I got fed up with mint. I found that even though it is based on Ubuntu and comes with Ubuntu repositories enabled, if you try to update things using Ubuntu packages then Mint breaks. Lovely. So I’ve backed up everything and gone back to Ubuntu 8.10. This time I installed from the 8.10 final CD instead of the beta. Everything feels a lot better.

Looking for a Gnome based blog editor at the moment so I’m testing this one out first.

Tencent have released preview 3 of the native QQ client for Linux. No release notes have been found but the new version now has working file transfers.

You can get this from http://im.qq.com/qq/linux/