* News about Mint
Monthly Stats – August 2009
August 2009 was the (6th consecutive) best month ever since the creation of Linux Mint.
Unfortunately Shane informed us that he will not be able to make any more Fluxbox editions, due to personal reasons
Clem may work on it instead
* News about Linux
Simon – speech activated user interface for KDE
openSUSE to default to KDE
Canonical Unveils The Ubuntu Software Store
Tuxera, the company founded by the open source NTFS project NTFS-3G, signs up with Microsoft
Slackware 13.0 released (old but alive )
Another kernel bug, Mint users are likely (but not certain) to be safe, but if you installed Wine or Dosemu you’re at risk
Quake live also for Linux in your browser
Skype 2.1 for Linux Beta – needs Qt so it’s not for Gnome
Foresight Linux to base itself on Fedora
PySide a Nokia project for Qt
OpenShot – a new non linear Video Editor for Linux
The Linux kernel is growing fast – a report
The latest news about the kernel is always found here
* News about Open Source
Pidgin 2.6.1 adds XMPP Voice and Video support (but not on Windows yet)
* News about IT
EBay Sells Skype To Marc Andreessen
The US customs will have the right to seize any laptop, camera, mp3 player and the like “even if there’s zero evidence of illicit activities” as Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano recently announced
Bill would give the US president emergency control of Internet. How this would effect the world outside the US is unclear
Opera 10 released
IBM X-Force(R) Report Reveals Unprecedented State of Web Insecurity
New Attack Cracks Common Wi-Fi Encryption in a Minute
Pirate Bay temporarily disappeared from the internet after a court decision
BitTorrent Site Mininova Loses Copyright Ruling
Microsoft opens up for open source – The PHP Toolkit for ADO.NET Data Services
Australian Federal Police “forgot” to set a password on a computer used to break up an underground hacker forum, and hackers broke into it
* Hardware news
One Billion Wi-Fi Chipsets to Ship in 2011 Alone
* Other news
Single molecule, one million times smaller than a grain of sand, pictured for first time by IBM researchers
* Comic of the week
Credit goes to xkcd
Someone asked me to use this one – I think it’s funny
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I have been working long hours lately and there’s a lot to do in the forum so this edition is much delayed
Enjoy life
Husse
