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• September 02, 2009
• 16:30

  The Linux Link Tech Show Episode 314

   » ‎ TLLTS (podcast)

  Enclosure: [download]

  Bethlynn - Ohio Linux Fest, Android of course, Slackware 13, Alsa, awesome linux stuff

• 15:05

  How to enable/disable Ctrl+Alt+Backspace in (K)Ubuntu Karmic 9.10

   » ‎ Alberto Milone

  As you might have noticed already if you use Ubuntu Karmic, Ctrl+Alt+Backspace (i.e. the shortcut which was used to restart the X server) has to be enabled in a different way with respect to previous releases of Ubuntu.

  This is due to the fact that “DontZap” is no longer an option in the X server and has become an option in XKB instead.

  As a result, now it’s very easy to use your Desktop environment of choice (e.g. GNOME, KDE) to enable or to disable the Ctrl+Alt+Backspace shortcut. It is also possible to do it without KDE or GNOME.

  I recommend that you do it from your desktop environment of choice (as you may find it easier):
  Instructions here

  P.S. Instructions for XFCE are more than welcome.

• September 01, 2009
• 23:20

  Les 500 emails des conspirateurs Hadopistes

   » ‎ Linux Manua (fr)
  C'est la fête dans la ferme Voici les 500 adresses emails des 296 parlementaires qui ont voté HADOPI n°1 le 12 mai et qui voteront HADOPI n°2 le 14 septembre prochain, puis la LOPPSI n°2 début 2010. Afin d'accompagner cette liste qui vous permettra de demander vous-mêmes des explications à vos élus, je vous livre, en introduction, quelques-unes de mes réflexions et interrogations sur ces

• 14:08

  Monthly Stats - August 2009

   » ‎ Linux Mint Blog

  Donations & Sponsorships:

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

  Donors:

  • $163, Adnan Z. (Germany)
  • $120, Nicolas B. (Germany)
  • $102, James Marsh (Australia) – [www.engadinecycles.com.au]
  • $100, Micah Gravel aka “micahman” (USA)
  • $74 (2nd donation), David F. (Ireland)
  • $74, Badr R. (France)
  • $74, Matthias R. (France)
  • $60, Jim Duffield aka “sapperk9″ (Australia)
  • $50, Andreas Rumpenhorst (Germany)
  • $50, James Donaldson (USA)
  • $50, Robert D. (United Kingdom)
  • $50, William G. (USA)
  • $50, Stefano Candotti aka “Stevewonder” (Italy)
  • $50, Eric Pate (USA) – [www.carolinagreenpc.com]
  • $50, Billy S. (USA)
  • $50, Andre D. (USA)
  • $44 (2nd donation), Wolfgang P. (Austria)
  • $44, Francisco C. C. (Spain)
  • $37, Thomas G. (Germany)
  • $37, Bernhard M. (Germany)
  • $30, Mark O’D. (World)
  • $30, David C. (USA)
  • $28, Pau Carre Cardona (Spain)
  • $27, Jeffrey K. (USA)
  • $25, Gavin Engel (USA)
  • $25, Ed D. (USA)
  • $25, Clifton Rhodes (USA)
  • $25, Sudheer S. (United Kingdom)
  • $25, Paul Bary (USA)
  • $20 (2nd donation), Dan B. (USA)
  • $20, Dalibor Saula (Australia)
  • $20, Amiel H. (Australia)
  • $20, Sven S. (Australia)
  • $20, David Brown (Canada)
  • $20, Jonathan P. (USA)
  • $20, Winston G. (USA)
  • $16, John B. (United Kingdom)
  • $15, Matthew G. (USA)
  • $15, Slavoljub M. (Norway)
  • $15, Paul George (United Kingdom) – [www.paulgeorge.me]
  • $14, Patrick Baumann (Germany)
  • $14, Iain G. (United Kingdom)
  • $14, L G DE L. (Netherlands)
  • $14, Charl P. (Netherlands)
  • $14, Claudio Gabriele N. (Italy)
  • $14, Bruno M. (Italy)
  • $14, Joseph W. (United Kingdom)
  • $14, Gunter D. (Austria)
  • $13.13, Mac C. (USA)
  • $11, Mongolisch-Deutsch.de aka “rmbw” (Germany) – [www.mongolisch-deutsch.de]
  • $10 (2nd donation), Richard G. (USA)
  • $10, Henry W. (USA)
  • $10, Dmitry O. (Russia)
  • $10, Ludovic G. aka “Lewdsquirrel” (Canada)
  • $10, Kevin M. (USA)
  • $10, Tom Perry (United Kingdom) – [twitter.com]
  • $10, Ralph N. (USA)
  • $10, Bob H. (Australia)
  • $10, Christopher G. (USA)
  • $10, Anthony N. (United Kingdom)
  • $10, Steinar M. (Norway)
  • $10, Donald D’A. (USA)
  • $10, MuddBuddha (USA) – [muddbuddha.com]
  • $10, John P. (Australia)
  • $10, Marcel P. (Canada)
  • $10, Chaitanya K aka “thegoodmelon” (India)
  • $10, Krzysztof J. (USA)
  • $10, Gabriel S. (World)
  • $7, Geoffroy M. (Canada)
  • $7, Marcus Wikstrom aka “mece” (Finland) – [twitter.com]
  • $5 (2nd donation), Matthew O. (Ireland)
  • $5, Malcolm B. (USA)
  • $5, Francesco Coiro (Italy)
  • $5, Apollo V. Melo aka “teflashfire” (USA) – [militarylinuxusers.blogspot.com]
  • $5, Doug Berch (USA) – [dougberch.com]
  • $5, Venkatesh B. (United Kingdom)
  • $5, Helen J. (United Kingdom)
  • $5, Peter Hope-Tindall aka “hopetindall” (Canada)
  • $5, Brandon P. (USA)
  • $4, Johan T. (Sweden)
  • $2, Remy van Elst (Netherlands) – [relst.nl]
  • $2, PartEase (USA) – [www.partease.com]
  • $1, Viktor Semenovskiy (Russia) – [ubuntunnru.blogspot.com]
  • $1, Pierre G. (Belgium)

  Sponsors:

  • $310, R1Soft – [www.r1soft.com]
  • $100, Host Color (USA) – [www.hostcolor.com]
  • $75, John Ritchie (Aging Technogeek – USA)
  • $45, Linux Compatible Poker (USA) - http://www.linuxcompatiblepoker.com
  • $40, Az Van (newW2 – USA)
  • $25, American Broadband Family of Companies (USA) – http://www.americanbroadbandservice.com
  • $20, TOPIMMOBILIEN (Tim – Germany) - http://www.immobilien-es.com
  • $20, Scott P. (USA)
  • $15, Russ W.
  • $11, cheap vps hosting – http://www.neosurge.com
  • $10, Stitz Computers, LLC (USA) – http://stitzcomputers.com
  • $10, Rechtsberatung, Steuerberatung, Internetrecht (Tim) – http://www.rechtsundsteuerberatung.de
  • $10 Gustav Holm (Sweden) – http://gustavholm.com
  • $7, Unixmen – [www.unixmen.com]
  • $7, Jesse Burroughs (JpBя – USA)
  • $7, Panagiotis Papasaikas (Greece) -  [www.andrew.cmu.edu]
  • $6, Attila Vecsei (Finland) – http://www.vecsei.net
  • $5, linuxmint-fr.org (ludal – France) - http://www.linuxmint-fr.org
  • $5, linuxmint-italia.org (Pietro Martino / prior123 – Italy) - http://www.linuxmint-italia.org
  • $5, Sohier C.
    
  • $5, Christopher D.
  • $5, DLX Company (USA) – [www.dlxcompany.com]
  • $5, Stuart C.
  • $5, Paul S.
  • $3.5, Ian Egland (Echolynx – USA)
  • $2, Joerg Dreckmann (Germany)
  • $2, Funkelectric (Spain) – [www.funkelectric.com]
  • $2, NVISN TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS AND CONSULTING (USA) – [www.nvisn.com]
  • $1, very-clever.com - http://www.very-clever.com
  • $1, Busybits - http://www.busybits.com
  • $1, linboo.com - http://www.linboo.com
  • $1, Expert Bookings - http://www.expert-bookings.com
  • $1, Cyprus Property (Cyprus) – [www.leptosestates.com]
  • $1, Недвижимость на Кипре (Cyprus) – [www.leptos-estates.ru]
  • $1, Prasad S.R. (India) – [saysprasad.wordpress.com]
  • $1, Surf in Peace (UK) – [www.surfinpeace.co.uk]
  • $1 Jakub Jasiulewicz (Poland) – http://jasiulewicz.pl
  • $1, Erin G.
  • $1, Greg Flynn (South Africa)
  • $1, Liquidvps.net – [www.liquidvps.net]
    
  • $0.5, Martijn van Loon (aapiethaaap – Netherlands)
  • $0.5, Nottingham web design (UK) – [www.drawmyattention.co.uk]

  Money raised in August:

  * Donations: $2162.13 (85 donors)
  * Sponsors: $775.5 (42 sponsors)
  

  http://www.linuxmint.com/donors.php
  http://www.linuxmint.com/sponsors.php

  User Stats:
  

  Repartition of Linux Mint users across releases:

  • Linux Mint 7 Gloria: 75% (+7%)
    
  • Linux Mint 6 Felicia: 15% (-5%)
    
  • Linux Mint 5 Elyssa LTS: 7% (-1%)
    
  • Linux Mint 4.0 Daryna: 3% (-1%)
    

  Web Stats:
  

  • Visits: 1,874,462 (+12%)
    
  • Pageviews: 3,341,385 (+10%)
  • Page impressions: 1,381,550
  • Search queries: 4,131,663
    
  • Forum users:20,272
  • Forum posts:175,325

  Rankings:
  

  • Distrowatch (popularity ranking): 1279 (3rd)
  • Distrowatch (traffic share): 4.2% (2nd)
  • Alexa (website ranking): 28,272nd

  Events:

  • Linux Mint 7 Gloria KDE was released: [www.linuxmint.com]
    
  • mintCast released 5 episodes of their podcast: [mintcast.org]

  Summary:

  • August 2009 was the (6th consecutive) best month ever since the creation of Linux Mint.
  • The overall income is up 24%.
  • Our user base is the second largest in the desktop Linux market.
  • The community support is outstanding: 85 people donated last month for a total of $2162 and our sponsors raised $775.

• August 31, 2009
• 2:46

  The Computer Action Show! Season 1 Episode 2

   » ‎ LAS (podcast)

  Enclosure: [download]

  This week on, THE Computer ACTION SHOW!

  We cover the Nokia N900 release, rock your world with a list of up coming Android Devices and DESTROY THE INTERNET with our latest Free Software Foundation rant!

  Then we give you a review of a cheap 8-Bay eSATA storage rig, and cover our experiences with building a hackintosh!

  All this week on, The COMPUTER ACTION SHOW!

  
  

• August 30, 2009
• 14:16

  Skype 2.1 beta pour Linux... pour le moment bof

   » ‎ Liteweb (fr)
  LA nouvelle de la semaine c'est la sortie en beta de Skype 2.1 avec une quantité de nouveautés à vous faire tomber à la renverse ! Alors je me suis rué dessus forcément, avec la version d'avant qui date de 2 ans ou un truc du genre je pouvais pas faire autrement. Sauf que voilà ça change pas grand chose pour le moment pour moi, c'est plutôt bof quand changement :-(
  
  - Les groupes: super ! je m'attendais à un truc normal comme tout client IM qui se respecte, et ben non... on se retrouve avec 36 groupes dont la moitié qui sert à rien, pas moyen de faire "clic droit" -> "nouveau groupe" ou un truc équivalent; pour supprimer l'affichage d'un groupe faut se taper 36 fois "options -> groupes -> et je décoche celui que je veux plus, etc..." bref pas vraiment exploitable, pour le coup c'est 0 :-(
  - L'icone de la barre de notification a changé, super ! Ben non... perso je le trouve plus moche. elle est surtout plus grosse et du coup esthétiquement c'est moche dans ma barre de notification, encore 0 :-(
  - 3 fois en 3 jours l'appli c'est fermée toute seule sans savoir pourquoi, re-encore 0
  
  Concernant le son et la vidéo j'ai pas encore eu l'occasion de tester donc je vais pas donner mon avis. A part cela rien de neuf, j'ai rien vu comme gros changements qui m'auraient bouleversé.
  
  Bonne rentré Skype ;-)
  
  P.S.: Bon ça reste une beta donc la release sera certainement mieux et surtout il faut saluer le geste envers Linux ;-)

• 7:56

  P2P Streaming Video - Sopcast 0.3.0 - Linux Mint 7

   » ‎ YouTube

  	P2P Streaming Video - Sopcast 0.3.0 - Linux Mint 7 code.google.com SopCast Player is designed to be an easy to use Linux GUI front-end for the p2p streaming technology developed by SopCast. SopCast Player features an integrated video player, a channel guide, and bookmarks. Once SopCast Player is installed it simply "just works" with no required configuration. Note: If it says server down and you cant refresh try different servers for channel list www.sopcast.com www.sopcast.com www.sopcast.cn www.sopcast.cn www.sopcast.org www.sopcast.org...	From: gotbletu Views: 1909 20 ratings
  Time: 03:58	More in Science & Technology

• August 29, 2009
• 15:45

  Webget ISO downloader

   » ‎ Handleidingen
  When I am at school, and I read that Slackware 13 is out, I need to have it. And I want it at home. So, what I can do is SSH into my machine, wget it, and it is done when I'm at home. But, at school SSH is blocked, and a lot of other things, like FTP, Youtube and they have a large Internet Filter. So, I need to have an other solution. Now I have it.
• 15:43

  Webget ISO grabber with Wget

   » ‎ Handleidingen

  Webget ISO grabber

  When I am at school, and I read that Slackware 13 is out, I need to have it. And I want it at home. So, what I can do is SSH into my machine, wget it, and it is done when I'm at home.
  But, at school SSH is blocked, and a lot of other things, like FTP, Youtube and they have a large Internet Filter.
  So, I need to have an other solution. Now I have it.
  

  read more

• August 28, 2009
• 7:03

  Live Android v0.3 Web mirror

   » ‎ Handleidingen
  So, you can now download Live Android directly from here. [raymii.org]

• August 26, 2009
• 0:06

  Multiple Debs At Once - Terminal - Linux Mint 7

   » ‎ YouTube

  	Multiple Debs At Once - Terminal - Linux Mint 7 cd into directory or use nautilus-open-terminal ( install from synaptic ) $ sudo dpkg -i *.deb	From: gotbletu Views: 1037 24 ratings
  Time: 02:53	More in Science & Technology

• August 25, 2009
• 21:54

  Kurzer Ausfall des Portals

   » ‎ linuxmintusers.de
  Hallo,
  
  wir hatten einen kleinen Ausfall des Portals, der Provider läßt das entschuldigen.
  Falsche Rechtevergabe bei der Erweiterug der Serverfarm.
  
  Kann passieren.
  
  neo67

• August 24, 2009
• 14:05

  MSN Chat w/ Webcam - Emesene 1.5 - Linux Mint 7

   » ‎ YouTube

  	MSN Chat w/ Webcam - Emesene 1.5 - Linux Mint 7 launchpad.net	From: gotbletu Views: 3377 21 ratings
  Time: 02:57	More in Science & Technology

• August 23, 2009
• 15:57

  Portfolio Added

   » ‎ Handleidingen
  I'm working hard on the CMS, so today i've transferred the portfolio. Now it is non-dynamic, but I will add lightbox effects later on.
• 13:03

  Tutorials Transferred

   » ‎ Handleidingen
  I've transferred all the tutorials from Relst.nl to the CMS. It was a hell of a job to do so, but it is done. There accessible via the tutorial page.

• 10:22

  Quake Live FPS Game - Linux Mint 7

   » ‎ YouTube

  	Quake Live FPS Game - Linux Mint 7 www.quakelive.com	From: gotbletu Views: 3333 35 ratings
  Time: 07:44	More in Gaming

• 8:12

  Raymii.org Information

   » ‎ Handleidingen
  We are working on the custom Raymii.org CMS. When it is ready for production this will replace Relst.nl. Relst.nl will then be used as my cv/resume page and contact information. Until then, just go to: [relst.nl.]

• 5:57

  Auto Sleep & Shutdown Computer - Linux Mint 7

   » ‎ YouTube

  	Auto Sleep & Shutdown Computer - Linux Mint 7	From: gotbletu Views: 915 13 ratings
  Time: 02:54	More in Science & Technology

• August 22, 2009
• 9:11

  Just Installed Linux Mint 7

   » ‎ YouTube

  	Just Installed Linux Mint 7 My initial reaction to Linux Mint 7 to my MSI Netbook. I still had a little work to go, but I was feeling good to see it working excellent so far on my netbook!	From: droadtrip Views: 1136 25 ratings
  Time: 03:16	More in Science & Technology

• August 21, 2009
• 15:03

  Distro life cycles, updates and small business

   » ‎ Linux Geeks United
  Distro life cycles, updates and small business

• August 20, 2009
• 1:50

  Installing Fonts - Linux Mint 7

   » ‎ YouTube

  	Installing Fonts - Linux Mint 7	From: gotbletu Views: 985 13 ratings
  Time: 03:08	More in Science & Technology

• August 19, 2009
• 16:30

  The Linux Link Tech Show Episode 312

   » ‎ TLLTS (podcast)

  Enclosure: [download]

  Just us - OLF goodness, Media Devices, Media Players, Note Taking Software, Drobo, Netbooks, and all sorts of great techie kind of things
• 16:30

  The Linux Link Tech Show Episode 313

   » ‎ TLLTS (podcast)

  Enclosure: [download]

  Just us - Linux news, sco case back on, android stuff, foss goodness.

• 12:55

  The Mint Newsletter - issue 91

   » ‎ Linux Mint Blog
  * News about Mint

  Mint 7: Flash in full screen with Firefox 3.5.x – a fix

  Clem has commented on a review of the Gloria KDE edition

  * News about Linux

  Security flaw in the kernel discovered, it’s in all kernels for the last 8 years, but it is only local, it cannot be used remotely

  This is the second flaw discovered in about a month (previous one here Standard Mint does not have a kernel that is at risk for this one) Patches exist for both

  Several vulnerabilities regarding the parsing of XML data have been found – this affects some libraries in Mint, check the link to see which

  Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

  Alan Cox Quits As Linux TTY Maintainer — “I’ve Had Enough” – and Linus Torvalds starts programming TTY

  Microsoft Acknowledges Competition from Linux

  Dell: Linux v Windows netbook returns a ‘non-issue’

  Novell – More Support for the openSUSE Project (not so long ago Novell fired developers for openSUSE)

  openSUSE Cuts Maintenance Cycle to 18 Months

  Moonlight 2.0 goes Beta

  A possible change of direction for Foresight Linux

  The latest news about the kernel is always found here

  * News about Open Source

  KDE 4.3.0 released

  Khronos Releases OpenGL 3.2 with easier portability of Direct3D applications.

  Nokia says Qt is the best framework, and is to drop Symbian and makes Qt a subdomain of Nokia.com (no more Trolltech or qtsoftware) Qt is used by KDE

  * News about IT

  Twitter DOS attack targeted Georgian blogger

  Twitter-based Botnet Command Channel

  Zeus botnet’s Real Host cut off from the internet (Zeus is alleged to be the world’s biggest cybercrime botnet)

  Three indicted in largest U.S. identity theft scheme, according to some sources it was simple: Theft Of 130 Million Credit Card Numbers Didn’t Take Much

  Researchers hijack computer during software update

  OpenDNSSEC Launched to Help Drive Adoption of DNSSEC

  Researchers find insecure BIOS ‘rootkit’ pre-loaded in laptops

  Bootkit bypasses hard disk encryption

  Microsoft at a loss in Word patent case?

  Microsoft Finally Joins HTML 5 Standard Efforts

  Microsoft IE 8 shines in Web browser security test paid for by Microsoft

  * Hardware news

  eXtreme Power Suppply Calculator Helps Accurately Select a PSU – more important than you may think

  * Other news

  Microsoft and Nokia announce close cooperation, Office Mobile comes to Nokia smartphones – could this cooperation “kill” Windows Mobile?

  * Comic of the week

  

  Credit goes to xkcd

  * More about Linux Mint

  How to donate

  Home page

  Blog The planet Wiki Forum Twitter Mintcast

  * Editors comment

  As always – if you find something I’ve missed in the newsletter please tell me – you can post a comment.

  Enjoy life

  Husse

• August 18, 2009
• 15:03

  Magazine Linux+DVD spécialisé en Open Source!

   » ‎ linuxmint-fr.org
  Dans la section bon plan de l'actualité, nous vous présentons "Linux+DVD". Ce magazine vous propose de télécharger gratuitement un exemplaire afin de vous faire une idée de son contenu riche et clair...
• 15:03

  Téléchargez gratuitement le magazine Linux+DVD !

   » ‎ linuxmint-fr.org
  Dans la section bon plan de l'actualité, nous vous présentons "Linux+DVD". Ce magazine vous propose de télécharger gratuitement un exemplaire afin de vous faire une idée de son contenu riche et clair...
• 8:52

  Présentation de Linux Mint 7

   » ‎ linuxmint-fr.org
  Un grand merci à jalobservateur qui nous sert ici une présentation de Gloria plutôt intéressante! Allez donc lire ce texte qui ne manque pas de passer au crible l'ensemble de cette merveilleuse version!

• 6:17

  Convert all the .flv's in one folder to MP3

   » ‎ Handleidingen

  So you have used my tutorial to rip all the youtube vids? You know, this one.

  Well, then you have got a nice collection of flash video file's (flv's). And you want to put them on your iPod, or cell phone? Well then I've got the solution for you.
  (Note: Linux Only :P)

  read more

• 5:38

  Free RTS Game - Hive Rise - Linux Mint 7

   » ‎ YouTube

  	Free RTS Game - Hive Rise - Linux Mint 7 www.hiverise.com Hive Rise is the high speed realtime strategy game for the fast action in between! Compete for free against thousands of other players and decorate yourself with great trophies! 2023 - Since the wars between enemy nations were dying out at the beginning of the 21. century, someone had to ensure a fresh supply of senseless violence. The solution: Hive Rise! The TV-Show, in which bored millionaires, car tinkers and retired generals can do a live and uncensored arms race. On a ...	From: gotbletu Views: 8024 60 ratings
  Time: 08:54	More in Science & Technology

• August 17, 2009
• 3:28

  The Computer Action Show! Season 1 Episode 1

   » ‎ LAS (podcast)

  Enclosure: [download]

  This week on, The Computer Action Show!

  We rock the EARTH with our new SHOW, we bust out the news docket with all the stories you care about!

  THEN – We review the best of the absolute latest OS for your Netbook, and cover what we think just might shake out as the netbook OS champion!

  PLUS SO MUCH MORE!

  All this week on, The Linux Action Show!

  
  

• August 16, 2009
• 21:26

  mintCast Episode 20: Linux Directory Structure

   » ‎ mintCast

  Enclosure: [download]

  In this episode

  Google Voice

  Ten ways to smooth the switch to Linux

  Linux directory structure

  About files and the file system

  Getting Started with Linux – Lesson 4

  Web site of the week

  The Helios Project
  Blog of Helios

  Feedback

  Wakoopa

  Yuuguu

  Gizmo5
  IPKall Signup

  More info

  Email mintCast: mintcast@mintcast.org
  Email Rothgar: rothgar@mintcast.org
  Email Charles: charles@mintcast.org

  Linux Mint web site: http://www.linuxmint.com

  Linux Mint blog: [www.linuxmint.com]

  Linux Mint forums: [www.linuxmint.com]

  Rothgar’s site: [1n73r.net]

  Follow mintCast on Twitter: [twitter.com]

  Follow Linux Mint on Twitter: [twitter.com]

  Follow Rothgar on Twitter: [twitter.com]

• August 15, 2009
• 23:40

  Faster Speed, Disable Pango - Firefox - Linux Mint 7

   » ‎ YouTube

  	Faster Speed, Disable Pango - Firefox - Linux Mint 7 en.wikipedia.org .bashrc # Speed Firefox Up, Disable Pango export MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO=1	From: gotbletu Views: 2476 24 ratings
  Time: 01:33	More in Science & Technology

• August 14, 2009
• 14:20

  Why finding the Linux kernel 'security flaws" now, is a good thing.

   » ‎ Linux Geeks United
  Why finding the Linux kernel 'security flaws" now, is a good thing.

• August 13, 2009
• 9:30

  Vpn . Egalité . Fraternité

   » ‎ Linux Manua (fr)
    Quand la technologie vient au secours de la Liberté    La loi HADOPI 2, priorité nationale depuis plus de 6 mois, sera votée le 14 septembre 09, par les députés godillots convoqués en session extraordinaire du parlement. Ce jour là, ils voteront aussi le projet de loi pénitentiaire. On espère qu'ils ne se mélangeront pas les pinceaux. La "pédagogie" selon HADOPI 2, c'est jusqu'à 3750€

• August 12, 2009
• 16:30

  The Linux Link Tech Show Episode 311

   » ‎ TLLTS (podcast)

  Enclosure: [download]

  Guest - Jim Killock - Open Rights Group, Microsoft and XML Patent trouble, OLF, new sound card, Nokia, Linc and php survey software

• 5:39

  Linux Mint 7 ‘Gloria’ KDE

   » ‎ Линукс MINT (ru)
  
  
  Представлена KDE-редакция дистрибутива Linux Mint 7, основанная на Kubuntu 9.04. В её составе ядро Linux 2.6.28, KDE 4.2.4 и X.Org 7.4, множество усовершенствований и улучшений таких системных компонентов как mintInstall, mintUpdate, mintUpload и mintWelcome, новейшие версии открытого ПО (Amarok 2.1). Дополнительная информация содержится в анонсе и комментарии к релизу. Загрузить ISO-образ Linux Mint 7 «KDE» можно по этой ссылке (1112 МБ).
  
  

  Torrent download: [www.linuxmint.com]
  HTTP download: [www.linuxmint.com]

  Asia:

  • [ftp.jaist.ac.jp] (Japan)
  • [ftp.riken.jp] (Japan)

  Europe:

  • [mirrors.cytanet.com.cy] (Cyprus)
  • [ftp.klid.dk] (Denmark)
  • [ftp:] (France)
  • [ftp.cc.uoc.gr] (Greece)
  • [ftp.heanet.ie] (Ireland)
  • [cesium.di.uminho.pt] (Portugal)
  • [ftp.df.lth.se] (Sweden)
  • [mirror.sov.uk.goscomb.net] (United Kingdom)

  Northern America:

  • [mirror.amarillolinux.com] (USA)
  • [mint.ez.by] (USA)
  • [linuxfreedom.com] (USA)
  • [ftp.cs.rose-hulman.edu] (USA)
  • [linuxmint.secsup.org] (USA)
  • [ftp:] (USA)

  
  
  
  

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• August 10, 2009
• 16:49

  Linux_Mint: Firefox 3.5.2 upgrade available for Linux Mint 7 Gloria.

   » ‎ Twitter
  Linux_Mint: Firefox 3.5.2 upgrade available for Linux Mint 7 Gloria.

• 16:40

  Mint 7: Flash in full screen with Firefox 3.5.x

   » ‎ Linux Mint Blog

  Description of the problem:

  As we’re upgrading the repositories with Firefox 3.5.2, Exploder suggested we fix an upstream bug in Firefox 3.5 which makes the application crash when Adobe Flash is used in full screen mode. To be precise, the problem occurs when going back from full screen to normal view.

  The fix suggested consists in pre-loading Flash with Firefox and it apparently works with any hardware spec. It doesn’t work in 64 bit though, and so for x64 users, the solution is different. For this reason, we decided not to fix this bug in Linux Mint 7 Gloria, but to let you know about the problem and how to fix it manually.

  Solution for Main, Universal, and Community editions:

  As root, edit /usr/bin/firefox-3.5 and add the following as the second line (below  “#!/bin/sh”):

  export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libGL.so.1

  Solution for x64 edition:

  Right click on the Flash content, go to Settings and disable the “Hardware acceleration”.

  Note:

  Firefox 3.5 is not installed by default in Linux Mint 7. Read this post for more information.

• 15:50

  GNU/Linux can faciliate not just 'the Cloud' but your own Cloud too.

   » ‎ Linux Geeks United
  GNU/Linux can faciliate not just 'the Cloud' but your own Cloud too.

• August 09, 2009
• 21:17

  Cairo Menu - Linux Mint 7

   » ‎ YouTube

  	Cairo Menu - Linux Mint 7 www.gtk-apps.org A fast and functional menu for the gnome desktop that focuses on speed, efficiency and delivering what you want in the least number of clicks or keystrokes. Unique and useful features in this application: - Run as administrator in the right-click menu - Large thumbnail previews for recent items - Favorites menu - Fast search engine builtin - Multiple themes and options available - Group recent items by file type	From: gotbletu Views: 1845 17 ratings
  Time: 03:36	More in Science & Technology

• August 07, 2009
• 12:35

  Antix M8.2, A review, install guide and comparison to Linux Mint

   » ‎ Handleidingen

  Linux Mint 7 and Antix M8-2, the story of change.

  I have an old pc, it's from 2005. (2.4 Ghz P4, 512MB RAM, 80GByte HDD and an 64MB nvidia graphics card.
  I mostly use Linux mint, on all my PC's. At school via a USB stick, and at work via mint4win. But on my home PC it was getting rather slow and hoggy.
  I knew it was time to switch. On my netbook (Acer aspire one with 8GB SSD) I already did a ubuntu alternate commandline install, and with icewm on it it is very very fast.
  I first looked at debian. I love the apt-get system, and I cannot get used to yast or urpmi like things from mandriva and openSUSE. So my choice should be a debian based distro.
  Now comes the big problem. I do not have internet acces via the cable or ADSL at home. I have a 3G modem which I use for internet acces. Mint and ubuntu have networkmanager which lets me connect without installing anything. (Which is almost not possible if you do not have internet).
  Now on my netbook I use wvdial, which works like a charm. I've tried UMTSmon, but doesn't work and i'm to lazy to find out why. I just want it to work.
  So I was looking for a distro that would run fast on my main PC, and has built in 3G functionality. Not much choices remain.

  read more

• August 06, 2009
• 16:30

  A look at the server GUI argument

   » ‎ Linux Geeks United
  A look at the server GUI argument

• 3:44

  Orphan Files Removal - DebOrphan - Linux Mint 7

   » ‎ YouTube

  	Orphan Files Removal - DebOrphan - Linux Mint 7 deborphan finds "orphaned" packages on your system. It determines which packages have no other packages depending on their installation and shows you a list of these packages. It is most useful when finding libraries, but it can be used on packages in all sections.	From: gotbletu Views: 775 14 ratings
  Time: 06:21	More in Science & Technology

• August 05, 2009
• 19:06

  Mint 7 KDE Review: IT Lure

   » ‎ Linux Mint Blog

  I haven’t “answered” reviews for a while now so I just couldn’t resist when I saw Linux Mint 7 KDE get its very first review. Not to mention that the author brought up a series of interesting points… so let’s start with the reading and then we’ll discuss.

  Link to the review:

  [www.itlure.com]

  Happy reading everyone!

  Discussion:

  Danny says: “[...] the team [...] made a highly anticipated announcement: Linux Mint 7 KDE released!”

  –> Most distributions adopted Gnome as their default desktop, but KDE is still the most popular among Linux users. It’s been hard for KDE fans lately, with support for many important components better handled under Gnome, with the controversy over the stability of the initial KDE 4 releases, and with Mint 6 KDE finally released just a few days prior to Ubuntu 9.04 because of issues with the desktop. There’s a lot of anticipation with each KDE release. Comments flourish on the blog, we’re #1 in Distrowatch’s hype-o-meter, the torrents activity figures are high… that’s for sure, this release didn’t go un-noticed.

  Danny says: “The KDE version of Mint 7 (about 1.1 GB) won’t fit on a CD.”

  –> When it comes to KDE, and because of the popularity of the desktop itself, people have a lot of expectations. I’m not saying Community Editions don’t deserve this, it’s just that our resources are limited and so we make more compromises. The KDE edition would deserve support for both i386 and amd64 architectures and it would be within my goals to make it fit on a 700MB liveCD. This might happen in the future as some of us start working full time on the project, but for now this entirely depends on Jamie “Boo” Birse’s (maintainer of the KDE edition) availability. Most of our development is also done in GTK and although its integration within KDE “looks” nice it also means the media needs to contains both QT and GTK librairies…

  Danny says: “Gloria’s default green wallpaper was quite a star when revealed by Clem. If you liked that, you’ll certainly like this one. It’s basically the same, except it’s blue. The same sky, the same water drops, but blue.”

  –> The KDE edition got its own blue logo and most of the artists within our community provide standard and wide versions, blue and green. The Mint 7 artwork was done by “Zwopper”, it was very popular among the community and very successful after the release.

  Danny says: “The latest, 4.2.4 version of K Desktop Environment certainly feels more stable and less of a resource-hog than previous ones, so using it didn’t make my good ol’ single core Pentium 4 machine develop an inferiority complex.”

  –> The development team was really impressed with KDE 4.2.4. Of course, as it happened, KDE 4.3 was just released… I guess with time, and with more resource, we’ll become more and more efficient and we’ll need less time to release the KDE edition. Since the release of their respective Ubuntu bases, Mint 6 KDE took 160 days to be released, Mint 7 KDE took 102 days.

  Danny says: “As I knew Canonical didn’t bother to update their repositories with the latest version of Pidgin in order to be able to connect to Yahoo, I wanted to see if Mint did something about that. Nope, still at 2.5.5. Before adding the third party source, I downloaded and installed it, just for the heck of it and, surprise, surprise, I was online. Apparently, the Mint team couldn’t include the latest version so instead they changed the server in the account preferences. Still, that isn’t a permanent solution, as certain features (such as avatars and file transfer) don’t work, but it’s better than nothing.”

  –> Ah ah, it looks like we were caught I can’t remember whether Pidgin 2.5.8 (or another version) was available at the time…

  Danny says: “If there is one thing that I find highly annoying about Kubuntu-based OSes, it has to be this: NVIDIA drivers installation. Though it quickly recognized my chipset and recommended the 173 series, when I clicked “Activate”, the selection grayed out on me and nothing happened. NOTHING! Restart the application, try again, restart the system, try again. Nope. Still no response. Usually, depending on your luck and how the planets are aligned that day, the darn thing will work after a few tries. Luckily, the Minties (is it too wrong if I call the Linux Mint team that? ) are probably aware of that issue and included the awesome EnvyNG driver installation program that quickly and smoothly took care of the problem.”

  –> Would that be covered by bug #368558 in Launchpad? Either way, polls were made within the community as to whether or not we should stop including Envy by default. Results showed that half of the people installing 3D drivers for ATI/nVidia under Mint prefered Envy over Jockey, so Envy is still included by default in all editions and in the KDE edition, because there’s enough room on the liveDVD, it also comes with its GUI.

  Danny says: “When you open the most awesome software manager available for Linux, mintInstall, for the first time, you’ll notice that it doesn’t take as much time to load as it used to, as screenshots for the most popular applications are preloaded; for the rest, the pics are downloaded as you access them. If you want ‘em all, click the “Refresh” button and they’ll slowly but surely be loaded. That’s a great improvement if you ask me, as waiting several minutes to access the repositories for the first time was a bit frustrating in the previous version.”

  –> We got a lot of feedback on mintInstall and people were really disappointed about its performance and lack of responsiveness when it came to downloading screenshots and to refreshing the meta-data. So in Mint 7 we included the meta-data by default, making the tool usable without any refresh, and we multi-threaded the downloads of the screenshots. The current dev snapshot of mintInstall (planned for Linux Mint 8 ) also comes with new features such as the ability to uninstall applications, and to see their status and their version number. We also further reduced the lag and increased the responsiveness of the interface.

  Danny says: “Of course, Flash videos, MP3s and most video formats play out of the box in Linux Mint 7, so yay!”

  –> We’re currently discussing this within the team. The proposition is to move from having the codecs installed by default, to having the installer download and install them… like it’s done for the language packs. There would be an extra checkbox in the advanced section of the installer for people to uncheck if they don’t want to have the codecs. The discussion is still ongoing, no decision has been made so far, and your opinion is valuable. People, please comment on this.

  Danny says: “It was a bit sad to see no games available out of the box, considering the fact that the distro had already “spilled” over the 700 MB CD limit, so 1.5 GB instead of 1.1 wouldn’t have been such a big difference.”

  –> I never considered games as a part of an OS. Accessories yes, calculators, and all.. but games? Isn’t a game something people add, play a lot with, get bored with, uninstall, and eventually abandon for another one? And then again, solitaire, minesweeper and “office” games like that are indeed very popular. Do we need them? Should they be included by default? If so, which ones? Please comment.

  Danny says: “If you have kids (I used that instead of children because it starts with a K! Get it? K! From KDE? How funny is that? – don’t answer).”

  –> I must be a real geek.. I thought that was hilarious, yet, I know it’s not something I’d tell my wife.. or my friends.. or anybody

  –> Actually, did you ever notice that symetry between the “g” and the “K” in “geek”? Ok ok, sorry… –> []

  Danny says: “You can call mintNanny and do some good old fashioned domain blocking. But with today’s highly computer-literate youth, they will probably blaze past your wall of protection. Nonetheless, a welcomed addition.”

  –> They will eventually, and in the meantime they’ll be challenged, busy and focused and that is very good for their development. Seriously though, mintNanny is a small utility and it can be handy in certain cases and in certain families but it has limitations of course and it lacks flexibility. Parents looking for a strong parental control system will need to install alternative solutions.

  Danny says: “Another tool straight out of Mint’s laboratories is mintUpload that unfortunately wasn’t pre-configured to use the default Mint server. If you use any other upload services, you can add them to this nifty interface too. Beware though, you won’t find mintUpload in the applications menu, as you can access it through the right click context menu on individual files.”

  –> The development of mintUpload was delegated to Philip Morrell aka “emorrp1″ and we currently have 3 developers working on it. This tool is going through massive changes at the moment. In Mint 8, it will appear in the menus as an “Upload Manager” which will dynamically generate context menu items for the upload services defined by the user. It will also support multiple uploads, which we’re hoping will be multi-threaded, and we’re also talking about an eventual panel applet which could be used by the user to drop files and see them automatically uploaded to the service of his/her choice. On the server side, we’re having issues with the “Default” service and I don’t know if it will be continued. We’re thinking of opening the specifications instead so that we can bring and maintain a catalogue of pre-defined services to the user.

• 16:30

  The Linux Link Tech Show Episode 310

   » ‎ TLLTS (podcast)

  Enclosure: [download]

  Just Us - webkit browsers, esoteric window managers, firefox extensions, cooking, gi joe, edirectory

• 12:16

  Linux_Mint: Firefox 3.0.13 upgrade available for Linux Mint 5 Elyssa LTS, Linux Mint 6 Felicia and Linux Mint 7 Gloria.

   » ‎ Twitter
  Linux_Mint: Firefox 3.0.13 upgrade available for Linux Mint 5 Elyssa LTS, Linux Mint 6 Felicia and Linux Mint 7 Gloria.

• August 04, 2009
• 14:54

  The Mint Newsletter - issue 90

   » ‎ Linux Mint Blog
  * News about Mint Linux Mint 7 ‘Gloria’ KDE released!

  Monthly stats for july shows another good month for Mint

  Clem writes “July 2009 was the (5th consecutive) best month ever since the creation of Linux Mint”

  Bugs are on Launchpad now, but we keep the bug forums open so you can report in the forum and we will carry it over if it’s a real bug

  mintCast episode 19 new link – the mintCast site is reorganized

  * News about Linux

  Introducing The Linux Foundation Visa Platinum® Rewards Card – support Linux when you buy. So far only available in the US

  SUSE Studio a project to custom Linux, fast & simple

  CentOS is in crisis, but it seems to be resolved

  The latest news about the kernel is always found here

  * News about Open Source

  * News about IT

  Firefox downloaded more than a billion times

  Spam about 92 percent of all mail according to McAffee

  Google Sells AOL Stake at $717 Million Loss

  Adobe confirms Flash contains Microsoft dev code bug

  Microsoft Wave launched – a site that presents MS future plans

  Microsoft, Yahoo! agree on Internet search partnership

  * Hardware news

  Hacker Says iPhone 3GS Encryption Is ‘Useless’ for Businesses

  * Other news

  * Comic of the week

  

  Credit goes to xkcd

  * More about Linux Mint

  How to donate

  Home page

  Blog The planet Wiki Forum Twitter Mintcast

  * Editors comment

  As always – if you find something I’ve missed in the newsletter please tell me – you can post a comment.

  Enjoy life

  Husse

• 10:29

  Linux Mint 7 'Gloria' KDE wydany!

   » ‎ linuxmint.pl (pl)

  Linux Mint 7 “Gloria” KDE już jest!

  

  
  Wprowadzenie do systemu Linux Mint 7 KDE:

  Tworząc KDE Community Edition mamy na celu dostarczenie Linux Mint użytkownikom korzystającym ze środowiska graficznego KDE. System bazuje na Kubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope, Linux 2.6.28, KDE 4.2.4 i Xorg 7.4.

   

  Wymagania systemowe:

  Minimum 4GB wolnego miejsca na dysku oraz 256MB RAM. Do komfortowej pracy zalecane jest 10GB wolnego miejsca oraz 512MB RAM.

   

  Aby pobrać Linux Mint 7 “Gloria” KDE kliknij tutaj.

• 5:37

  Linux Mint 7 KDE

   » ‎ YouTube

  	Linux Mint 7 KDE www.linuxmint.com Enjoy =]	From: FedoraFTW Views: 10847 0 ratings
  Time: 07:10	More in Science & Technology

• 0:55

  Sortie de Linux Mint Gloria "KDE"

   » ‎ linuxmint-fr.org
  C'est avec un grand plaisir que nous vous annonçons la sortie de la version finale de Linux Mint Gloria dans sa mouture communautaire du bureau KDE.

• August 03, 2009
• 16:46

  Linux_Mint: Linux Mint 7 'Gloria' KDE released! http://www.linuxmint.com/blog/?p=986

   » ‎ Twitter
  Linux_Mint: Linux Mint 7 'Gloria' KDE released! [www.linuxmint.com]

• 15:40

  Linux Mint 7 ‘Gloria’ KDE released!

   » ‎ Linux Mint Blog

  The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 7 ‘Gloria’ KDE.

  

  Quick steps:

  • Download the ISO or the torrent.
  • While it’s downloading look at the overview of the new features and make sure to quickly go through the known issues.
  • After the ISO is downloaded verify the MD5.
  • Burn the ISO at low speed and enjoy Linux Mint 7 KDE.

  Introduction to Linux Mint 7 KDE:

  The KDE Community Edition aims to provide a version of Linux Mint which uses the KDE desktop.

  For a detailed overview of the new features and improvements included in Linux Mint 7 KDE, please read “What’s new in Gloria KDE?“.

  System requirements:

  A minimum of 4GB of free space and 256MB RAM are needed. For a comfortable experience we recommended to have at least 512MB RAM and 10GB of free space.

  Important information and known issues:

  For a complete list of known issues read the Release Notes.

  The root password is now set as the same as the one chosen during the installation.

  If you’re using Mint tools in other distributions, make sure to turn off the adjustment system by editing /etc/linuxmint/mintSystem.conf.

  Download Linux Mint 7 KDE:

  You can download the Main Edition via torrent or via [HTTP:]

  Size: 1.1GB LiveDVD

  MD5Sum: 60d7b284446b6fdaf58cba91446ff5ff

  Torrent download: [www.linuxmint.com]
  HTTP download: http://www.linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=42

  Asia:

  • [ftp.jaist.ac.jp] (Japan)
  • [ftp.riken.jp] (Japan)

  Europe:

  • [mirrors.cytanet.com.cy] (Cyprus)
  • [ftp.klid.dk] (Denmark)
  • [ftp:] (France)
  • [ftp.cc.uoc.gr] (Greece)
  • [ftp.heanet.ie] (Ireland)
  • [cesium.di.uminho.pt] (Portugal)
  • [ftp.df.lth.se] (Sweden)
  • [mirror.sov.uk.goscomb.net] (United Kingdom)

  Northern America:

  • [mirror.amarillolinux.com] (USA)
  • [mint.ez.by] (USA)
  • [linuxfreedom.com] (USA)
  • [ftp.cs.rose-hulman.edu] (USA)
  • [linuxmint.secsup.org] (USA)
  • [ftp:] (USA)

  Rest of the World:

  Order Linux Mint 7 KDE on DVD:

  Our partner on-disk.com ships Linux Mint 7 KDE Worldwide for as little as $10. They also contribute $5.41 to Linux Mint for each DVD sold.

  Linux Mint 7 KDE can be purchased as a liveDVD, as a virtual machine or as a live media (Flash/SD/CF):

  • [on-disk.com]

  Upgrade instructions:

  Upgrade instructions will be published in a few days.

  Feedback, ideas, bug reports:

  We look forward to reading your reviews and your feedback. If you find bugs, don’t hesitate to report them at [https:]] and if you have ideas that you would like implemented, don’t hesitate to register blueprints at [https:]]

  Enjoy!

  Enjoy this new version of the KDE edition and don’t hesitate to send us your feedback. Congratulations and thanks to the maintainer, Jamie Boo Birse, for the excellent work done on this release.

  Have a lot of fun and thanks for using Linux Mint.

• 14:16

  Linux Mint Video screencast

   » ‎ YouTube

  	Linux Mint Video screencast this is a video of me testing linux mint in virtual box. Virtual box - www.virtualbox.org Linux Mint - www.linuxmint.com	From: JamieI1 Views: 92 1 ratings
  Time: 04:41	More in Science & Technology

• 9:13

  Linux Mint 7 Gloria

   » ‎ Линукс MINT (ru)
  Сегодня вышел новый релиз Linux Mint 7 Gloria, дистрибутива основанного на Ubuntu 9.04 и обновлённым удобным оформлением и изменённым набором программ. Страница дистрибутива на Distrowatch третья по посещаемости.
  Linux Mint отличается от других дистрибутивов низким начальным порогом вхождения, наличием в дистрибутиве (в обычной версии) кодеков, flash и других проприоритарных частей. Система полностью переведена на русский язык. Он разрабатывается очень небольшим количеством ребят в Ирландии и, по сути, является Ubuntu с установленными кодеками, необычной темой оформления и несколькими специально написаными для него утилит. Расположение элементов оформления напоминает Windows, что облегчает переход.
  
  
  
  
  В седьмой версии были исправлены ошибки, и появилось несколько нововведений по сравнению с 6-ой версией. В основном меню появились «предположения», которые ускоряют работу с системой, «автоизбранное» — программы добавляются в меню избранного, если часто используются, иконка Корзины в меню показывает заполнена Корзина или нет. mintInstall теперь позволяет не скачивать скриншоты, в программе появился список самых популярных программ, улучшен внешний вид.
  
  
  
  mintUpdate показывает размер обновлений, а mintUpload — программа для заливки файлов в сеть теперь поддерживает любые ftp- и scp-сервера. Включена новая тема оформления, иконки и ещё несколько вещей.
  
  По моему мнению, Linux Mint сегодня самый простой и удобный дистрибутив для домашнего компьютера, хотя, конечно, он не совсем следует идеологии свободного ПО. Пользуюсь Минтом уже около года и очень доволен, Линукс Минт сделал то, что обещала Убунта — всё сразу работает. Однако дистрибутив тоже не идеален, ей несколько, на мой взгляд, лишних вещей.
  
  Ссылки на загрузку CD Linux Mint 7:
  
  Main Edition (CD, включает кодеки и несвободные части, английский язык (остальные можно докачать дополнительно)):
  Торрент: www.linuxmint.com/torrent/LinuxMint-7.iso.torrent
  HTTP: www.linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=38
  
  MD5Sum: 64e2a290fb51f8e7a9d058355fe93d0e
  
  Universal Edition (DVD (1,3Гб)только свободные компоненты, все языки на которые переведена система (включая русский)):
  Торрент: www.linuxmint.com/torrent/LinuxMint-7-Universal.iso.torrent
  HTTP: www.linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=40
  
  MD5Sum: f50fe4665952c5abd887f403c6409963
  
  В ближайшее время будет опубликована инструкция по переходу с версии 6.
  Для затравки видео работы с mintMenu:
  
  По материалам официального сайта linuxmint.com.
  
  
  
  

  FREE PROXY SERVERS

  
  Русский Форум в Аргентине
  
  
  
  
  
  

  

  MINT

• August 02, 2009
• 18:06

  The Linux Action Show! Season 10 Episode 10

   » ‎ LAS (podcast)

  Enclosure: [download]

  This week on, The Linux Action Show!

  We blow your ears off with all of the ACTION in our one hundredth episode. We shatter the EARTH with the Alan Cox announcement, we cover the case of the disappearing CentOS developer, Microsoft releases GPL code… We give YOU the details! Just exactly what does Linus think of the entire Microsoft situation? You’ll find out!

  THEN – we review Ubuntu One and play your feedback, plus so much more!

  All this week on, The Linux Action Show!

  
  

• 16:54

  mintCast Episode 19: News & Feedback

   » ‎ mintCast

  Enclosure: [download]

  In this episode

  GNOME, from Wikipedia
  GNU

  No episode August 2 — mintCast will return with a new episode August 16.

  Linux Mint 7 Gloria KDE RC1 released

  Fat patch could circumvent Microsoft patent

  Virtual Box 3.0 released

  Firefox 3.5 available in Gloria

  Linux Mint bugs now on Launchpad

  Command line improvements

  Web site of the week

  Lifehacker.com

  Feedback

  BashPodder

  Xmarks

  Codecs and DVD playback on Ubuntu 8.04 for all users

  G1 app: Ambient Light Sensor

  G1 app: Useful Switchers

  G1 app: Toggle Settings

  G1 app: DoggCatcher

  G1 CyanogenMod

  Back In Time – simple backup tool for Linux

  Fluendo media codecs

  More info

  Email mintCast: mintcast@gmail.com

  Linux Mint web site: http://www.linuxmint.com

  Linux Mint blog: [www.linuxmint.com]

  Linux Mint forums: [www.linuxmint.com]

  Rothgar’s site: http://1n73r.net/

  Follow mintCast on Twitter: [twitter.com]

  Follow Linux Mint on Twitter: [twitter.com]

• 16:50

  mintCast Episode 18: Favorite Applications

   » ‎ mintCast

  Enclosure: [download]

  In this episode

  Linux Mint 7 x64 released

  Palm releases Pre source code

  Sugar on a Stick

  Linux Mint Screencast project

  Favorite applications (in repos unless link included)

  OpenOffice.org

  Conduit
  Lifehacker article

  Audacity

  Boxee/XBMC
  [www.boxee.tv]
  [xbmc.org]

  Kompozer

  Digikam

  Mint.com

  Tomboy

  Delicious.com

  Liferea

  Thunderbird

  RSSOwl

  Emacs

  Org-mode

  Evolution

  Pidgin

  GIMP

  Writer’s Cafe

  Sudoku

  World of Goo

  Wine

  Crossover Linux

  Remote Desktop Client

  GParted

  Wireshark

  GNOME Do

  Phatch

  Crossover Games

  Web site of the week

  OpenOffice.org Training, Tips, and Ideas

  Feedback

  gnome-look.org

  kde-look.org

  Gnome-Art NextGen

  Linux Windows Manager for X

  More info

  Email mintCast: mintcast@gmail.com

  Linux Mint web site: http://www.linuxmint.com

  Linux Mint blog: [www.linuxmint.com]

  Linux Mint forums: [www.linuxmint.com]

  Rothgar’s site: http://1n73r.net/

  Follow mintCast on Twitter: [twitter.com]

  Follow Linux Mint on Twitter: [twitter.com]

• 16:44

  mintCast Episode 17: Customizing KDE

   » ‎ mintCast

  Enclosure: [download]

  In this episode

  What has Rothgar been cooking…

  Ubuntu looks to fix bugs by healing paper cuts

  Grub2 to replace Grub in upcoming Ubuntu 9.10

  Get Grub2 now (read the instructions carefully)

  Ubuntu 9.04: New Intel Graphics Drivers

  Security firms “renewed subs without permission”

  Ubuntu aims for ten-second boot time with 10.04

  Customizing the KDE desktop

  KDE home page

  OpenSUSE Introduction to KDE 4

  KDE Userbase

  Eye candy for your KDE desktop
  KDE on Windows Project

  Web site of the week

  Linux.com

  Feedback

  Convert Ubuntu/Mint back to old notification system

  More info

  Email mintCast: mintcast@gmail.com

  Linux Mint web site: http://www.linuxmint.com

  Linux Mint blog: [www.linuxmint.com]

  Linux Mint forums: [www.linuxmint.com]

  Rothgar’s site: http://1n73r.net/

  Follow mintCast on Twitter: [twitter.com]

  Follow Linux Mint on Twitter: [twitter.com]

• 8:08

  mintCast Episode 16: Customizing GNOME

   » ‎ mintCast

  Enclosure: [download]

  In this episode

  Linux Mint 7 “Gloria” released

  What’s new: [www.linuxmint.com]

  Download Mint 7: [ftp.heanet.ie]

  How to upgrade Linux Mint 6 to Linux Mint 7: [www.linuxmint.com]

  It’s Better With Windows: [www.itsbetterwithwindows.com]

  It’s Better Without Windows: [www.itsbetterwithoutwindows.com]

  Microsoft Patents the Crippling of Operating Systems:
  [yro.slashdot.org]
  http://patft.uspto.gov

  10 Free Apps that Turn your Ubuntu into Video Studio

  Moblin v2.0 beta was released
  Mobling Netbook Intro video
  [moblin.org]

  Desktop Linux for the Windows Power User

  Customizing the GNOME desktop

  What is a desktop?

  Desktop components?

  How to customize the desktop

  Web site of the week

  Social Wallpapering

  Feedback

  Problem with Ext4

  More info

  Email mintCast: mintcast@gmail.com

  Linux Mint web site: http://www.linuxmint.com

  Linux Mint blog: [www.linuxmint.com]

  Linux Mint forums: [www.linuxmint.com]

  Rothgar’s site: http://1n73r.net/

  Follow mintCast on Twitter: [twitter.com]

  Follow Linux Mint on Twitter: [twitter.com]

• August 01, 2009
• 17:17

  Een goed wachtwoord maken.

   » ‎ Handleidingen

  In deze informatiemaatschappij word een goed wachtwoord steeds belangrijker. Daarom deze handleiding.

  read more

• 12:48

  Monthly Stats - July 2009

   » ‎ Linux Mint Blog

  Donations & Sponsorships:

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

  Donors:

  • $217, Achim Leybach (Germany) – [www.leybach.de]
  • $200, American Broadband Family of Companies (USA) – [www.americanbroadbandservice.com]
  • $200, Bob Osborn (USA)
  • $150 (2nd donation), Alan D S. (USA)
  • $101, Gavin Engel (USA)
  • $100, Ronald S. (USA)
  • $74, Richard L. (United Kingdom)
  • $73, HJG Gommers (Netherlands)
  • $72, Frans Van O. (Netherlands)
  • $72, Frederick W. (Ireland)
  • $51, Rupert Halliday aka “rhalliday” (United Kingdom)
  • $50, Benjamin W. (USA)
  • $50, Roland Stohler (Switzerland)
  • $50, Peter Jonsson (Sweden)
  • $50, Virtual Dedicated Server VDS Hosting Provider (Canada) – [compevo.com]
  • $50, Leonard O. (United Kingdom)
  • $50, Bodyartforms (USA)
  • $44, Lucien B. (France)
  • $44, Marco T. (Italy)
  • $43, Francisco C. C. (Spain)
  • $40, David A B. (USA)
  • $37, Manuel F. (Portugal)
  • $35, David N. (Czech Republic)
  • $30, Adam S. (USA)
  • $30, Richard B Thompson (USA)
  • $30, James M. (Australia)
  • $30, Pawel B. (Poland)
  • $28, g.premper (Germany)
  • $28, Emmanouil Parousis aka “Till” (Greece) – [tilltheblog.blogspot.com]
  • $28, Gilles D. (France)
  • $28, Luis H. O. (Spain)
  • $26, David Bandiera aka “daba” (Belgium)
  • $25 (2nd donation), William S. (USA)
  • $25, Nicholas G. (USA)
  • $25, David P. (USA)
  • $25, Greg J. (USA)
  • $25, Robert L. (USA)
  • $25, Robert S. (USA)
  • $25, upFront.eZine Publishing, Ltd. aka “lurker” (Canada) – [worldcadaccess.typepad.com]
  • $20, Simon Teppett (United Kingdom)
  • $20, Mario P. (Italy)
  • $20, Keith D. aka “kpd001″ (Canada)
  • $20, Nick M. (Australia)
  • $20, Jean Morin (Canada)
  • $20, Graham C. aka “gee7″ (United Kingdom)
  • $20, SCN aka “scn” (Thailand)
  • $20, Gerardo Alberto F. R. (Mexico)
  • $20, Sri G. R. J. (USA)
  • $20, Nathaniel Elam aka “nelamvr6″ (USA)
  • $20, Maurice H. (USA)
  • $20, Thomas T. (USA)
  • $20, Nektarios K. (United Kingdom)
  • $20, David S. (Czech Republic)
  • $20, Anthony G. (United Kingdom)
  • $18, Flessner Enterprises (USA)
  • $17, Gordon W. (United Kingdom)
  • $15, Matthew G. (USA)
  • $14.5, Jackson W. (USA)
  • $14, Mark W. (United Kingdom)
  • $14, Robert B. (United Kingdom)
  • $14, Damien G. (France)
  • $14, Richard Farrell aka “Vyper68″ (United Kingdom)
  • $14, Alan H. (United Kingdom)
  • $14, Michael B. (Germany)
  • $10 (5th donation), Frank Bechstein (Germany) – [www.gamer-site.de]
  • $10, Ole Reidar Gunnberg (United Kingdom)
  • $10, Jamie Cameron aka “jamiec” (United Kingdom)
  • $10, Jordan L. (USA)
  • $10, Charles H. (USA)
  • $10, Leon O. (Australia)
  • $10, Raphael C. (World)
  • $10, Vjaceslavs L. (Latvia)
  • $10, Karolis Pocius (United Kingdom) – [karolis.pocius.lt]
  • $10, Simen D aka “Winxzy” (Norway) – [www.winxzy.info]
  • $10, Gustav Holm aka “Gustav” (Sweden) – [www.gustavholm.com]
  • $10, Slavoljub M. (Norway)
  • $10, Libor F. (Czech Republic)
  • $10, Chris G. aka “Chris_G” (USA)
  • $10, Danie van der Merwe aka “Danie” (South Africa) – [dvdmerwe.googlepages.com]
  • $10, 聶 聡 (Satoshi J.) (Japan)
  • $10, Jonathan H. (New Zealand)
  • $8.21, Christopher S. (United Kingdom)
  • $7, Ben W. (USA)
  • $7, Reza S. (Germany)
  • $5, Holger S. (Germany)
  • $5, Scott B. (USA)
  • $5, Ian T Davis aka “ian@m5j21″ (United Kingdom) – [www.iantdavis.btinternet.co.uk]
  • $5, Christopher Vogel (Germany)
  • $5, Platypus Products (USA)
  • $5, Radu Bogdan Draghiciu (Romania)
  • $5, Karin K. aka “Kalhandra” (Australia) – [profile.myspace.com]
  • $5, Michael K. (USA)
  • $5, Joachim Bergstrom (Norway)
  • $3.5, Corey K. (Canada)
  • $3, Winton Technologies (USA)
  • $2, Gowri S. M (India)
  • $1, Ruben C. M. (Spain)
  • $1, Abdu S. (Saudi Arabia)
  • $1, Tony F. (Ireland)
  • $1, Mohd R. R. (Malaysia)

  Sponsors:

  • $100, Host Color (USA) – [www.hostcolor.com]
  • $75, John Ritchie (Aging Technogeek – USA)
  • $45, Linux Compatible Poker (USA) - http://www.linuxcompatiblepoker.com
  • $40, Az Van (newW2 – USA)
  • $25, American Broadband Family of Companies (USA) – [www.americanbroadbandservice.com]
  • $20, TOPIMMOBILIEN (Tim – Germany) - http://www.immobilien-es.com
  • $20, Scott P. (USA)
  • $11, cheap vps hosting – [www.neosurge.com]
  • $10, Stitz Computers, LLC (USA) – [stitzcomputers.com]
  • $10, Rechtsberatung, Steuerberatung, Internetrecht (Tim) – [www.rechtsundsteuerberatung.de]
  • $10 Gustav Holm (Sweden) – [gustavholm.com]
  • $10, Progboys.Com  (UK) – [www.progboys.com]
  • $7, Unixmen – [www.unixmen.com]
  • $7, Jesse Burroughs (JpBя – USA)
  • $7, Panagiotis Papasaikas (Greece) -  [www.andrew.cmu.edu]
  • $6, Attila Vecsei (Finland) – [www.vecsei.net]
  • $5, linuxmint-fr.org (ludal – France) - http://www.linuxmint-fr.org
  • $5, linuxmint-italia.org (Pietro Martino / prior123 – Italy) - http://www.linuxmint-italia.org
  • $5, Guillermo Enrique Guglietti (Canada) - http://www.urbancsa.org
  • $5, Sohier C.
    
  • $5, Christopher D.
  • $5, DLX Company (USA) – [www.dlxcompany.com]
  • $5, Stuart C.
  • $5, Paul S.
  • $3.5, Ian Egland (Echolynx – USA)
  • $2, Joerg Dreckmann (Germany)
  • $2, Funkelectric (Spain) – [www.funkelectric.com]
  • $2, NVISN TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS AND CONSULTING (USA) – [www.nvisn.com]
  • $1, very-clever.com - http://www.very-clever.com
  • $1, Busybits - http://www.busybits.com
  • $1, linboo.com - http://www.linboo.com
  • $1, Expert Bookings - http://www.expert-bookings.com
  • $1, Cyprus Property (Cyprus) – [www.leptosestates.com]
  • $1, Недвижимость на Кипре (Cyprus) – [www.leptos-estates.ru]
  • $1, Prasad S.R. (India) – [saysprasad.wordpress.com]
  • $1, Surf in Peace (UK) – [www.surfinpeace.co.uk]
  • $1, Alex Smith (UK) – [nullroute.me]
  • $1 Jakub Jasiulewicz (Poland) – [jasiulewicz.pl]
  • $1, Poker Bankroll (France) – [www.thebankrollers.com]
  • $1, Erin G.
    
  • $0.5, Martijn van Loon (aapiethaaap – Netherlands)
  • $0.5, Nottingham web design (UK) – [www.drawmyattention.co.uk]

  Money raised in June:

  * Donations: $2984.21 (100 donors)
  * Sponsors: $465.5 (42 sponsors)
  

  http://www.linuxmint.com/donors.php
  http://www.linuxmint.com/sponsors.php

  User Stats:
  

  Repartition of Linux Mint users across releases:

  • Linux Mint 7 Gloria: 68% (+8%)
    
  • Linux Mint 6 Felicia: 20% (-6%)
    
  • Linux Mint 5 Elyssa LTS: 8% (-1%)
    
  • Linux Mint 4.0 Daryna: 4%

  Web Stats:
  

  • Visits: 1,673,439 (+7.26%)
    
  • Pageviews: 3,037,810 (+3.32%)
  • Page impressions: 1,237,530
  • Search queries: 3,698,209
  • Forum users: 18,984
  • Forum posts:165,650

  Rankings:
  

  • Distrowatch (popularity ranking): 1275 (4th)
  • Distrowatch (traffic share): 3.9% (2nd)
  • Alexa (website ranking): 27,636th

  Events:

  • Linux Mint 7 Gloria XFCE RC1 was released: [www.linuxmint.com]
    
  • Linux Mint 7 Gloria KDE RC1 was released: [www.linuxmint.com]
    
  • mintCast released 2 episodes of their podcast: [mintcast.org]

  Summary:

  • July 2009 was the (5th consecutive) best month ever since the creation of Linux Mint.
  • The overall income is up 5%.
  • Our user base is the second largest in the desktop Linux market.
  • The community support is outstanding: 100 people donated last month for a total of $2984 and our sponsors raised $465.
  • A lot of work was done on the upcoming Linux Mint 8 ‘Helena’ and on the releases of the community editions. Launchpad and Github were adopted and will have a positive impact on our efficiency. The real challenge is still ahead as Linux Mint lost its novelty factor within the Linux community and hasn’t managed to catch the attention of the media in order to compete with widespread commercial operating systems such as Microsoft Windows and Apple Mac OS.

• July 31, 2009
• 16:24

  Linux_Mint: LinuxMint-7-KDE-DEV-067.iso approved by Clem, heading for a stable release.

   » ‎ Twitter
  Linux_Mint: LinuxMint-7-KDE-DEV-067.iso approved by Clem, heading for a stable release.
• 9:43

  Linux_Mint: LinuxMint-7-KDE-DEV-067.iso approved by Exploder.

   » ‎ Twitter
  Linux_Mint: LinuxMint-7-KDE-DEV-067.iso approved by Exploder.

• July 30, 2009
• 17:13

  5 Things I Would Miss in Linux Mint

   » ‎ Open Daily
  So after my last post, I figured it would be interesting to ask myself, “what would I miss in Linux Mint?” if I were to go back to Windows Vista today.  I came up with 5 nontrivial things. As a note to some of my more technically-inclined readers, I do at least understand that Linux Mint [...]

• 12:11

  Quelques nouveautés!

   » ‎ linuxmint-fr.org
  Dans le but de fournir toujours plus de services à nos utilisateurs, nous avons mis en place un certain nombre de nouveautés sur le site. Les services les plus "visibles" sont au nombre de 3:

• 10:13

  Download YouTube Videos the easy and legit way

   » ‎ Handleidingen

  At first, sorry that this took so long before it was on Relst.nl x2.
  I kept forgetting it.
  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  I’ve seen millions of comments around YouTube, people asking to get a video.
  No problem, if you are a Linux User.
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pc2Z1PYeew4

  David B.

  read more

• July 29, 2009
• 16:30

  The Linux Link Tech Show Episode 309

   » ‎ TLLTS (podcast)

  Enclosure: [download]

  Just Us - Midroi, webkit, chrome, firefox 3.5, alpine, task, vim, g1 phone, ham radio

• 2:32

  Rapidshare Downloader - FreeRapid - Linux MInt 7

   » ‎ YouTube

  	Rapidshare Downloader - FreeRapid - Linux MInt 7 wordrider.net FreeRapid is a simple Java downloader that supports downloading from Rapidshare and other file-sharing services. Simply copy and paste your links from a browser to this application. FreeRapid Downloader will handle the rest itself. No more clicking or uncomfortable waiting. Main Features * support for concurrent downloading from multiple services * downloading using proxy list * download history * smart clipboard monitoring * automatic checking for file's existence on server ...	From: gotbletu Views: 4664 14 ratings
  Time: 04:07	More in Science & Technology

• July 28, 2009
• 15:10

  Free like Franks Beer

   » ‎ Linux Geeks United
  Free like Franks Beer
• 3:06

  Mr Windowspants has a bad day

   » ‎ Linux Geeks United
  Mr Windowspants has a bad day

• 2:20

  Merge PDF / Images - Couturier - Linux Mint 7

   » ‎ YouTube

  	Merge PDF / Images - Couturier - Linux Mint 7 sites.google.com Simple, Easy, Delicious. The LINUX way to merge documents. Couturier allows you to merge multiple PDF documents and images into one document.	From: gotbletu Views: 1403 7 ratings
  Time: 02:04	More in Science & Technology

• July 27, 2009
• 18:46

  Dynamic Wallpaper switching in IceWM with feh and my script

   » ‎ Handleidingen

  So you use icewm and you do not want 1 wallpaper, but you want to have more? And you want them to auto switch after like, a hour, 2 hour or even a day?
  Then use feh, and my script. Start with installing feh:

  read more

• 12:35

  Linux Mint Introduction

   » ‎ YouTube

  	Linux Mint Introduction	From: amw3465 Views: 122 2 ratings
  Time: 04:36	More in Education

• 11:41

  6 Things I Miss About Windows Vista in Linux

   » ‎ Open Daily
  As I go through the daily grind on my trusty Thinkpad,  I once in a while notice quirks in Linux Mint / Ubuntu that makes me miss certain small but important conveniences from Windows Vista.  I’ve been taking notes, and here’s my list. update: thanks to some wonderful tips below, my list has quickly gone down [...]

• July 26, 2009
• 20:32

  Linux_Mint: LinuxMint-7-KDE-DEV-064.iso rejected by Clem due to a bug in mintUpdate 3.7.9.

   » ‎ Twitter
  Linux_Mint: LinuxMint-7-KDE-DEV-064.iso rejected by Clem due to a bug in mintUpdate 3.7.9.

• 19:01

  mintCast episode 15: Firefox Add-ons

   » ‎ mintCast

  Enclosure: [download]

  In this episode

  Linux Mint 7

  Amarok 2.1 Beta 2

  Windows 7 Default UAC is insecure

  Intel to pay $1.45 billion in antitrust case

  10 Free Linux Ebooks For Beginners

  Firefox Add-ons

  Adblock Plus

  Zotero

  Delicious Bookmarks
  
  AutoPager

  Cooliris

  Read It Later

  Greasemonkey

  ReminderFox

  Fission

  FoxTab

  Web site of the week

  Twitter

  identi.ca
  Ping.fm

  More info

  Email mintCast: mintcast@gmail.com

  Linux Mint web site: http://www.linuxmint.com

  Linux Mint blog: [www.linuxmint.com]

  Linux Mint forums: [www.linuxmint.com]

  Rothgar’s site: http://1n73r.net/

  Follow mintCast on Twitter: [twitter.com]

  Follow Linux Mint on Twitter: [twitter.com]

• 4:36

  MKV Dual Audio to Single - MKVToolNix - Linux Mint 7

   » ‎ YouTube

  	MKV Dual Audio to Single - MKVToolNix - Linux Mint 7 Matroska is a new multimedia container format, based on EBML (Extensible Binary Meta Language), which is a kind of binary XML. These tools allow to manipulate Matroska files. - mkvmerge is a tool to create Matroska files from other formats - mkvinfo allows to get information about the tracks in a Matroska file - mkvextract can extract tracks from Matroska files to other formats	From: gotbletu Views: 570 17 ratings
  Time: 03:50	More in Science & Technology

• July 25, 2009
• 18:46

  Gweled & Crack Attack - Puzzle Games - Linux Mint 7

   » ‎ YouTube

  	Gweled & Crack Attack - Puzzle Games - Linux Mint 7 Gweled is a GNOME version of a popular PalmOS/Windows/Java game called "Bejeweled" or "Diamond Mine". The aim of the game is to make alignment of 3 or more gems, both vertically or horizontally by swapping adjacent gems. The game ends when there are no possible moves left. Crack Attack is an OpenGL puzzle game similar to the Super Nintendo game "Tetris Attack". Slowly, your stack of colored blocks grows from the bottom, and you've got to make sure it never reaches the top. If it does, you ...	From: gotbletu Views: 303 11 ratings
  Time: 03:06	More in Gaming

• 0:50

  Transcoder for Devices - Arista - Linux Mint 7

   » ‎ YouTube

  	Transcoder for Devices - Arista - Linux Mint 7 launchpad.net www.programmer-art.org An easy to use multimedia transcoder for the GNOME Desktop. Arista focuses on being easy to use by making the complex task of encoding for various devices simple. Pick your input, pick your target device, choose a file to save to and go. Features * Presets for iPod, computer, DVD player, PSP, Playstation 3, and more * Live preview to see encoded quality * Automatically discover available DVD media and Video 4 Linux (v4l) devices * Rip straight from DVD ...	From: gotbletu Views: 818 14 ratings
  Time: 03:16	More in Science & Technology

• July 24, 2009
• 9:51

  Launchpad i GitHub

   » ‎ linuxmint.pl (pl)

  Całkiem niedawno Linux Mint zaczął używać Launchpad do zgłaszania błędów. Teraz została podjęta decyzja o użyciu kolejnych jego funkcji, są to:

  • Blueprints: system śledzenia specyfikacji technicznych i nowych funkcji.
  • Translations: strona wspomagająca tłumaczenie oprogramowania na różne ludzkie języki.

  Launchpad Linux Mint: [https:]

   

  Kolejną nowością jest GitHub, używany do hostingu kodu oraz kontroli wersji.

  Adres GitHub LinuxMint: [github.com]
  
  Dzięki tym aplikacjom sieciowym możemy w łatwy sposób raportować błędy, udzielać pomocy w tłumaczeniu, zobaczyć co jest planowane, co jest zrobione i jak to jest zrobione.

   

• July 23, 2009
• 20:26

  The Mint Newsletter - issue 89

   » ‎ Linux Mint Blog
  * News about Mint Linux Mint 7 “Gloria” XFCE RC1 released!

  Firefox 3.5 available in Gloria and Firefox 3.0.12 also available through mintUpdate (security fixes)

  Command line – improvements

  We are changing our workflow and will use Launchpad and git -

  As Mint grows we need tools to handle the growth (announcement in the blog)

  Bugs on Launchpad

  Blueprints on Launchpad – Blueprints for Helena

  Translations in Launchpad (for Helena)

  Code on github – mintUpload (and later perhaps more) is maintained by “emorrp1″ – his github

  I forgot to mention that we had large scale vandalism in the wiki – we have to lock it down until we can figure out a way to monitor edits

  We also had two massive spam attacks in the forum – registered spam bots laying dormant since early May, late April. Can’t do much about it sadly

  mintCast episode 19

  * News about Linux

  Microsoft contributes to the Linux kernel – possibly because of a violation of the GPL licence

  Zero day attack code for the Linux kernel (No version used by Mint though – Mint is safe from this)

  Gran Canaria Desktop Summit

  Shuttleworth about GNOME 3.0 (and Ubuntu will stay brown)

  The latest news about the kernel is always found here

  * News about Open Source

  Launchpad is now open source

  * News about IT

  Cloning passport card RFIDs in bulk for under $250 (link to Youtube) If you search for Chris Paget and Rfid you’ll fine a bunch of scary examples. And it’s not only passports – you can get a cloning device for less that will clone the rfid used for bus fares

  PCs Used in Korean DDoS Attacks May Self Destruct

  Microsoft admits new ActiveX zero-day bug

  Imageshack Hacked

  * Hardware news

  * Other news

  * Comic of the week

  

  Credit goes to xkcd

  * More about Linux Mint

  How to donate

  Home page

  Blog The planet Wiki Forum Twitter Mintcast

  * Editors comment

  As always – if you find something I’ve missed in the newsletter please tell me – you can post a comment.

  Enjoy life

  Husse

• 17:25

  Alien Frontend GUI - Package Converter - Linux MInt 7

   » ‎ YouTube

  	Alien Frontend GUI - Package Converter - Linux MInt 7 code.google.com Package Converter is an alien frontend . Alien is a program that converts between Red Hat rpm, Debian deb, Stampede slp, Slackware tgz, and Solaris pkg file formats. If you want to use a package from another linux distribution than the one you have installed on your system, you can use alien to convert it to your preferred package format and install it. It also supports LSB packages	From: gotbletu Views: 572 10 ratings
  Time: 02:44	More in Science & Technology

• 13:27

  Welcome to McBuntu's, would you like fries with that?

   » ‎ Linux Geeks United
  Welcome to McBuntu's, would you like fries with that?

• 12:29

  Linux_Mint: Firefox 3.0.12 upgrade available for Linux Mint 5 Elyssa LTS, Linux Mint 6 Felicia and Linux Mint 7 Gloria.

   » ‎ Twitter
  Linux_Mint: Firefox 3.0.12 upgrade available for Linux Mint 5 Elyssa LTS, Linux Mint 6 Felicia and Linux Mint 7 Gloria.

• July 22, 2009
• 20:58

  Mint to use Launchpad for translations, bugs, blueprints and github for code hosting and version control

   » ‎ Linux Mint Blog

  We recently announced that Linux Mint was now using Launchpad for bug tracking. The decision was also taken to use Launchpad for blueprints and for translations.

  We’re also starting to use code hosting and version control. Although Launchpad does that as well the decision here was to use github.

  Development has started for Linux Mint 8 ‘Helena’ and mintUpdate in particular already features many of the planned improvements.

  Thanks to Launchpad and Github it is now possible for me to show you what’s planned, what’s done, how it was done, but also to let you contribute code, bug reports, ideas and translations all throughout the development cycle.

  So let’s have a look…

  Blueprints

  This page shows you what’s currently planned for Linux Mint 8 ‘Helena’:

  [https:]]

  As you can see work has already started for some of the blueprints and some have already been implemented. New blueprints are likely to be added in the coming months and you can follow their status on that page.

  If you have an idea and you’d like us to implement it (or at least consider it), you can submit a blueprint by visiting the link below and clicking on “Register a blueprint”:

  [https:]]

  Translations

  Translations are done in Launchpad. For Linux Mint 8 ‘Helena’, it’s happening right here:

  [https:]]

  So far only mintUpdate is available. Other tools will appear on this page as they are adapted to Launchpad and to the specifications we designed for Linux Mint 8 ‘Helena’.

  Bugs

  You can report bugs and follow their status on this page:

  [https:]]

  Code

  Developers interested in following the evolution of the source code, and in the changes made to it can visit our github page:

  [github.com]

  At the moment only mintUpdate is available over there. Other tools and projects will appear on github as we start working on them for Linux Mint 8 ‘Helena’.

  Note that mintUpload is now being developed by Philip Morrell and that his gitbub page is here:

  [github.com]

  If you know git, python, glade and there are changes you’d like to see in our tools, don’t hesitate to clone them, to hack the code and to point us to your git repository. We’ll be glad to consider them for inclusion and to eventually merge them back on the main branch.

  ——————

  I wanted to talk about mintUpdate and how we’re improving it in Linux Mint 8 ‘Helena’, but you can already see that in the blueprints and even what’s been done so far both in terms of improvements and code changes. I’ll post about this tool in the near future and I’ll illustrate the improvements with screenshots and explanations. In the meantime, please help with translating it and don’t hesitate to get involved.

  If you have git installed (”apt install git git-core”) you can download the latest development snapshot of mintUpdate by typing:

  git clone git://github.com/linuxmint/mintupdate.git

  This will download mintUpdate and place it in a “mintupdate” directory. Enter the directory and type “./test” to overwrite your version of mintUpdate with this one and launch it. Of course if you’re Italian (for instance) you could type “LANGUAGE=it ./test”, that would work as well

• 18:56

  Linux_Mint: LinuxMint-7-KDE-DEV-064.iso approved by Exploder.

   » ‎ Twitter
  Linux_Mint: LinuxMint-7-KDE-DEV-064.iso approved by Exploder.

• 16:30

  The Linux Link Tech Show Episode 308

   » ‎ TLLTS (podcast)

  Enclosure: [download]

  Special Guest J.C. Hutchins: Creative Commons, publishing, paudio books, mono, tomboy, task, pmWiki, g1 goodness, scripting

• July 21, 2009
• 15:20

  Some folks aren't happy unless they're miserable

   » ‎ Linux Geeks United
  Some folks aren't happy unless they're miserable

• July 20, 2009
• 6:52

  mintCast episode 19

   » ‎ mintCast

  Enclosure: [download]

  Episode 19: News & Feedback
  In this episodeGNOME,from Wikipedia
  GNU
  
  No episode August 2 -- mintCast will return with a new episode August16.
  
  Linux Mint 7 Gloria KDE RC1 released
  
  Fat patch could circumvent Microsoft patent
  
  Virtual Box 3.0 released
  
  Firefox 3.5 available in Gloria
  
  Linux Mint bugs now on Launchpad
  
  Command line improvements
  
  Web site of the weekLifehacker.com
  
  FeedbackBashPodder
  
  Xmarks
  
  Codecsand DVD playback on Ubuntu 8.04 for all users
  
  G1 app: Ambient Light Sensor
  
  G1 app: Useful Switchers
  
  G1 app: Toggle Settings
  
  G1 app: DoggCatcher
  
  G1 CyanogenMod
  
  Back In Time - simple backup tool for Linux
  
  Fluendo media codecs
  
  More infoEmail mintCast: mintcast@gmail.com
  
  Linux Mint web site: [www.linuxmint.com]
  
  Linux Mint blog: [www.linuxmint.com]
  
  Linux Mint forums: [www.linuxmint.com]
  
  Rothgar's site: [1n73r.net]
  
  Follow mintCast on Twitter: [twitter.com]
  
  Follow Linux Mint on Twitter: [twitter.com]
  
  
  

• July 19, 2009
• 22:24

  Linux_Mint: Firefox 3.5.1 upgrade available for Linux Mint 7 Gloria.

   » ‎ Twitter
  Linux_Mint: Firefox 3.5.1 upgrade available for Linux Mint 7 Gloria.

• 18:03

  The Linux Action Show! Season 10 Episode 9

   » ‎ LAS (podcast)

  Enclosure: [download]

  This Week on, The Linux Action Show!

  We go over Google’s new Chrome OS, cover why Amazon went all 1984 on 1984, we find out who contributes the most code to the Linux kernel, and WE WILL TELL YOU ALL ABOUT IT!

  Then we break down why sometimes open source projects just never get it right, and it’s not what you think!

  All this week on, The Linux Action Show!

  
  

• 13:45

  Minty, la mascotte de LinuxMint-fr!

   » ‎ linuxmint-fr.org
  Nous sommes très heureux de pouvoir vous présenter Minty, notre mascotte officielle. Mais qui est Minty? C'est un Manchot de Magellan agé de 5 ans.
  

• 12:30

  Linux Mint 7 Gloria XFCE RC1 wydany!

   » ‎ linuxmint.pl (pl)

  Linux Mint 7 “Gloria” XFCE Community Edition RC1 już jest!
  
  Wprowadzenie do systemu Linux Mint 7 XFCE:

  Tworząc XFCE Community Edition mamy na celu dostarczenie Linux Mint użytkownikom korzystającym ze środowiska graficznego XFCE. System bazuje na Xubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope, Linux 2.6.28, XFCE 4.6 i Xorg 7.4.
  
  Wymagania systemowe:

  Minimum 3GB wolnego miejsca na dysku oraz 256MB RAM. Do komfortowej pracy zalecane jest 10GB wolnego miejsca oraz 512MB RAM.

   

  Aby pobrać Linux Mint 7 Gloria XFCE RC1 kliknij tutaj.

   

• July 18, 2009
• 15:16

  Linux_Mint: Linux Mint 7 "Gloria" XFCE RC1 released: http://www.linuxmint.com/blog/?p=962

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  Linux_Mint: Linux Mint 7 "Gloria" XFCE RC1 released: [www.linuxmint.com]

• 15:01

  Linux Mint 7 “Gloria” XFCE RC1 released!

   » ‎ Linux Mint Blog

  The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 7 “Gloria” XFCE Community Edition RC1.

  

  Quick steps:

  • Download the ISO or the torrent.
  • While it’s downloading look at the overview of the new features and make sure to quickly go through the known issues.
  • After the ISO is downloaded verify the MD5.
  • Burn the ISO at low speed and enjoy testing Linux Mint 7 XFCE RC1.
  • Send us your feedback and submit your bug reports in the dedicated bug thread.

  Introduction to Linux Mint 7 XFCE:

  The XFCE Community Edition aims to provide a version of Linux Mint which uses the XFCE desktop.

  For a detailed overview of the new features and improvements included in Linux Mint 7 XFCE, please read “What’s new in Gloria XFCE?“.

  System requirements:

  A minimum of 3GB of free space and 256MB RAM are needed. For a comfortable experience we recommended to have at least 512MB RAM and 10GB of free space.

  Important information and known issues:

  For a complete list of known issues read the Release Notes.

  The root password is now set as the same as the one chosen during the installation.

  If you’re using Mint tools in other distributions, make sure to turn off the adjustment system by editing /etc/linuxmint/mintSystem.conf.

  Download Linux Mint 7 XFCE RC1:

  You can download the XFCE Edition via torrent or via [HTTP:]

  Size: 693MB LiveCD

  MD5Sum: 9a34d2f80337a6bc3a5e92c690d36499

  Torrent download: [www.linuxmint.com]
  HTTP download: [www.linuxmint.com]

  Asia:

  • [ftp.jaist.ac.jp] (Japan)
  • [ftp.riken.jp] (Japan)

  Europe:

  • [mirrors.cytanet.com.cy] (Cyprus)
  • [ftp.klid.dk] (Denmark)
  • [ftp.cc.uoc.gr] (Greece)
  • [ftp.heanet.ie] (Ireland)
  • [cesium.di.uminho.pt] (Portugal)
  • [ftp.df.lth.se] (Sweden)
  • [mirror.sov.uk.goscomb.net] (UK)

  Northern America:

  • [mirror.amarillolinux.com] (USA)
  • [mint.ez.by] (USA)
  • [linuxmint.secsup.org] (USA)
  • [ftp:] (USA)

  Oceania:

  • [ftp:] (Indonesia)

  Upgrade instructions:

  Upgrade instructions will be published with the stable release.

  Feedback and bug reports:

  Please report any bug you may find via the Linux Mint 7 XFCE RC1 Bug Thread and give us your feedback on this release by posting a comment right here on the blog.

  Enjoy!

  Have a lot of fun testing this release candidate and let’s all hope it will help us make a great stable release.

• 3:29

  Linux Mint 7 Compiz

   » ‎ YouTube

  	Linux Mint 7 Compiz Just a tiny demo from gtk-recordmydesktop on linux mint 7 with compiz no sound :( ill have to fix that...	From: Cypher0236 Views: 1245 4 ratings
  Time: 01:02	More in Science & Technology

• July 17, 2009
• 16:26

  Linux Identity Kit HS "Linux Mint 7 Gloria" dans vos kiosques :)

   » ‎ linuxmint-fr.org
  C'est avec une grande joie que je vous annonce la sortie du magazine tant attendue j'ai nommé Linux Identity Kit Hors Série dédié à notre distribution!
  Une partie de vos serviteurs a activement participé à la rédaction de ce magazine.
  
  

  

  
  Citation:Ce magazine n'arrive pas seul : il embarque avec lui deux CD de Linux Mint 7 : Gloria. Il s'agit d'une version 32 bits et d'une version 64 bits. La version 32 bits est compatible avec une multitude d'architectures et fonctionne donc dans la plupart des cas. La version 64 bits est destinée aux architectures processeurs de type 64 bits, tels que les AMD 64 ou les Core 2 Duo.
  
  Avec les versions fournies par le magazine, vous n'aurez pas besoin d'installer des paquets ou librairies supplémentaires pour lire vos fichiers multimédia tels que les fichiers .mp3, puisque tout est installé par défaut pour que le système soit pleinement fonctionnel.
  
  Le projet Linux Mint veut devenir la distribution de migration des utilisateurs du monde Windows en privilégiant la notion de confort à celle du tout libre stricte (c'est pourquoi certains logiciels et pilotes propriétaires sont disponibles dès l'installation de Linux Mint). À l'origine de ce projet, Mint n'était qu'un dérivé d'Ubuntu avec l'intégration de codecs multimédia, elle est devenue au fil des versions une distribution à part entière en étant désormais classé 4ème distribution sur Distrowatch !
• 16:26

  "Linux Mint 7 Gloria" dans vos kiosques :)

   » ‎ linuxmint-fr.org
  C'est avec une grande joie que je vous annonce la sortie du magazine tant attendue j'ai nommé Linux Identity Kit Hors Série dédié à notre distribution!
  

• 13:51

  Be Afraid

   » ‎ mintCast
  Penumbra Trilogy Now Available in Linux
  
  One of the most common complaints I hear about Linux is that you can't play games. There are actually quite a few games that run natively in Linux, and many others that run well in Wine or Cedega. But once the Windows fanboys voice a complaint, I've never known one who would let facts get in the way.
  
  Anyway, there is now another set of games available in Linux. I was reading Blog of Helios this morning (a very good blog, by the way -- and he does some great advocacy work for Linux; check it out) and he wrote that the Penumbra trilogy is now available in Linux.
  
  The Penumbra trilogy are not your typical shoot'em up games, where you carry (sometimes literally) tons of ammunition along with 800 pounds of weaponry and blow apart hundreds of monsters -- and then you go to Level 2. Penumbra has a real-world physics engine that allows you to interact with the environment in a realistic fashion. If you see an object, you can use it. Pick it up, shove it, throw it -- whatever you think will help you at the moment. There's a full review of the games here.
  
  I haven't tried these yet, but I wanted to get the word out today because for this weekend only, you can get the trilogy for $5 USD. Just five dollars -- if you drop $5 on the floor, it's not even worth bending over to pick it up. But that will get you these three games that have just been released in Linux.
  
  The Penumbra people took a leap of faith in porting these games to Linux. They deserve our support. And as software publishers see that Linux users are happy to pay for good, well-designed games -- they'll publish more games for Linux.
  
  Don't wait -- the special $5 offer is for this weekend only. You can purchase the games here.
  
  And while you're at it, check out the Blog of Helios. He works hard to get computers into the hands of disadvantaged children. And of course the only practical way to do that is with Linux -- otherwise you have to spend a lot of money on software licensing.
  
  

• 3:36

  the home desktop, the the work station and the school desktop, oh my!

   » ‎ Linux Geeks United
  the home desktop, the the work station and the school desktop, oh my!