{"id":696,"date":"2009-03-25T14:51:53","date_gmt":"2009-03-25T12:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.linuxmint.com\/blog\/?p=696"},"modified":"2009-03-25T14:51:53","modified_gmt":"2009-03-25T12:51:53","slug":"the-mint-newsletter-issue-79","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/?p=696","title":{"rendered":"The Mint Newsletter – issue 79"},"content":{"rendered":"
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* News about Mint<\/strong><\/h2>\n

mintCast – Episode 9<\/a><\/h2>\n

Linux Mint 4.0 Daryna reaches end-of-life<\/a><\/h2>\n

Linux Mint now has a forum<\/a> at LinuxQuestions.org<\/p>\n

New packages are continuously added to the community repositories – merlwiz79 has made a .deb<\/a> that makes the “software-sources” application work on Mint<\/p>\n

Twitter<\/a><\/div>\n

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

LINUX MASCOT: Tux to make way for Tasmanian Devil<\/a><\/p>\n

And this is what’s new in the latest kernel<\/a> 2.6.29<\/p>\n

Gnome 2.26 released<\/a><\/p>\n

The ext4 data loss issue<\/a> (by one of the devs)<\/p>\n

Chromium<\/a> on Ubuntu ! [HOW TO]<\/p>\n

digiKam 0.10.0 release for KDE4<\/a><\/p>\n

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

* News about Open Source<\/strong><\/p>\n

Richard Stallman: You may be running non-free programs<\/a> on your computer every day without realizing it\u2014through your web browser.<\/p>\n

Khronos Launches Initiative<\/a> to Create Open Royalty Free Standard for Accelerated 3D on the Web<\/p>\n

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

Microsoft, Lexmark to cross-license<\/a> patents<\/p>\n

TomTom gets allies in Microsoft Linux patent lawsuit fight<\/a><\/p>\n

The next version<\/a> of Firefox will be 3.5 not 3.1<\/p>\n

Flaw makes Twitter vulnerable<\/a> to serious viral attack<\/p>\n

Facebook could be monitored<\/a> by the UK government<\/p>\n

Facebook defends<\/a> its security and privacy tools<\/p>\n

Songbird Bug Accidentally Wipes<\/a> Users’ iPods, but the Bug Bites the Dust<\/a><\/p>\n

Pwn2Own 2009 <\/a>Day 1 – Safari, Internet Explorer, and Firefox Taken Down by Four Zero-Day Exploits<\/p>\n

Safari Cracked in Seconds<\/a> at Pwn2Own Hacking Competition<\/p>\n

Researcher hacks<\/a> just-launched IE8<\/p>\n

First worm directed at home routers <\/a>– infects devices which has weak username\/passwords<\/p>\n

The downadup\/Conficker<\/a> worm will do something on April 1st – probably no funny april fools joke<\/p>\n

Microsoft and Yahoo talking<\/a> again<\/p>\n

Semantic Search Could Secure Google’s Future<\/a><\/p>\n

Firewalls often do not filter ipv6 which is a major security<\/a> hole (link in Swedish – sorry no good link in English)<\/p>\n

Romanian police arrest<\/a> Pentagon hack suspect<\/p>\n

Aussie ISP pulls out <\/a>of firewall trial<\/p>\n

Pirate Bay Announces IPREDATOR<\/a> Global Anonymity Service<\/p>\n

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

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

This is a bit odd – Credit card skimming malware targeting ATMs<\/a><\/div>\n

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* Comic of the week<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Credit goes to xkcd – http:\/\/xkcd.com\/<\/a><\/div>\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> Twitter<\/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

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