* News about Mint
Linux Mint 8 Fluxbox released!
Linux Mint 8 KDE64 released!
Linux Mint 8 KDE released!
Kernel vulnerabilities in Mint and Ubuntu – you find them as level 5 updates but as ever a updated kernael could break something
Monthly Stats – December 2009 and January 2010
December 2009 was the (10th consecutive) best month ever since the creation of Linux Mint. However January was not as good as the excellent December
Clem comments on a Mint review in Distrocheck
Linux Mint will have the codename Isadora
The mintCast, the Mint podcast, is found here
* News about Linux
Security update available for Adobe Flash Player, also Linux – you might better install it
Multi-touch support in Linux/Xorg/GTK+KDE SC 4.4.0 Caikaku Release Announcement
Ubuntu will change the default search provider in Firefox to Yahoo! in Lucid (10.04)
Open source industry veteran Matt Asay joins Canonical as chief operating officer
Jono Bacon on developing apps for Ubuntu
Hardware accelerated 3D with DX11 to come for Linux with “Gallium” courtesy of VMware – great news for gamers and Linux as a whole if it succeeds
Fedora wants someone to write PulseAudio bindings for Python. This may be good news for all distros
Fedora 13 will have Zarafa – an Outlook replacement
Pidgin wants help to sort out bugs
Android and the kernel
A new and different Qt Creator new ways to create Qt apps
How To Learn Linux From the Developers of Linux. (For Free.)
Buying a Linux laptop 1 and 2
The latest news about the kernel is always found here
* News about Open Source
The Obama Administration has forced Sourceforge to deny service to its anti-terrorism sanction list. What Sourceforge has to say
Backdoor in e107 CMS version 0.7.17
* News about IT
Gates, Ozzie, and other Microsoft execs patent ‘personal data mining’
Maybe no wonder as the US patent office wont accept upside down faxes 
Warner will not back out of Spotify as earlier reported
Gmail on the fuzz about buzz
Several Sun officials leave Oracle (swedish link lack of time prevents me from getting an English language link)
*Hardware news
IBM demonstrates 100GHz graphene transistor
Apple released Ipad, a kind of tablet PC
* Other news
Large Hadron Collider producing tons of awesome collisions
A new aluminum clock would neither gain nor lose one second in about 3.7 billion years
* Comic of the week
Credit goes to xkcd
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