Linux Mint Newsletter Issue 28

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Contents

Merry Christmas

More news about Linux Mint

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

Development

Debian Edition to come as an ALPHA [3] This is only a test to see what Debian might offer and will not have an installer
We will keep our Ubuntu base

Community

1st French Blog in the Planet [4]
The forum is growing and is still (mostly) very "well behaved".
We apologize that smilies still don't work, but we are solving the problems with the new forum bit by bit

Linux

Softpedia has published a warning list for newbies with dangerous commands [5]
An interesting article by Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian [6]
Seven Versions Of WINE Benchmarked [7]
A new version of Envy [8]
A bugfix for URandR (a tool to help dual monitors) [9]

The world of computers

Dell to sell through two large swedish retailers, at least partly abandoning the "direct to consumer" policy [10] (Link in Swedish)

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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