* News about Mint
Elyssa x64 RC1 released
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* News about Linux
Gnome 2.24 released
Released final versions lately
Pardus Linux 2008.1 ; Vector Linux 5.9.1 ; sidux 2008-3
Gentoo is having problems and cancels the 2008.1 release. They state “we overstretched our human resources during the prolonged 2008.0 release process” To bad…
An alternative to MS Exchange on Linux
The latest news about the kernel is always found here
* News about IT
The Netherlands Patent Office changes to open source software. The entire Netherlands public sector is to change in the long term
The European Parliament adopts a legislative report about telecom. It’s supposed to stop some attempts to block filesharing – however I can’t find that in the report linked to. More about it
Mozilla Releases 9 Updates To Firefox, SeaMonkey, Thunderbird
Zend Teams With Adobe to Marry PHP and Flex
Greenpeace ‘Guide to Greener Electronics’
Users fail to spot fake pop-ups
‘Uncloneable’ biometric passports pass the test
Wikileaks posts a hack of Palin’s e-mail account on Yahoo
Yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail all vulnerable to Palin-style password-reset hack
‘Password Recovery’ Services may be crackers that gets you in deep trouble
Researchers discover PDF exploit packs
In-depth manual and automated assessments found nearly 97 percent of sites carry a severe vulnerability.
The notorious service provider Intercage is (was) a severe vulnerability in itself and got cut off from the internet
* Hardware news
First True 3D Processor Created, Runs at 1.4 GHz
New ‘On/Off Switch’ Protects RFID Cards From Hacks
Asus ships software cracker on recovery DVD
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