* News about Mint
Preparations for the next version of Mint, Helena, is going on
A new mintInstall has been presented in the blog – here, here and here
A new Mint KDE logo has been selected
* News about Linux
Good News, id Tech 5 Is Likely Coming To Linux (gaming engine for Rage and Doom)
GNOME 2.28 Released
ARM Joins The Linux Foundation
Virtualization Leader Citrix Joins The Linux Foundation
Ubuntu 10.04 : The Lucid Lynx. Shuttleworth says it won’t stink
Red Hat Reports Strong Second Quarter Results
Stallman says Miguel de Icaza is basically a traitor
The latest news about the kernel is always found here
* News about Open Source
Nokia has packaged KOffice for Maemo 5 environment (cell phones)
Firefox With WebGL Brings Powerful 3-D Graphics to the Web
* News about IT
France Passes Tough Internet Piracy Bill (the toughest?)
Microsoft sues scareware scammers
New FCC “Net Neutrality” Rules
Google Chrome Frame an open source plug-in that brings HTML5 and other open web technologies to Internet Explorer
Dell to pay $4 million in fraud case
Dell to buy Perot Systems for $3.9 billion
Palm Ditches Windows Mobile
Hacker Forum Got Hacked
Earn 43 cents every time you infect a Mac
Cisco addresses 12 individual vulnerabilities
* Hardware news
* Other news
* Comic of the week
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As always – if you find something I’ve missed in the newsletter please tell me – you can post a comment.
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