{"id":237,"date":"2008-08-19T16:18:29","date_gmt":"2008-08-19T14:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.linuxmint.com\/blog\/?p=237"},"modified":"2008-08-19T16:25:04","modified_gmt":"2008-08-19T14:25:04","slug":"weekly-newsletter-issue-58","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/?p=237","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Newsletter – Issue 58"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Our server was hacked<\/a> with downtime as a consequence. This was by a “bot” that scanned the net for vulnerabilities. We have now sealed the hole that made this SQL injection possible. We thank all that alerted us to what happened.<\/p>\n

The 64 bit edition <\/a>is advancing<\/p>\n

I had hoped that a new beta (even final) of the XFCE edition would have been released. We are still plagued by an odd problem with log in\/out so ….<\/p>\n

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

Canonical joins<\/a> the Linux Foundation<\/p>\n

Xandros acquired<\/a> Linspire – now Linspire is no more<\/p>\n

Dell’s “eee-killer” to have Ubuntu<\/a><\/p>\n

Linus Torvalds fed up<\/a> with “the security circus”<\/p>\n

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

Dutch police and the FBI stops large botnet <\/a><\/p>\n

Gmail and Google apps have crashed<\/a> several times in the las week or so<\/p>\n

Google has released Keyczar<\/a>, billed as a “Toolkit for safe and simple cryptography”, under an Apache 2.0 open source license.<\/p>\n

Important ruling in court in favour of open source <\/a><\/p>\n

Loss of customer data <\/a>spurs closure of online storage service ‘The Linkup’<\/p>\n

Rat brained robots <\/a><\/p>\n

Spam down 40%<\/a> in second quarter of 2008 (Unfortunately only a swedish link – I can’t find the english link)<\/p>\n

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

AMD offers Linux drivers<\/a> for new Radeon HD 4870 X2 at the same time the card is released<\/p>\n

VIA quits motherboard chipset<\/a> business<\/p>\n

Materials that can make things invisible <\/a>developed. Could improve computer hardware<\/p>\n

A cheap way to replace copper<\/a> in existing cables<\/p>\n

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

<\/p>\n

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

How to donate <\/a><\/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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