* News about Mint
Preparations for the next version of Mint, Helena, is going on and as our Twitter indicates we are testing the first internal betas of Mint 8 Helena
Mint 8 – Boot sequence will be different
Monthly stats – October 2009
* News about Linux
Ubuntu 9.10, Karmic Koala, was released.
Mandriva Linux 2010 was released
GNOME 3.0 May Not Come Until September 2010
IBM and Ubuntu roll Linux for U.S desktops vs Windows 7
Is Kubuntu Caught in a Downward Spiral?
An open source version of Linux client is being developed for Skype
Security Hole in Kernel Allows Privilege Extensions – if you run ” cat /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr ” and get a vaule higher than zero you are OK. This is an old bug coming to life again
USB stick security flaw puts data at risk – the cracked operating system in this case is Linux kernel 2.6.26
The latest news about the kernel is always found here
* News about Open Source
Drupal Moves Into the White House
ApacheCon US 2009 was sponsored by Microsoft and thawte
Richard Stallman wants the European Commission to block the acquisition of MySQL by Oracle with its proposed acquisition of Sun.
Red Hat invests in the MySQL open source database competitor EnterpriseDB – this could have an impact on the Oracle – MySQL “problem”
* News about IT
A compromise was reached on the EU Telecom package and the amendment suggestion 138.
(Link to a Swedish page, but the compromise text is found in English – I have not been able to find any other good link)
CIA Buys Stake in Firm That Monitors Blogs, Tweets
Mark Shuttleworth praises “excellent” Windows 7
Cnet review of Windows 7
640,000 sites and approximately 5.8 million pages were infected in Q3’09
Facebook Wins $711 Million In Case Against ‘Spam King’
The Windows exploit Gumblar is Reloaded
Internet phone systems become the fraudster’s tool
Facebook users hit by botnet attack (When I googled this I saw that most hits were in Slavic languages)
Tilera To Release 100-Core Processor
* Other news
Nokia “Only” Wants $200 Million From Apple In iPhone Patent Suit
Linus Torvalds gives Windows 7 thumbs up 
* Comic of the week
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Husse