{"id":521,"date":"2009-01-04T16:01:40","date_gmt":"2009-01-04T14:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.linuxmint.com\/blog\/?p=521"},"modified":"2009-01-04T16:01:40","modified_gmt":"2009-01-04T14:01:40","slug":"the-mint-newsletter-issue-70","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/?p=521","title":{"rendered":"The Mint Newsletter – issue 70"},"content":{"rendered":"
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* News about Mint<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Merlwiz and Exploder are happy to release LinuxMint-6-XFCE as an RC. A few things have to be checked and\/or added to the repositories and Merlwiz needs to write release notes but it\u2019s likely this release will be ready any time now.<\/p>\n

LinuxMint-6-x64 is ready for testing and will be released soon (at the end of the coming week we hope)<\/p>\n

After a lot of testing and talking we decided KDE 4.1 wasn\u2019t fit for usage and we couldn\u2019t release it this way. The decision was made to wait for KDE 4.2 stable (which is planned for the end of this month) and to then design a Mint 6 KDE CE based on Kubuntu 8.10 but with Amarok 2.0 and KDE 4.2. This means there won\u2019t be any KDE CE release this month.<\/p>\n

See the blog<\/a><\/div>\n

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

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

The 2.6.28 kernel is out<\/a> and the very fast ext4 filesystem is no longer “experimental”<\/p>\n

openSUSE 11.1 released<\/a><\/p>\n

sidux 2008-04 released<\/a><\/p>\n

Sabayon Linux 4 released<\/a><\/p>\n

USB 3.0<\/a> and Linux<\/p>\n

UDSJaunty<\/a> (on video)<\/p>\n

Ubuntu Server<\/a> on Amazon<\/p>\n

Bringing<\/a> WINE Into Ubuntu Main?<\/p>\n

Debian women may leave<\/a> due to ‘sexist’ post<\/p>\n

VirtualBox 2.1.0 does OpenGL 3D acceleration<\/a><\/p>\n

Java Performance<\/a>: Ubuntu Linux vs. Windows Vista<\/p>\n

2008 Linux Graphics Survey Results<\/a><\/p>\n

Alan Cox is moving<\/a> on from Red Hat<\/p>\n

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

Intel-sponsored report<\/a>: Adults prefer Internet to sex, TV<\/p>\n

Nearly 70% of Gamers Use XP, Only 30% Vista, Says Valve<\/a> (what about Wine?)<\/p>\n

IE 7 Exploit Reloaded<\/a>: The new face of Drive-by Attacks using Doc files – editors comment: A great example of the dangers in Windows – an activeX control can be embedded in a Word document…..<\/p>\n

Browsers barometer<\/a> 12\/22\/2008<\/p>\n

\u2018Extremely severe\u2019 vulnerabilities<\/a> in Opera browser<\/p>\n

What\u2019s New<\/a> in Firefox 3.0.5 (you really should update if you haven’t done so yet)<\/p>\n

Google sponsored links caught punting malware<\/a><\/p>\n

Hacking victim may be stuck<\/a> with $52,000 phone bill<\/div>\n

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

None this time<\/p>\n

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

It’s obvious that there’s been a holiday season, much less news than normal<\/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<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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