mintCast 164: Fanboys and Open Source

• Clem confirms Cinnamon 2.0 to break free of Gnome desktop in Mint 16 (blog.linuxmint.com)
• Mint is the best distro for a newbie (fossforce.com)
• Berlin won’t migrate to open source, looks to open standards instead (infoworld.com)
• Peppermint OS 4 is now available for download (linuxuser.co.uk)
• Simon Phipps has written an article detailing how to not get caught up in the Prism net (infoworld.com)
• Google launches Internet-beaming balloons (news.yahoo.com)
• It’s back: District court judge revives SCO v IBM (arstechnica.com)

• Martin’s Blog (blog.martin-graesslin.com)

• An introduction to the Linux kernel from Linux.org (linux.org)

• Ext2Fsd is an ext2 file system driver for Windows  (2k,  XP, Vista and Win7).  It can read and write to ext2/3, but only read ext4.  It also doesn’t support LVM.  It is licensed GPL v2.0. (ext2fsd.com)

• If you don’t care about freedom or your software being open source, there is also a program called DiskInternals that can read Linux (and other) partitions from a windows machine. (diskinternals.com)

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