Linux Mint Newsletter Issue 42
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Contents |
Introduction
Welcome to the Linux Mint Newsletter. Here is what happened last week.
News
Linux Mint
- News on the Start Page [1]
- Apologies for the downtime [2]
- Language support - Mint 5 [3]
- Default artwork - Mint 5 [4]
- mintMenu 3.3 - Mint 5 [5]
- Daryna user guide in French [6]
Linux and other Distributions
- Concerns build over Debian delays [7]
- Red Hat talks of desktop systems [8]
- Features of kernel 2.6.25 [9]
- Linux.com article "Shuttleworth starts countdown to Ubuntu 8.04 release" [10]
- The X Developers' Conference for 2008 [11]
- The first beta of Open Suse 11 [12]
IT & Open Source
- Dutch transit card crippled by multihacks, endangering the future of specialized RFID? [13]
- Windows XP servicepack 3 out any day now [14]
- Spam is now 92.3 % of all e-mail according to the security company Sophos [15]
- DNS servers vulnerable [16]
- Apple is considered the worlds most innovative company [17]
- Bruce Schneier about RSA [18]
Hardware
- nvidia chipset can corrupt data [19]
Statistics
Statistics not updated at the time of publishing, Clem is to fill in the figures
Figures
| Category | Item | Last figure | Current figure | Progress or percentage of last figure |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Search Queries Last 7 days | Start Page | 52433 | 52071 | +-0% |
| Firefox Search Plugin | 144487 | 147915 | +2% | |
| Website Search | 1372 | 1305 | -5% | |
| Web Last 7 Days | Website | 338176 | 267297 | -21% |
| Forum | 48333 | 43913 | -9% | |
| Blog | 3577 | 3546 | -1% | |
| Wiki | 5952 | 5012 | -16% | |
| Planet | 1516 | 1541 | +2% | |
| Distrowatch | Awstats | 463813 (2.05%) (5th) (Linux=36.4%) | 2.05% (5th) (Linux=36.2%) | 0% (Linux=-1%) |
| PHR | 1286 (5th) | 1321 (4th) | +3% | |
| PHR 7day-Span | 2079 (2nd) | 1578 (2nd) | -24% | |
| Forum | Posts per day | 119.76 | 120.61 | +1% |
| Topics per day | 19.49 | 19.68 | +1% | |
| Users per day | 12.66 | 12.77 | +1% | |
| Donations | Last month's donations | N/A | 636 | -38% |
| This month's donation so far (percentage of last month's total) | N/A | % | N/A | |
| Sponsors | Last month's sponsoring | N/A | 161 | -7% |
| This month's sponsoring so far (percentage of last month's total) | N/A | % | N/A |
We do not know the total number of downloads.
Analysis
Other info
Editor's comments
It's not easy to keep track of the rapid development in the computer world.
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