Donations & Sponsorships:

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

Donors:

• $600 (3rd donation), Philippe Lotz aka “alsaphil” (France)
• $150 (2nd donation), Alan D S. (USA)
• $100, Carl – Y. B. (Sweden)
• $100, Phillip N. (USA)
• $100, Marcos Scriven (United Kingdom) – http://www.aboxo.com
• $75, John Di Stefano (Canada)
• $50 (3rd donation), Gordon Hilliard aka “ghilly” (United Kingdom)
• $50, Serge-Etienne Parent (Canada)
• $50, Rev. Bernard Quinn aka “Chiff” (Australia)
• $50, Tim L. (USA)
• $50, Hawkeye_52 (USA)
• $50, Peter S. (Australia)
• $50, Wayne W. (Canada)
• $45, Jason A. (United Kingdom)
• $45, Pau Carre Cardona (Spain)
• $44, Oerpen T. (Germany)
• $41, Ronnie Rosenqvist aka “DrRP” (Sweden)
• $40, Mary M. (USA)
• $39, Jean-Paul Genette (Belgium)
• $37, Manuel F. (Portugal)
• $30, Marvin W. (USA)
• $30, Daniel W. (World) – http://www.downloadstube.net
• $28, Dewi P. (World)
• $28, Soulakellis K. (Greece)
• $28, Frantisek Sofka aka “peso00 ” (Czech Republic)
• $28, Francisco C. C. (Spain)
• $28, Christoph H. (Germany)
• $28, Joakim R. (Finland)
• $26, Haynes J. aka “Wi11i@m” (USA)
• $25, Norman Skiba aka “GrayWizardLinux” (USA) – http://www.k-9training.us
• $25, Douglas A. (USA)
• $25, Jan Z. (Sweden)
• $25, Mark B. (Australia)
• $25, Rich Hladky (USA)
• $25, M H R. (Australia)
• $25, Jay Stewart aka “jag1182” (USA)
• $25, Denys F. (Canada)
• $25, Ronald T. (USA)
• $22, Steven Rattray (United Kingdom)
• $20, Ricardo Calimanis aka “linux.nyx” (Brazil) – http://goetti.blogspot.com
• $20, Mark C. aka “geekman” (USA)
• $20, Jay Butcher (USA)
• $20, Chris Kemp-Jackson (Canada)
• $20, Andrew A. (USA)
• $20, William R. (USA)
• $20, Dalibor Saula (Australia)
• $20, Jens B. (USA)
• $20, Finn-Erik H. (Norway)
• $20, Tim C. (United Kingdom)
• $15, Nigel Dyer aka “NigelDyer56” (United Kingdom)
• $15, Jim H. (United Kingdom)
• $15, Russ W. (World)
• $14, Stephen M. (Ireland)
• $14, Lasse H. (Finland)
• $14, Marek Polasek (Czech Republic)
• $14, Mikkel M. (Denmark)
• $14, Lee Sturman aka “Hammerlee” (United Kingdom)
• $14, Holger F. (Germany)
• $14, Enrique O. (Spain)
• $14, MJH van der W. (Netherlands)
• $11, Nick Koumaris (Greece) – http://www.lightrap.net
• $10 (2nd donation), Douglas S. (USA)
• $10, Scott M. (USA)
• $10, 室津 恵三 (Japan)
• $10, William S. (World)
• $10, John C. (USA)
• $10, Troy C. (USA)
• $10, Michael N. (Sweden)
• $10, Zoran (USA)
• $10, Serguei S. (Russia)
• $10, Adnan C. (Germany)
• $10, James G. (USA)
• $10, Kevin C. (USA)
• $10, Grzegorz G. (Poland)
• $10, Leonardo S. (USA)
• $10, Garrett H. (USA)
• $10, Christopher B. (United Kingdom)
• $10, Ryan J. (USA)
• $10, Raphael C. (USA)
• $10, Matt E. (USA)
• $10, Karthikanand K. (United Kingdom)
• $7, Florian G. (Germany)
• $7, Evzen H. (United Kingdom)
• $7, Isabel F. (Portugal)
• $7, Motta L. (Italy)
• $7, Ralf S. (Germany)
• $6, Loonie Bazaar (Canada) – http://www.looniebazaar.com
• $5, Havary Camara aka “justflea” (Brazil)
• $5, Kris Occhipinti (USA) – http://www.bashscripts.info
• $5, Stephen B. (USA)
• $5, Daifallah A. (Saudi Arabia)
• $5, Khuong D. N. (United Kingdom)
• $5, Tobias H. aka “bisato” (Germany)
• $5, Mateus H. (Brazil)
• $5, Eaves L. (USA)
• $5, Enrico Galli (Italy) – http://www.egw.it
• $5, Lubos Rendek (World) – http://www.linuxconfig.org
• $5, Marcus H. (USA)
• $5, Michael K. (USA)
• $5, Slavoljub M. (Norway)
• $3, Nils K. (Germany)
• $3, Mohd Z. (Malaysia)
• $2, Lubomir J. (Czech Republic)
• $1, Jaime M. (World)
• $1, B F (Suriname)

Sponsors:

• $105, R1Soft – http://www.r1soft.com/tools/linux-hot-copy/?ls=linuxmint
• $75, John Ritchie (Aging Technogeek – USA)
• $45, Linux Compatible Poker (USA) – http://www.linuxcompatiblepoker.com
• $40, Az Van (newW2 – USA)
• $25, American Broadband Family of Companies (USA) – http://www.americanbroadbandservice.com
• $20, TOPIMMOBILIEN (Tim – Germany) – http://www.immobilien-es.com
• $20, Scott P. (USA)
• $15, Russ W.
• $11, cheap vps hosting – http://www.neosurge.com
• $10, Stitz Computers, LLC (USA) – http://stitzcomputers.com
• $10, Rechtsberatung, Steuerberatung, Internetrecht (Tim) – http://www.rechtsundsteuerberatung.de
• $10 Gustav Holm (Sweden) – http://gustavholm.com
• $10, Brandon P.
• $7, Unixmen – http://www.unixmen.com/
• $7, Panagiotis Papasaikas (Greece) – http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/ppapasai/
• $7, Jesse Burroughs (JpBя – USA)
• $5, linuxmint-fr.org (ludal – France) – http://www.linuxmint-fr.org
• $5, linuxmint-italia.org (Pietro Martino / prior123 – Italy) – http://www.linuxmint-italia.org
• $5, Sohier C.
  
• $5, Christopher D.
• $5, DLX Company (USA) – http://www.dlxcompany.com/
• $5, Stuart C.
• $5, Paul S.
• $3.5, Ian Egland (Echolynx – USA)
• $2, Joerg Dreckmann (Germany)
• $2, Funkelectric (Spain) – http://www.funkelectric.com/
• $2, NVISN TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS AND CONSULTING (USA) – http://www.nvisn.com/
• $2, Ryan Lewon (vt102) – http://vt102.com/
• $2, Scott M.
• $1.5, Farbyte (UK) – http://farbyte.com
• $1, very-clever.com – http://www.very-clever.com
• $1, Busybits – http://www.busybits.com
• $1, linboo.com – http://www.linboo.com
• $1, Expert Bookings – http://www.expert-bookings.com
• $1, Cyprus Property (Cyprus) – http://www.leptosestates.com/
• $1, Недвижимость на Кипре (Cyprus) – http://www.leptos-estates.ru/
• $1, Cyprus Resale (Cyprus) – http://www.cyprusresaleproperties.com/
• $1, Prasad S.R. (India) – http://saysprasad.wordpress.com/
• $1, Surf in Peace (UK) – http://www.surfinpeace.co.uk/
• $1 Jakub Jasiulewicz (Poland) – http://jasiulewicz.pl
• $1, Erin G.
• $1, Greg Flynn (South Africa)
• $1, Liquidvps.net – http://www.liquidvps.net
• $0.9, Michael K.
  
• $0.5, Martijn van Loon (aapiethaaap – Netherlands)
• $0.5, Nottingham web design (UK) – http://www.drawmyattention.co.uk/

Money raised in August:

* Donations: $2951 (105 donors)
* Sponsors: $481.9 (46 sponsors)

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

User Stats:

Repartition of Linux Mint users across releases:

• Linux Mint 7 Gloria: 78% (+3%)
  
• Linux Mint 6 Felicia: 14% (-1%)
  
• Linux Mint 5 Elyssa LTS: 6% (-1%)
  
• Linux Mint 4.0 Daryna: 3% (-0%)
  

Web Stats:

• Visits: 1,981,352 (+6%)
  
• Pageviews: 3,409,953 (+2%)
• Page impressions: 1,363,287
• Search queries: 4,423,092
• Forum users: 21,397
• Forum posts: 184,959

Rankings:

• Distrowatch (popularity ranking): 1304 (3rd)
• Distrowatch (traffic share): 4.1% (2nd)
• Alexa (website ranking): 27,745th

Events:

• Linux Mint 7 Gloria XFCE was released: http://www.linuxmint.com/blog/?p=1026
• mintCast released 2 episodes of their podcast: http://mintcast.org/

Summary:

• September 2009 was the (7th consecutive) best month ever since the creation of Linux Mint.
• The overall income is up 10%.
• Our user base is the second largest in the desktop Linux market.
• The community support is outstanding: 105 people donated last month for a total of $2951 and our sponsors raised $481.9.

I’d like to thank all the people who sent us feedback during the recent development of mintInstall. We’re still happy to receive ideas and suggestions at this stage, but we’re also getting close to a usable product. Because the number of changes was so great and because I know many of you are interested in running this newer version, I decided to publish DEB packages for this beta of mintInstall.

Here’s how the interface looks:

To install this application, you first need to install a DEB package called “mintinstall-data”, and then another DEB package called “mintinstall”. Both packages can be downloaded at this address:

http://github.com/linuxmint/mintinstall/downloads

Give us your feedback, don’t hesitate to report malfunctions or ideas for further improvements.

This is already the 3rd blog post about mintInstall so we’ll move to something else after that. If we have the time, we might go down the same feedback/dev_iterations process for mintUpdate.