{"id":890,"date":"2009-06-10T23:34:18","date_gmt":"2009-06-10T21:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.linuxmint.com\/blog\/?p=890"},"modified":"2009-06-11T09:56:46","modified_gmt":"2009-06-11T07:56:46","slug":"the-mint-newsletter-issue-86","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/?p=890","title":{"rendered":"The Mint Newsletter – issue 86"},"content":{"rendered":"
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* News about Mint<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Linux Mint 7 x64 RC1 released!<\/a><\/p>\n

A call for Promotional materials<\/a><\/p>\n

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

Unix turns 40<\/a><\/p>\n

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

Fedora 11 released<\/a> – lots of news<\/a><\/p>\n

Intel contributes<\/a> to the new 2.6.30 kernel – and the present problems with Intel graphics seems to be solved<\/p>\n

The Linuxfoundation opens up for Individual<\/a> Membership<\/p>\n

Acer<\/a> Will Use Moblin Linux Across Its Products<\/p>\n

Intel to buy <\/a>Wind River for $884 million<\/p>\n

Enabling DRM<\/a> in the kernel?<\/p>\n

More Linux<\/a> on Dreamhack<\/a> – probably the largest LAN party in the world (Linux link in Swedish as it takes place in Sweden)<\/p>\n

Hymera<\/a> is high on Distrowatch<\/a> – at lest for me a new distribution<\/p>\n

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

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

Solaris will disappear<\/a> – long live OpenSolaris (the blog post in the link is written by ian in debian)<\/p>\n

OpenSolaris ported<\/a> to ARM<\/p>\n

Dell bundling open source<\/a> applications for SMBs<\/p>\n

StormOS<\/a> Enters Beta – StormOS is a mix of Solaris and Ubuntu<\/p>\n

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

VAServ Hack<\/a> Results in Massive Data Loss – as many as 100 000 sites destroyed or badly damaged<\/p>\n

Square your search results with Google Squared<\/a> – a new Google service<\/p>\n

Google docs have added<\/a> .docx and .xlsx to the list of file formats possible to use<\/p>\n

Data Breach Exposes RAF Staff to Blackmail<\/a><\/p>\n

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

Linux will be the first <\/a>operating system with official USB 3.0 support.<\/p>\n

Gigabyte presents motherboard with a BIOS that has 16 MB<\/a> – that’s the size of RAM in the mid nineties<\/p>\n

Elitegroup molds porcelain HTPC<\/a><\/p>\n

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

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

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Credit goes to xkcd<\/a><\/p>\n

I’ll try not to reuse a comic this week \ud83d\ude42<\/p><\/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> Mintcast<\/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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