{"id":968,"date":"2009-07-23T20:26:49","date_gmt":"2009-07-23T18:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.linuxmint.com\/blog\/?p=968"},"modified":"2009-07-23T22:44:08","modified_gmt":"2009-07-23T20:44:08","slug":"the-mint-newsletter-issue-89","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/?p=968","title":{"rendered":"The Mint Newsletter – issue 89"},"content":{"rendered":"
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* News about Mint<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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

Firefox 3.5 available<\/a> in Gloria and Firefox 3.0.12 also available through mintUpdate (security fixes)<\/p>\n

Command line – improvements<\/p>\n

We are changing our workflow and will use Launchpad and git –<\/p>\n

As Mint grows we need tools to handle the growth (announcement in the blog<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Bugs<\/a> on Launchpad<\/p>\n

Blueprints<\/a> on Launchpad – Blueprints for Helena<\/a><\/p>\n

Translations<\/a> in Launchpad (for Helena)<\/p>\n

Code on github<\/a> – mintUpload (and later perhaps more) is maintained by “emorrp1” – his github<\/a><\/p>\n

I forgot to mention that we had large scale vandalism<\/a> in the wiki – we have to lock it down until we can figure out a way to monitor edits<\/p>\n

We also had two massive spam attacks in the forum – registered spam bots laying dormant since early May, late April. Can’t do much about it sadly<\/p>\n

mintCast episode 19<\/a><\/div>\n

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

Microsoft contributes<\/a> to the Linux kernel – possibly because of a violation<\/a> of the GPL licence<\/p>\n

Zero day attack code for the Linux kernel<\/a> (No version used by Mint though – Mint is safe from this)<\/p>\n

Gran Canaria Desktop Summit <\/a><\/p>\n

Shuttleworth about GNOME 3.0<\/a> (and Ubuntu will stay brown)<\/p>\n

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

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

Launchpad is now open source<\/a><\/p>\n

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

Cloning passport card RFIDs in bulk for under $250 (link to Youtube<\/a>) If you search for Chris Paget and Rfid you’ll fine a bunch of scary examples. And it’s not only passports – you can get a cloning device for less that will clone the rfid used for bus fares<\/p>\n

PCs Used in Korean DDoS Attacks May Self Destruct<\/a><\/p>\n

Microsoft admits new ActiveX zero-day bug<\/a><\/p>\n

Imageshack Hacked<\/a><\/p>\n

* Hardware news<\/strong><\/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

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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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* News about Mint Linux Mint 7 \u201cGloria\u201d XFCE RC1 released! Firefox 3.5 available in Gloria and Firefox 3.0.12 also available through mintUpdate (security fixes) Command line – improvements We are changing our workflow and will use Launchpad and git – As Mint grows we need tools to handle the growth (announcement in the blog) […]<\/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-968","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\/968","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=968"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":976,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions\/976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}