{"id":455,"date":"2008-12-02T15:30:32","date_gmt":"2008-12-02T13:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.linuxmint.com\/blog\/?p=455"},"modified":"2008-12-02T15:30:32","modified_gmt":"2008-12-02T13:30:32","slug":"the-mint-newsletter-issue-68","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/?p=455","title":{"rendered":"The Mint Newsletter – issue 68"},"content":{"rendered":"
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* News about Mint<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Mint is successful but we still cannot afford to have paid staff working on the project. All team members work on Mint in their spare time. This means that family matters (like moving house) can make a team member be absent from Mint for some time. This happens to Clem, the founder of Mint, at present, and he writes about it in the blog<\/a><\/p>\n

RC1 for the main edition is good enough to be the final with a few adjustments and wubi (in Mint LMWI) added.<\/p>\n

Work on the KDE edition has produced some internal betas, but there is some more work to be done before a RC can be released, but it should not be long<\/p>\n

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

Fedora 10 is released<\/a><\/p>\n

Is Smolt<\/a> the Key to Counting Linux Users?<\/p>\n

Red Hat Fedora Claims It’s the Leader <\/a>in Linux<\/p>\n

Ubuntu’s Mark Shuttleworth opens up<\/a> on mobility and design<\/p>\n

Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase II <\/a>– will it make the design look better?<\/p>\n

ARM and Canonical<\/a> to bring full Ubuntu desktop experience to low-power, ARM technology-based computing devices<\/p>\n

“Moonlight<\/a>” ready to shine<\/p>\n

Linux Foundation Workgroup Tackles Federal Mandate <\/a>for Next-Generation Internet Protocol<\/p>\n

16 interviews<\/a> with Linux Kernel hackers<\/p>\n

MPX, X Input 2 Not Ready For X Server 1.6<\/a><\/p>\n

On kerneloops.org<\/a> you can view statistics about kernel crashes, currently 2.6.25 seems to be the worst<\/p>\n

The 7 Deadly Linux<\/a> Commands (or don’t do this at home)<\/p>\n

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

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

NASA Successfully Tests<\/a> First Deep Space Internet <\/span><\/p>\n

IBM to build<\/a> computer based on human brain<\/p>\n

Teenagers learn important social, technical skills online: study<\/a><\/p>\n

Mozilla developers readying one more beta cycle<\/a> for Firefox 3.1<\/p>\n

Pentagon recalls<\/a> USB sticks over virus fears<\/p>\n

350 million spam <\/a>mail generated 28 attempts to by. Without the use of botnets spam would not be economically viable study shows Still the profit generated is around $ 10 000 a day….<\/p>\n

How Much Does Spam Cost You? Google Will Calculate<\/a><\/p>\n

The amount of spam has decreased heavily after a major host for spammers was closed down<\/a> and a botnet stopped stopped working<\/p>\n

Adam Guerbuez Atlantis Blue Capital: Guerbuez fined $436.3 million for spamming Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n

Interpol cracks down on illegal online meds<\/a> (Never by medicines<\/span> on line unless you like to gamble with your health – editors comment)<\/p>\n

Brief study shows <\/a>difficulty in detecting malware (We’re lucky to be on Linux)<\/p>\n

Anti fraud site<\/a> hit by a DDoS<\/a> attack<\/p>\n

Demand for Internet bandwidth will exceed supply by 2012 according to a report<\/a><\/p>\n

Mac OS X targeted <\/a>by Trojan and backdoor tool (but still hardly any viruses)<\/p>\n

IETF: Should we ignore the Kaminsky bug<\/a>?<\/p>\n

US court orders<\/a> keylogger CyberSpy to halt software sales<\/p>\n

DOE’s Oak Ridge supercomputer now world’s fastest<\/a> for open science<\/p>\n

Adobe answers cries for 64-bit Flash on Linux<\/a><\/p>\n

Microsoft Says over 11% of Vista Printer Driver Installs Fail<\/a><\/p>\n

Microsoft e-mails detail internal fight<\/a> over ‘Vista Capable’ changes<\/p>\n

Yahoo sells <\/a>shopping service Kelkoo at a considerable loss<\/div>\n

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

AMD\/ATI introduces<\/a> it’s counterpart to Nivida’s CUDA<\/p>\n

Catalyst 8.12 is to enable this<\/a> for Radeon HD 4000<\/p>\n

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

Rung up: Workers out for Obama cell-phone snooping <\/a><\/p>\n

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

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How to donate <\/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.<\/p>\n

Enjoy life<\/p>\n

Husse<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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