* News about Mint
Linux Mint 7 x64 RC1 released!
A call for Promotional materials
* Special news
Unix turns 40
* News about Linux
Fedora 11 released – lots of news
Intel contributes to the new 2.6.30 kernel – and the present problems with Intel graphics seems to be solved
The Linuxfoundation opens up for Individual Membership
Acer Will Use Moblin Linux Across Its Products
Intel to buy Wind River for $884 million
Enabling DRM in the kernel?
More Linux on Dreamhack – probably the largest LAN party in the world (Linux link in Swedish as it takes place in Sweden)
Hymera is high on Distrowatch – at lest for me a new distribution
The latest news about the kernel is always found here
* News about Open Source
Solaris will disappear – long live OpenSolaris (the blog post in the link is written by ian in debian)
OpenSolaris ported to ARM
Dell bundling open source applications for SMBs
StormOS Enters Beta – StormOS is a mix of Solaris and Ubuntu
* News about IT
VAServ Hack Results in Massive Data Loss – as many as 100 000 sites destroyed or badly damaged
Square your search results with Google Squared – a new Google service
Google docs have added .docx and .xlsx to the list of file formats possible to use
Data Breach Exposes RAF Staff to Blackmail
* Hardware news
Linux will be the first operating system with official USB 3.0 support.
Gigabyte presents motherboard with a BIOS that has 16 MB – that’s the size of RAM in the mid nineties
Elitegroup molds porcelain HTPC
* Other news
* Comic of the week
Credit goes to xkcd
I’ll try not to reuse a comic this week 
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