{"id":1269,"date":"2010-02-09T11:59:19","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T09:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.linuxmint.com\/blog\/?p=1269"},"modified":"2010-03-05T15:18:49","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T13:18:49","slug":"1269","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/?p=1269","title":{"rendered":"The Mint Newsletter \u2013 issue 100"},"content":{"rendered":"
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* News about Mint<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Linux Mint 8 Fluxbox<\/a> released!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Linux Mint 8 KDE64<\/a> released!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Linux Mint 8 KDE<\/a> released!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kernel vulnerabilities<\/a> <\/strong>in Mint and Ubuntu – you find them as level 5 updates but as ever a updated kernael could break something<\/p>\n

Monthly Stats \u2013 December<\/a> 2009 and January<\/a> 2010<\/p>\n

December 2009 was the (10th consecutive) best month ever since the creation of Linux Mint. However January was not as good as the excellent December<\/p>\n

Clem comments<\/a> on a Mint review in Distrocheck<\/p>\n

Linux Mint will have the codename Isadora<\/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

Security update<\/a> available for Adobe Flash Player, also Linux – you might better install it<\/p>\n

Multi-touch support<\/a> in Linux\/Xorg\/GTK+KDE SC 4.4.0 Caikaku Release Announcement<\/a><\/p>\n

Ubuntu will change the default search provider<\/a> in Firefox to Yahoo! in Lucid (10.04)<\/p>\n

Open source industry veteran Matt Asay joins Canonical<\/a> as chief operating officer<\/p>\n

Jono Bacon on developing apps<\/a> for Ubuntu<\/p>\n

Hardware accelerated 3D with DX11 to come for Linux with “Gallium<\/a>” courtesy of VMware – great news for gamers and Linux as a whole if it succeeds<\/p>\n

Fedora wants someone to write<\/a> PulseAudio bindings for Python. This may be good news for all distros<\/p>\n

Fedora 13 will have Zarafa<\/a> – an Outlook replacement<\/p>\n

Pidgin wants help<\/a> to sort out bugs<\/p>\n

Android and the kernel<\/a><\/p>\n

A new and different Qt Creator<\/a> new ways to create Qt apps<\/p>\n

How To Learn Linux<\/a> From the Developers of Linux. (For Free.)<\/p>\n

Buying a Linux laptop 1<\/a> and 2<\/a><\/p>\n

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

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

The Obama Administration has forced Sourceforge to deny service<\/a> to its anti-terrorism sanction list. What Sourceforge<\/a> has to say<\/p>\n

Backdoor<\/a> in e107 CMS version 0.7.17<\/div>\n

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

Gates, Ozzie, and other Microsoft execs patent<\/a> ‘personal data mining’<\/p>\n

Maybe no wonder as the US patent office wont accept<\/a> upside down faxes\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Warner will not back out<\/a> of Spotify as earlier reported<\/p>\n

Gmail on the fuzz about buzz<\/a><\/p>\n

Several Sun officials leave Oracle (swedish link<\/a> lack of time prevents me from getting an English language link)<\/div>\n

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

IBM demonstrates<\/a> 100GHz graphene transistor<\/p>\n

Apple released Ipad<\/a>, a kind of tablet PC<\/p>\n

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

Large Hadron Collider<\/a> producing tons of awesome collisions<\/a><\/p>\n

A new aluminum clock<\/a> would neither gain nor lose one second in about 3.7 billion years<\/p>\n


\n<\/a>* 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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