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Legendary FSF founder Richard Stallman is being honoured as one of this years additions to the Internet Hall of Fame.

The latest update to the open source Firefox browser also now supports in-browser video calls without installing extra plugins

The alternate Linux Mint spins are now available as release candidates, with the official XFCE and KDE editions of Linux Mint 15 available for those that prefer them.

Jon Masters summarises the goings-on in the Linux kernel community as the 3.9 kernel was being prepared for release. Ongoing development brings with it security headaches, and kernel testing is improved by the Trinity ‘Fuzzer’

Bypass overly restrictive firewalls and run safely over insecure networks in easy steps

A Raspberry Pi-powered robot from the Tokyo Raspberry Jam is now seeking funding on Kickstarter, from the maker of the mechanical Necomimi cat ears

Avoid Prism and the NSA with the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s guide to maintaining your privacy – comprised of free and open source software

The latest in the Webconverger line of internet kiosk distros is out now, with all important upgrades to its Linux core and web software

Newly stable Debian 7 “wheezy” is receiving its first update, 7.1, which mainly includes bug fixes and corrections to security issues

OpenVZ implements containers rather than the true virtual machines of solutions such as Xen. This makes it an extremely efficient platform for hosting multiple servers

Google Reader is on its way out, so what’s the best way to keep your feeds organised client side?

The lightweight, cloud connected distro gets its first update in a year, and ditches Openbox in favour of Xfwm4

New features in Red Hat Virtualization include Storage Live Migration, new third-party plug-in framework and support for new AMD and Intel chips

Canonical are discussing the possibility of replacing Firefox with Chromium in the next version of Ubuntu

Linux Mint 17 will be in a position to get a lot of innovation and new features, however Linux Mint 16 will suffer in this area to accommodate it

The £25 computer is celebratred its first anniversary a few months ago – here’s to a year’s worth of magnificent, unique and exciting achievements

Bugs in the original Mageia 3 ISO have been found, causing the development team to release new images that fix the issue

Toshiba has yet another crack at the Android tablet market. Does it finally have a hit on its hands?

The most ambitious Linux Mint yet is one of the best desktop distros ever made. Linux Mint is at a tipping point. Our interview with Clem and his team revealed their plan to move away from the GNOME back-end. They feel it’s been holding them back somewhat, and now that Cinnamon and MDM are feature complete in their eyes, now is the time for the next step in the distro. Linux Mint 15 then is a preview of a mature, more independent Mint that will allow for great innovation over the coming year.

Cinnamon 2.0 will be a completely independent desktop environment, Clement Lefebvre reveals to Linux User & Developer in an exclusive interview. He went on to indicate that most importantly, recent developments have caused the team to finally move to making the code base independent of GNOME, so basically, in [Cinnamon] 2.0 you won’t be running GNOME at all.