{"id":741,"date":"2009-04-17T12:25:53","date_gmt":"2009-04-17T10:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.linuxmint.com\/blog\/?p=741"},"modified":"2009-04-17T14:42:05","modified_gmt":"2009-04-17T12:42:05","slug":"the-mint-newsletter-issue-81","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/?p=741","title":{"rendered":"The Mint Newsletter – issue 81"},"content":{"rendered":"
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* News about Mint<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The Mint 6 KDE<\/a> and Fluxbox<\/a> Community editions were released<\/p>\n

The special Google search in Mint<\/a> will be tweaked – it is a major source of income and a minor source of irritation so we will do something about it<\/p>\n

Twitter for Linux Mint <\/a>(quick news)<\/div>\n

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

Sabayon Linux 4.1 “GNOME” edition released<\/a><\/p>\n

Portable Ubuntu<\/a> – run Ubuntu as a Windows application (no it’s not Wubi)<\/p>\n

Intel Looks To Make Large Contribution<\/a> To GCC<\/p>\n

Intel aims for 2-second boot time with Moblin Linux<\/a> platform<\/p>\n

Bug Tracker Helps Mop Up Linux Kernel <\/a><\/p>\n

Ubuntu 9.04 due April 23, includes native ARM port<\/a><\/p>\n

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

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

Hungary Hungry<\/a> for Open Source<\/p>\n

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

Sentence<\/a> in the Pirate Bay trial – one year jail term.\u00a0 This is certain to be appealed and end up in the supreme court, so it will take years before it’s closed<\/p>\n

According to some sources<\/a> Sweden would have problems with WTO and similar organisations if the sentence was not guilty (link in Swedish)<\/p>\n

When the EU IPRED directive became Swedish law internet traffic was halved<\/a> (link in Swedish but the diagram is “multilingual” \ud83d\ude42 )<\/p>\n

Facebook passes 200 million <\/a>users<\/p>\n

Spam E-mails Killing the Environment<\/a>, McAfee Report Says<\/p>\n

Canonical blog<\/a> – Microsoft, FUD and the netbook market<\/p>\n

Will Linux overtake<\/a> Windows on netbooks?<\/p>\n

Teenager Michael “Mikeyy” Mooney fears being sued for creating Twitter worm<\/a><\/p>\n

Verizon Business 2009 Data Breach Study<\/a> Finds Significant Rise in Targeted Attacks, Organized Crime Involvement<\/p>\n

Patent infringement – Microsoft ordered to pay<\/a> Uniloc $388 million<\/p>\n

Amazon.com Disputes Hacker’s Confession<\/a><\/p>\n

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

The ATI\u00a0 Catalyst driver leaves old cards to use legacy drivers<\/a> (link for Windows, but it is the same for Linux)<\/p>\n

Intel chips get new logos<\/a>, star treatment<\/p>\n

Intel Drops A Load Of G45 Programming Documentation<\/a><\/p>\n

Intel CEO says PC sales ‘bottomed out<\/a>‘<\/p>\n

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

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

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Credit goes to xkcd<\/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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* News about Mint The Mint 6 KDE and Fluxbox Community editions were released The special Google search in Mint will be tweaked – it is a major source of income and a minor source of irritation so we will do something about it Twitter for Linux Mint (quick news) * News about Linux Sabayon […]<\/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-741","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\/741","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=741"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":748,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions\/748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}