The Mint Newsletter – issue 80

* News about Mint

Both Mint 6 Felicia KDE CE and Fluxbox CE have been approved as stable and will soon be released

Both editions promise to be outstanding.

Monthly Stats – March 2009

We hope you enjoyed our April fools prank

Please update to Firefox 3.0.8 to protect from dangerous bug

Twitter for Linux Mint

* News about Linux

Debian adds (officially) a version based on the FreeBSD kernel

Red Hat CEO questions desktop’s relevance in Linux debate – not the first time

Suse Linux Enterprise 11 takes steps to work with Windows also on the desktop – Novell seems to disagree with Red Hat

CentOS 5.3 released

How Fedora got hacked last autumn – someone got hold of a valid key

What Flavor of Linux is Right For You?  Mint we hope 🙂

KDE gets its own Brainstorm

Numerous developers quit PCLinuxOS

This is interesting – a small distribution called Billix allows network installation of Damn Small Linux, Ubuntu Jaunty/Intrepid/Hardy, Fedora 10, Debian, and Centos.

The latest news about the kernel is always found here

* News about Open Source

Mono 2.4 and MonoDevelop 2.0 released

* News about IT

The downadup/Conficker worm should have done something on April 1st – nothing happened as you may have noticed 🙂

Tracking GhostNet: Investigating a Cyber Espionage Network

A new method to monetize scareware – Windows only

‘Cybercrime exceeds drug trade’ myth exploded

Researchers unveil persistent BIOS attack methods (scary – code in BIOS without the use of any vulnerability.)

HP OpenView Buffer Overflows – the potential for damage is large

Expert cites “major problem” with security policy compliance

Microsoft and TomTom Settle Patent Infringement Cases

Sun Intros VDI 3, a Sun-Only Virtual Desktop Set

Silicon Graphics goes bust for second time (Hope this is not an April fools prank – published April 1)

Sources: Google In Talks To Acquire Twitter

I.B.M. Withdraws $7 Billion Offer for Sun

* Hardware news

MIT Graphene Chip Could Reach 1,000 Gigahertz

A Step Toward Superfast Carbon Memory

Sniffing keystrokes via laser and keyboard power

A computer the size of a large matchbox

* Other news

* Comic of the week

Credit goes to Cathbard – http://cathbard.com/cathbards-grove.html

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* Editors comment

This newsletter is much belated – a cold has stopped me from working / Husse

As always – if you find something I’ve missed in the newsletter please tell me – you can post a comment.

Enjoy life

Husse