{"id":804,"date":"2009-05-07T18:42:44","date_gmt":"2009-05-07T16:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.linuxmint.com\/blog\/?p=804"},"modified":"2009-05-07T18:42:44","modified_gmt":"2009-05-07T16:42:44","slug":"the-mint-newsletter-issue-83","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/?p=804","title":{"rendered":"The Mint Newsletter – issue 83"},"content":{"rendered":"
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* News about Mint<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Linux Mint 7 \u201cGloria\u201d RC1 released!<\/a><\/h2>\n

Gloria has already been rewieved by Softpedia<\/a> and here<\/a><\/p>\n

A call for more translations<\/a> to Gloria<\/div>\n

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

Mandriva<\/a> Linux 2009 Spring released<\/p>\n

Sabayon<\/a> Linux 4.1 KDE: Stable release<\/p>\n

Linux fast-boot tech targets<\/a> Windows users<\/p>\n

A Gaming<\/a> Team For Ubuntu Has Been Started<\/p>\n

Vulnerability<\/a> in Adobe Reader for all OSes including Linux (in javascript)<\/p>\n

Linux Breaks<\/a> 1% on the Client However such figures are very unreliable<\/p>\n

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

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

Open Invention Network seeks prior art<\/a> to burn FAT patents<\/p>\n

The Spanish free software association Hispalinux is protesting<\/a> plans by the Spanish government to massively introduce Microsoft’s operating systems and applications on school computers.<\/p>\n

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

Taking over<\/a> the Torpig botnet – interesting information on how a botnet works<\/p>\n

Hackers Break Into<\/a> Virginia Health Professions Database, Demand Ransom<\/p>\n

Nefarious Conficker<\/a> worm racks up $9.1 billion bill – and is supposed to stop working on May 3<\/p>\n

UK plan to monitor<\/a> all internet use<\/p>\n

Pirate Bay Verdict Gives Urgency to Italian Case<\/a><\/p>\n

And interestingly DVD sales<\/a> rise in Sweden after the verdict (link in Swedish – have not found one in English)<\/p>\n

GeoCities has closed<\/a> down<\/p>\n

The first Yahoo email <\/a>client<\/p>\n

Swine Flu Outbreak Headlines Used For Spammer<\/a>\u2019s Gain<\/p>\n

ID thieves advertising<\/a> on YouTube<\/p>\n

Microsoft looks<\/a> to Facebook with Windows Live<\/p>\n

Windows bugs<\/a> never really die<\/p>\n

Google Joins<\/a> Mozilla, Blames IE for Chrome Bug<\/p>\n

Cloud security stokes concerns<\/a> at RSA<\/p>\n

Researcher argues<\/a> for CERTs with teeth<\/p>\n

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

nVidia’s GT300<\/a> specifications revealed – it’s a cGPU!<\/p>\n

Qualcomm, Broadcom reach $891 million settlement<\/a><\/p>\n

Acer Revo Ubuntu Nettop<\/a> GBP 149, Windows Model GBP 249<\/p>\n

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

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

We also use packages….<\/p>\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

I am convinced that I collected more news but they have vanished<\/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 Linux Mint 7 \u201cGloria\u201d RC1 released! Gloria has already been rewieved by Softpedia and here A call for more translations to Gloria * News about Linux Mandriva Linux 2009 Spring released Sabayon Linux 4.1 KDE: Stable release Linux fast-boot tech targets Windows users A Gaming Team For Ubuntu Has Been Started […]<\/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-804","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\/804","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=804"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":814,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions\/814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}