LinuxPlanet: While Linux Mint is known for its Cinnamon desktop, Peppermint uses something that is significantly more lightweight with a default desktop that is based LXDE.

LinuxJournal: One nice thing about the Raspberry Pi project is the large number of people out there with identical hardware.

OpenSource.com: By now we've heard from many open source thought leaders on why we need diversity in open source

Linux.com: Once upon a time SimplyMEPIS, Mandrake Linux, and Lindows were popular and generated a lot of attention. Where are they now?

Phoronix: The performance improvements with Radeon hardware for Linux 3.16 is mostly focused around GCN hardware (SI/CIK).

 The Linux Rain: There's probably no better time to be a Linux gamer.

 softpedia: The Opera Internet browser has finally received a new Linux version, bringing it almost up to date with the Windows and Mac OS X platforms.

 blackmoreops: You can use your Android phone, remote computer, iPAD or anything to login to a SSH server and execute command as if you're sitting on that workstation.

 ZDnet: Canonical's Ubuntu Linux-powered Orange Box, with its 10 servers in a single container, is the perfect cloud sampler.

ServerWatch: While there are competing vendors, chip architectures, core counts and networking fabrics at play in the list of the worlds top 500 supercomputers, when it comes to the operating system of choice, there is no debate.

 softpedia: The upcoming elementary OS Isis has changed its name to Freya due to an unfortunate coincidence with the terrorist group that is now very active in the Middle East.

LinuxUser: Arguments in favour of the use of non-free plug-ins in GCC have again been raised on GCC mailing-lists, but are trumped by the arguments for GCC as a vehicle for free software development

major.io: After having some interesting discussions last week around KVM and Xen performance improvements over the past years, I decided to do a little research on my own.

eWEEK: The technology that Rackspace is using to deploy OnMetal servers is from an OpenStack project called Ironic.

Linus Torvalds: Anyway, enough excuses. 3.16-rc2 is out, and contains the usual assortment of fixes all over the map.

 The Linux Rain: If there's one thing that's undeniable in the GNU/Linux world at the moment, is that users' tastes can be as diverse as the choices of desktop interfaces we have available and that there is no true one-size-fits-all desktop

 binarytides: The commands would check what partitions there are on each disk and other details like the total size, used up space and file system.

 xmodulo: If you are not a hundred percent sure of the name of the directory you want to go to next, you have to use ls.

 LinuxGizmos: APlus Mobile is seeking Kickstarter funding for a Linux-based "Personal Drone Detection System" that detects nearby drones using mesh grid triangulation.

 GamingOnLinux: Ubisoft may not have a presence on Linux yet, but do we want or even need a company with such unfriendly policies toward gamers?