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Many of you answered the call and helped with the translations. As you can see below we already have full support for 15 languages:

Among other things, missing translations are holding the stable release of Linux Mint 7. There are 15 languages for which only some of the tools were translated. This is a pity as efforts were made by the translators and yet some of the tools will show up in English to users speaking these languages. Some other popular languages are missing here as well.

This is an on-going effort and we’re receiving more translations every day so I’m confident about this. If you can help with the translations, please visit the translations forums and help improve the support for your language:

http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewforum.php?f=162

The sooner we’re done with this the sooner it can be integrated within Mint 7 and the sooner we’ll be able to release it as stable.

Many thanks to all the people for the help we’re getting from them.

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Donations & Sponsorships:

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

Donors:

  • $100 (4th donation), Erik Anderson (deadguy – USA)
  • $100, Dar D. (Canada)
  • $100, John R. (USA)
  • $100, Terry L. (USA)
  • $70, Michael P. (Greece)
  • $53, Gabriele C. (Italy)
  • $50 (3rd donation), Harvey Elliott (UK)
  • $35 (5th donation), Jerry Jackson (UK)
  • $35, Bernhard M. (Germany)
  • $30, Geoff P G. (Australia)
  • $28 (2nd donation), Marcos Antonio S. (Italy)
  • $28, Jonathan McK. (UK)
  • $28, Frederic S. (France)
  • $28, Uwe S. (Germany)
  • $25, Jerry W. (USA)
  • $25, Christopher P. (USA)
  • $21, Michael B. (Germany)
  • $20 (2nd donation), Phillip H. (Australia)
  • $20, Thomas K. (USA)
  • $20, Summers MBM (USA)
  • $20, Matthew L. (USA)
  • $20, Robert M. (USA)
  • $20, Ronald M. (USA)
  • $20, James F. (USA)
  • $20, Robert B. (USA)
  • $18, Ariel G. (USA)
  • $18, Jack H. (USA)
  • $15, Michael C. (Australia)
  • $14 (2nd donation), Marco R. (Italy)
  • $14, Taras Z. (Russia)
  • $10 (4th donation), Henry W. (USA)
  • $10, David M. (USA)
  • $10, Douglas R. (USA)
  • $10, Nicholas S. (USA)
  • $10, William S. (USA)
  • $10, Goran C. (Canada)
  • $10, Nate D. (USA)
  • $7, Michael D. (Germany)
  • $7, Tomas O. (Slovakia)
  • $7, Tjutju T. (Indonesia)
  • $5, Laurens Van W. (Belgium)
  • $1, Mauro P. (Italy)

Sponsors:

Money raised in April:

* Donations: $1192
* Sponsors: $385

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

User Stats:

Repartition of Linux Mint users across releases:

  • Linux Mint 4.0 Daryna: 6%
  • Linux Mint 5 Elyssa LTS: 16%
  • Linux Mint 6 Felicia: 65%
  • Linux Mint 7 Gloria RC1: 13%

Web Stats:

  • Visits: 1,225,840 (-4%)
  • Pageviews: 2,337,877 (-4%)
  • Page impressions: 1,036,845
  • Search queries: 2,483,442
  • Forum users: 15689
  • Forum posts: 141049

Rankings:

  • Distrowatch (popularity ranking): 1428 (3rd)
  • Distrowatch (traffic share): 2.9% (2nd)
  • Alexa (website ranking): 34,772th

Events:

Summary:

  • April 2009 saw the release of the last two community editions (KDE and Fluxbox) which had been released as RCs the month before and the jump made by the development team from Linux Mint 6 to Linux Mint 7.
  • Although the growth observed in April was only between 1 and 4%, last month was the best month ever for Linux Mint since the start of the project.