13:15:17","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T11:15:17","slug":"the-mint-newsletter-%e2%80%93-issue-99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/?p=1247","title":{"rendered":"The Mint Newsletter \u2013 issue 99"},"content":{"rendered":"
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* News about Mint<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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

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

Hardware database<\/a> in the Community website<\/p>\n

Upgrading<\/a>: x64 edition, version 7 to version 8<\/p>\n

mintMenu in Fedora<\/a><\/p>\n

mintCast Wallpaper Challenge<\/a><\/div>\n

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

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

KDE 4.4 RC1 released<\/a><\/p>\n

“Supergaming” LiveDVD<\/a> for Linux<\/p>\n

SUSE Moblin to ship<\/a> on MSI’s Pinetrail netbook<\/p>\n

Update<\/a> of Acrobate Reader for Linux, probably wise to update if you have it<\/p>\n

Ted T’so goes<\/a> from Linux Foundation to Google<\/p>\n

75% of Linux code now written by paid<\/a> developers<\/p>\n

Two GNOME Contractors Required<\/a><\/p>\n

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

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

Samba is getting closer to Samba4<\/a><\/p>\n

The BBC’s digital rights plans<\/a> will wreak havoc on open source software<\/p>\n

Save MySQL campaign<\/a><\/p>\n

Michael Widenius “Monty”, the founder of MySQL presents new database MariaDB<\/a><\/div>\n

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

Microsoft joins<\/a> IE SVG standards party<\/p>\n

The European Commission approves<\/a> Oracle-Sun deal<\/div>\n

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

Intel presents new chips<\/a> at CES 2010<\/p>\n

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

Towards quantum<\/a> chemistry on a quantum computer<\/p>\n

Google Applies <\/a>For Approval From FERC To Become Power Marketer<\/p>\n

In the previous newsletter I wrote “A sad ending \u2013 GM set to wind down Saab<\/a>” It’s turned into a happy ending (hopefully) as SAAB is sold<\/a> to dutch luxury car maker Spyker<\/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> community.linuxmint.com<\/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

Enjoy life<\/p>\n

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* News about Mint Linux Mint 8 \u201cHelena\u201d Fluxbox RC1 released! Linux Mint 8 \u201cHelena\u201d KDE RC1 released! Hardware database in the Community website Upgrading: x64 edition, version 7 to version 8 mintMenu in Fedora mintCast Wallpaper Challenge The mintCast, the Mint podcast, is\u00a0 found here * News about Linux KDE 4.4 RC1 released “Supergaming” […]<\/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-1247","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\/1247","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=1247"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1249,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247\/revisions\/1249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}