{"id":485,"date":"2008-12-15T23:51:52","date_gmt":"2008-12-15T21:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.linuxmint.com\/blog\/?p=485"},"modified":"2008-12-16T18:08:17","modified_gmt":"2008-12-16T16:08:17","slug":"the-mint-newsletter-issue-69","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/?p=485","title":{"rendered":"The Mint Newsletter – issue 69"},"content":{"rendered":"
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* News about Mint<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Felicia final has been released<\/a><\/p>\n

Work is progressing on both the KDE and XFCE editions.<\/p>\n

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

Linus Torvalds figured out <\/a>what the suspend\/resume problem was<\/p>\n

IBM pushes “Microsoft alternative<\/a>” desktop based on Ubuntu.<\/p>\n

IBM Lotus Domino 8 and Open Collaboration Client Solution powered<\/a> by Red Hat Enterprise Linux<\/p>\n

IBM software for Linux<\/a><\/p>\n

Linux Defenders <\/a>to defend Linux from malicious patents<\/p>\n

Fedora 10 Comes Out With Five More Spins<\/a><\/p>\n

Steam Client For Linux Confirmed<\/a><\/p>\n

Sam Leffler releases MadWifi as open source<\/a> After this it is probably only Broadcom that has no open source drivers<\/p>\n

Songbird<\/a> has released version 1.0. Merlwiz79 has packaged<\/a> it for Mint.<\/p>\n

OpenSolaris 2008.11<\/a> has been released (Not quite Linux but close)<\/p>\n

The game Yo Frankie! <\/a>is now part of Blender Projects and thus available on Linux<\/p>\n

VMware Acquires<\/a> Tungsten Graphics, the developers of Mesa and other graphics innovations<\/p>\n

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

Windows market share drops<\/a> below 90%, lowest in 15 years<\/p>\n

Support for Firefox 2 will end mid December. (Link only in Swedish<\/a> – did not find it on the Mozilla<\/a> site)<\/p>\n

OpenXML\/ODF translator Add-ins<\/a> for Office<\/p>\n

Apple Tells Court It Believes Someone Is Behind Psystar<\/a> – an Apple clone manufacurer<\/p>\n

Fight against cyber crime: cyber patrols and Internet investigation teams to reinforce the EU strategy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Microsoft, RSA Partner<\/a> To Integrate DLP, Identity Management<\/p>\n

New trojan in mass DNS hijack<\/a>, more here<\/a><\/p>\n

Distributed SSH Brute Force Attacks<\/a> confounds defenders<\/a><\/p>\n

New Windows worm<\/a> builds massive botnet<\/p>\n

1.91% of all PCs are fully patched<\/a>! PCs means Windows PCs, if this is correct Windows users live dangerously.<\/p>\n

Secunia<\/a> on Internet Explorer Data Binding Zero-Day major vulnerability<\/p>\n

Computer systems at three London hospitals<\/a> are almost back to normal two weeks after a computer virus forced staff to shut down its network.<\/p>\n

Mac OS X: Vulnerable<\/a> to new Trojans<\/p>\n

Many bugfixes in Sun JRE 6.11<\/a> As so often it’s not clear if this is for all operating systems<\/p>\n

The cybercrime-friendly domain registrar EstDomains was terminated<\/a> by ICANN – the major reason why spam decreased recently.<\/p>\n

Spam levels seem to be on the rise again. An interesting analysis here<\/a><\/p>\n

21 million account numbers stolen<\/a>, about 80% of all German bank customers at risk. The link is in German, did not find a suitable English language link<\/p>\n

Online payment site hijacked<\/a> by crime gang<\/p>\n

Hackers help destroy<\/a> the Amazon rainforest according to Greepeace<\/p>\n

Sorry for all the gloomy IT news – but that’s how it is \ud83d\ude41<\/p><\/div>\n

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

Studies find laser printers emit lung-damaging particles<\/a> on the order of cigarette smoking<\/p>\n

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

A Japanese research team has successfully processed and displayed images <\/a>directly from the human brain – and no, this is not a joke<\/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<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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