{"id":834,"date":"2009-05-19T21:53:36","date_gmt":"2009-05-19T19:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.linuxmint.com\/blog\/?p=834"},"modified":"2009-05-19T21:53:36","modified_gmt":"2009-05-19T19:53:36","slug":"the-mint-newsletter-issue-84","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/?p=834","title":{"rendered":"The Mint Newsletter – issue 84"},"content":{"rendered":"
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* News about Mint<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The stable release of Mint 7 Gloria has entered the testing phase<\/a> – if all goes well we are only a few days from release<\/p>\n

Language support<\/a> in Gloria<\/p>\n

The RC1 has been reviewed several times alreday – here are some more reviews – this<\/a> and this<\/a> and this one<\/a> in German<\/p>\n

mintCast Episode 13<\/a> and 14<\/a> There is something strange with the links – both say episode 13<\/p>\n

Monthly stats – April 2009<\/a> This April was the best month ever for Mint<\/div>\n

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

AMD Releases<\/a> R600\/700 Programming Guide – will it lead to better open source 3D drivers?<\/p>\n

Zenwalk Live 6.0 release<\/a><\/p>\n

Another critical patch from Adobe<\/a> – also for *nix<\/p>\n

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

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

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

Greece halts<\/a> Google Street View<\/p>\n

Mozilla Prism<\/a> introduced An application that lets users run web applications directly on their desktop<\/p>\n

French Assembly passes<\/a> ‘three strikes’ HADOPI law (it has now been passed by the senate as well)<\/p>\n

File-Sharing <\/a>in Sweden Decreasing drastically after the Pirate Bay verdict and start of the IPRED directive<\/p>\n

US missile defence details bought<\/a> on eBay<\/p>\n

FAA’s Air-Traffic <\/a>Networks Breached by Hackers<\/p>\n

UC Berkeley<\/a> computers hacked, 160,000 at risk<\/p>\n

Heartland breach costs<\/a> at $12.6M – and counting<\/p>\n

‘Hacker’ threatens to expose health data, demands<\/a> $10M<\/p>\n

ZeusTracker and the Nuclear Option – the demise<\/a> of a botnet<\/p>\n

New Wave<\/a> of “Gumblar” Hacked Sites Installs Google-targeting Malware – Windows only<\/p>\n

The European Commission<\/a> wants software makers held liable for code<\/p>\n

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

Intel loses<\/a> chip share to AMD<\/p>\n

Intel Fined<\/a> By European Commission<\/p>\n

Netbook runs on AA batteries<\/a><\/p>\n

‘Echologic’ Linux netbook<\/a> for Eur 130 in Spain\u00a0 (link in Spanish)<\/p>\n

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

Brain scanning<\/a> may be used in security checks<\/div>\n

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

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 stable release of Mint 7 Gloria has entered the testing phase – if all goes well we are only a few days from release Language support in Gloria The RC1 has been reviewed several times alreday – here are some more reviews – this and this and this one in […]<\/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-834","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\/834","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=834"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":844,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834\/revisions\/844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}