* News about Mint
The first RC of Mint 6 Felicia is released
Release notes here
We want the community to test it thoroughly the next two weeks
Much of the new stuff in Felicia will be ported to Mint 5 Elyssa
In fact if you have enabled Romeo (our unstable repository) and installed/updated you will find Felicia familiar.
It took a large effort to create both the main and Community Editions (KDE, XFCE and Fluxbox) of Mint 5 which means that we have not had the time to add new artwork and new Mint tools as much as we wanted
We intend to add Wubi (in Mint WLMI) before the final version is released and also have metapackages with new artwork around the time of release
We have changed the way we work on new editions which will make it easier to create metapackages. We hope to have metapackages for the different Mint desktops in the future
* News about Linux
The GNOME Foundation gets official support of Motorola and Google as sponsors and members of the GNOME Board of Advisors
Creative Gives In, They Open-Source Their X-Fi Driver
Linux boots in 2.97 seconds
The latest news about the kernel is always found here
* News about IT
Security flaw in VLC – patch released. If the Linux versions are effected the one in the Mint repositories is not secure, you need 0.9.6 for that
Microsoft director delivered the keynote at ApacheCon
Hybrid SLI and CrossFire unstable, says Microsoft – bad news for laptops?
Data losses hit 280 million people
Chinese hack into White House network
WPA Wi-Fi encryption (partially) cracked
Fake WordPress site distributing backdoored release
Inmate hacked prison network, broke into employee database
Most users continue to use Internet apps — even after being told they’ve been compromised
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