Linux Mint Newsletter Issue 44
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Contents |
Introduction
Welcome to the Linux Mint Newsletter. Here is what happened last week.
News
Linux Mint
- Last weeks Wallpaper of the week [1]
- The first Elyssa beta can be expected any day now - this keeps us so busy that nothing much else happens :)
Linux and other Distributions
- KDE for 52 million young Brazilians [2]
IT & Open Source
- The "good guys" infiltrates one of the largest botnets [3]
- SP3 for XP delayed due to "compatability issues" - like Vista did not have enough of that [4]
- How much does it cost to end domain tasting? [5]
- The threat by automatically produced attack vectors played down [6]
- Microsoft Withdraws Proposal to Acquire Yahoo [7]
- Who controls the major search engines may vastly effect users (editors comment)
- US customs gets the wrights to search and copy the contents of (laptop) hard disks passing US borders [8]
Hardware
Other info
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
