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Zgodnie z zapowiedzią dzisiaj ukazała się zmodyfikowana przez mati75 edycja Linux Mint Elyssa PL. Jest ona w pełni spolszczona. Domyślnie zawiera programy przydatne polskim użytkownikom jak Kadu czy ubudsl. Dodatkowo usunięte zostały mało przydatne pakiety.
Więcej informacji znajdziecie na forum!
It took me some time to update the FGLRX and the NVIDIA driver in Ubuntu since I’m working on the drivers for Intrepid and on my new projects for Ubuntu. Furthermore driver 173.14.09 breaks the compatibility with realtime kernels and I didn’t want to upload something which would cause problems to a lot of users. For this reason I have written a patch (thanks to mizvekov from the NvNews forums for the tips) which will fix this problem while keeping the compatibility with non-realtime kernels.
Both the NVIDIA and the FGLRX contain a lot of fixes and I need your help to test the packages so that we can get them into hardy-updates (i.e. the stable repositories) soon. Please report your experience with the driver in this bugreport.
NOTE: the instructions to enable and use -proposed are in the bugreport (see Martin’s link)
This weeks winner of Wallpaper of the Week is,
SpringWind by raindropmemory.
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Congratulations to raindropmemory for his excellent work on this wallpaper.
Also please be sure to check out this weeks Wallpaper of the Week vote for Issue 7
Submissions and vote can be seen in the forums HERE
The repositories (packages.linuxmint.com) are currently down, giving 403 errors or not responding at all.
Sorry for the inconvenience. We’re aware of it and we’re trying to fix them as quick as possible.
Affected parts of the desktop: APT, mintInstall and Synaptic can only install from Ubuntu or 3rd party repositories. MintUpdate cannot work at all.
Update (7th July, 4:38pm GMT0): I made a temporary fix. The repository is working at the moment but expect some more downtime later when this gets properly fixed by Michael (d00p).
Après quelques essais et de nombreuses heures de capilotraction, la mise en place de la section documentation du site de la communauté francophone est enfin terminée. Ce n'est pas une version définitive. A l'image de notre distribution favorite, ce site est dirigé en grande partie par la communauté ("Community Driven Website"). A ce titre les demandes d'aménagements et/ou de mofifications seront les bienvenues. Un sujet sur les forums est d'ailleurs disponible a cet effet.
E' possibile, grazie ai suggerimenti di Diego1188, inserire filmati flash (youtube) direttamente nei post nel forum.
Aspettiamo dunque i vostri video.
Many thanks to the following donors and sponsors for financially supporting Linux Mint:
Sponsors:
- $70, Philippe Lotz, MBA, International Consulting & Coaching (alsaphil - France)
- $25, Az Van (newW2 - USA)
- $11, LinuxISOS.de (Germany) - http://www.linuxisos.de
- $10, Tuxdevil Outsourcing LLC http://www.tuxdevil.net
- $10, TOPIMMOBILIEN (Tim - Germany) - http://www.immobilien-es.com
- $10, MXD Internet Solutions (Filip Oscadal - Czech Republic) - http://www.mxd.biz
- $7, Panagiotis Papasaikas (Greece) - http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/ppapasai/
- $5, Vassilis Skoullis (Greece)
- $5, linuxmint-italia.org (Pietro Martino / prior123 - Italy) - http://www.linuxmint-italia.org
- $5, Robert Holland
- $5, Kevin Gabbert
- $2, LinuxMint-Forum.de (Germany) - http://linuxmint-forum.de/
- $2, Khurt Williams (USA) - http://islandinthenet.com/
- $1, Lintelligence.de. (d00p - Germany) - http://www.lintelligence.de
- $1, Linuxmint.de (d00p - Germany) - http://www.linuxmint.de
- $0.5 Martijn van Loon (aapiethaaap - Netherlands)
Donors:
- $100 (3rd donation) Harald Gauslaa (Norway)
- $80 (3rd donation) Theodore T. (UK)
- $80 Eric H. (Germany)
- $80 Paul G. (Netherlands)
- $60 (3rd donation) Erik Anderson (deadguy - USA)
- $51 (in 2 donations) William G. (USA)
- $50 (2nd donation) Michael G. (subslug - USA)
- $50 Holland StJ. (USA)
- $50 Nordgard W. (Norway)
- $50 Gary Arter (UK)
- $50 Eric H. (USA)
- $50 Ernest M. (Australia)
- $40 Dariusz Z. (Ireland)
- $40 (4th donation) Peter Fitzsimons (UK)
- $40 (2nd donation) Philippe W. (Switzerland)
- $40 Matthew M. (USA)
- $32 (5th donation) Temel Balci (Germany)
- $30 (2nd donation) Randolph MacK. (Verlager - USA)
- $25 Julia C. (USA)
- $25 Samantha O. (USA)
- $25 James S. (USA)
- $25 David K. (USA)
- $25 Scott H. (USA)
- $24 Joan P. N. (Spain)
- $24 Till H. H. (Germany)
- $21 Timothy R. (USA)
- $16 Alan O. (UK)
- $16 (3rd donation) Frank Bechstein (Germany)
- $16 (2nd donation) Bernd M. (Germany)
- $13 Julien D. (Belgium)
- $10 Jesse N. (USA)
- $10 Erik L. (Germany)
- $10 Richard L. (USA)
- $10 Douglas S. (USA)
- $10 (3rd donation) Jaxon L. (USA)
- $10 Juan G. M. (Spain)
- $8 (7th donation) Phillip Blake (antiquexray - USA)
- $5 Ricardo G. E. (Argentina)
- $1 Shane E. (Canada)
Money raised in June:
http://www.linuxmint.com/donors.php
http://www.linuxmint.com/sponsors.php
I just wanted to post about what happened these last few days and what’s coming up in the near future:
- We decided to postpone the developement of QT frontends for the Mint applications in the KDE CE. As a consequence, the bad news is that all mint tools will still come with GTK interfaces in Elyssa KDE CE and that due to a problem with how GTK handles transparency in systray GTK applications won’t be using the default KDE style by default. The good news is that, with this out of the way, there isn’t much holding Elyssa KDE CE from being released anymore… so we should see this edition come with a public BETA pretty soon now.
- Ubuntu released an update (8.04.1). I’m currently reviewing it. As always I tend to take a conservative approach and I’m not interested in updates which don’t fix any important known issues. If the decision is to catch up with 8.04.1 then Linux Mint 5 R2 will be released and I’ll take the opportunity to consider adding support for OEM installations and a fix for mintUpdate (which sometimes doesn’t always refresh itself).
- Firefox 3 stable was added to the repositories. Opera 9.5 is there as well (although this was added a while ago). We’ve also added Western Quake 3 ( [linuxmint.com] ) and we might add Urban Terror 4.1 soon.
J'ai mis à jour Linux Mint sur wikipédia en créant un lien intitulé "La communauté francophone".
Welcome to the Linux Mint Newsletter
* News about Mint
There is one important point to add about the security flaw in mintAssistant
Create a root password!
Else you will not be able to use “Recovery mode”
mintAssistant recommends you not to do so, but then you get a random root password, which you will never know
Clem posted comments on reviews of Elyssa in the Blog
Apart from that not much has happened that is publicly known
Behind the scenes we are working hard on the KDE and Fluxbox versions and betas are tested with good result
Unless something happens I think we can see public betas soon
* News about Linux
There has been a large number of releases lately
Parsix, Pardus and Archlinux have all been released last week
Ubuntu Mobile Internet Device (MID) Edition released
A new game for Linux - Zero Ballistics Beta for Linux available
Wine 1.1 released
* News about IT
Bill Gates retires from Microsoft
Microsoft prolongs support for XP to 2014
Microsoft is pushing freeware to help combat SQL injection attacks. SQL injection is widely abused to infect websites so they do things the attacker wants
How severe this can be can be seen in this article
Ericsson to sell it’s share in Symbian to Nokia for £209m
Spam DDoS assault cuts off south Pacific state
Swedish members of parliament that voted for the controversial bugging law mentioned in last weeks newsletter are flooded with protest emails
Critical security alert issued for Tor
* Hardware news
ATI and nvidia - the latest graphics card compete
Equipment to tell the position of a RFID tag intended for advertising
* Trivia and other links

* More about Linux Mint
You find the Wallpaper of the Week in the Blog
* Editors comment
As always - if you find something I’ve missed in the newsletter please tell me - you can post a comment here
Enjoy life
Husse
After a whole month of tough competition here’s what the All Stars table looks like for June 2008:
1 Kronophage — 1.680 pts, 13 games. * Congrats! *
2 christopher — 0.222 pts, 2 games.
3 thomas — 0.214 pts, 2 games.
4 djnm — 0.213 pts, 2 games.
5 OOp — 0.154 pts, 1 games.
6 mocap — 0.151 pts, 2 games.
7 StevenBrady — 0.133 pts, 2 games.
8 MeansWell — 0.127 pts, 1 games.
9 phonic — 0.092 pts, 1 games.
10 alex_ — 0.088 pts, 1 games.
There were 11 users playing 28 games.
Congratulations to Kronophage who’s been at the top of the table for 3 months now.
If you haven’t joined the Quizz yet, it’s very easy:
- In Linux Mint: open up Xchat-Gnome (or Konversation) then when it’s connected join the #pimpmymint channel.
- On other platforms: Launch your favorite IRC client, connect to the irc.spotchat.org server and join the #pimpmymint channel.
Note: Make sure to register your nickname with Nickserv so that the Quizz bot can remember you the next time you log in.
Here are the candidates for this weeks WOTW (#006). What is your favorite, what would like to see get into the LinuxMint repositories? Vote on the forums and let us know, and we will listen.
Mint Carved in Stone by Zwopper

Here is the link to the vote
Link to vote on forums
La communauté francophone devait avoir un site pour promouvoir Linux Mint, c'est aujourd'hui le début d'une belle histoire, celle d'amoureux et de passionnés de la distribution la plus élégante du monde linux ;)
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Un seul mot d'ordre, sur ce site, vous êtes là pour partager. Vos remarques, astuces, commentaires, déboires sont autant d'élément importants qui peuvent aider les autres. N'hésitez donc pas à partager.



Con piacere pubblichiamo questa mail di Gennaro, di Hemporium.
Ciao,
sono Gennaro, faccio parte di Hemporium, un growshop di Roma. Abbiamo tre negozi e due siti di e-commerce, siamo passati completamente a Linux da un po di mesi, in particolare alla distribuzione LinixMint, abbiamo ben 6 PC tra desktop e laptop, tutti con LinuxMint, questo da 8/9 mesi e ne siamo entusiasti.
Volevamo annunciare questa notizia sul nostro sito, di seguito ti mando la news che pubblicheremo e ne volevamo approfittare per fare un po di promozione a GNU/Linux e contribuire nel nostro piccolo alla diffusione del pinguino sui desktop.
Ti contatto per sapere se possiamo pubblicare questa news sul forum Linuxmint-italia.org (se si in quale topic?) e se hai qualche consiglio, idea, o altro.
Grazie
Gennaro
P.s.
personalmente conosco Linuxmint da tempo e seguo linuxmint-italia dalla nascita, approfitto per fare i complimenti a te e tutti i moderatori di linuxmint-italia.
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I vantaggi sono molteplici: a partire dalla sicurezza (non abbiamo più problemi di virus), richiede poco hardware (sono bastati vecchi computer per avere prestazioni più che soddisfacenti), il controllo e la stabilità (non ci sfugge nulla di quello che viene installato o rimosso e non rallenta dopo pochi mesi), una scelta di libertà al 100%, ed è gratis.
Se vuoi saperne di più leggi la nostra pagina 'Hemporium and GNU/Linux', troverai consigli e link utili, puoi anche scriverci per avere consigli e indicazioni sul software libero, alla nostra casella dedicata: linux@hemporium.it
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TechieMoe.com often appears on distrowatch in the review section. The great thing about it is that it actually reviews new releases very often and very quickly. The bad thing is that it doesn’t take the time to review them properly and often only gives an overview of the new features, misses improvements, ignores their philosophy and barely scratches the surface. So Elyssa was reviewed on TechieMoe.com a few days after its release and it got a score (3 penguins) but none of its new features (as in not even one) were discussed…
… although one might wonder why somebody would review a product he knows nothing about and give a score to something he didn’t read the release notes, Moe rises a few interesting points so I decided to comment on his review nonetheless. Warning though: Moe doesn’t know much about Mint, to him it’s more or less Ubuntu, and he doesn’t have a clue what has changed between Daryna and Elyssa. I’m not sure whether he knows about the Release Notes and the User Guide or whether the pace and purpose of techiemoe.com simply doesn’t allow him to take the necessary time to know about the different distribution he gives a brief overview of.
Don’t take me wrong, it’s nice to have an overview of something sometimes, but as a review of something we’ve worked on for the last 6 months, I found it quite disappointing.
Link to the review: [www.techiemoe.com]
- Moe said: “It offers a stable base of Ubuntu along with several useful pieces that aren’t included for legal reasons”
–> For “licensing” reasons, as the problem here isn’t to do with legislation but mostly with patents.
- Moe said: “I like being given the choice to enable root and turn off fortunes. I was less than impressed by the fact that my regular user was still given sudo privileges after I enabled the root account, though. The end result was the same as if I’d simply not enabled it, so the choice is pretty futile.”
–> Now, this is the main reason why I decided to comment on this review. I find that point particularly interesting. Moe definitely has a point here and whether we agree or disagree with him on that point, we should look into this and see at the very least if mintAssistant, in the way it phrases the question and allows that choice, should also give the possibility to remove sudo-powers to the main user. I will look in how to improve mintAssistant to allow that choice to be made. At the moment it’s a yes or no question and the user needs to choose between sudo and sudo + root password, this can be made better and we’ll improve it for Mint 6.
- Moe said: “I realize that Linux Mint is based on Ubuntu, and Ubuntu does everything with sudo. However I’d like to be able to make Mint behave the same as other distributions if I choose to enable the root account.”
–> Very valid point. I can see why a user would want to do that and I can’t see any reason why mintAssistant shouldn’t let him/her do it. We’ll fix that in Linux Mint 6.
- Moe said: “I make my user password hard to guess, and my root password close to impossible to guess, and in order to do anything terribly damaging an attacker would need at least root. Using the default Ubuntu and Mint setup, an attacker needs only to crack the user password (which is in theory easier to do) in order to make system-wide changes.”
–> I disagree with that and I don’t see any reason why the your user password should be easier to guess, especially if the admin can use and remember a complex password for the root account. Exposing the user account is not a good idea in the first place, not to mention that on a single-user system the user account is as precious as root since the only real value is in the data and documents stored in the user’s home, in information which can’t be communicated or lost.
- Moe said: “The first thing I tried was wireless drivers. Although a graphical configuration screen was available for NDISWrapper, I was unable to get my Broadcom card to work. I attempted to install Nvidia 3D drivers as well, but the script failed when it couldn’t find GLIBC. Apparently Linux Mint does not include the “build-essential” packages by default. I attempted to add “build-essential” using the disc, but I couldn’t find a way to define the disc as a source. In regular Ubuntu this is done in “Software Sources.” I looked around on the CD itself and could find no packages, so manual installation was out of the question.”
–> We placed broadcom drivers on the disc, there are mintWifi drivers in /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintWifi/drivers and we don’t include build-essential by default. The disc itself doesn’t act as a repository like the Ubuntu liveCD does. It’s a problem with the space available on the CD, because of our software selection we can’t add much on the CD itself.
- Moe said: “If found, it will take you to a website that lists the package, a description and gives an “Install Now” button. Clicking that downloads the appropriate files and you’re off. Although it’s an interesting feature, I don’t see any benefit to this over Synaptic.”
–> Community reviews, screenshots, ranking, the ability to explain to someone how to install something by just sending him/her a link he/she can click on or by sending him/her a .mint file by email (a few KB), browsing of applications in a particular category and by popularity, ability to make installers for virtually anything (a .deb is a .deb, a .mint file can install many .debs from different repositories, with different keys, it can run any kind of code, launch operations, make modifications on the filesystem, send emails..etc.. basically a .mint file can do much more than installing a .deb), application-centric approach as opposed to package-centric approach in Synaptic (people like to think of applications by their name, not by the names of the package(s) that represent(s) them).
- Moe said: “However, even with the multimedia codecs it installs I can’t help but ask myself why I’d choose Mint over regular Ubuntu. Given the choice, I’d still go with the devil I know. I know its limitations, and I can work around them. There’s too much unfamiliar territory in Mint.”
–> I completely agree. If you don’t see any difference between a derivative and its base distribution then you’ve got no reason to run the derivative, it’s pure common sense. Now having said that, we’ve been developing Linux Mint for nearly 2 years now, we’ve got really detailed Release Notes and a 100 pages User Guide going through each specificity of our distribution… I don’t think Mint is popular because people like black better than brown and although it’s fine for somebody not to show interest in new distributions, I though that was precisely the point in a review.
Conclusion:
I’d like to thank Moe for rising that point about mintAssistant and sudo. It definitely made me think further about it and I’m pretty sure it will allow us to improve this in the upcoming Mint 6. The review itself is disappointing and it summarizes how people see Mint when all they know is that it’s based off Ubuntu. If you run Mint in a VM for about 10 minutes and just poke it here and there… obviously it’s going to look like Ubuntu with codecs and a different theme. It reminds me of my niece (she’s been running Mint Main for a year now)… as I was testing KDE CE she kind of looked at it, saw that it had Firefox, OpenOffice and all that.. and she said “.. so it’s just blue then is it?”.
Jun is having a date with Elyssa and is telling us all about it.
Link to the review: [www.junauza.com]
Comments on the review:
- Jun said: “After dating Cassandra and Daryna, I spend some time with the newest Mint girl in town. Elyssa is her name or you can simply call her Mint 5.”
–> As you can see, it’s not the first date and it won’t be last, and Jun’s wife Beth seems to be OK with it. The codenames encourage the personification of Mint releases and if you’ve been reading Jun before or the Mint Cafe/House in the forums you’re probably used to call them “her” by now… not to mention that it annoys a few people, so even better
- Jun said: “Since Mint 5 is derived from Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, I expect it to be filled with exciting new features and should be more of like a much polished “Hardy Heron“.”
–> Mint 5 is using Hardy’s repositories and its own on top of it. I just wanted to stress the fact that Mint is not a “better” Ubuntu, it’s a “compatible” Ubuntu which focus and purpose is different and which appeals to a different audience. Also, in terms of innovations and improvements Elyssa comes with things that you won’t find in Hardy, and the opposite is also true (for instance Elyssa doesn’t feature Wubi).
- Jun said: “Mint 5 installation was flawless as usual on my test machine, and I was not surprised. It’s actually the same straightforward installation similar to that of Ubuntu. However, unlike in Hardy Heron, you are not given an option to install the operating system right away. You have to boot to the Live CD desktop first for you to install Mint 5.”
–> Mint is using Ubuntu’s installer (Ubiquity) and only changes a few minor things in it. We did notice the install option in Hardy’s isolinux and we considered adding it to Mint but I didn’t think it added much and I was interested in making the boot menu a bit more dynamic. In the end we opted for an isolinux menu developed by Fedora, with a nice countdown and a hidden menu.
- Jun said: “An interesting and handy feature of Mint is an application called MintAssistant. It’s a wizard that appears immediately after the installation”
–> The idea was inspired by Fedora’s first-run assistant and the fact that I didn’t want to change Ubiquity too much as it was actively being developed upstream.
- Jun said: “Unlike Ubuntu, Mint utilizes a single panel with its very own MintMenu –a python-coded menu that allows for fully customizable text, icons, and colors. Some may like this setup but I still prefer the two-panel and classic GNOME-menu combination.”
–> People usually love it or hate it, and they’re quite passionate about this. I guess this is the kind of choice that should make its way into mintDesktop or mintAssistant.
- Jun said: “The all essential list of software packages installed by default in Mint 5 is almost the same as that of Ubuntu 8.04. It has Firefox 3 […]plugins like flash and multimedia codecs for playing DVD and MP3 are already loaded […]”
–> Firefox is version 3 RC1, Flash is version 10 beta 128 and Opera (which isn’t installed by default) is version 9.50. There are a few other differences in terms of package versions between Mint and Ubuntu but overall it’s mostly the same. In the default selection Ubuntu adds XSane, Remote clients, Evolution and Gnome Games I think.. while Mint adds Thunderbird, OpenOffice Base and some administration/configuration tools.
- Jun said: “With Elyssa, Linux Mint has cemented its place as my top rated distro for Linux newbies particularly those who have just migrated from Windows. It is so easy to use that you can call it Ubuntu for dummies.”
–> “Ubuntu for dummies”… oh man…
The purpose is clear, to make things comfortable for the user. It’s got nothing to do with Ubuntu even though Ubuntu is one of the major component in Linux Mint, and it’s not solely made with the novice user in mind, the purpose is also to make things comfortable for advanced users. That was funny though
Conclusion:
I really enjoyed reading this review. The style was very nice to read and the part about the panels gave me an idea for the upcoming Mint 6. I keep note of what’s coming up here by the way: [www.linuxmint.com]
Many thanks to Jun for this review and I look forward to reading about his date with Felicia.

I partecipanti a Zero Day Initiative di TippingPoint hanno trovato una vulnerabilità in Firefox 3 a poche ore dal Download Day da Guinness dei primati, nel corso del quale 8 milioni di persone hanno scaricato l'ultima versione del celebre browser.
La falla è stata definita "high", il massimo grado di pericolosità; è segnalata anche nel blog di Mozilla e viene dichiarato che il bug è in fase di studio e che non verranno forniti dettagli finché non sarà disponibile una patch, per la sicurezza degli utenti. Mozilla comunque dichiara che non esistono al momento exploit pubblici che permettano di acquisire privilegi in un computer remoto sfruttando il bug, quindi gli utenti corrono un rischio minimo.