* News about Mint

Mint 7: Flash in full screen with Firefox 3.5.x – a fix

Clem has commented on a review of the Gloria KDE edition

* News about Linux

Security flaw in the kernel discovered, it’s in all kernels for the last 8 years, but it is only local, it cannot be used remotely

This is the second flaw discovered in about a month (previous one here Standard Mint does not have a kernel that is at risk for this one) Patches exist for both

Several vulnerabilities regarding the parsing of XML data have been found – this affects some libraries in Mint, check the link to see which

Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

Alan Cox Quits As Linux TTY Maintainer — “I’ve Had Enough” – and Linus Torvalds starts programming TTY

Microsoft Acknowledges Competition from Linux

Dell: Linux v Windows netbook returns a ‘non-issue’

Novell – More Support for the openSUSE Project (not so long ago Novell fired developers for openSUSE)

openSUSE Cuts Maintenance Cycle to 18 Months

Moonlight 2.0 goes Beta

A possible change of direction for Foresight Linux

The latest news about the kernel is always found here

Read more at Linux Mint Blog