* News about Mint
Preparations for the next version of Mint, Helena, is going on
Miscellaneous news from Mint
Windows license refund donated to Mint
Linux Mint 7 User Guide updated to version 1.0.7
A new website has been launched for Dutch speaking minters
* News about Linux
Google Summer of Code has again been a huge success for KDE this year.
The cost to develop KDE would be about US $ 175 million
Ubuntu to store copies of all users’ address books
Pulse Audio developer angry with Ubuntu for the way Ubuntu implements Pulse audio
Gentoo celebrates 10 years with a live DVD
Novell creates the openSUSE Boosters team
Stallman and de Icaza quarrel (again….)
Debian pushes development of kFreeBSD port
The latest news about the kernel is always found here
* News about Open Source
* News about IT
EU and Microsoft reach anti-trust agreement
Comedy Is an Uninvited Guest at Microsoft’s ‘House Party’ (for Windows 7)
The “porn industry” behind Google’s temporary removal of Pirate Bay? Seems plausible …..
Informed P2P User Act (in the US) to clamp down on filesharing software
Music piracy costs money; does fighting it cost more?
OPERATION PHISH PHRY Major Cyber Fraud Takedown
Microsoft and Red Hat announce the certification of their operating systems, on each other virtualization platforms
Facebook Now Has 30,000 Servers
* Hardware news
Dell releases world’s first Moblin netbook
DRAM study turns assumptions about errors upside down
World’s Smallest Linux Networking Server
* Other news
EGNOS ‘Open Service’ available – provides better precision in satellite navigation in Europe
The Nobel prize for physics in 2009 was awarded for things now in daily use in IT – fibre optics and CCD – the base for the digital camera
* Comic of the week
Credit goes to xkcd
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It’s been while since that last newsletter but although a lot is happening behind the scenes there has not been much to report
Enjoy life
Husse
