* News about Mint
The stable release of Mint 7 Gloria has entered the testing phase – if all goes well we are only a few days from release
Language support in Gloria
The RC1 has been reviewed several times alreday – here are some more reviews – this and this and this one in German
mintCast Episode 13 and 14 There is something strange with the links – both say episode 13
Monthly stats – April 2009 This April was the best month ever for Mint
* News about Linux
AMD Releases R600/700 Programming Guide – will it lead to better open source 3D drivers?
Zenwalk Live 6.0 release
Another critical patch from Adobe – also for *nix
The latest news about the kernel is always found here
* News about Open Source
* News about IT
Greece halts Google Street View
Mozilla Prism introduced An application that lets users run web applications directly on their desktop
French Assembly passes ‘three strikes’ HADOPI law (it has now been passed by the senate as well)
File-Sharing in Sweden Decreasing drastically after the Pirate Bay verdict and start of the IPRED directive
US missile defence details bought on eBay
FAA’s Air-Traffic Networks Breached by Hackers
UC Berkeley computers hacked, 160,000 at risk
Heartland breach costs at $12.6M – and counting
‘Hacker’ threatens to expose health data, demands $10M
ZeusTracker and the Nuclear Option – the demise of a botnet
New Wave of “Gumblar” Hacked Sites Installs Google-targeting Malware – Windows only
The European Commission wants software makers held liable for code
* Hardware news
Intel loses chip share to AMD
Intel Fined By European Commission
Netbook runs on AA batteries
‘Echologic’ Linux netbook for Eur 130 in Spain (link in Spanish)
* Other news
Brain scanning may be used in security checks
* Comic of the week
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