{"id":311,"date":"2008-09-28T20:21:55","date_gmt":"2008-09-28T18:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.linuxmint.com\/blog\/?p=311"},"modified":"2008-09-28T20:21:55","modified_gmt":"2008-09-28T18:21:55","slug":"weekly-newsletter-issue-62","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/?p=311","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Newsletter – Issue 62"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Elyssa x64 RC1 released<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

If any of you have ideas for how we can make Mint more known please feel free to leave a comment.<\/p>\n

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

Gnome 2.24 released<\/a><\/p>\n

Released final versions lately<\/p>\n

Pardus<\/a> Linux 2008.1 ; Vector Linux<\/a> 5.9.1 ; sidux<\/a> 2008-3<\/p>\n

Gentoo is having problems<\/a> and cancels the 2008.1 release. They state “we overstretched our human resources during the prolonged 2008.0 release process” To bad…<\/p>\n

An alternative<\/a> to MS Exchange on Linux<\/p>\n

The latest news about the kernel is always found here<\/a><\/p>\n

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

The Netherlands Patent Office changes<\/a> to open source software. The entire Netherlands public sector is to change in the long term<\/p>\n

The European Parliament adopts<\/a> a legislative report about telecom. It’s supposed to stop some attempts to block filesharing – however I can’t find that in the report linked to. More about it<\/a><\/p>\n

Mozilla Releases<\/a> 9 Updates To Firefox, SeaMonkey, Thunderbird<\/p>\n

Zend Teams<\/a> With Adobe to Marry PHP and Flex<\/p>\n

Greenpeace ‘Guide<\/a> to Greener Electronics’<\/p>\n

Users fail to spot<\/a> fake pop-ups<\/p>\n

‘Uncloneable’ biometric passports<\/a> pass the test<\/p>\n

Wikileaks posts a hack of Palin’s e-mail account<\/a> on Yahoo<\/p>\n

Yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail all vulnerable<\/a> to Palin-style password-reset hack<\/p>\n

‘Password Recovery’ Services may be crackers<\/a> that gets you in deep trouble<\/p>\n

Researchers discover PDF exploit packs<\/a><\/p>\n

In-depth manual and automated assessments<\/a> found nearly 97 percent of sites carry a severe vulnerability. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The\u00a0 notorious service provider Intercage<\/a> is (was) a severe vulnerability in itself and got cut off from the internet
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* Hardware news<\/strong><\/p>\n

First True 3D Processor<\/a> Created, Runs at 1.4 GHz<\/p>\n

New ‘On\/Off Switch’ Protects<\/a> RFID Cards From Hacks<\/p>\n

Asus<\/a> ships software cracker on recovery DVD<\/p>\n

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

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* 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> The planet <\/a> Wiki<\/a> 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><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

* News about Mint Elyssa x64 RC1 released If any of you have ideas for how we can make Mint more known please feel free to leave a comment. * News about Linux Gnome 2.24 released Released final versions lately Pardus Linux 2008.1 ; Vector Linux 5.9.1 ; sidux 2008-3 Gentoo is having problems and […]<\/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-311","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\/311","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=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":339,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions\/339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}