Linux Mint Newsletter Issue 26
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More news about Linux Mint
Development
Daryna (main) has been released and we will not release a new version until the next Ubuntu release.
This gives Clem time to experiment and a Debian Mint may be released [3]
This is just to give experience and some feedback from the community. Fedora based and 64 bit test versions may also be released
We have no intention to give up Ubuntu as a base, but the experience may be useful,
Work is going on on the (community) KDE edition, but transition of some Mint apps to KDE takes longer than expected.
Alberto Milone is working on Envy and may soon have included the latest ATI 7.11 drivers [4]
Community
The forum is growing and the number of posts every day seems to be almost three times as many as in October.
Many questions are the same newbie questions so the user base has grown.
Linux
Linux Foundation reports that Desktop Linux is on the rise. [5]
The world of computers
This is a bit odd. According to a Swedish magazine [6] 78 % of the growth in .com and .net domains is "junk domains", typosquatting, a domain that is registered that is similar to a well known domain. About 20 % of these with the sole purpose to profit on Google ads and sponsored links. Sorry for the absence of a English language link.
According to ENISA, the EU authority for computers and computer safety, about 6 million computers are hijacked [7] Even if Firefox is mentioned as a vector not many of these are Linux computers (could not find a figure when skimming through the report)
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
