* News about Mint
Linux Mint 5 Elyssa KDE Community Edition is released
If you have RC1 (aka beta045) you don’t need to do anything. The difference between the two is that a bug that duplicated some folders in home is fixed
Linux Mint 5 Elyssa Fluxbox Community Edition RC1 is released
Keep your eyes open – more news soon.
* News about Linux
The next Ubuntu is to be called Jaunty Jackalope (let’s hope it becomes more than a myth…)
The talks at Ubuntu Developer Week are found here
Ubuntu puts all man pages on the internet
Mark Shuttleworth on design, user experience and development
Lenovo denies ditching Linux
The spread of the Linux virus Linux/Rst-B according to Sophos (quite a few root infected boxes out there)
The latest news about the kernel is always found here
* News about IT
The invaluable NoScript for Firefox plug-in just got a tad better.
A new version of VLC
ZoooS takes OpenOffice to web
Google to have data center at sea?
HP is trying to make Windows better
The Association of National Advertisers (US) wants the pact between Google and Yahoo stopped
Google-backed satellite project aims to give 3 billion more people Net access
Google closes hole in Single Sign-On service
Language of text messages can give you away
French oppose sinister government database
The major Internet outages so far in 2008
Phishing Cyber Gang Upgrades to Fast-Flux Botnet
Study: Weak Passwords Still Main Security Defense
San Francisco hunts for mystery device on city network
Threat From DNS Bug Isn’t Over, Experts Say
* Hardware news
Cisco pushes ‘network memory‘ to alleviate high-speed bottlenecks
Intel vPro and the future of tech support
Uasound to give feel to games
Startup introduces ‘unclonable’ chip technology
USB-stick with hardware AES-encryption has been cracked
* Trivia and other links
Scientists get death threats over Large Hadron Collider (because of the risk of creating black holes) and it has already been hacked.
VMware Fusion Helps CERN Physicists Analyze Data From Coolest Place on Earth
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