{"id":183,"date":"2008-06-03T23:31:01","date_gmt":"2008-06-03T21:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.linuxmint.com\/blog\/?p=183"},"modified":"2008-06-06T17:54:32","modified_gmt":"2008-06-06T15:54:32","slug":"weekly-newsletter-issue-48","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/?p=183","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Newsletter &#8211; Issue 48"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Welcome to the Linux Mint Newsletter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>* <strong>News about Mint<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>* Beta testing goes on &#8211; lots of interesting points but no showstopper found yet<\/p>\n<p>* <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.linuxmint.com\/forum\/viewtopic.php?f=20&amp;t=12898\">Latest wallpaper of the week <\/a><\/p>\n<p>* Behind the scenes work is going on with the KDE, XFCE and Fluxbox editions of Elyssa (will take time to get them ready for release though)<\/p>\n<p>* <strong>News about Linux<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Open Suse 11 RC1 <a HREF=\"http:\/\/news.opensuse.org\/2008\/05\/29\/announcing-opensuse-110-rc-1\/\">released <\/a><\/p>\n<p>* <strong>News about IT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There will be a <a HREF=\"http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/open-source\/?p=2478\">RC2 of Firefox 3 <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/secunia.com\/advisories\/30228\/\">Security flaw<\/a> in Samba &#8211; this has already been announced in the forum<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft opens up a <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.betanews.com\/article\/Microsoft_gives_in_will_share_scanning_service_spec_with_working_group\/1212165608\">Web services protocol it developed for Vista.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft\u2019s CAPTCHA <a HREF=\"http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/security\/?p=1232\">successfully broken<\/a><\/p>\n<p>* <strong>Hardware news<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wifi could be <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/read_article.aspx?id=20805&amp;ch=specialsections&amp;sc=futurebiz&amp;pg=1\">much faster <\/a><\/p>\n<p>A desktop <a HREF=\"http:\/\/fastra.ua.ac.be\/en\/index.html\">supercomputer<\/a> for 4,000 Euro &#8211; the power of the GPU<\/p>\n<p><strong>* Trivia and other links <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img STYLE=\"width: 666px; height: 205px\" HEIGHT=\"205\" WIDTH=\"666\" SRC=\"http:\/\/imgs.xkcd.com\/comics\/exploits_of_a_mom.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/blogs.techrepublic.com.com\/10things\/?p=359\">Some tips <\/a><\/p>\n<p>*<strong> Editors comment<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I have had problems finding good links for a few things I wanted to include in this newsletter, so its not there.<\/p>\n<p>As always &#8211; if you find something I\u2019ve missed in the newsletter please tell me &#8211; you can post a comment here<\/p>\n<p>And the last days have been warm, not to say hot, so I may be more confused than normally \/ husse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the Linux Mint Newsletter * News about Mint * Beta testing goes on &#8211; lots of interesting points but no showstopper found yet * Latest wallpaper of the week * Behind the scenes work is going on with the KDE, XFCE and Fluxbox editions of Elyssa (will take time to get them ready [&hellip;]<\/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-183","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\/183","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=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}