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Donations & Sponsorships:

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

Donors:

  • $200 (2nd donation), Eric H. (USA)
  • $100, Greg H (United Kingdom) – http://www.pokersoft.co.uk
  • $100, Whit N. (USA)
  • $100, Brad C. (USA)
  • $100, John K. (USA)
  • $86 (2nd donation), Jan W. (Netherlands)
  • $72, Andrej C. (Slovenia)
  • $67, Joachim S. (Germany)
  • $62 (2nd donation), Kevin D. (USA)
  • $50 (6th donation), Gordon Hilliard aka “ghilly” (United Kingdom)
  • $50 (2nd donation), James Marsh (Australia) – http://www.engadinecycles.com.au/
  • $35 (7th donation), Jerry Jackson (United Kingdom)
  • $30 (7th donation), Pete Molina aka “pmolina” (USA)
  • $30 (3rd donation), Olli K. (Finland)
  • $30, Isaac Luria (USA)
  • $27 (10th donation), Manuel F. (Portugal)
  • $25 (3rd donation), David Morris aka “DPMorris” (USA)
  • $25, Clive G. (United Kingdom)
  • $25, Kamal G. (United Kingdom)
  • $25, Nathan Iverson (USA)
  • $25, Bob H. (USA)
  • $25, Kenny H. (USA)
  • $25, Guillermo Vives (Chile)
  • $25, Rob C. (Australia)
  • $25, Cody W. H. (USA)
  • $25, Dag S (Sweden)
  • $21 (11th donation), Slavoljub M. (Norway)
  • $21 (3rd donation), Bernard S. (Netherlands)
  • $20 (8th donation), Frank Bechstein (Germany) – http://www.gamer-site.de/
  • $20 (3rd donation), Thomas B. (USA)
  • $20 (3rd donation), Thomas B. (USA)
  • $20 (2nd donation), Jay Butcher (USA)
  • $20, Daniel R-K. (Germany)
  • $20, Daryl L. (World)
  • $20, Baldur M. R. (United Kingdom)
  • $20, Ali Ayoubi (Australia)
  • $20, Adam Hainstock aka “Acid_1” (Canada)
  • $20, Digital Academy (USA)
  • $20, Marcus Taylor (USA)
  • $20, Victor Jose J.J. aka “alanmoore” (Spain)
  • $20, Michael F. (Norway)
  • $20, Matthew M. (USA)
  • $20, Michael A. (USA)
  • $20, Jared S. aka “jspice9000” (Canada)
  • $20, James D. (USA)
  • $20, Simon M. (Australia)
  • $20, Kim Vexborg (Denmark)
  • $20, Steve Schaller (Canada)
  • $15 (8th donation), Marco R. (Italy)
  • $15 (7th donation), Emil Pavlov aka “emil_pavlov” (Bulgaria)
  • $15 (2nd donation), Samuel M. aka “vtired” (Italy) – http://it.ismico.org
  • $15 (2nd donation), John Minear aka “sparky51” (United Kingdom)
  • $15, Massimo M. (Italy)
  • $15, Roland A. (United Kingdom)
  • $15, Ville L. aka “vplampo” (Finland)
  • $15, Martin B. (Germany)
  • $15, Александр С. (Russia)
  • $15, Marko Kovic (Switzerland)
  • $14, Daniel H. (Germany)
  • $14, Lee Sturman aka “Hammerlee” (United Kingdom)
  • $14, Nadia C. (France)
  • $14, Massimo C. (Italy)
  • $13, Mikkel M. aka “msm” (Denmark)
  • $12 (3rd donation), Juergen G. (Canada)
  • $12, Dylan (USA) – http://digitalliberation.com
  • $10, Richard A. (Australia)
  • $10, Jose G. A. (Spain)
  • $10, Ashley Peach (United Kingdom) – http://www.dog-toy.co.uk
  • $10, ashari (USA)
  • $10, Matthew M. (United Kingdom)
  • $10, Marina Moldovan (Romania) – http://despre.md
  • $10, Steven W. (Australia)
  • $10, Anonymous (USA)
  • $10, Erik F. (USA)
  • $10, Michael N. (Australia)
  • $10, Brian Blonski (USA)
  • $10, Ricardo G. R. aka “hackob” (Mexico)
  • $10, Sven Akerlund (Sweden)
  • $10, Eleonor S. (USA)
  • $8, Westly Ward aka “sonicrules1234” (USA) – http://github.com/sonicrules1234
  • $8, Jeff P. (USA)
  • $8, Edward S. (USA)
  • $7 (4th donation), Jennifer McBride (Canada) – http://www.only-green.ca
  • $7 (2nd donation), George238 (Portugal)
  • $7, Steven M. (United Kingdom)
  • $7, Marius D. (USA)
  • $7, Robert Collier (Canada)
  • $7, Giacomo D. (Italy)
  • $7, Tauras G. (Lithuania)
  • $5 (6th donation), Savant B.D. (USA) – http://www.allyourprices.com
  • $5, David Mitchel Stow aka “Optimist” (USA) – http://optimistictraining.blogspot.com
  • $5, Zoltan Siposs (Hungary)
  • $5, Szymon C. (Poland)
  • $5, Amir H. (United Arab Emirates)
  • $5, Jon Valentine aka “xarmyvet” (USA)
  • $5, Project Different Truth aka “nivosh” (Israel) – http://www.emetaheret.org.il
  • $5, Alessio R. (Italy)
  • $4, Dionysis V. (Greece)
  • $3 (4th donation), Inga Muste (Latvia) – http://inga.lv
  • $3, Kevin Kirkpatrick (USA) – http://www.realestatesignsplus.com
  • $2, HostingFest (United Kingdom) – http://www.hostingfest.com
  • $2, Charles Vlk aka “kunk” (Czech Republic)
  • $1 (4th donation), Inga Muste (Latvia) – http://inga.lv
  • $1 (2nd donation), Einar Orn Eidsson (Iceland) – http://www.sveimhugi.com
  • $1, Pavol D. (Slovakia)
  • $1, Arturas N. (Lithuania)
  • $1, Timothy L.M.M. (Indonesia)
  • $1, Dean B. (Australia) – http://australianguy.com/blogs
  • $1, Michael O. (Russia)
  • $1, Sebastiaan J. (Belgium)
  • $1, Norman U. (Germany)
  • $1, Gerd F. (Austria)

Sponsors:

Money raised in April:

* Donations: $2351 (112 donors)
* Sponsors: $915 (76 sponsors)

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

User Stats:

Repartition of Linux Mint users across releases:

  • Linux Mint 8 Helena: 65% (+3%)
  • Linux Mint 7 Gloria: 26% (-2%)
  • Linux Mint 6 Felicia: 5% (-0%)
  • Linux Mint 5 Elyssa LTS: 3% (-0%)
  • Linux Mint 4.0 Daryna: 2% (-0%)

Web Stats:

  • Visits: 2,451,208 (-8%)
  • Unique views: 3,211,078 (-9%)
  • Pageviews: 4,127,728 (-10%)
  • Page impressions: 1,632,652
  • Search queries: 5,713,887
  • Forum users: ?
  • Forum posts: ?

Rankings:

  • Distrowatch (popularity ranking): ? (3rd)
  • Distrowatch (traffic share): ?% (2nd)
  • Alexa (website ranking): ?

Events:

Summary:

  • April was the last month in our release cycle. It was quiet in terms of public events, Ubuntu 10.04 was released and our Adsense publisher contract switched from Google Inc to Google Ireland.
  • These monthly statistics are being published quite late, due to the work involved on the Linux Mint 9 release, and as a result, some figures are missing.
  • Sponsorships continued to increase. We received $915 in April and the project now counts more than 75 sponsors.
  • The Linux Mint user base got 8% smaller. It’s still far behind Ubuntu’s but far ahead of any other Linux distribution.
  • The overall income went down 11%.
  • Donations are traditionally high but they were down 42%. Still, the monthly results would have been far worse if it wasn’t for the 112 people who donated a total of $2351 that month. This is really appreciated and I’d like to say a big thank you to them.
  • May 2010 sees the release of Linux Mint 9 with an expectation for much better results.

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Fedora 13 remix Lucky 13 featuring mintMenu

Fedora 13 remix "Lucky 13" featuring mintMenu

A few months ago, I talked about mintMenu being ported to Fedora. I was excited to see it happen. Using technologies such as Git and GitHub.com we can easily fork projects and keep track of the improvements and bug fixes done on each fork. Commits can be selectively applied and so the more our technologies are forked, the more momentum they get, the more communities provide feedback and ideas for them, and the faster they improve.

Fedora is a quality distribution, with a solid base and a great community and it’s nice to see our desktop innovations being ported to it. It’s something I was personally interested in doing but that doesn’t fit in the scope of our project. I was contacted by Valent Turkovic about a new Fedora 13 remix, “Lucky 13”, featuring mintMenu and I thought that deserved to be mentioned in the blog.

Link: http://fcoremix.wordpress.com/2010/05/25/lucky-13/

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With the assistance of the Svea Court of Appeals, the main Hollywood movie studios have landed a triple blow on OpenBitTorrent, The Pirate Bay and site founders Gottfrid Svartholm and Fredrik Neij. The Court handed out three injunctions yesterday, one of which took the OpenBitTorrent tracker offline.

OpenBitTorrent is the tracker used by Linux Mint to provide the ISOs via torrent. The consequence of the court decision is that our torrents are currently dead. Of course, our server in Miami and many people within the community are actively sharing the torrents via DHT, so you should still be able to download via torrent even with the tracker being down.

I’m a bit worried about this since there aren’t that many reliable open torrent trackers in the World. This is hurting us and many other projects. Hopefully the tracker will be back up in a few days. If the problem persists we’ll be switching our torrents to use a new tracker or we’ll end up maintaining our own.

Source: http://torrentfreak.com/hollywood-lands-triple-strike-on-pirate-bay-openbittorrent-100522/