{"id":186,"date":"2008-06-09T20:57:45","date_gmt":"2008-06-09T18:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.linuxmint.com\/blog\/?p=186"},"modified":"2008-06-09T20:57:45","modified_gmt":"2008-06-09T18:57:45","slug":"weekly-newsletter-issue-49","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/?p=186","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Newsletter – Issue 49"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to the Linux Mint Newsletter<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

Finally Elyssa was released <\/a><\/p>\n

Release notes<\/a> for Elyssa<\/p>\n

We are working on the Community Editions<\/p>\n

Latest wallpaper of the week\u00a0 <\/a><\/p>\n

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

Barack Obama uses LAMP <\/a><\/p>\n

Ubuntu to make an edition for netbooks <\/a><\/p>\n

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

Sweden to “follow EU rules” – adopts wide ranging wire tap law<\/a><\/p>\n

Germany adopts an anti-terror law<\/a> that would grant police the power to monitor private residences, telephones and computers.<\/p>\n

A quarter of US computer infected with malware <\/a><\/p>\n

US bank loses unencrypted data <\/a>on 4.5m people<\/p>\n

It doesn’t take a database expert to break into one\u00a0 <\/a><\/p>\n

Legit websites more and more compromised<\/a><\/p>\n

Wienna to switch from Linux to Vista <\/a>– reason given – a “software used in a kindergarten language-learning programme called ‘Schlaum\u00e4use’, which\u00a0requires Internet Explorer, according to city officials quoted in the report”. A report states that the city could have subsidised a Firefox version of the software for a fraction of the cost of the Windows Vista migration.<\/p>\n

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

* Trivia and other links\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

* Editors comment<\/strong><\/p>\n

As always – if you find something I\u2019ve missed in the newsletter please tell me – you can post a comment here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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