{"id":192,"date":"2008-06-17T22:59:54","date_gmt":"2008-06-17T20:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.linuxmint.com\/blog\/?p=192"},"modified":"2008-06-17T23:04:39","modified_gmt":"2008-06-17T21:04:39","slug":"weekly-newsletter-issue-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/?p=192","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Newsletter – Issue 50"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

* News about Mint<\/strong>
\nLinux Mint 5 Review: The Gay Hacker Clems comments in the blog<\/a><\/p>\n

A very good review that has brought up ideas to go into\u00a0 version 6 of Mint<\/p>\n

Version 6 of Mint to be named Felicia<\/p>\n

A security flaw<\/a> in Elyssa<\/p>\n

Although it’s a serious issue it is mitigated by the fact that to use it you have to log in as root when you boot or log out of the present user account into root and this would hardly go unnoticed<\/p>\n

Some statistics<\/a> about Elyssa<\/p>\n

Donors and sponsors in May<\/a> Thank you all<\/p>\n

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

Alberto Milone<\/a> to maintain the nvidia driver for Ubuntu + new nvidia driver in Ubuntu proposed<\/p>\n

Interview<\/a> with Mark Shuttleworth<\/p>\n

42 of the Best<\/a> Commercial Linux Games<\/p>\n

Review<\/a> of Fedora 9<\/p>\n

Mandriva Linux One Spring 2008 Review <\/a><\/p>\n

Are there evil distros? <\/a> Among other the relation of Mint to Ubuntu and Ubuntu to Debian is discussed<\/p>\n

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

The Yahoo – Microsoft deal is dead <\/a><\/p>\n

Latest spam technique uses hosted web services <\/a><\/p>\n

Cyber-crooks<\/a> sting South Africa for \u00a313m<\/p>\n

Vista’s big problem<\/a>: 92 percent of developers ignoring it<\/p>\n

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

Nforce chipset data corruption <\/a>finally solved<\/p>\n

AMD\u2019s physics secret revealed: It\u2019s Havok<\/a><\/p>\n

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

<\/p>\n

* More about Linux Mint<\/strong><\/p>\n

Home page <\/a><\/p>\n

Blog<\/a>\u00a0 The planet\u00a0<\/a> Wiki<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 Forum<\/a><\/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

The past week has been busy and I have had internet problems so I’ve probably missed a lot<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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