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Donations & Sponsorships:

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

Donors:

  • $600 (5th donation), Mohammed A.
  • $400 (5th donation), Ronald S.
  • $256, Andrew McNicol aka “exhipigeonist”
  • $150, Christopher A.
  • $100 (2nd donation), Jose G.
  • $100, Jennifer P.
  • $100, Daniel M.
  • $100, EarthNeptune.com LLC
  • $100, Harald T.
  • $100, Kent W.
  • $100, Robert D.
  • $100, John H.
  • $100, Nathan R.
  • $79.1, Ian M.
  • $73.01 (4th donation), Muharem Hrnjad
  • $60.84 (5th donation), Jan W.
  • $50 (27th donation), Matthew M.
  • $50 (16th donation), Tsuguo S.
  • $50 (5th donation), Ralph Siegler aka “ziggy“
  • $50 (2nd donation), Ernest M.
  • $50, Roy B.
  • $50, Miles S.
  • $50, D J. B.
  • $50, Arley F. I.
  • $50, Graham & Laura
  • $50, Pierre A.
  • $50, Chris N.
  • $50, John H.
  • $48.67 (2nd donation), Ralph H.
  • $41.25 (3rd donation), Jon G.
  • $40 (8th donation), Philippe W.
  • $40 (6th donation), Andrew M.
  • $37.26 (28th donation), Olli K.
  • $37.26, Le bretzel
  • $36.51, Mikael N.
  • $36.51, Nicolas F.
  • $35 (7th donation), Kamal G aka “anim8”
  • $35, Stephen E.
  • $31.64, T
  • $31.51 (33rd donation), Slavoljub aka “slw”
  • $30.42 (4th donation), J J. V. K.
  • $30.42, Thomas M.
  • $30 (3rd donation), Steve Guard aka “SteveG”
  • $30, Ivan F. D. S.
  • $30, John H.
  • $30, Emmett S.
  • $25 (10th donation), Kenny Hendrick aka “NprComputers“
  • $25 (9th donation), Ronald W.
  • $25 (5th donation), Henry Dubb aka “Henry“
  • $25 (4th donation), Paul Bary
  • $25 (3rd donation), Hector Richart P.
  • $25 (2nd donation), Juan Villegas aka “juankvillegas“
  • $25 (2nd donation), Vallin E.
  • $25, Stephen H.
  • $25, Kurt
  • $25, Jim F.
  • $25, John M. aka “Opu$”
  • $25, Olivier D.
  • $25, Dennis M.
  • $25, Mark L.
  • $25, Erich K.
  • $24.84 (3rd donation), Anno K.
  • $24.84 (2nd donation), Holger F.
  • $24.84, Barbara B.
  • $24.84, Eric T.
  • $24.84, Helmut B.
  • $24.34, Nicolas A.
  • $24.34, Aksel G.
  • $24.34, Stefan L.
  • $24.34, David E. T.
  • $24.34, Niek L.
  • $20 (7th donation), James R.
  • $20 (2nd donation), Linas A.
  • $20, Syed M.
  • $20, Michael G.
  • $20, Eisendraut Kay aka “Caturix“
  • $20, Michael G.
  • $20, Jorgebadad aka “jungle_man”
  • $20, Harold M.
  • $20, Paul W.
  • $20, John M.
  • $20, Michael B.
  • $20, Yahya The Impaler
  • $20, Nathan G.
  • $20, Hans A. N.
  • $20, Ian M.
  • $20, Andreas F.
  • $20, Brandon H.
  • $20, John A.
  • $20, Doug S.
  • $20, Eugene M.
  • $20, Hrishikesh D.
  • $18.25 (2nd donation), Jean-michel A.
  • $18.25, Andreas S.
  • $18.25, Teemu V.
  • $18.25, Frederic S.
  • $17.76, Duane B.
  • $15 (16th donation), John A.
  • $15 (2nd donation), Nicholas B.
  • $15, Bernard H.
  • $15, Todd B.
  • $15, Marcelo Parrela aka “Marcelo Parrela”
  • $14.9, iPhone News
  • $13.39, Marco Zani
  • $12.6 (4th donation), Jon G.
  • $12.42, Tobie D. B.
  • $12.42, Timo L.
  • $12.17 (11th donation), Jarkko K.
  • $12.17 (5th donation), zerozero
  • $12.17 (2nd donation), Marcial S. F.
  • $12.17, Thomas S.
  • $12.17, Siegfried H.
  • $12.17, Thomas S.
  • $11.5, Ashiq R.
  • $11, Charlene C.
  • $10 (16th donation), Tony C. aka “S. LaRocca”
  • $10 (11th donation), Antonina K. aka “Tonya”
  • $10 (7th donation), Hawk Computer
  • $10 (5th donation), CW P.
  • $10 (4th donation), Andrew Simpson
  • $10 (3rd donation), Fabio Ranquetat aka “Ranquetat”
  • $10 (3rd donation), George Z.
  • $10 (2nd donation), Larry Jones aka “LarryJ2“
  • $10 (2nd donation), Belak Adam
  • $10 (2nd donation), Dale B.
  • $10 (2nd donation), Dean F.
  • $10 (2nd donation), Justin P.
  • $10, Thomas B.
  • $10, Pierre W.
  • $10, Shelton G.
  • $10, John B.
  • $10, Jason T.
  • $10, Alfredo A. M.
  • $10, Eko T.
  • $10, Shane K aka “BeyondCr”
  • $10, Joel S.
  • $10, dfl13
  • $10, Vianey M. G.
  • $10, Jean Lafontaine aka “lafontaj”
  • $10, Carl C.
  • $10, Emmett H.
  • $10, Kevin A.
  • $8.01 (8th donation), Matt R. aka “kiswa”
  • $7, Jessica T.
  • $6.69, Stefano S.
  • $6.21 (3rd donation), Marco aka “Dictionary-Maker“
  • $6.21, Emilien K.
  • $6.08 (4th donation), Sampsa P.
  • $6.08 (3rd donation), SilFox
  • $6.08 (2nd donation), iPhone News
  • $6.08, Gregory F.
  • $6, Patrick F.
  • $5.96, Santiago L. M.
  • $5 (8th donation), Paul B. aka “Dude”
  • $5 (7th donation), Wolfgang aka “Info-Pflege,de“
  • $5 (3rd donation), Jens P.
  • $5 (2nd donation), Roman Voronov aka “rv82”
  • $5 (2nd donation), dS]x[2b
  • $5 (2nd donation), Richard K.
  • $5 (2nd donation), Zarko Z.
  • $5, kazuma k.
  • $5, Pham H. D. N.
  • $5, Paulo M.
  • $5, Miroslav Ristic
  • $5, Anton F.
  • $5, Gabriel D.
  • $5, Maria N.
  • $5, John H.
  • $5, Steven E.
  • $5, Holly P.
  • $5, Linix J.
  • $5, Mara D. S.
  • $5, Joshua G.
  • $5, Victor C.
  • $5, Happy Mint aka “😎“
  • $5, Martin J.
  • $5, Roman Voronov aka “rv82”
  • $4, Marilyn K.
  • $3.95 (4th donation), Liam W.
  • $3.94 (7th donation), free domain names
  • $3.75 (5th donation), Jon G.
  • $3, Web Design Company
  • $2.43, Nitin K.
  • $2.39 (6th donation), Jurek W.
  • $2 (13th donation), coaching for health
  • $2 (2nd donation), Eduardo F. O.
  • $2 (2nd donation), SourDee.com aka “SourDee“
  • $2, Rafa A. S.
  • $1.5 (3rd donation), iPhone Rumors
  • $1.22 (5th donation), Yannick G. aka “Uggy”
  • $1.22 (3rd donation), iPhone News
  • $1.22, Sebastian C. V.
  • $1.22, Giuseppe Parello
  • $1.05, Brian C.
  • $1 (8th donation), Namestaj
  • $1 (7th donation), Pharmacie en ligne
  • $1 (3rd donation), Como saber si le gustas a un chico
  • $1 (2nd donation), Easter Island
  • $1 (2nd donation), F. Fauzi aka “fuadfauzi“
  • $1, Jeffrey P.
  • $1, Jerry Jones
  • $1, F. Fauzi aka “fuadfauzi“
  • $1, Popular
  • $1, Carlo B.
  • $1, Spike Snell
  • $0.5 (8th donation), Javier Bassi
  • $0.5, Coupon Digs

Sponsors:

Money raised in June:

* Donations: $5629 (207 donors)
* Sponsors: $8457 (151 sponsors)

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

Events:

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In the latest Update Pack to Linux Mint Debian (UP4) released in March, MATE 1.2 and Cinnamon 1.4 were made available as well as an option called “gnome2-frozen” which allowed users to stick to Gnome 2 and skip the Update Pack altogether.

Moving forward and in preparation for Update Pack 5, this repository is now discontinued.

An rsync archive was made available for users and mirrors interested in acquiring a copy of the content of Update Pack 3. This archive will remain open for a couple of weeks and is available at the following address:

  • rsync://debian.linuxmint.com::gnome2-frozen

This is our last goodbye to Gnome 2, a desktop we enjoyed working with since 2006 and which we can unfortunately no longer provide. Although there are still a few technologies which weren’t ported to newer desktops, we’re really proud of the work done by the MATE team and the results we’re getting with Cinnamon. Desktops like KDE and Xfce have also matured a lot and new solutions such as Shell and Unity provide additional alternatives to users.

The loss of Gnome 2 was a traumatic experience not only for users but for desktop distributions. Most of our focus in Linux Mint 12 and Linux Mint 13 went towards making this transition as smooth as possible. With Linux Mint 14 we’ll see the focus switch back towards iterative development/innovations and incremental improvements. Cinnamon will continue to improve and gain momentum but the focus will switch back to developing tools and improving the Linux Mint desktop experience itself, across all editions.

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The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 13 KDE.


Linux Mint 13 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 13 KDE“.

Important info:

  • Quicktime playback in Firefox
  • Boot hangs on systems with b43 wireless cards
  • Moonlight

Make sure to read the “Release Notes” to be aware of important info or known issues related to this release.

System requirements:

  • x86 processor (for both 32 & 64-bit versions)
  • x86_64 compatible processor (for the 64-bit version)
  • 1 GB of system memory (RAM)
  • 5 GB of disk space for installation
  • Graphics card capable of 800×600 resolution
  • CD-ROM drive or USB port

Upgrade instructions:

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

Download:

Md5 sum:

  • 32-bit: ec735ea0345c07b9b28ea471eef70dcd
  • 64-bit: 5cc25450a0b401b939f6e274c4fdb186

Torrents:

HTTP Mirrors for the 32-bit DVD ISO:

HTTP Mirrors for the 64-bit DVD 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!