The Mint Newsletter – issue 94

* 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

Credit goes to xkcd

* More about Linux Mint

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* Editors comment

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