* News about Mint
Mint 7: Flash in full screen with Firefox 3.5.x – a fix
Clem has commented on a review of the Gloria KDE edition
* News about Linux
Security flaw in the kernel discovered, it’s in all kernels for the last 8 years, but it is only local, it cannot be used remotely
This is the second flaw discovered in about a month (previous one here Standard Mint does not have a kernel that is at risk for this one) Patches exist for both
Several vulnerabilities regarding the parsing of XML data have been found – this affects some libraries in Mint, check the link to see which
Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes
Alan Cox Quits As Linux TTY Maintainer — “I’ve Had Enough” – and Linus Torvalds starts programming TTY
Microsoft Acknowledges Competition from Linux
Dell: Linux v Windows netbook returns a ‘non-issue’
Novell – More Support for the openSUSE Project (not so long ago Novell fired developers for openSUSE)
openSUSE Cuts Maintenance Cycle to 18 Months
Moonlight 2.0 goes Beta
A possible change of direction for Foresight Linux
The latest news about the kernel is always found here
* News about Open Source
KDE 4.3.0 released
Khronos Releases OpenGL 3.2 with easier portability of Direct3D applications.
Nokia says Qt is the best framework, and is to drop Symbian and makes Qt a subdomain of Nokia.com (no more Trolltech or qtsoftware) Qt is used by KDE
* News about IT
Twitter DOS attack targeted Georgian blogger
Twitter-based Botnet Command Channel
Zeus botnet’s Real Host cut off from the internet (Zeus is alleged to be the world’s biggest cybercrime botnet)
Three indicted in largest U.S. identity theft scheme, according to some sources it was simple: Theft Of 130 Million Credit Card Numbers Didn’t Take Much
Researchers hijack computer during software update
OpenDNSSEC Launched to Help Drive Adoption of DNSSEC
Researchers find insecure BIOS ‘rootkit’ pre-loaded in laptops
Bootkit bypasses hard disk encryption
Microsoft at a loss in Word patent case?
Microsoft Finally Joins HTML 5 Standard Efforts
Microsoft IE 8 shines in Web browser security test paid for by Microsoft
* Hardware news
eXtreme Power Suppply Calculator Helps Accurately Select a PSU – more important than you may think
* Other news
Microsoft and Nokia announce close cooperation, Office Mobile comes to Nokia smartphones – could this cooperation “kill” Windows Mobile?
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