{"id":226,"date":"2008-07-29T17:45:07","date_gmt":"2008-07-29T15:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.linuxmint.com\/blog\/?p=226"},"modified":"2008-07-29T17:45:07","modified_gmt":"2008-07-29T15:45:07","slug":"weekly-newsletter-issue-55","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/?p=226","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Newsletter &#8211; Issue 55"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Welcome to the Linux Mint Newsletter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>* <strong>News about Mint<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>KDE CE RC1 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linuxmint.com\/blog\/?p=224\">Delayed<\/a> This has been (mainly) because of a problem with localization &#8211; downloaded languages did not install. Even with a DVD sized ISO we can&#8217;t have all language packs in the ISO &#8211; bandwidth comes with a prize.<\/p>\n<p>We get an increasing amount of spam in the forum (we are popular :)) but it&#8217;s becoming quite a nuisance&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>* <strong>News about Linux<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>KDE 4.1 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kde.org\/announcements\/4.1\/\">released <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Google Gadgets for<a href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/p\/google-gadgets-for-linux\/\"> Linux<\/a><\/p>\n<p>RealPlayer update fixes critical <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heise-online.co.uk\/security\/RealPlayer-update-fixes-critical-security-holes--\/news\/111188\">security holes <\/a>which are for Linux as well<\/p>\n<p>Launchpad to<a href=\"http:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=NjYwOA\"> become open source<\/a> in the next 12 months<\/p>\n<p>Shuttleworth challenges open source to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2008\/07\/23\/shuttleworth_apple_challenge\/\">out-pretty Apple <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Intel mobile Linux stack <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2008\/07\/23\/moblin_reworked\/\">dumps Ubuntu <\/a><\/p>\n<p>* <strong>News about IT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/148940\/2008\/07\/.html?tk=rss_news\">donates<\/a> cash to Apache<\/p>\n<p>Speculation over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linuxmint.com\/blog\/wp-admin\/Speculation%20over%20back%20door%20in%20Skype\">back door<\/a> in Skype<\/p>\n<p>Google hits a <a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/we-knew-web-was-big.html\">milestone<\/a>: found 1 trillion (as in 1,000,000,000,000) unique URLs on the web at once!<\/p>\n<p>The dark side of the internet is growing. An infested site discovered\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/software.silicon.com\/security\/0,39024655,39263296,00.htm?r=1\">every 5 seconds<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s someone l<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linux.com\/feature\/142083\">eaving the dark side <\/a>(MS developer goes to open source)<\/p>\n<p>* <strong>Hardware news<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Some nvidia mobile GPUs are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nvidia.com\/object\/io_1215037160521.html\">flawed <\/a> Dell releases BIOS <a href=\"http:\/\/direct2dell.com\/one2one\/archive\/2008\/07\/25\/nvidia-gpu-update-for-dell-laptop-owners.aspx\">update<\/a> to alleviate. I think we may have a few people in the forum with this problem. It&#8217;s Geforce 8400M and 8600M that are affected.<\/p>\n<p>D-Wave\u2019s Orion: The First Commercial <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomshardware.com\/reviews\/super-cooled-quantum-computing,1976.html\">Quantum Computer<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p><strong>* Trivia and other links\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/imgs.xkcd.com\/comics\/rewiring.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>* More about Linux Mint<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You find the Wallpaper of the Month in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linuxmint.com\/blog\/\/\">Blog<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linuxmint.com\/\/\">Home page <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linuxmint.com\/blog\/\/\">Blog<\/a>\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linuxmint.com\/planet\/\">The planet\u00a0<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linuxmint.com\/wiki\/index.php\/Main_Page\">Wiki<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linuxmint.com\/forum\/\">Forum<\/a><\/p>\n<p>*<strong> Editors comment<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As always &#8211; if you find something I\u2019ve missed in the newsletter please tell me &#8211; you can post a comment here<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy life<\/p>\n<p>Husse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the Linux Mint Newsletter * News about Mint KDE CE RC1 Delayed This has been (mainly) because of a problem with localization &#8211; downloaded languages did not install. Even with a DVD sized ISO we can&#8217;t have all language packs in the ISO &#8211; bandwidth comes with a prize. 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