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

Links

  • The Linux Mint Planet [16]
  • The Linux Mint Blog [17]
  • The Linux Mint Homepage [18]
  • The Linux Mint Forum [19]
  • The Linux Mint Wiki [20]
  • mintArt [21]
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