Linux Mint Newsletter Issue 43
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Contents |
Introduction
Welcome to the Linux Mint Newsletter. Here is what happened last week.
News
Linux Mint
- We have removed statistics from the newsletter. It was too much work to update this every week. It will reappear in some other form
- News about porting the Mint tools and development in the software portal [1]
- The Start of Elyssa KDE [2]
- Elyssa build #017 [3]
- We do have a quiz [4]
Linux and other Distributions
- Ubuntu Hardy Heron is out [5]
- KDE and Gnome to cooperate [6]
- Launchpad to be released under AGPL? [7]
IT & Open Source
- Microsoft and Novell to collaborate in China [8]
- A very large number of sites have been infected, maybe half a million [9]
- Yahoo ditched Microsoft [10]
- The darker side of Webmail [11]
- Hans Reiser, the creator of reiserfs, has been convicted for murder - probably no reiser4 [12]
- Security warning for the blog tool Wordpress [13]
Hardware
- Green computing - Miami-Dade pinches PC power consumption [14]
Other info
- France 'Suspends' Creation of Big-brother database [15]
Editor's comments
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
