{"id":214,"date":"2008-07-15T12:44:37","date_gmt":"2008-07-15T10:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.linuxmint.com\/blog\/?p=214"},"modified":"2008-07-15T12:44:37","modified_gmt":"2008-07-15T10:44:37","slug":"weekly-newsletter-issue-53","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/?p=214","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Newsletter – Issue 53"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

A security flaw in the DNS protocol has been fixed. This is for all operating systems and every appliance connected to the internet. Probably one of the most serious threats to the internet so far. Some background here<\/a> – updates<\/a> already in mintUpdate, please update your system. A warning has been posted in the forum<\/a><\/p>\n

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

I can’t guarantee it but it seems that a release of the Elyssa KDE edition is immanent – we are testing a beta with all problems hopefully solved. It is no easy task to make a good KDE edition. I also think the XFCE edition is near a public beta<\/p>\n

Clem has been busy and\u00a0 posted a bunch of interesting info<\/p>\n

Sections<\/a> of the Mint repository<\/p>\n

Some news about development<\/a>\u00a0 We had to postpone the developement of QT frontends for the Mint applications in the KDE CE.\u00a0 The implications of Ubuntu 8.04.1 for development are considered<\/p>\n

The implications of branding<\/a> has been discussed. We like freedom, but not the freedom to use the Mint name and logo in any way or fashion.<\/p>\n

Elyssa is used by 60% of the Mint users <\/a><\/p>\n

mintInstall 4 <\/a>released in Romeo (Romeo is the “unstable” branch of Mint repositories)<\/p>\n

How should the Mint tools be named? This has wide implications and mintUpdate 2.8 will be released soon as \u201cUpdate Manager\u201d<\/p>\n

There’s a poll for the naming here <\/a><\/p>\n

The forum<\/a> is growing and so is the interest for it from spammers. Please help keep the forum neat and report all spam you see.<\/p>\n

The repositories were down for about half of July 7 It’s unclear if this was a hacker attack but there seems to be attempts to take the site down<\/p>\n

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

Linux Magazine has an article<\/a> covering what they call “Spawn of Ubuntu” (which includes Mint)<\/p>\n

GNOME hires<\/a> Stormy Peters as Executive Director She has a past as an executive in HP<\/p>\n

Xandros acquires\u00a0 Linspire <\/a>– this obviously happened behind the scene and was not made public until some two weeks after it took place<\/p>\n

openSUSE Build Service 1.0 Released<\/a>\u00a0 The openSUSE Build Service allows developers to create and maintain packages for openSUSE and many other Linux distributions, including CentOS, Debian, Fedora, Mandriva, Red Hat, and Ubuntu.<\/p>\n

ATI promises faster Linux drivers <\/a><\/p>\n

A new version of Gentoo<\/a> was released<\/p>\n

Greg Kroah Hartman on the Linux Kernel\u00a0<\/a> (Youtube video)<\/p>\n

An interview <\/a>with Mark Shuttleworth<\/p>\n

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

Samba<\/a> 3.2 released<\/p>\n

Web threats<\/a> hits 12 month high<\/p>\n

Vmware changes CEO <\/a>and puts in a Microsoft veteran as CEO<\/p>\n

The Windows version of VLC has a security flaw <\/a><\/p>\n

As I stated in an earlier newsletter the Swedish law permitting bugging of all electronic communication that passes the country boundaries is aimed at Russia <\/a><\/p>\n

The US congress passes amendments<\/a> to the “FISA” Act which is similar to the Swedish act (Haven’t found a good link for this)<\/p>\n

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

Threats to the GPS system<\/a> has been reported recently<\/p>\n

The world may run out of some rare elements <\/a>needed to make computer chips in a few years time<\/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":"

Welcome to the Linux Mint Newsletter A security flaw in the DNS protocol has been fixed. This is for all operating systems and every appliance connected to the internet. Probably one of the most serious threats to the internet so far. Some background here – updates already in mintUpdate, please update your system. A warning […]<\/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-214","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\/214","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=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}