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As usual and before we get on with the news I’d like to thank all the people who support our project. Many thanks to our sponsors, partners and to many of you for your donations.

Critical regression in Linux Mint 19

We’ll start with the bad news. A critical issue was found in the base-file 19.0.2 update which was sent towards Linux Mint 19 this week. Not only did this update break the boot sequence but Timeshift could also not fix it.

We always learn a lot when we face a critical scenario. This one was really unique. Considering the nature of the change we couldn’t have anticipated its impact but it’s teaching us a lesson when it comes to detecting build failures and it showed us a limitation in Timeshift, which despite being able to fix almost any kind of problems, including non-booting operating systems or even systems where critical files are gone missing, could not detect nor fix the issue in this particular case.

The update was pulled a day after it was sent and a solution was made available on the forums to fix the issue: https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=143&t=331605.

I’d like to apologize to users who were impacted by this and thank people who alarmed us and provided help while we got the solution ready.

Chromium

We’re happy to confirm we will be packaging Chromium going forward and providing updates through the official repositories.

We noticed significant delays between official releases and the versions available in almost all Linux distributions. For this reason we set up our own packaging and we’re building directly from upstream.

Some of the patches from Debian and Ubuntu were also imported. If you want to test our build and provide feedback you can download Chromium from the links below:

Remove any version of Chromium or ungoogled-chromium you might have prior to installing this one.

Sticky Notes

We’re also looking for feedback on “Sticky Notes”, a side-project developed by Stephen Collins.

Sticky Notes lets you create Post-It notes and organize them into groups. The notes are visible on your desktop and can be quickly shown or hidden using the provided tray icon.

This application is still in Alpha stage. Feedback and bug reports are welcome on https://github.com/collinss/sticky.

IPTV

While we’re talking about side-projects, we’d like to get your opinion on IPTV and in M3U in particular. Do you use M3U IPTV on your phone, tablet or smart TV? Would you be interested in watching and possibly recording IPTV in Linux?

We noticed the lack of good IPTV solutions on the Linux desktop but we’re not sure how many people actually do use it. We could develop something very slowly as a side project if the audience is small, or we could make this a Linux Mint project if there’s enough demand for it.

Let us know what you think.

WebApp Manager

Last month we introduced the WebApp Manager. You sent us many bug reports and ideas and you helped us improve this tool significantly.

Here is version 1.0.5 with UI improvements, bug fixes and better translations: webapp-manager_1.0.5_all.deb.

Linux Mint 20.1

The codename for Linux Mint 20.1 will be “Ulyssa”. The release is planned to arrive just before Christmas.

Hardware Video Acceleration

In Linux Mint 20.1, the Celluloid video player will ship with hardware video acceleration enabled by default.

Hardware video acceleration, or hardware acceleration video decoding, consists in using the graphics card to decode the video file. This usually results in smoother playback, better performance and reduced CPU usage.

If you want to test this on your computer you can play a video with Celluloid and press the “I” key to show information about the decoding. Check the first line of the “Video” section which appears on overlay:

In the screenshot above “(hwdec: vaapi)” indicates that hardware video acceleration is enabled and implemented via VAAPI. On NVIDIA hardware NVDEC could be used instead of VAAPI. If hardware video acceleration is not enabled, no information related to “hwdec” will appear.

To enable hardware video acceleration, press the burger menu, go in “Preferences” -> “Miscellaneous”, and add the following line in “Extra MPV Options”:

Let us know how this affects video playback on your computer and don’t forget to mention which GPU and driver you are using.

Driver Manager

Following the release of the NVIDIA 450 drivers we noticed issues in the Driver Manager. The dependencies became more complex and their resolution started to fail on some computers running Linux Mint 19.3.

In Linux Mint 19.3 and earlier releases APT  is configured to only install dependency packages when installing a new package. As they should be, recommended packages are recommended but they are not installed automatically.

In Linux Mint 20 however the APT configuration changed to include recommended packages. Installing a new package both recommends and automatically installs these recommended packages. This change was made to align with Debian and Ubuntu, where APT is configured like this, not because it was better this way (although that’s arguable and there are pros and cons at play), but because it meant incorrect packaging would affect us less than it did before.

There are a growing number of packages which are badly packaged and  which incorrectly list some of the components they strictly require not as a dependency but as recommended packages. In the past we worked around this by patching some of them, or making our tools explicitly install these recommended packages when needed.

The situation in regards to NVIDIA 450 and the Driver Manager got to the point where listing these recommended packages made the APT resolution fail and something had to be done to simplify how this worked.

The solution we opted for was to do the following:

  • We decided to backport the very latest version of mintsystem and mintdrivers to all Linux Mint 19.x releases to have them all work the same way.
  • The APT configuration in 19.x will change to enable APT recommends. This will change once and only once when you receive these updates. You will be able to change it back then after, although this is not recommended (pun intended) and if you so wish.

While implementing this solution we noticed that, unless we specifically ask it to, aptdaemon (which the Driver Manager uses) does not actually install recommended packages, no matter how APT is configured. This had no impact on Linux Mint since the recommended packages were disabled anyway, and the Driver Manager explicitly added them, but it might have had an impact on Ubuntu 18.04 and derivatives.

It’s hard to explain in details because it’s quite technical and I get the feeling I’m already talking about this quite a lot here, but this resulted in the decision to migrate the Driver Manager from aptdaemon to packagekit.

To summarize:

  • We’ll soon backport new versions of mintsystem and mintdrivers to all 19.x releases and to Linux Mint 20.
  • APT recommends will become enabled in Linux Mint 19.x (they already are in Mint 20)
  • The Driver Manager will switch to packagekit.

Beside the bug fixes and functional benefits, this will also bring the following changes:

  • The Driver Manager will run in user mode. You won’t need to enter a password until you actually install or remove a driver.
  • Its user interface will be improved.

USB Printer Support

We noticed a regression in Ubuntu 20.04 and Linux Mint 20. Some of the USB printers and scanners which worked perfectly fine in Linux Mint 19.3 no longer work in Linux Mint 20. They’re also automatically added in the Printer configuration tool and removing them is not possible (they keep coming back).

If you are affected by this issue remove the “ippusbxd” package.

Ippusbxd is an implementation of the IPP-over-USB standard. The idea is to interact with the printer via a common protocol, without drivers, and as if  it was a network printer. This is very promising because it could allow automatic printer discovery, standardized functionality and we wouldn’t have to rely on specific drivers (which some manufacturers aren’t great at providing). The problem with ippusbxd though is that it just doesn’t work well so we’ll very likely have it removed in Linux Mint 20.1.

We’re also looking at ipp-usb. This is a second implementation of IPP-over-USB and this time it might work much better. If you’re interested in this topic, head over to the following links for more information and interesting discussions:

We’re trying to get as much feedback as possible on ipp-usb to decide whether to jump on-board and switch to it in Linux Mint 20.1 or simply switch back to how things worked before (i.e. using drivers and no IPP) for a few releases while IPP gets more and more mature.

If you test ipp-usb do let us know how it works for you. Does it work better? Which drivers were you using before? The more we know the better.

Other News

Bugs related to tray icons in Cinnamon with particular apps (fcitx, KDE connect, Redshift, etc.) were fixed.

A small improvement was made in the Mint-Y theme. The titlebar buttons are still the same size but their clickable region will be enlarged in Linux Mint 20.1.

We had a bit of downtime early in September on the Cinnamon spices website. This website was migrated to a new server and a new framework. Everything is expected to work fine and we hope even better than before. Let us know if you encounter any issues.

Sponsorships:

Linux Mint is proudly sponsored by:

 

Gold Sponsors:
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Uwe Schneider GmbH		 Community Sponsors:

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Before we start with the news, I’d like to thank you for your donations and for your help. Many thanks to everyone involved in supporting us.

Backports and fixes

Many bug fixes were backported to Linux Mint 19.3. Three of them are quite significant:

  • cinnamon-session: Don’t let unresponsive programs delay the shutdown.
  • muffin: Fixed crash with certain Steam games in fullscreen.
  • muffin: Fixed black glitches and random desktop artefacts.

Bug fixes were also applied specifically to Linux Mint 20 and LMDE 4 to address a case which made the desktop crash as well as cosmetic issues, keybinding issues.

Warpinator received updates to improve network connectivity and preservation of file permissions.

Libxapp received updates to make its SNI watcher asynchronous. This fixed missing tray icons with some QT, Electron and Chromium applications and in some cases also login issues.

Warpinator

We’re happy to announce that Warpinator, the network transfer tool which shipped with Linux Mint 20 and was ported to LMDE 4, is now available to all users of Linux as a Flatpak.

If you are using Linux Mint 19.x or Linux Mint 18.x open the Software Manager and search for “Warpinator”.

If you are using a different Linux distribution head over to Flathub at https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.x.Warpinator.

If you want to share files between computers running different releases of Linux Mint or different distributions, note that you can use both Flatpak and non-Flatpak versions of Warpinator on the same network.

WebApp Manager

Are you often struggling to find a particular website among the many browser windows and tabs already opened? Do you wish you could easily just launch your favorite websites and have them run in their own window as if they were desktop applications?

If so, Peppermint has the solution. They have a tool called “ICE” which is dedicated to turning your favorite websites into standalone applications. In fact, they’ve had that solution for a while since ICE was initially developed in 2010!

Fast forward 10 years and we’re planning to solve the same problem. We’re a little bit late to the party but we’re excited to bring our contribution. We started talks with Peppermint and we’re currently trying to figure out the best way to work together.

We started a project called Web App Manager which features:

  • A new icon and generic name
  • A new user interface
  • 100% back and forth compatibility with ICE
  • A split backend to make it easy for ICE and Web App manager to use the same codebase if they both want to retain separate UIs.
  • The ability to edit Web applications
  • Icon theme support with icons automatically guessed for popular websites
  • Improved favicon downloads (including support for favicongrabber.com)
  • The ability to show or hide the Firefox navigation bar
  • Full translation support for all major languages (at the time of release) 

Once you create a “Web Application” you can launch your website directly from the application menu.

It runs in its own window and with its own browser profile.

This makes it easy to switch to it using the panel or the Alt-tab selector:

And you can pin it to your panel to make it even easier to launch or to access.

If you want to try the WebApp Manager, a BETA version is available here.  It’s almost feature-complete but isn’t yet fully translated.

Sponsorships:

Linux Mint is proudly sponsored by:

Gold Sponsors:
Linux VPS Hosting
Silver Sponsors:
Sucuri
ThinkPenguin: For Everything Freedom
Tibor Kaputa
Bronze Sponsors:
Vault Networks *
AYKsolutions Server & Cloud Hosting
hSo
BGASoft Inc
David Salvo

 

Feathercoin
HamoniKR
Look To The Right SEO
Michael Hathaway
Synapse Search
Uwe Schneider GmbH

 Community Sponsors:

Donations in July:

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$216 (5th donation), Philippe L.
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I’d like to thank you all for your support. Donations are usually quite high after a release and Linux Mint 20 is no exception. We received 924 donations in a single month! That’s quite an impressive number and it makes us feel really proud, both as a project and a community.

Linux Mint 20 was well received but it introduced new challenges, both as a release and an upgrade. We’ll be focused on tackling these challenges for the next two years as well as implementing exciting refinements and new features in the upcoming point releases. Some of these are already listed on our Trello boards and roadmaps. I’d rather talk about them once they’re implemented and ready to be shipped though. Hopefully this time next month we’ll be able to give you a preview of some of them.

In last month’s feedback we noted some users would like Linux Mint to package Chromium. We also observed confusion and lack of empowerment when it comes to dealing with foreign packages during the upgrade. These are two areas we’re looking into at the moment.

LMDE 4 received many updates lately, including the new features from Linux Mint 20 and Cinnamon 4.6.

A study on the popularity of Linux Mint releases showed some interested results and comforted some of the perception we had of our user base. 

The newest release attracts many users and grows faster than any other but it does not yet represent the largest percentage. As we can see on the chart, more than half of Linux Mint users use Linux Mint 19.x. The older Mint 18.x and the brand new Mint 20 both represent about 20% of the user base.

Linux Mint 17.x despite reaching EOL still represents 6% and LMDE represents about 1%.

If we look at the top 15 releases we notice that the last point releases (i.e. the “.3” releases, marked with * on the chart) are the most popular in their respective series. This is a great thing because new features aside, the .3 point releases represent the most mature versions of each package base.

Of course, that data has to be taken with a pinch of salt. It is generated from traffic statistics and relies only on the default browser start page (which many users can and do change).

LMDE is small but that’s not particularly relevant. It doesn’t get point-releases, it’s not promoted or given the same exposure, and its purpose isn’t to compete with Linux Mint or to attract new users. It’s developed as a plan B in case we need to switch package base one day. It could be seen as a costly investment but it’s strategically important to our project. It tells us exactly how much we rely on Ubuntu, how well we can do without it, and how much work would be involved if we had to stop using it. It also helps us with our development, when tracking new issues in our tools and projects, even though we do get a lot of feedback downstream from Arch and Fedora, it’s nice to be able to quickly compare between the Ubuntu and Debian package bases and identify what is specific to Linux Mint and what isn’t. The real number of LMDE users is likely higher than 1% (the lack of point-releases, the lack of exposure to temporary users, the upgrade process and the fact that LMDE users are usually more experienced could lead to a higher ratio of users modifying their start page than in Linux Mint), but again that’s not very relevant. As long as LMDE doesn’t cost too much, is of high quality and we learn from it in terms of strategy and development, it is a successful project.

The popularity of older series and .3 point releases indicates a conservative part of the user base which might be more interested in the maturity of the distribution and the lack of bugs than the introduction of new features. That’s a good thing and it reflects the decisions we made in the past to stick to LTS, to develop incrementally and to focus on quality rather than range of products. Of course the audience we have is also the result of the decisions we make, so again we need to learn from this but not be blinded by it.

One thing appears clearly. I think we underestimated how many people used the .3 releases. We can do better and consider this a little bit more when it comes to backporting fixes and solutions as we develop new releases. Focusing on the same package (as opposed to 6 months, prior to Mint 17) for a whole 2 years was a great decision. Keeping an eye on the last one and continuing to improve it as we move forward with the new one might be something we need to do a little more.

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Donations in June:

A total of $20,710 were raised thanks to the generous contributions of 924 donors:

$539 (2nd donation), SunWare Solartechnik Produktions-GmbH & Co KG
$500, David W.
$500, Gwendolyn H.
$323 (2nd donation), Thomas G.
$300, Melanie H.
$250 (24th donation), Ralph Siegler aka “ziggy“
$200, Kathryn H.
$200, Casey G.
$150, Jan S.
$150, Richard W.
$150, William S.
$125 (3rd donation), Jacek O.
$108 (10th donation), able heads
$108 (6th donation), Uwe P.
$108 (4th donation), Plamen Atanasov
$108 (3rd donation), Rhydwen V.
$108 (2nd donation), Maximilian P.
$108 (2nd donation), Johan V. D. K.
$108, Stefanie S.
$108, Bernd B.
$108, Holger K.
$108, Alain-michel G.
$100 (25th donation), Human Inhabitant
$100 (6th donation), Wong Acupuncture Center
$100 (4th donation), Быков А.
$100 (4th donation), Gary K. aka “GsKazarian”
$100 (4th donation), Teknosophy, LLC
$100 (4th donation), B. Kell
$100 (4th donation), John P.
$100 (4th donation), Trevor H.
$100 (4th donation), Jean-Michel R.
$100 (3rd donation), Francois D.
$100 (2nd donation), Lee C.
$100 (2nd donation), Carl M.
$100 (2nd donation), Charles N.
$100 (2nd donation), Mark F.
$100 (2nd donation), Rich. B.
$100 (2nd donation), David H.
$100, Matthew S.
$100, Mike aka “3rdtimer”
$100, Richard P B.
$100, Jerome C.
$100, Isaias O.
$100, Irene S.
$100, Nolberto O.
$100, Kenneth S.
$100, Shay
$80 (3rd donation), William D.
$75 (6th donation), Jacques P.
$75, Natnael Y.
$75, Wilson I.
$75, Steve C.
$70, Richard R.
$70, Martin B.
$65, Kamran A.
$65, Wallace O.
$59, Mark H.
$56, Geoff S.
$55, Thierry V.
$54 (8th donation), Paul S. E. aka “Paul”
$54 (3rd donation), Joseba S. I.
$54 (3rd donation), Ivo K.
$54 (3rd donation), Bernard H.
$54 (2nd donation), Thomas V.
$54 (2nd donation), Uwe B.
$54, Stefan Auberg
$54, G.J. Doornink
$54, Hans L.
$54, Stéphane M.
$54, Regina S.
$54, Pietro C.
$54, Andreas F.
$54, Stefano N.
$54, Edward A Lockhart
$54, Gilles C.
$54, Andrew S.
$54, matiyin aka “Orgone Media“
$54, Boris I.
$54, Siegfried P.
$54, John L.
$50 (21st donation), Thomas T. aka “FullTimer1489”
$50 (14th donation), Hans J.
$50 (11th donation), Peter S. aka “Pierre”
$50 (10th donation), Alfred H. aka “Varmint Al“
$50 (8th donation), James S.
$50 (8th donation), Bill R.
$50 (7th donation), stewy aka “stewy”
$50 (7th donation), An L.
$50 (6th donation), Frank M. aka “Bullet64“
$50 (5th donation), Michael K.
$50 (5th donation), Ranald C.
$50 (4th donation), Meta N.
$50 (4th donation), Jake Phillips
$50 (4th donation), PulpKult
$50 (4th donation), Andrew Brockinton aka “Landrew“
$50 (3rd donation), Alan L.
$50 (3rd donation), John L.
$50 (3rd donation), Prashanth V.
$50 (3rd donation), Vitali V.
$50 (2nd donation), Michal Bořek aka “mibo”
$50 (2nd donation), Mark L.
$50 (2nd donation), Jose D. G.
$50 (2nd donation), Andrew Gouw
$50 (2nd donation), Ralph G.
$50 (2nd donation), John T.
$50 (2nd donation), Theodore M.
$50 (2nd donation), Horacio M.
$50 (2nd donation), David R.
$50, Steven G.
$50, Taylor
$50, Steven G.
$50, Erik K.
$50, Greg C.
$50, Leonard M.
$50, Kevin aka “HamoniKR“
$50, Gerard S.
$50, Glenn W.
$50, John A.
$50, Kurt T.
$50, Deepak K.
$50, Claude-alois R.
$50, Andres H.
$50, Emmanuel B.
$50, Beresford A. D.
$50, Robby L.
$50, Antoine M.
$50, Ardel K.
$50, Jigna R G.
$50, Kiaran S.
$50, Lawrence M.
$50, Jack B.
$50, Richard G.
$45 (2nd donation), Jan B. aka “Keksgesicht”
$45, Dhia M.
$43 (2nd donation), None S. N.
$43, Alejandro M.
$43, Jerome L.
$43, Janne J.
$42 (3rd donation), Felipe Amaral aka “famaral42“
$42, Christian Schweitzer
$40, S C.
$40, Margaret W.
$40, David T R.
$40, Robert N.
$38, Richard C.
$37, Simao C.
$36 (2nd donation), Peter S.
$35 (4th donation), Ted S.
$33, Sean T.
$32 (123th donation), Olli K.
$32 (9th donation), Stephen M.
$32 (4th donation), David M. D.
$32 (2nd donation), Cecilio R. F. .
$32 (2nd donation), John H.
$32, Ivaylo I.
$32, Anthony G M.
$32, Felix A.
$32, Thierry B.
$32, James M.
$32, Pornsak S.
$32, Graham L.
$32, Fabien K.
$32, Edward G.
$30 (16th donation), Kevin S.
$30 (6th donation), S.S. Gold Coast aka “zoom zoom”
$30 (3rd donation), Tim T.
$30 (3rd donation), Noriaki M.
$30 (3rd donation), Andrew C.
$30, Joseph M.
$30, Doval H.
$30, Toivo K.
$30, Michael B.
$30, Millenium Inc.
$29, Holger D.
$28 (43th donation), Johann J.
$27 (11th donation), Christian W.
$27 (10th donation), Michael S.
$27 (5th donation), Mr. Bee
$27 (2nd donation), Silverio M. R. S.
$27 (2nd donation), Vidar Jon B.
$27, John B.
$27, Juliën D.
$27, Matthias J.
$27, Rudolf W.
$27, Olaf Bousche aka “Bushman”
$27, Nelson A.
$27, James M.
$27, Otto G.
$27, Awrjpm V.
$27, Sem Chumbo
$27, Matthijs S.
$27, Adrian B.
$27, Rossen I.
$25 (105th donation), Ronald W.
$25 (53th donation), Curt Vaughan aka “curtvaughan “
$25 (18th donation), Hemant Patel
$25 (11th donation), Hubertus B. aka “hubi“
$25 (11th donation), George H.
$25 (8th donation), Myron J.
$25 (6th donation), Andrew Currie
$25 (6th donation), Ian L.
$25 (4th donation), David C.
$25 (4th donation), Karel D. B.
$25 (4th donation), Fred W.
$25 (4th donation), Roland H. aka “rol4dawgs“
$25 (3rd donation), Brian M.
$25 (3rd donation), Timothy L.
$25 (2nd donation), R B. T.
$25 (2nd donation), Lelend F.
$25 (2nd donation), Владимир Я.
$25 (2nd donation), Andrew Z.
$25 (2nd donation), Gerardus J. W. C.
$25 (2nd donation), Jackie Gunn
$25 (2nd donation), Richard N.
$25 (2nd donation), Greg B.
$25, Wolfgang T.
$25, Bhaskar S
$25, Charles B.
$25, Dylan H.
$25, Martin C.
$25, Patrick M.
$25, Ted A.
$25, Melle S.
$25, James M.
$25, Douglas H.
$25, aka “GM46”
$25, Colin L.
$25, Richard C.
$25, Matthew N.
$25, Richard T.
$25, Michaela B.
$25, Mircea V.
$25, Joshua P.
$25, Jerzy H.
$25, Matt S.
$25, Tobias W.
$25, Kevin J.
$25, Adam Z.
$25, Falcon Computer Solutions
$25, Peter N.
$25, Alexey S.
$25, Vadzim I.
$25, Robert R.
$25, MA Layman
$23, Giancarlo B.
$22 (20th donation), Doriano G. M.
$22 (12th donation), Piotr L aka “xpil“
$22 (6th donation), Gabriele Bandini aka “GiBi Gab“
$22 (6th donation), Erwin v K. aka “Erwin Musicman”
$22 (4th donation), Ulrich H.
$22 (4th donation), Laurent G.
$22 (3rd donation), Robert M.
$22 (3rd donation), Jens B.
$22 (3rd donation), Peter E.
$22 (3rd donation), Pietro S. aka “Spak”
$22 (3rd donation), Filippo F.
$22 (3rd donation), David W.
$22 (2nd donation), Stefan Becker aka “Appeltaler”
$22 (2nd donation), Tom S.
$22 (2nd donation), Guersel Y.
$22 (2nd donation), Daniel Blok
$22 (2nd donation), Marco M. aka “Mastrotux“
$22 (2nd donation), Kevin Watzal
$22 (2nd donation), Laurent D.
$22 (2nd donation), Michael B.
$22 (2nd donation), Robert Kasper
$22 (2nd donation), Krister R.
$22 (2nd donation), Sigurd P.
$22, Herman Franciscus B.
$22, Peter D.
$22, Vidar Jon B.
$22, Christian B.
$22, Andreas G.
$22, Angelo D.
$22, Harvey E.
$22, A R.
$22, Benoit D.
$22, Craig C.
$22, Juha-pekka M.
$22, Jesus Carlos B.
$22, Jean Christophe A.
$22, Robert Z.
$22, Antonio S.
$22, Akbey S.
$22, Henrik E.
$22, Thorsten S.
$22, vieilletempête aka “vieilletempête”
$22, Christoph K.
$22, Wolfgang R.
$22, Eric V.
$22, Jeff
$22, Peter S.
$22, Anastasios K.
$22, Guy S. aka “stegiman”
$22, David T.
$22, Andreas T.
$21 (2nd donation), Robert M.
$20 (37th donation), Jt Spratley
$20 (22nd donation), Bryan F.
$20 (19th donation), Mike W aka “bajan52”
$20 (17th donation), John D.
$20 (13th donation), François P.
$20 (11th donation), Peter J.
$20 (8th donation), Brandon W.
$20 (7th donation), Headphonesrepair.com
$20 (7th donation), Alistair G.
$20 (6th donation), Chester L.
$20 (6th donation), Dana S.
$20 (5th donation), Zbigniew D. aka “Ayel”
$20 (4th donation), Ike
$20 (4th donation), Verzhikovskiy A.
$20 (4th donation), DaveW
$20 (4th donation), William K.
$20 (4th donation), Stephen F.
$20 (4th donation), Brian S. G.
$20 (4th donation), Lance B.
$20 (4th donation), Bogdan M. U.
$20 (4th donation), Jeff B.
$20 (3rd donation), Anon
$20 (3rd donation), Linda P.
$20 (3rd donation), Laura H.
$20 (3rd donation), Mark F.
$20 (3rd donation), John M.
$20 (3rd donation), Matthew W. aka “Wakefield Team – Five Star Real Estate Leaders“
$20 (3rd donation), Louis C.
$20 (3rd donation), James A.
$20 (3rd donation), John N
$20 (2nd donation), Richard F.
$20 (2nd donation), Thomas L.
$20 (2nd donation), E.Flamand
$20 (2nd donation), Gregory M.
$20 (2nd donation), Tomas Ciagadlak
$20 (2nd donation), Christian L.
$20 (2nd donation), Alex S.
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$20 (2nd donation), Neville B.
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$20 (2nd donation), Fabio A.
$20, Johnny Hartsfield – NC
$20, Kevin Mount aka “Big Kev“
$20, Eric W.
$20, Indraj G.
$20, Daniel C. aka “comcroa”
$20, Peter H.
$20, Christian M.
$20, Damon L.
$20, Jonathan P.
$20, Thomas M.
$20, Brown N.
$20, Todd H.
$20, Christopher V.
$20, Mark R.
$20, Gleviston C.
$20, Vincent A.
$20, Timothy H.
$20, Nathan H.
$20, Tejas S.
$20, Simon K.
$20, Yvonne L.
$20, Winfield B.
$20, Paul H.
$20, Gabriel M.
$20, Gonzalo Montes de Oca aka “DarthGNZ“
$20, Trevor A.
$20, Patrick H.
$20, Dominik S.
$20, Peter L.
$20, Rodney S.
$20, Ray A.
$20, Cassie Levett
$20, Christopher R.
$20, Mark L.
$19 (44th donation), Johann J.
$18, Adam S.
$17, Andrew A.
$16 (40th donation), Andreas S.
$16 (6th donation), Bertrand S. J.
$16 (3rd donation), Keith W.
$16 (3rd donation), Frederic W. aka “Mr frederix”
$16 (3rd donation), Alain P.
$16 (3rd donation), Renaud B.
$16 (3rd donation), Alain MAILLARD aka “Arthur MAILLARD”
$16 (2nd donation), Wouter W.
$16, Régis P.
$16, Cyril G.
$16, Tobias H.
$16, Monika N.
$16, Sandor N.
$16, bir
$16, Matalik D.
$16, Sebastian M.
$16, Alan S.
$16, Jan V. aka “little_w”
$16, Olaf W.
$16, Matthias S.
$16, Juergen M B.
$16, Jose.angel G.
$16, Krister R.
$16, Raphael M.
$15 (22nd donation), ajgringo619
$15 (17th donation), Michael R.
$15 (9th donation), Klaus Heckenbach
$15 (7th donation), Edward A.
$15 (6th donation), Mark F.
$15 (4th donation), Rayko S.
$15 (3rd donation), Rayko S.
$15 (3rd donation), Dzmitry K.
$15 (3rd donation), John P.
$15 (2nd donation), Sem Chumbo
$15 (2nd donation), Wayne C.
$15 (2nd donation), Dean W.
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$15, Johannes F S.
$15, Stephen B.
$15, Georges G.
$15, James H.
$13 (7th donation), Jeff aka “Jambalak“
$13 (2nd donation), Paulo Ribeiro
$12 (111th donation), Tony C. aka “S. LaRocca”
$12 (42th donation), Paul O.
$12 (9th donation), Lance A.
$12, Oliver E.
$11 (12th donation), Serhii B. aka “sinpavla“
$11 (11th donation), Annette T.
$11 (10th donation), Christian K.
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$11 (8th donation), Miroslav aka “Xtrodinary“
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$11 (5th donation), Hans-Dieter S. aka “hadisch”
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$11, Mr John G.
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$10 (51th donation), Thomas C.
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