FAQ: What the heck happened to Linux Mint? | Linux Today

FAQ: What the heck happened to Linux Mint?

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Jon Gold
Mar 3, 2016

Mint is one of the most popular desktop distributions of Linux in the world, so when the organization suffered a serious security breach late last month, it made waves in the open-source community.

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Jon Gold

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