Linux Mint Newsletter Issue 24

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More news about Linux Mint

  • The Linux Mint Planet [1]
  • The Linux Mint Blog [2]

The Linux Mint site

The site was unreachable between Friday night and Sunday morning.
There are indications that the problem started earlier, some have reported problems already on Wednesday This was due to problems with the nameservers at Servage which have caused problems before.
We hope to be able to change registrar without problems, however that seems to be a problem...
This only affected linuxmint.com, linuxmint.de, the torrent tracker and the IRC channel all worked. [3]

Development

The work on Daryna beta 021 is progressing and soon we will see a new release
A "miniCD" edition is on its way for Daryna... 350MB fits on a mini-CD and should run on computers with less than 128MB RAM. BlahblahX is the maintainer.
We are currently working with Linspire to make CNR available under Linux Mint. [4]
Alberto Milone has released a new version of Envy with the latest ATI drivers that finally will make ATI work OK under Linux
[5] [6]
merlwiz79 has produced some packages and themes which can be found in the forum [7]

Community

There seems to be fewer posts in the forum - the downtime hit the forum. Go on and ask your questions.

Linux

Fluxbox has reached version 1.0.0 [8]
and if that is mentioned we need to mention that gnome has reached 2.20 [9]
Asus has introduced a motherboard with a small embedded Linux distribution - five seconds boot and you can do things like web surfing.

Editors comment

It's not easy to keep track of the rapid development in the computer world.
If you feel something is left out in the newsletter send a PM to husse in the forum and it may be included in the next edition

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