* News about Mint
XFCE CE (stable) has been released
Fluxbox CE (RC) will be released about a week later
KDE CE RC1 was close to being stable. There was a tiny little glitch which now is fixed so hopefully it will be released any time soon. If you have the latest beta (045) you have the final, but with the glitch not fixed – and you will be told how to fix it
Work on the x64 edition is on hold for a few days, so we can release as per above
There won’t be any time dedicated to the Debian and Enterprise Editions until after the release of Mint 6 Felicia
There will be a revision 2 of Elyssa main around the time when Felicia is released
This and more is found in a blog post by Clem
mintInstall 5.1 and 5.2 was released in Romeo (the unstable branch of our repositories)
An interesting interview with Clem
* News about Linux
UbuntuDeveloperWeek first week in September
This is the Year of the Linux Desktop Breakout (heard it before?)
Linux under attack: Compromised SSH keys lead to rootkit
Open source release takes Linux rootkits mainstream – it cloaks itself by burrowing deep inside a server’s processor and availing itself of debugging mechanisms available in Intel’s chip architecture. What about AMD?
In defense of Ubuntu (by Jonathan Corbet)
Use of community Linux distributions like Ubuntu, CentOS and Debian are on the rise in the enterprise, PC world AU claims
Gentoo developer moves away from Gentoo
The latest news about the kernel is always found here
* News about IT
The Internet’s Biggest Security Hole (Not the DNS problem)
Internet Traffic Begins to Bypass the U.S. (This is not the security hole 
U.S. to deploy DNSSEC in two years
The Brittish Home Office is considering to track in real-time every kind of electronic activity undertaken by citizens. They are not alone both Germany and Sweden have similar plans as noted in earlier editions of the newsletter. And the US backed Echelon has been running for a long time
Cisco buys PostPath, targets Microsoft Exchange
Mozilla introduces Ubiquity which is an application that is to connect other applications
Changes in the development of Ecmascript (Ecmascriptis the basis for javascript if not javascript in itself)
Microsoft to Acquire Greenfield Online in a transaction valued at approximately $486 million (US).
This is “fun” – Microsoft patents ‘Page Up’ and ‘Page Down’
Mozilla’s Google deal extended Here’s another article on that
Google to buy GeoEye satellite imagery
Google releases the Chrome browser (so far just for Windows)
A comic strip is used to introduce Chrome
Google Chrome takes more than just inspiration from Mozilla
If Google’s new browser isn’t even available on Linux, why is this great news for Linux?
Comcast sets monthly bandwidth limit for customers
A glitch in a computer, one of just two in the US that play the vital role of distributing flight plans brought air traffic to a standstill in the US
Engineer accidentally deletes cloud computing on FlexiScale
Facebook Application Transforms Social Network Into Botnet
The evil genius of XP Antivirus 2008
Attackers are increasingly using encoding
The Number of Machines Controlled by Botnets Has Jumped 4x in Last 3 Months
TeliaSonera IC launches child porn sites blocking service for free use by any ISP
Neo-Nazi forum hacked
Headcount for Bank of New York Mellon’s lost backup tapes rises from 4.2 million to 12 million personal identities
Skype ignores PayPal siphoning hijack scheme
* Hardware news
ATI to Enable High-Definition Video Playback on Linux-Based Computers.
Bad soldering behind nvidas problems?
Intel acquires Linux distro developer
* Trivia and other links
China counters U.S. invisibility cloak – this is almost scaring
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