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• September 07, 2008
• 21:50

  Proximamente...en Mint

   » ‎ Linux Mint Hispano
  Hola comunidad hize una traduccion quizas no muy perfecta, pero entendible, sobre los ultimos aspectos y planes que tiene Clem con nuestra distribucion favorita. Mint 5 edicion: * XFCE CE (estable) se dará a conocer a comienzos de la próxima semana. *...

• 17:39

  Donations & Sponsorship - August 2008

   » ‎ Linux Mint Blog

  Many thanks to the following donors and sponsors for financially supporting Linux Mint:

  Sponsors:

  - $70, Philippe Lotz (alsaphil - France)
  - $40, Az Van (newW2 - USA)
  - $35, Linux Compatible Poker (USA) - [www.linuxcompatiblepoker.com]
  - $30, LinuxISOS.de (Germany) - [www.linuxisos.de]
  - $30, Linux-Onlineshop (Germany) - [www.linux-onlineshop.de]
  - $25, Linuxmint-Shop.de (Germany) - [www.linuxmint-shop.de]
  - $20, TOPIMMOBILIEN (Tim - Germany) - [www.immobilien-es.com]
  - $12, Sito3p.com (Italy) - [sito3p.com]
  - $10, Tuxdevil Outsourcing LLC [www.tuxdevil.net]
  - $10, Jim Rogers (USA)
  - $10, MXD Internet Solutions (Filip Oscadal - Czech Republic) - [www.mxd.biz]
  - $7, Panagiotis Papasaikas (Greece) - [www.andrew.cmu.edu]
  - $5, Guillermo Enrique Guglietti (Canada) - [www.urbancsa.org]
  - $5, Kevin Gabbert
  - $5, Dimitris Athanasiou (RHO, Greece) - [www.speedtest.gr]
  - $5, Vassilis Skoullis (Greece)
  - $5, Robert Holland
  - $2, Khurt Williams (USA) - [islandinthenet.com]
  - $2, LinuxMint-Forum.de (Germany) - [linuxmint-forum.de]
  - $1, Lintelligence.de. (d00p - Germany) - [www.lintelligence.de]
  - $1, Linuxmint.de (d00p - Germany) - [www.linuxmint.de]
  - $1, Ian Egland (Echolynx - USA)
  - $0.5 Martijn van Loon (aapiethaaap - Netherlands)

  Donors:

  - $400 DistroWatch.com (Taiwan)
  - $100 Jim Rogers (USA)
  - $100 (2nd donation) Alan D S. (USA)
  - $75 Jesus L. D. (Spain)
  - $50 (2nd donation) Bjørn S. Nielsen (Norway)
  - $50 Andrzej P. (Poland)
  - $50 Wray H. (USA)
  - $50 Ronald K. (USA)
  - $30 Arron J. (UK)
  - $30 Wolfgang P. (Austria)
  - $30 James G. (Australia)
  - $25 Vance R. (USA)
  - $25 Ron N. (USA)
  - $25 Kane M. B. (USA)
  - $20 Kenneth B. (Canada)
  - $20 Phillip H. (Australia)
  - $20 Guillermo Enrique Guglietti - [www.urbancsa.org] (Canada)
  - $20 Ryan McC. (USA)
  - $20 (3rd donation) Andreas L. (Norway)
  - $20 Brendan C. (Australia)
  - $20 Jim D. (Australia)
  - $20 Chua K. L. (Singapore)
  - $17 Lisa B. (USA)
  - $15 Bob McC. (UK)
  - $15 David O. (UK)
  - $15 Guglielmo F. (Italy)
  - $10 Michael N. (USA)
  - $10 Syed A. (USA)
  - $5 Michael G. (Germany)
  - $5 Alejandro R. (Uruguay)
  - $3 Lothar S. (Germany)
  - $1 Remy van E. (Netherlands)
  - $0.5 Eder S. (Brazil)

  Money raised in August:

  * Donations: $1296.5
  * Sponsors: $331.5

  [www.linuxmint.com]
  [www.linuxmint.com]

• September 06, 2008
• 20:00

  Coming up…

   » ‎ Linux Mint Blog

  Mint 5 editions:

  • XFCE CE (stable) will be released early next week.
  • Fluxbox CE (RC) will be released before next week-end.
  • KDE CE RC1 was close to being stable, both Boo and Exploder are happy to call it stable. There’s a tiny little glitch with xdg-user-dirs which I want to fix so technically the final ISO will be different but if you’re running KDE CE RC1 you don’t need to wait for the final release, you’re already running a stable system.
  • Work on the x64 edition is on hold for a few days.
  • There won’t be any time dedicated to the Debian Edition before Mint 6 is out.
  • There won’t be any time dedicated to an eventual Enterprise Edition before Mint 6 is out.
  • Main and Light (which will become “Universal” and come with language packs) will have a new revision to include the new Firefox, Flash 10 (when it’s stable), and the latest version of the mint tools (mintUpdate 3, mintInstall 5..etc). This “revision 2″ might come after Mint 6 itself, it’s hard to say at this stage.

  Mint 6 tools:

  • MintUpdate 3 is ready.
  • MintInstall 5 is ready.
  • OEM support is planned for mintAssistant but work hasn’t started on that yet.
  • An upgrade tool is planned and work on this should start very soon now.
  • There are no significant improvements planned for the other tools.
  • Improvements made for the tools in Mint 6 will make their way into the backport section of the Mint 5 repository.

  Other than that:

  … well we’ve got plenty of ideas, we’ll see how much we’ll do depending on how much time we’ve got

  • [www.linuxmint.com]

• 15:27

  Usplash: instalar temas y personalizar el arranque de Linux Mint

   » ‎ Linux Mint Hispano
  Hace algún tiempo se inició un hilo en el foro de alguien que había perdido el USPLAH en el arranque de Linux Mint. Pues bien, trasteando a mi me pasó lo mismo, busqué información sobre ello y encontré la solución....

• September 05, 2008
• 19:52

  Elyssa User Guide available in Greek and in Catalan

   » ‎ Linux Mint Blog

  The User Guide for Linux Mint 5 Elyssa was translated in Greek (by Marlene, Grimm, Twin and Ippokratis) and in Catalan (by wuying_ren). Links to both versions were added to the Elyssa Firefox start page.

  You can also access the user guide from here: [ftp:]

  Edit: Thanks to sdemchenko, it’s now also available in Russian.

• September 03, 2008
• 17:30

  The Linux Link Tech Show Episode 261

   » ‎ TLLTS (podcast)

  Enclosure: [download]

  OLF Preparations, Linux Podcasts, other good stuff.

• 17:28

  Interview by Help for Linux

   » ‎ Linux Mint Blog

  I recently gave an interview to Pritesh Desai from “Help for Linux”:

  [helpforlinux.blogspot.com]

  I found some of his questions quite interesting as he went beyond the scope of Linux Mint and talked about other distributions, legal aspects surrounding the codecs and the advantages of Open Source for users and developers.

  Happy reading everyone.

• September 01, 2008
• 20:02

  mintInstall 5.2

   » ‎ Linux Mint Blog

  I know what you’re thinking.. third announcement about mintInstall in less than a week. Well, things go fast at the moment we’re getting good feedback and I’d like to finalize mintInstall so I can start working on something else (namely x64 and an upgrade tool).

  Hopefully, this is the last mintInstall update until Linux Mint 6. Here are the improvements since mintInstall 5.1:

  • Under KDE, kdesu is used instead of gksu
  • The gksu/kdesu dialog now shows a simple “Please enter your password” message instead of a long and obscure command line (the message is localized of course).
  • Known categories (including all categories from the Software Portal) are now localized.

  If you missed the previous announcements about mintInstall 5 you can read about them here:

  • [www.linuxmint.com]
  • [www.linuxmint.com]

  MintInstall 5.2 is available in Romeo. If you don’t have Romeo enabled you can get the debs from here:

  • [packages.linuxmint.com]
  • [packages.linuxmint.com]

  Let us know what you think, report any bug you may find and have a lot of fun with this brand new mintInstall.

  To translate mintInstall into your own language, use this forum thread: [www.linuxmint.com]

• August 31, 2008
• 22:25

  Comandos básicos de linux

   » ‎ Linux Mint Hispano
  A continuación os mostramos algunos comandos básicos para Linux: cp, mv, df, ifconfig, tar, etc para copiar, eliminar, renombrar archivos y carpetas, tamaño en disco, memoria RAM, editar ficheros, mostrar procesos, comprimir/descomprimir ficheros, etc. Incluimos ejemplos de utilización de estos comandos. Fuente: [gnu-linux-fsloizp.blogspot.com] [gnu-linux-fsloizp.blogspot.com]

• 20:32

  The Linux Action Show! Season 9 Episode 3 - OGG

   » ‎ LAS (podcast)

  Enclosure: [download]

  This week on, The Linux Action show!
  
  We get geek over the new hand held Linux gaming device, give you the important info on a new SSH exploit hitting Linux boxes, YOU get the low-down on Microsoft’s new deal with Novell and go over the latest Linux server market numbers.
  
  THEN -
  
  We open a can on Ubuntu for being SO UGLY, plus share some thoughts on the new Netbook remix.
  

  Check out this week’s offer from GoDaddy.com: $6.95 .COM domain names at GoDaddy.com!

  All this week on, The Linux Action Show!

  This weeks Links:

  Gampark’s GP2X Wiz handheld now available Linux jumps to 13.4 percent of the stalling server market Microsoft To Buy $100M More SUSE Support Vouchers Nokia helps port Firefox to Qt

  • You can subscribe to The Linux Action Show’s RSS feed and get the show automatically when it airs!
  • Find the OGG version of the Linux Action Show here.

• 20:01

  mintInstall 5.1

   » ‎ Linux Mint Blog

  5 little improvements were added to mintInstall 5:

  • A progress bar now appears when mintInstall is refreshing/loading
  • A new button called “Versions” lets you see the packages and repositories defined by the mint file, and for each package the available and installed versions.
  • The error message shown at startup was replaced with an information message asking you to refresh the application.
  • All tables now show rows with alternate colours
  • Email addresses are hidden within reviews (joeuser@hotmail.com shows as j…r@hotmail.com)

  If you missed the announcement about mintInstall 5, read here:

  [www.linuxmint.com]

  MintInstall 5.1 is available in Romeo. If you don’t have Romeo enabled you can get the debs from here:

  • [packages.linuxmint.com]
  • [packages.linuxmint.com]

  Let us know what you think, report any bug you may find and have a lot of fun with this brand new mintInstall.

  To translate mintInstall 5.1 into your own language, use this forum thread: [www.linuxmint.com]

• August 29, 2008
• 14:44

  IRC Quizz AllStars Table - August 2008

   » ‎ Linux Mint Blog

  The IRC Quizz wasn’t popular at all this month. Only one player.. and winner:

  1              mocap  — 0.225 pts,  2 games. * Congrats! *

  There were 1 users playing 2 games.

  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.

• 14:03

  Choosing which way to walk with Linux

   » ‎ Linux Geeks United
  Choosing which way to walk with Linux

• August 28, 2008
• 17:55

  Puertos, Amule, Seguridad

   » ‎ Linux Mint Hispano
  Los programas Peer to Peer (P2P) como Amule, eMule,Azureus, eDonkey... nos permiten encontrar todo tipo de material que esta descatalogado y compartir nuestros archivos con los demas. Precisamente esta comparticion es lo que hace que dichos programas sean algo inseguros.

• 15:16

  A few updates on EnvyNG, NVIDIA and URandR

   » ‎ Alberto Milone

  EnvyNG:
  I have updated envyng-core (2.0) and envyng-qt (2.0) in Intrepid. The GTK interface doesn’t work and even if I managed to solve the problems with GTK and threading I couldn’t upload it since we’re in feature freeze.

  The new textual interface and the QT4 interface now rely on python-apt and python-xkit. Thanks to the work I did on the drivers I won’t have to keep the compatibility list updated since it will rely on the same system which we are using for Jockey.

  By testing EnvyNG you will (indirectly) help Jockey too since you will test X-Kit and some other features I have worked on for Jockey.

  NOTE: if you have this problem please have a look at the suggested solution in the same bug report.

  NVIDIA and kernel 2.6.27:
  Currently only driver 177.68 seems to work with 2.6.27. I have written a patch for driver 173 too, however I’m experiencing a rather nasty problem.
  EDIT: the driver works well with a new patch now

  URandR:
  as you can see on Bryce’s blog I am now contributing to GNOME’s Monitor Resolution Settings panel. There is still some work to do (in C) and I’m having a lot of fun with it. I find it a great program and I’m focusing on it instead of completing the rewrite of URandR. I’m not saying that URandR is dead but it’s development has stalled.

  Stay tuned

• 0:26

  Mint Install 5 disponible en Romeo

   » ‎ Linux Mint Hispano
  Una de las nuevas funciones previstas para la próxima Linux Mint 6 Felicia es la capacidad de navegar por el Portal Software (http://www.linuxmint.com/software) y la instalación de aplicaciones directamente desde el escritorio. Como algunos usuarios pedían, es una aplicación similar...
• 0:16

  Web de Linux Mint Hackeada por segunda vez

   » ‎ Linux Mint Hispano
  El portal web de Linux Mint ha sido hackeada por segunda vez. Al parecer algún hacker se está cebando con la web oficial en inglés (www.linuxmint.com) de nuestra querida distribución. Update #1: Un troyano ha sido encontrado en el servidor, re-actualizan...

• August 27, 2008
• 11:44

  Server hacked (again)

   » ‎ Linux Mint Blog

  We’ve been hit again by this: [www.linuxmint.com]

  The good news this time is that we’ll be faster to get rid of it (we’ve got really up to date backups), the bad news is that we’re still obviously vulnerable despite the measures we took the last time. I’ll ask Michael (our sysadmin) to look into this and to find out how this could have happened.

  I’ll keep you posted.. I just found out about it a few minutes ago.

  Update #1: A backdoor virus was found so it’s possible we got re-infected from the inside. I’m currently re-applying updates to clean the website first.

  Update #2: The Wiki, forums, blog, software portal and main website are now clean.

  Update #3: I’ll be upgrading the forums to the latest version of phpBb today so they might be offline or disabled for a while.

  Update #4: The forums were upgraded to the latest version of phpBB. We’re missing the global announcements and there’s a little problem with the theme but overall they’re back online and they should be working fine.

  Update #5: The blog was upgraded to the latest version of Wordpress.

  Update #6: The wiki was upgraded to the latest version of MediaWiki. We also know more about the problem now.. the first attack left a virus called PHP.RSTBackdoor.

  Update #7: The planet was upgraded to the latest version of Gregarius.

  Update #8: All the cleanup is done. All our tools were upgraded to their latest versions and we made new backups. Michael identified malware uploaded via mintUpload. We’re discussing the possibility to restrict, secure or even discontinue the free part of this service.

• 11:28

  Weekly Newsletter - Issue 59

   » ‎ Linux Mint Blog
  * News about Mint

  mintInstall 5 was released in Romeo  (the unstable branch of our repositories)

  Clem states in the announcement for mintInstall that the Elyssa KDE CE should be released anytime now.

  * News about Linux

  Security alert:

  Adobe Flash ads launching clipboard hijack attack - this works on Windows, Mac and Linux

  Better MSN support in Pidgin

  Linux popularity across the globe

  The final release of Zenwalk Linux 5.2 “GNOME” edition

  MEPIS released of antiX MEPIS 7.5 designed to run on computers with older or limited hardware

  At approximately the same time as our server was hacked Red Hat / Fedora experienced a more severe intrusion

  Link for Fedora (this is the message from Fedora published by IDG.se - the best link I found).

  This is now resolved but some packages were signed by the intruder

  Microsoft to pay Novell $100 mln more for Linux support

  openSUSE to Add SELinux Basic Enablement in 11.1

  10 Most Beautiful Plasma Themes for KDE 4 Desktop - more beautiful than Mint KDE ?  (Mint still don’t use KDE 4)

  * News about IT

  SecondLife rolls out Mono-powered servers

  Thousands of UK file-sharers face legal action

  Comcast to “throttle down” “bandwidth hogs”

  UK.gov to spend hundreds of millions on “snooping silo”. This is very similar to a controversial  Swedish act.

  A rather technical article on security when you log in to your bank, for those who want a deep background. More here - about PCI-DSS

  A growing list of name-brand websites are accused of exposing its readers to dangerous ads.

  OSU Open Source Lab gets $300,000 from Google

  US presidential candidate John McCain is a pirate

  As a result of some skilful phishing 1.5m spam emails  was sent from compromised University accounts

  Scammers replace credit card readers in Irish stores

  Groups urge states to tackle more cybercrime

  * Hardware news

  IBM and AMD first at 22 nm, challenge Intel’s manufacturing lead

  Intel shows off solid-state drive road maps

  Security flaw in Nokia cell phones - did they pay to get the information?
  * Trivia and other links   

  

  * More about Linux Mint

  How to donate

  You find the Wallpaper of the Month in the Blog

  Home page

  Blog  The planet  Wiki   Forum

  * 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

• 10:00

  Ca se passe comme ça, chez McDonald’s !

   » ‎ Linux Manua (fr)

  Enclosure: [download]

  
  
  
  
  Voici 4 manières originales de passer une commande chez Mac Do :
  
  
  La méthode n°1 "Resto du Coeur" :
  
  
  
  La méthode n°2 "Resto du Coeur" (encore plus fort) :
  
  
  
  La méthode "A l'Américaine" :
  
  
  
  La méthode "Médiévale" :
  
  
  
  Et pour finir ... Bon appétit :
  
  
  
  ------------------------------------------------------------
  Sélection d'autres articles :
  
  La Chanson du Geek n°1
  La Blague du Geek n°1
  La Chanson du Geek n°2 : Just Google
  [Vidéo] P'tain de Grèves ! ! ! !
  [Vidéo] - Têtes à Claques
  12 sites pour les losers
  70 sites gratuits de test de sécurité en ligne
  5 mn pour pirater un PC Windows protégé par mot de passe
  20 sites gratuits de Musique en Ligne ... pour quels avantages ?
  1er site gratuit de gestion des finances personnelles : ISWIGO
  Faîtes de la place : Jetez vos notices et autres manuels !
  3 programmes pour renommer en masse des fichiers sous Linux
  [Tuto] - Paramétrer l'économiseur d'écran de Linux
  [Test] - Linux Mandriva One 2008.01 Spring Gnome
  [Test] - Linux Mint 5 Elyssa
  [News] - La Vérité sur le 11 septembre éclate au grand jour
  [Dossier] - Sauvegarder ses données sous Linux
  [Astuce] - Synchroniser vos marques-pages Firefox...
  [Astuce] - Changer automatiquement de fonds d'écran sur Linux et Windows
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• 1:09

  mintInstall 5

   » ‎ Linux Mint Blog

  One of the new features planned for the upcoming Linux Mint 6 “Felicia” is the ability to browse the Software Portal ([www.linuxmint.com]) and to install applications directly from the desktop. This feature is now ready and we’d like you to give us a hand in testing it.

  We extended the scope of mintInstall and we developed a new frontend which downloads all the relevant data from the Software Portal so you can browse applications and install them without having to use the portal at all. We also defined how the portal and the frontend communicate with each others and formalized the data structure in XML. The frontend itself supports multiple portals (we’ll be talking to tuxsoftware.com for instance, hopefully getdeb.net too, and we’ll eventually publish documentation about this) so although you can only use it to browse the Linux Mint Software Portal right now, it’s only a matter of time before others portals become available.

  Here’s a screenshot:

  

  MintInstall 5 is available in Romeo. If you don’t have Romeo enabled you can get the debs from here:

  • [packages.linuxmint.com]
  • [packages.linuxmint.com]

  Let us know what you think, report any bug you may find and have a lot of fun with this brand new mintInstall.

  To translate mintInstall 5 into your own language, use this forum thread:  [www.linuxmint.com]

  Note: There was a lot I wanted to say about this but I’ll save it for the release notes. KDE CE is coming out soon, I need to work on x64 and there are still major developments I want to get done before Mint 6 (an upgrade tool for instance). To keep it short, MintInstall 5 is one of the new features planned for Mint 6 but it will also become available as an upgrade for Mint 5.  It will stay in Romeo until we’re happy to consider it stable.. so we’re waiting on your feedback

  Changelog:

  • 5.0: Initial release

• August 26, 2008
• 0:04

  ADSL mediante modem usb en Linux Mint

   » ‎ Linux Mint Hispano
  Muchos habreis tenido problemas para configurar vuestra ADSL para conectar con un modem USB en Linux Mint, o cualquier otra distribución GNU/Linux. Para eso la gente de UbuDSL (http://www.ubudsl.com/en/start.php)ha creado esta herramienta, similar a los cd's auto-instalables que entregan...
• August 24, 2008
• 5:57

  Abrir enlaces ed2k desde webs con aMule

   » ‎ Linux Mint Hispano
  ASOCIAR PROTOCOLO ED2K PARA AMULE (por Troyano66) Todo aquel que utiliza el aMULE se habrá dado cuenta de que no puede descargar archivos de ninguna página abierta con Firefox ya que presenta el mensaje: - Firefox no puede abrir ya que...
• 5:48

  Linux cumple años

   » ‎ Linux Mint Hispano
  El kernel Linux cumple 17 años, mañana día 25 de agosto es el aniversario del kernel realizado por Linus Torvalds. Al contrario de lo que muchos piensan es algo más joven que el proyecto GNU de Stallman, que ya tiene...

• August 23, 2008
• 9:37

  Oakland Cemetary TOUR (creative)

   » ‎ YouTube Linuxmint (video)

  Enclosure: [download]

  

  http://www.oaklandcemetery.com/ http://www.metroatlantachamber.com/ http://atlanta.creativeloafing.com/ http://www.piedmontpark.org/ http://www.stonemountainpark.com/ http://www.zooatlanta.org/ http://www.linuxmint.com/

  Author: reallylucki
  Keywords: landmark travel log destination graveyard cemetery cemetary korn atlanta ga
  Added: August 23, 2008
  

• August 20, 2008
• 17:12

  SYNAPTIC y APT encontrar programas

   » ‎ Linux Mint Hispano
  Linux Mint usa los repositorios de software que son usados en la distribución GNU/Linuxtm Ubuntu. UN POCO DE HISTORIA El equipo que diseño Debian tuvo claro desde el principio que la distribucion iba a ser totalmente libre y que el sistema de gestion de paquetes...
• 17:12

  SYNAPTIC y APT encontrar programas

   » ‎ Linux Mint Hispano
  Linux Mint usa los repositorios de software que son usados en la distribución GNU/Linuxtm Ubuntu. UN POCO DE HISTORIA El equipo que diseño Debian tuvo claro desde el principio que la distribucion iba a ser totalmente libre y que el sistema de gestion de paquetes...

• 16:27

  NVIDIA driver 177.67 in Intrepid

   » ‎ Alberto Milone

  I have updated the NVIDIA driver 177.67 (still a beta) in Intrepid (a special thanks to Timo Aaltonen who sponsored the upload).

  If you still have 2D performance issues, you can have a look at this post (a special thanks to nullack for suggesting this link).

  NOTE: this driver won’t be available on Hardy until a final release of the driver is available.

• August 19, 2008
• 16:18

  Weekly Newsletter - Issue 58

   » ‎ Linux Mint Blog
  * News about Mint

  Our server was hacked with downtime as a consequence. This was by a “bot” that scanned the net for vulnerabilities. We have now sealed the hole that made this SQL injection possible. We thank all that alerted us to what happened.

  The 64 bit edition is advancing

  I had hoped that a new beta (even final) of the XFCE edition would have been released. We are still plagued by an odd problem with log in/out so ….

  * News about Linux

  Canonical joins the Linux Foundation

  Xandros acquired Linspire - now Linspire is no more

  Dell’s “eee-killer” to have Ubuntu

  Linus Torvalds fed up with “the security circus”

  * News about IT

  Dutch police and the FBI stops large botnet

  Gmail and Google apps have crashed several times in the las week or so

  Google has released Keyczar, billed as a “Toolkit for safe and simple cryptography”, under an Apache 2.0 open source license.

  Important ruling in court in favour of open source

  Loss of customer data spurs closure of online storage service ‘The Linkup’

  Rat brained robots

  Spam down 40% in second quarter of 2008 (Unfortunately only a swedish link - I can’t find the english link)

  * Hardware news

  AMD offers Linux drivers for new Radeon HD 4870 X2 at the same time the card is released

  VIA quits motherboard chipset business

  Materials that can make things invisible developed. Could improve computer hardware

  A cheap way to replace copper in existing cables

  * Trivia and other links   

  

  * More about Linux Mint

  How to donate

  You find the Wallpaper of the Month in the Blog

  Home page

  Blog  The planet  Wiki   Forum

  * 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

• 4:21

  Big clouds and little clouds

   » ‎ Linux Geeks United
  Big clouds and little clouds

• August 18, 2008
• 18:58

  Will the x64 Edition be for you?

   » ‎ Linux Mint Blog

  The PC market is in an interesting situation at the moment. Almost all the computers that are sold today come with 64 bit processors, which obviously support the AMD64 architecture but also i386. Owners of these computers are faced with a choice: running a 64bit operating system (AMD64) or a 32bit one (i386). The reality is that most of the software available at present is available for i386 and not always for AMD64. The older architecture is also more stable and is still seen as a reference by editors and developers. Last but not least, very few applications actually take advantage of the improvements of the new architecture so running an AMD64 operating system may actually not be faster than running an i386 one, and in some cases it could even be slower…

  … so here is a new architecture which is ready, which a lot of people have the hardware for, but still… the software world doesn’t seem to be ready for it. I386 is still the predominant reference in the market and people will need a strong reason to change. That strong reason is the amount of RAM i386 can support: 4GB RAM. A budget computer (low to middle-range) now comes with 2GB of RAM and the upper market has already reached 4GB. No matter the performances, many users won’t run an operating system which doesn’t recognize all their memory. So we need to get ready and the same way we’ll have to support i386 after AMD64 becomes the reference architecture, we have to support AMD64 now even though it’s not fully on par with i386 yet.

  I started working on the x64 Edition and I’m planning to make it as similar as the Main Edition as possible. Eventually I’d like to replicate all changes made to Main to x64 so that I can maintain both editions and release them at the same time. I’ve asked Chris (known as “lakehousetech” on the forums) to perform a benchmark and he compared the performance of Elyssa R1, Hardy i386 and Hardy AMD64. His results are available here:

  [upload.linuxmint.com]

  As you can see, none of the three systems clearly outperformed the two others. So based on this benchmark performance wouldn’t be a reason for you to switch to the upcoming x64 Edition, not yet anyway. A real objective reason to make the switch  would be if you already had more than 4GB RAM. Other than that we’d recommend you stick to what we do best and what receives most of our attention: The Main Edition.

  This is also the reason why we’re considering this an edition rather than declining Main into two architectures. Every 6 months and with each release we’ll of course reconsider our position and re-assess the readiness of this architecture until it comes to par with i386 and we give it the same exposure as our main product.

  x64 will start as a separate edition, one for enthusiasts and high spec computers. We’ll put all our efforts into it as it will eventually become our main product but for now we still consider it an alternative edition.

  Comments and questions are welcome (I’m sure we’ll get a lot on this topic :)).

  Note: It’s hard to say when this edition will be ready. The goal for Mint 5 was to start this edition and have an x64 version of Elyssa. We’re still aiming for this and this is receiving as much attention as ongoing development for Mint 6 (new mintUpdate, Application Manager (new mintInstall frontend), OEM support, Upgrade Manager). Once this edition is in place we’ll want to work on both architectures at the same time so there won’t be any delay between their respective releases.

• 10:00

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• August 17, 2008
• 18:32

  The Linux Action Show! Season 9 Episode 2 - OGG

   » ‎ LAS (podcast)

  Enclosure: [download]

  This week on, The Linux Action Show!

  We cover the weeks top news stories, turn up the hate on the issues feel STRONGLY about, and give you and EPIC review of the Drobo Storage Robot and its Linux running NAS attachment.

  THEN -

  We answer your questions, PLUS SO MUCH MORE!

  Take $5 off any order of $30 or more at GoDaddy.com!

  All this week on, The Linux Action Show!

  This weeks links:

  Netgear’s WGR614L - Open Source Wireless-G Router, runs Linux IBM targets Microsoft with desktop Linux initiative Dell introduces ten new laptops with Embeded Linux Ontario Linux Fest Acer’s Aspire One Looks Killer Freespire lives! Goes back to Debian Support our show(s) by linking to us! (Example)
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• 1:50

  Linux Mint - Demonstração

   » ‎ YouTube Linuxmint (video)

  Enclosure: [download]

  

  Excelente sistema operacional, pena que a qualidade não está muito boa e tem um falatório por aqui...

  Author: rodrigomouras
  Keywords: linux mint linuxmint
  Added: August 16, 2008
  

• August 15, 2008
• 13:09

  Server hacked

   » ‎ Linux Mint Blog

  Our server was hacked and code was injected into it to make connections on our behalf to pinoc.org and download a trojan called JS/Tenia.d

  For more information about this trojan:  [us.mcafee.com]

  If you visited linuxmint.com in the last two days we recommend you scan your computer to make sure this trojan isn’t present. As this attack exploited vulnerabilities within our PHP code we took the opportunity to clean it all and secure every single page against injections in the future.  Linuxmint.com is now clean and secure but we experienced almost 20 hours of downtime and we lost almost 2 days of work into fixing this.

  I  personally received a lot of emails from the community, warning us about the problem. I haven’t had time to reply but I would like to thank the people who came forward. If you observe a problem in the future please do not hesitate to report it.

  I’d also like to thank Michael (d00p) and Mats (husse) for the help they gave me on this. Husse, as always, catches my attention on what matters and if it wasn’t for d00p, our domain would still be  down right now. I also apologize for the downtime and for the inconvenience. Comments and questions are welcome.

• 5:30

  ESTO SI ES MODO AHORRO DE ENERGIA.

   » ‎ Linux Mint Hispano
  Fujitsu Siemens lanza dos nuevos modelos de su linea de monitores LCD ScenicView Premium, el P20W-5 ECO y P22W-5 ECO de 20” y 22” respectivamente. Pero cual es la novedad....... Lo novedoso en estos dos LCDs es que cuando se encuentran en el modo...
• August 14, 2008
• 22:46

  El ordenador mas pequeño del mundo

   » ‎ Linux Mint Hispano
  El ordenador mas pequeño del mundo, como no, funciona con un sistema GNU/Linux precompilado. El aparatito en cuestión lo he visto en Coolest-Gadgets (http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/20080813/picotux-100-desktop-computer/) , y aunque este ordenador es más bien una demostración, no deja de ser curioso. La distribución...

• August 13, 2008
• 19:42

  Linux Mint Vs. Ubuntu

   » ‎ YouTube Linuxmint (video)

  Enclosure: [download]

  

  Audio is very low, I don't know why but it must have happened in the conversion process Linux Mint Download Page http://www.linuxmint.com/download.html

  Author: FoolonComputers
  Keywords: linux mint ubuntu mac pc vista vs.
  Added: August 13, 2008
  

• 17:30

  The Linux Link Tech Show Episode 258

   » ‎ TLLTS (podcast)

  Enclosure: [download]

  Special Guest C4 - umpc woes, hnb, scribus, motorola linux phone, linux rocks
• 17:30

  The Linux Link Tech Show Episode 259

   » ‎ TLLTS (podcast)

  Enclosure: [download]

  Special Guest ThreeThirty
• 17:30

  The Linux Link Tech Show Episode 260

   » ‎ TLLTS (podcast)

  Enclosure: [download]

  Special Guest ThreeThirty

• 15:04

  Software as a Service is a key to Linux Growth

   » ‎ Linux Geeks United
  Software as a Service is a key to Linux Growth

• August 12, 2008
• 23:48

  Distrowatch Dona $400 a LinuxMInt

   » ‎ Linux Mint Hispano
  Estas si que son Buenas Noticias! El sitio Distrowatch.com realizó una donación de US$400 (corrijanme si me equivoco en el tipo de moneda) al Proyecto LinuxMint. La noticia en el blog de clem dice asi: LinuxMint ha recibido una...
• 22:36

  Hubiera sido perfecto con Linux....

   » ‎ Linux Mint Hispano
  La ceremonia de los Juegos Olímpicos de Beijing 2008, fué, por sobre todas las cosas, la mejor de todos los tiempos. Claro que aún cuando los Chinos son impecables y muy detallistas, se les escapó uno super importante.... Si vas...

• August 11, 2008
• 21:14

  Weekly Newsletter - Issue 57

   » ‎ Linux Mint Blog
  * News about Mint

  mintUpdate 3 released!

  Even 3.2 has been released. Quite a few new features, including better proxy  support.

  Distrowatch donates $400 to Linux Mint

  Work is going on on the final versions (hopefully) of  the KDE and XFCE editions. There are only a few problems left to solve, but they seem reluctant to disappear

  * News about Linux

  IBM, Canonical/Ubuntu, Novell, Red Hat to Deliver Microsoft-Free Desktops Worldwide An alliance has formed

  IBM Contributes Key Open-Source Code for Linux Supercomputers

  KDE 4 update  Any similarity in that topic with slashdot is probably no coincidence

  Ubuntu goes enterprise

  VMware joins Linux Foundation

  Google more and more involved in Linux

  Reiser4 Update

  * News about IT

  German hackers poke hole in great firewall of China

  Hackers steal 40 million credit card numbers

  ‘Fakeproof’ e-passport is cloned in minutes

  Vista’s Security Rendered Completely Useless by New Exploit

  * Hardware news

  AMD ditches Close-To-Metal, focuses on DX11 and OpenCL

  * Trivia and other links   

  

  * More about Linux Mint

  You find the Wallpaper of the Month in the Blog

  Home page

  Blog  The planet  Wiki   Forum

  * 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

• August 10, 2008
• 13:46

  Distrowatch donates $400 to Linux Mint

   » ‎ Linux Mint Blog

  Linux Mint just received a donation of $400. This is the single biggest donation the project received since it was started in 2006. The donation came from Distrowatch in association with LinuxCD.org and OSDisc.com.

  Distrowatch is known to donate a part of its income to upstream projects and distributions on a monthly basis. This single donation of $400 makes it the second biggest Linux Mint donor.  By the past Distrowatch donated a total of $18,183 to the following projects:

  * 2004: GnuCash ($250), Quanta Plus ($200), PCLinuxOS ($300), The GIMP ($300), Vidalinux ($200), Fluxbox ($200), K3b ($350), Arch Linux ($300), Kile KDE LaTeX Editor ($100) and UNICEF - Tsunami Relief Operation ($340)
  * 2005: Vim ($250), AbiWord ($220), BitTorrent ($300), NdisWrapper ($250), Audacity ($250), Debian GNU/Linux ($420), GNOME ($425), Enlightenment ($250), MPlayer ($400), Amarok ($300), KANOTIX ($250) and Cacti ($375)
  * 2006: Gambas ($250), Krusader ($250), FreeBSD Foundation ($450), GParted ($360), Doxygen ($260), LilyPond ($250), Lua ($250), Gentoo Linux ($500), Blender ($500), Puppy Linux ($350), Inkscape ($350), Cape Linux Users Group ($130), Mandriva Linux ($405, a Powerpack competition), Digikam ($408) and SabayonLinux ($450)
  * 2007: GQview ($250), Kaffeine ($250), sidux ($350), CentOS ($400), LyX ($350), VectorLinux ($350), KTorrent ($400), FreeNAS ($350), lighttpd ($400), Damn Small Linux ($350), NimbleX ($450), MEPIS Linux ($300), Zenwalk Linux ($300)
  * 2008: VLC ($350), Frugalware Linux ($340), cURL ($300), GSPCA (Linux webcam support) ($400), FileZilla ($400), MythDora ($500)

  As you can see Distrowatch isn’t only one of the most popular websites about Linux, it’s also one of the biggest financial supporter of small distributions and upstream projects.  On behalf of the Linux Mint distribution I would like to thank Distrowatch, and in particular Ladislav Bodnar, for this donation and for all they’ve done for our project. Linux Mint is a successful distribution but it wouldn’t have been as popular if it wasn’t for websites like Distrowatch which allowed users to know about it in the first place. Today, we’re receiving the biggest donation since we started Mint. I feel really grateful. Thank you Distrowatch, Ladislav, and also thanks to LinuxCD.org and OSDisc.com for being part of this.

  Many thanks for supporting us,

  Clem.

• August 09, 2008
• 16:06

  mintUpdate 3 wydany!

   » ‎ linuxmint.pl (pl)

  W nowej wersji jedną z ważniejszych nowości jest wprowadzenie historii aktualizacji w menu Widok. Dzięki tej opcji, podczas awarii systemu będziemy mogli zawęzić listę problemów poprzez określenie, które aktualizacje spowodowały błędne działanie Minta. Nowy mintUpdate zapamiętuje nazwę pakietu, wersję (starą i nową), poziom oraz datę aktualizacji. Narzędzie działa zarówno w trybie użytkownika jak i root. Dla ułatwienia korzystania z proxy wprowadzono jego konfigurację w menu aplikacji.

  MintUpdate 3 jest dostępny w repozytorium Romeo, obecnie tylko w języku francuskim i angielskim: deb http://packages.linuxmint.com elyssa romeo

• 12:44

  La Chanson du Geek n°2 : Just Google

   » ‎ Linux Manua (fr)

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• 7:33

  Mozilla создаст браузер на основе пожеланий интернетчиков

   » ‎ Линукс MINT (ru)

  Компания Mozilla разрабатывает браузер следующего поколения, сообщает TG Daily. Называется он Aurora и создается совместно с дизайнерской студией Adaptive Path на основе пожеланий интернет-пользователей.

  Aurora предлагает принципиально новый способ работы с данными. В частности, в презентационном ролике браузера видно, что такая информация, как прогноз погоды, биржевые индексы, новости являются автономными объектами. Их можно перетаскивать в любое место как рабочего стола, так и окна браузера.

  В многопользовательском режиме для обмена данными достаточно прямо в браузере перетащить нужный документ с одного виртуального рабочего стола на другой.

  Представители Mozilla подчеркивают, что скачать браузер нельзя, так как пока нет даже его альфа-версии. Также сообщается, что разработчики продолжают принимать от пользователей концептуальные идеи для реализации их в новом продукте.

  
  
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  MINT

• 3:26

  CAPTURA VIDEO DE TU ESCRITORIO CON XVIDCAP

   » ‎ Linux Mint Hispano
  XvidCap es un programa que te permite hacer una captura de video de tu escritorio así como también un pantallazo de un solo cuadro. Se puede grabar toda la pantalla o una porción de esta, para esto último se puede dibujar un rectángulo de...
• August 08, 2008
• 21:22

  Mint Update 3 liberado

   » ‎ Linux Mint Hispano
  Os dejo un artículo recopilado por user-2 trás la liberación de Mintupdate 3. (milord). Hemos hecho una muy controvertida decisión cuando lanzamos Linux Mint 3,1 Celena. Hemos decidido eliminar el gestor de actualización de Ubuntu y mucha gente nos criticó por ello....

• 2:21

  mintUpdate 3 released!

   » ‎ Linux Mint Blog