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Donations & Sponsorships:

Many thanks to the following donors and sponsors for financially supporting Linux Mint:

Donors:

  • $300 (4th donation), Ian M. aka “bcc4foss“
  • $100, Trevor H.
  • $79.2 (5th donation), Orlando M. M.
  • $66, Chris S.
  • $66, Gerhard W.
  • $66, Joan E. M.
  • $66, Joerg H.
  • $66, Ilkka M.
  • $52.8 (2nd donation), Rafael G. V.
  • $50 (15th donation), Pete Molina aka “pmolina”
  • $50 (2nd donation), Carl G.
  • $50 (2nd donation), Sigbjorn S.
  • $50, William S.
  • $50, Charles H. aka “Thanks Chattr and Gingerbread-Man “
  • $50, Russell R.
  • $50, Timothy R.
  • $50, George C.
  • $45, William D.
  • $39.6 (4th donation), Laurent P.
  • $39.6, Pavol Duris aka “pavuk”
  • $39.6, Rufus
  • $33, Sander T.
  • $33, J F. C.
  • $33, Markus G.
  • $33, Kai P.
  • $30 (8th donation), Antonio M. aka “Rob Brill’s book-keeper”
  • $30 (3rd donation), Avery W. aka “willie42”
  • $30, Stephen L.
  • $26.4 (17th donation), Manuel F.
  • $26.4 (12th donation), Olli K.
  • $26.4 (2nd donation), Joe U. aka “Leit“
  • $26.4, Michiel M.
  • $26.4, Robert N.
  • $26.4, Fabio C.
  • $26.4, Gareth C.
  • $25 (7th donation), Jay Stewart aka “jag1182”
  • $25 (5th donation), Kenny Hendrick aka “NprComputers“
  • $25 (4th donation), tommy_b
  • $25 (4th donation), Kamal aka “anim8”
  • $25 (3rd donation), Anthony F H.
  • $25 (2nd donation), scott_n aka “3dBeef”
  • $25 (2nd donation), Anders K.
  • $25 (2nd donation), Isaac Luria
  • $25, Michael R.
  • $25, John H.
  • $25, Brian Wisti
  • $25, Gerry L.
  • $25, Matthew C.
  • $24, Thomas S.
  • $20 (11th donation), Matthew M.
  • $20 (6th donation), Ludovic G. aka “Lewdsquirrel”
  • $20 (2nd donation), Doug Berch
  • $20 (2nd donation), Ian M.
  • $20, WakeHost
  • $20, Denis L.
  • $20, Špiro T.
  • $20, James C.
  • $20, Juergen G.
  • $20, Bruce N.
  • $20, Wayne C.
  • $20, Darin B.
  • $19.8 (5th donation), Michael Krusch aka “MAD”
  • $19.8, Johannes H.
  • $19.8, Hendrik G.
  • $19.8, Jean-noël T.
  • $19.8, Pierre M. (2nd contribution)
  • $19, Janos M.
  • $15 (8th donation), Antonio M. aka “Rob Brill’s book-keeper”
  • $15 (4th donation), Jun Q.
  • $15 (2nd donation), Anthony L.
  • $15 (2nd donation), Adriano R. aka “drr00t”
  • $15, Armando C.
  • $14.66, Thomas W.
  • $13.2, Patrick D.
  • $13.2, Bo J.
  • $13.2, Ekhi Z.
  • $13.2, Henric N.
  • $13.2, Frank R.
  • $12.46 (3rd donation), Crefelean Nicolae aka “kneekoo“
  • $10 (7th donation), William S. aka “Supergoo”
  • $10 (5th donation), Nobutoshi K. aka “founcid”
  • $10 (4th donation), Craig Stock aka “craig10x”
  • $10 (2nd donation), Ralf H.
  • $10 (2nd donation), Matthew C.
  • $10 (2nd donation), Anonymous
  • $10 (2nd donation), Kiril Sotirov
  • $10 (2nd donation), Ian W. aka “Wiggy25”
  • $10, Manuel W.
  • $10, David G.
  • $10, Adauto G. D. C.
  • $10, Stephen N.
  • $10, Curtis M.
  • $10, WebpageFX
  • $10, Mitch W.
  • $10, Itoi H. aka “kibidango“
  • $10, Cosmin M. Stroe
  • $10, Cristiano S.
  • $10, Vicente B. M.
  • $10, Gabriele C.
  • $10, Frants C.
  • $10, Anthony G.
  • $10, Adam K.
  • $10, Sticker Mule
  • $10, Kenneth N.
  • $10, Goran A.
  • $10, Neal Technical Services
  • $7.92 (3rd donation), Kevin D.
  • $6.6 (2nd donation), Stoyan
  • $6.6 (2nd donation), Siniša M.
  • $6.6 (2nd donation), Sven B.
  • $6.6 (2nd donation), Maurice P.
  • $6.6 (2nd donation), Marcin Skiba aka “marcinski”
  • $6.6 (2nd donation), Michael Klitschka
  • $6.6, Manolis aka “P.“
  • $6.6, Carlos A. H.
  • $6.6, Krzysztof S.
  • $6.6, Mark Boadey aka “Drizz“
  • $6.6, Lorenzo B.
  • $6.6, MF
  • $5.12, Marcus W.
  • $5 (7th donation), Inga Muste aka “TokRa“
  • $5 (5th donation), Michael Gstettenbauer
  • $5 (4th donation), Justin Peterson
  • $5 (4th donation), Miljenko D.
  • $5 (2nd donation), Kelley J.
  • $5 (2nd donation), Mark F.
  • $5, Performance by Design aka “Autocrosser @ Mint Debian Forums”
  • $5, Richard D. E.
  • $5, Michael C.
  • $5, Cyprus Property aka “Paphos Properties“
  • $5, Gregory A. aka “Change Family Provision ACT“
  • $5, Matthew E.
  • $5, Adauto G. D. C.
  • $5, Luís M. B. L.
  • $5, Alan T.
  • $5, Emil S.
  • $5, Алексей Засорин aka “Axel”
  • $5, Juan M. O.
  • $4 (6th donation), Paul B. aka “Dude”
  • $4, John D.
  • $3.96 (5th donation), Ulf S. aka “MonteDrago”
  • $3.92, Bojan Kopanja
  • $3 (12th donation), Savant B.D.
  • $3, Gerrit Pannek aka “Nold“
  • $3, Anh Nguyen Tuan aka “tradaonline”
  • $3, Bhupendra Kumar Singh aka “B K Singh”
  • $2 (5th donation), Web softwares
  • $2, StuzzHosting.com
  • $2, Andrius M.
  • $2, Cristian G.
  • $1 (10th donation), Kay Pee Jewelers
  • $1, Felipe F. D. L.
  • $1, Manoj Devdas Prabhu
  • $1, Bård A. G. aka “Bagge”
  • $1, Stuart M.

Sponsors:

Money raised in February:

* Donations: $3200.84 (155 donors)
* Sponsors: $943.5 (102 sponsors)

http://www.linuxmint.com/donors.php
http://www.linuxmint.com/sponsors.php

User Stats:

Repartition of Linux Mint users across releases:

  • Linux Mint 10 Julia: 48.77%
  • Linux Mint 9 Isadora LTS: 26.43%
  • Linux Mint 7 Gloria: 8.15%
  • Linux Mint 8 Helena: 6.35%
  • LMDE: 6.11%
  • Linux Mint 4.0 Daryna: 2.02%
  • Linux Mint 6 Felicia: 1.38%
  • Linux Mint 5 Elyssa LTS: 0.85%

Web Stats:

  • Visits: 2,589,386
  • Unique views: 3,297,535
  • Pageviews: 4,222,245
  • Page impressions: 2,310,828
  • Search queries: 7,422,610
  • Forum users: 44,216
  • Forum posts: 373,257

Rankings:

  • Distrowatch (popularity ranking): 1671 (2nd)
  • Distrowatch (traffic share): 4.4% (2nd)
  • Alexa (website ranking): 15,400th

Events:

Summary:

  • We had three releases in February, but it’s within the team and the project that things changed a lot. We now have Ikey Doherty working full time for us, and we signed a very important partnership with eUKhost.
  • The partnership allowed us to migrate our forums and community website to a 16GB RAM server. We’re planning to migrate the main website this week. These migrations make our websites more responsive and more reliable, and they also free other servers for development and testing.
  • Ikey focused on triaging the bugs on Launchpad and reduced the number of “new” bugs from 450 to 0. Bugs will be processed on a daily basis to keep this number as low as possible and behind the triaging, we’ll implement and release fixes often as well to reduce the number of overall “open” bugs.
  • Development is ongoing on Linux Mint 11, and an upcoming switch to LMDE for the Fluxbox edition.
  • Our monthly stats (donations, sponsorships, traffic, advertising) seem low when compared to other months. Considering February comes with only 28 days and looking at our average daily income, we’re actually up 2.2% and doing better than ever before. Once more we’re happy to report that last month was our best month since the foundation of the project.

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The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 10 KDE.


Linux Mint 10 KDE

New features at a glance:

For a complete overview and to see screenshots of the new features, visit: “What’s new in Linux Mint 10 KDE“.

Known problems:

  • VLC slow to open files
  • Ctrl_Alt_Backspace
  • Splash screen resolution
  • Moonlight
  • Upstream issues

To get more information about these problems and their solution, read the “Known problems” section of the release notes.

System requirements:

  • x86 processor (Linux Mint 64-bit requires a 64-bit processor. Linux Mint 32-bit works on both 32-bit and 64-bit processors).
  • 512 MB RAM (1GB recommended for a comfortable usage).
  • 5 GB of disk space
  • Graphics card capable of 800×600 resolution
  • DVD-ROM drive or USB port

Upgrade instructions:

  • To upgrade from a previous version of Linux Mint follow these instructions.
  • To upgrade from Linux Mint 10 KDE RC, simply apply any level 1 and 2 updates (if any) available in the Update Manager.

Download:

Md5 sum:

  • 32-bit:  06b3e25acc2f2601113719a4cc45f2c5
  • 64-bit:  28d5eebc3646416e666dca77659e517c

    Torrents:

    HTTP Mirrors for the 32-bit ISO:

    HTTP Mirrors for the 64-bit ISO:

    Enjoy!

    We look forward to receiving your feedback. Thank you for using Linux Mint and have a lot of fun with this new release!

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    Linux Mint signed a new partnership with eUKhost. The UK hosting company is now the number #1 Linux Mint sponsor and provides our project with a powerful dedicated server for a value of $894/month.

    eUKhost becomes the number #1 Linux Mint sponsor

    The server is located in Milton Keynes, UK. It runs Debian Lenny in 64-bit with 2 Quad-Core Intel Xeon E5620 processors (8 CPU cores), 16GB RAM, RAID 10 with 4x300GB 15K SAS hard drives and a bandwidth of 10TB/month.

    We moved the forums over the week-end, which were previously hosted in the USA on a costly 4GB RAM Rackspace cloud server. They’re faster than before and the migration is saving money for the distribution. We’re planning to migrate the Community Website next, which is currently hosted in Canada, and possibly the main Website, hosted in Germany. These migrations should improve the response time and performance of our websites while freeing servers for development and testing. The availability of a 64-bit server with as much as 16GB RAM is also a great asset for our project, as it allows us to remotely test or even respin 64-bit ISOs when needed. During the testing process, we’re often faced with ISO files featuring minor faults. The ability to test and re-spin them remotely allows us to quickly fix small issues and submit new ISO images to testing without requiring the intervention of the maintainer himself and the delays associated with uploading these images. Having both the main website and the community website on the same powerful server also allows us to implement closer interactions between profiles, community users and donors. We’ll perform tests and monitoring to ensure that all three websites are faster and more responsive on this new server and if things go according to plan, we’ll end up with a better online experience for users, closer interactions between websites, the possibility of remotely test and re-spin in 64-bit and freed resources for the development team (testing, private repositories and cloud solutions).