{"id":198,"date":"2008-06-24T11:54:06","date_gmt":"2008-06-24T09:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.linuxmint.com\/blog\/?p=198"},"modified":"2008-06-24T11:56:39","modified_gmt":"2008-06-24T09:56:39","slug":"weekly-newsletter-issue-51","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/?p=198","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Newsletter – Issue 51"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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

The art team and Wallpaper of the Week (WOTW) has moved to the blog <\/a><\/p>\n

Our forums were down<\/a> last weekend, some “hacker” managed to destroy one of the php files in phpBB<\/p>\n

Perhaps an attempt to insert malicious code that failed….<\/p>\n

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

Open Suse<\/a> 11 is released – in a quick look it looked nice. A bit Minty actually – gnome with just one panel at the bottom and a “slab-like” menu<\/p>\n

Free IPA <\/a>– a Linux “Active directory”<\/p>\n

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

Firefox 3 vulnerability <\/a><\/p>\n

The Swedish parliament adopts “wiretap law”<\/a> an interpretation of an EU directive that goes far beyond the directive.<\/p>\n

Perhaps explained by the fact that about 80% of Russia’s internet traffic passes through Sweden – and there are predecessors – heard of Echelon?<\/p>\n

MySQL adopts version control<\/a> by Bazaar which is developed by Canonical<\/p>\n

Java is now “totally free” <\/a><\/p>\n

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

Latest AMD\/ATI graphics card outruns nvidia – charts on Toms hardware<\/a><\/p>\n

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

This is a bit odd – Google earth is used to find swimming pools for “illegal pool parties” <\/a><\/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

Enjoy life<\/p>\n

Husse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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