{"id":234,"date":"2008-08-11T21:14:21","date_gmt":"2008-08-11T19:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.linuxmint.com\/blog\/?p=234"},"modified":"2008-08-11T21:18:48","modified_gmt":"2008-08-11T19:18:48","slug":"weekly-newsletter-issue-56-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/?p=234","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Newsletter – Issue 57"},"content":{"rendered":"

* News about Mint<\/strong><\/h2>\n

mintUpdate 3 released!<\/a><\/p>\n

Even 3.2 has been released. Quite a few new features, including better proxy\u00a0 support.<\/p>\n

Distrowatch donates $400 to Linux Mint<\/a><\/p>\n

Work is going on on the final versions (hopefully) \ud83d\ude42 of\u00a0 the KDE and XFCE editions. There are only a few problems left to solve, but they seem reluctant to disappear<\/p>\n

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

IBM, Canonical\/Ubuntu, Novell, Red Hat to Deliver Microsoft-Free Desktops Worldwide<\/a> An alliance has formed<\/p>\n

IBM Contributes<\/a> Key Open-Source Code for Linux Supercomputers<\/p>\n

KDE 4 update\u00a0 <\/a>Any similarity in that topic with slashdot is probably no coincidence \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Ubuntu goes enterprise <\/a><\/p>\n

VMware joins<\/a> Linux Foundation<\/p>\n

Google more and more involved<\/a> in Linux<\/p>\n

Reiser4 Update<\/a><\/p>\n

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

German hackers poke hole<\/a> in great firewall of China<\/p>\n

Hackers steal<\/a> 40 million credit card numbers<\/p>\n

\u2018Fakeproof\u2019 e-passport is cloned in minutes<\/a><\/p>\n

Vista’s Security Rendered Completely Useless by New Exploit <\/a><\/p>\n

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

AMD ditches<\/a> Close-To-Metal, focuses on DX11 and OpenCL<\/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 Month 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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