{"id":204,"date":"2008-07-01T00:05:52","date_gmt":"2008-06-30T22:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.linuxmint.com\/blog\/?p=204"},"modified":"2008-07-02T11:20:49","modified_gmt":"2008-07-02T09:20:49","slug":"weekly-newsletter-issue-52","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/?p=204","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Newsletter – Issue 52"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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

There is one important point to add about the security flaw in mintAssistant<\/p>\n

Create a root password!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Else you will not be able to use “Recovery mode”<\/p>\n

mintAssistant recommends you not to do so, but then you get a random root password, which you will never know<\/p>\n

Clem posted comments on reviews of Elyssa in the Blog<\/a><\/p>\n

Apart from that not much has happened that is publicly known<\/p>\n

Behind the scenes we are working hard on the KDE and Fluxbox versions and betas are tested with good result<\/p>\n

Unless something happens I think we can see public betas soon<\/p>\n

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

There has been a large number of\u00a0 releases lately<\/p>\n

Parsix<\/a>, Pardus <\/a> and Archlinux<\/a> have all been released last week<\/p>\n

Ubuntu Mobile Internet Device (MID) Edition released <\/a><\/p>\n

A new game for Linux – Zero Ballistics Beta for Linux available<\/a><\/p>\n

Wine 1.1 released<\/a><\/p>\n

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

Bill Gates retires<\/a> from Microsoft<\/p>\n

Microsoft prolongs support for XP to 2014<\/a><\/p>\n

Microsoft is pushing freeware to help combat SQL injection attacks<\/a>. SQL injection is widely abused to infect websites so they do things the attacker wants<\/p>\n

How severe this can be can be seen in this article <\/a><\/p>\n

Ericsson to sell<\/a> it’s share in Symbian to Nokia for \u00a3209m<\/p>\n

Spam DDoS assault<\/a> cuts off south Pacific state<\/p>\n

Swedish members of parliament that voted for the controversial bugging law mentioned in last weeks newsletter<\/a> are flooded with protest emails<\/a><\/p>\n

Critical security alert issued for Tor<\/a><\/p>\n

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

ATI and nvidia – the latest graphics card compete <\/a><\/p>\n

Equipment to tell the position of a RFID tag intended for advertising <\/a><\/p>\n

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

<\/p>\n

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

You find the Wallpaper of the Week in the Blog<\/a><\/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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