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Donations & Sponsorships:

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

Donors:

  • $213, Hendrik S.
  • $142 (2nd donation), Rod Minty
  • $100 (4th donation), Anonymous
  • $100 (3rd donation), Andreas S.
  • $100 (3rd donation), Gregor M.
  • $100, James P.
  • $100, Danny L.
  • $100, Donald R. E.
  • $100, John M.
  • $71 (4th donation), Pasi K.
  • $71 (4th donation), Jan W.
  • $71, Gensch W. C.
  • $60 (2nd donation), Giuliano L.
  • $56.8, Henrik F.
  • $56.8, Anonymous
  • $50 (6th donation), Michael L. aka “ddavid123“
  • $50 (4th donation), Peter S. aka “Pierre”
  • $50 (4th donation), Andrew M.
  • $50 (2nd donation), Ryan M.
  • $50, Margaret W. aka “tigar55”
  • $50, Juan O.
  • $50, Aernoudt Bottemanne
  • $50, Ayo B.
  • $50, James D.
  • $50, Larry B.
  • $42.6 (6th donation), Laurent P.
  • $42.6, Mark A.
  • $42.6, Holger F.
  • $42 (2nd donation), Lorenz F.
  • $40 (21st donation), Славољуб aka “slw”
  • $40, Abe Freeman
  • $40, Christian D. aka “ceed^”
  • $35.5 (2nd donation), Mark Coumans aka “omtefotograferen“
  • $35.5, Shaun L.
  • $35.5, Eckhard J.
  • $35.5, Mathias V.
  • $35 (2nd donation), Jack H.
  • $35, Mark B.
  • $30 (2nd donation), Neil Barrows
  • $30, Steve G.
  • $30, Dana Olson
  • $30, Matej L.
  • $28.4 (21st donation), Manuel F.
  • $28.4 (16th donation), Olli K.
  • $28.4, Thomas M.
  • $28.4, Hardy G.
  • $28.4, Pablo S. Lage aka “Xove”
  • $28.4, Fabrizio T.
  • $25 (6th donation), Philippe W.
  • $25 (5th donation), Dan B.
  • $25 (5th donation), Anders B.
  • $25 (5th donation), Kamal aka “anim8”
  • $25 (3rd donation), A Webb aka “allen9013”
  • $25 (2nd donation), Hendrik G.
  • $25 (2nd donation), Hawk Computer
  • $25 (2nd donation), B Smith aka “corktowner”
  • $25, John H.
  • $25, William N.
  • $25, Ronald D.
  • $25, Mark W.
  • $25, Tom M.
  • $25, James W.
  • $25, Dave Murphy aka “dpmfmfl”
  • $25, Edward C. aka “EdTheUniqueGeek“
  • $25, Troy E.
  • $25, Chris G.
  • $25, Jan Q.
  • $25, Timothy Z.
  • $21.3 (2nd donation), Johan B. aka “Joe1“
  • $21.3, Dominik O.
  • $21.3, Georgios K.
  • $21.3, Gianluca D. L.
  • $21.3, Piermario R.
  • $21.25 (7th donation), Robert D B.
  • $20 (15th donation), Matthew M.
  • $20 (12th donation), Antonio M. aka “Rob Brill’s book-keeper”
  • $20 (7th donation), Michael Krusch aka “MAD”
  • $20 (6th donation), P. S. B. aka “fixpcpaul“
  • $20 (4th donation), Eugene C.
  • $20 (4th donation), Juergen G.
  • $20 (3rd donation), Jaxon L.
  • $20 (2nd donation), Hannes G.
  • $20 (2nd donation), RvdB
  • $20, John D.
  • $20, Michael F.
  • $20, Kashyap P.
  • $20, Armin K.
  • $20, William T.
  • $20, Victor G.
  • $20, Stephen K.
  • $20, Gary L.
  • $20, Pierre-olivier S.
  • $20, Trevor H.
  • $20, Edward W.
  • $20, Eduardo O.
  • $20, Luis F.
  • $16, Terry Phillips aka “Terryphi”
  • $15 (7th donation), Jun Q.
  • $15 (2nd donation), Gerrit Pannek aka “Nold“
  • $15 (2nd donation), Michael I.
  • $15, Hallgeir J.
  • $15, Fabio G. aka “fabietto0102”
  • $14.2 (3rd donation), Jörn G.
  • $14.2, Sam B.
  • $14.2, Dirk S.
  • $14.2, Luca M.
  • $14.2, Sébastien B.
  • $14.2, Guillaume B. aka “BeBeLiOuS“
  • $14.2, Max E.
  • $14.2, Benjamin E.
  • $14.2, Ruben B. H.
  • $14.2, Antonio E. M.
  • $14.04, Jeffery B.
  • $13.13, Kamaljit S.
  • $12.78 (2nd donation), Bernhard N.
  • $12.78, Damian K.
  • $12 (2nd donation), John S.
  • $12, Timofey E.
  • $11.36, Bertrand S.
  • $11, John A.
  • $10 (6th donation), Kiril Sotirov
  • $10 (5th donation), Colin Casey
  • $10 (4th donation), Tony C. aka “S. LaRocca”
  • $10 (3rd donation), Mark M. aka “BubbaBlues”
  • $10 (3rd donation), Jindrich R. aka “amino”
  • $10 (2nd donation), James K.
  • $10 (2nd donation), Debra R.
  • $10 (2nd donation), Andras Porga aka “GodmaNZ”
  • $10 (2nd donation), Robert M.
  • $10 (2nd donation), Jake Basile
  • $10 (2nd donation), Ila S.
  • $10 (2nd donation), LB
  • $10, Ryan F. aka “bender1077”
  • $10, Judy W. aka “solrabit”
  • $10, Ben K.
  • $10, Robert D.
  • $10, Theodoros K.
  • $10, Chris Duncan aka “celldee”
  • $10, Alan B.
  • $10, Ray aka “perezosor”
  • $10, Geir G.
  • $10, Stephen B.
  • $10, Saravanakumar V.
  • $10, Jarrett C.
  • $10, Masashi A.
  • $10, Penguenci.com
  • $10, Bau Treff
  • $10, Michael M.
  • $7.88 (5th donation), Ronald T.
  • $7.1, Paul S.
  • $7.1, David E. aka “obscuredavid”
  • $7.1, Manuel F.
  • $7, Alfonso G. aka “alfiogang”
  • $5 (5th donation), Kelley J. aka “Kelley Green”
  • $5 (3rd donation), Michael C.
  • $5 (3rd donation), Phillip H Blake aka “antiquexray”
  • $5 (2nd donation), Stef A.
  • $5, Andrey A.
  • $5, Manish S.
  • $5, Велесович
  • $5, Vitaliy S. aka “VDadly”
  • $5, Moshe B.
  • $5, A. C. Nguyen
  • $4.02, Peter D.
  • $4, Matheus aka “mecke“
  • $3.55, Backof M.
  • $3, Cristian Emanuel Rodriguez aka “undiaoscuro“
  • $3, Tatenda B.
  • $3, Mesut F.
  • $2.84, Rod G.
  • $2.5, Immunolytics, Inc aka “Mold Test Kits“
  • $2.13, Ionut A.
  • $2, Arno W.
  • $1.33 (4th donation), Rusli P. Tandiabang
  • $1.06 (12th donation), Inga Muste aka “TokRa“
  • $1.04, Ling L.
  • $1 (13th donation), free backlinks
  • $1, Haresh P.
  • $1, Роман Г.
  • $1, Sedesa S.
  • $1, John T.
  • $1, Johnny R. aka “Jraz”

Sponsors:

Money raised in June:

* Donations: $4539.29 (182 donors)
* Sponsors: $1189.03 (123 sponsors)

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

User Stats:

Repartition of Linux Mint users across releases:

  • Linux Mint 11 Katya: 36.20%
  • Linux Mint 10 Julia: 31.41%
  • Linux Mint 9 Isadora LTS: 16.26%
  • Linux Mint 7 Gloria: 5.46%
  • LMDE: 3.47%
  • Linux Mint 8 Helena: 3.78%
  • Linux Mint 4.0 Daryna: 2.02%
  • Linux Mint 6 Felicia: 0.87%
  • Linux Mint 5 Elyssa LTS: 0.54%

Web Stats:

  • Visits: 3,328,780
  • Unique views: 4,148,275
  • Pageviews: 5,253,065
  • Page impressions: 2,870,085
  • Search queries: 9,389,762
  • Forum users: 50,974
  • Forum posts: 425,194

Rankings:

  • Distrowatch (popularity ranking): 2189 (2nd)
  • Distrowatch (traffic share): 2.2% (2nd) (made irrelevant by Firefox 4′s decision to hard-code user agents and most distributions not setting it up anymore)
  • Alexa (website ranking): 11,479th

Events:

Summary:

  • All the new features and improvements released in Linux Mint 11 were made available to LMDE. Firefox 5 was also released for LMDE and Thunderbird 5 will follow. We’re currently working on a new update mechanism and a fork of mintupdate dedicated to Debian. A new 100Gbps server was recently acquired to host what will become the new LMDE repositories. Improvements are also planned on the installer and the ISOs will get a respin in July.
  • To face the growth of the project and the increase in our user base, we migrated both the website and the repositories at the beginning of June. The website was moved on our eUKhost server in the UK and the repositories were migrated to a new 100Mbps server with unmetered bandwidth. Both services have been running really well since and with much better performance than before.
  • The LXDE edition passed QA and an RC was released.
  • We’re currently testing the KDE edition of Linux Mint 11.
  • Thanks to all the people who purchased a Linux Mint T-shirt. I hope they enjoy it as much as I do (I got two polo shirts myself and as you can imagine, I really enjoy wearing them). Whether it’s the promotion or the sales, it’s nice to see it happen and this helps Linux Mint. Our partner HELLOTUX sold more than 100 black Linux Mint t-shirts. This was an excellent result and these sales brought $545 to our project. To extend the range of Linux Mint products, both the T-shirt and the Polo shirt are now also available in White: http://www.hellotux.com/Category_Linux_Mint.php
  • In partnership with OxyPress, Linux Mint is  publishing a printed magazine in the USA called “Linux Mint 11 Identity Kit”. The magazine is available in newsagents throughout the country. You can also get more information about it online and read one of the articles featured inside it by visiting the following link http://www.linuxidentity.com/us/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=5055
  • There is a significant raise in our user base which is estimated at just below 10% this month.
  • From a financial point of view, we’re up 19% this month. This was the second biggest increase in the history of the project! I’d like to thank all the people who donated to us, our sponsors, and all the people who recently switched to Linux Mint. This gives us more empowerment and makes everything much easier. Whether it’s contracting some work to be done, paying the bills or getting this new 1Gbps server, your support helps us greatly.

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The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 11 LXDE RC.


Linux Mint 11 LXDE RC

New features at a glance:

  • The Software Manager
    • UI improvements
    • New splash screen
    • Fonts category
    • More accurate package information
    • More application icons by default
    • More accurate search by default
  • The Update Manager
    • Performance boosts
    • Improved dependencies handling
    • Better changelog retrieval
    • UI improvements
  • The Desktop Settings tool
    • “Desktop-agnostic”, detection and upcoming compatibility with other desktops
    • New setting for the fortunes in the terminal
  • Artwork improvements
    • Overlay scrollbars, plymouth, Mint-X, search add-on.
  • System improvements
    • new “apt download” command
    • Adobe flash plugins

For a complete overview and to see screenshots of the new features, visit: “What’s new in Linux Mint 11 LXDE“.

Release notes:

To get more information about these problems and their solution, read the “Release notes”.

System requirements:

  • x86 processor
  • 256 MB RAM
  • 3 GB of disk space
  • Graphics card capable of 800×600 resolution
  • CD/DVD drive or USB port

Bug reports:

Please report any bug you may find in Launchpad.

Download:

Md5 sum: 5553f34018eed0ab7b32aaade00e47a4

Torrent: http://torrents.linuxmint.com/torrents/linuxmint-11-lxde-32bit-rc.iso.torrent

HTTP Mirrors:

Enjoy!

We look forward to receiving your feedback. Thank you for using Linux Mint and have a lot of fun testing the release candidate!

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Donations & Sponsorships:

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

Donors:

  • $274, Richard G.
  • $190, Jon G.
  • $100 (4th donation), Frans Van O.
  • $100 (3rd donation), Terry H.
  • $100, Glenn H.
  • $100, Ivo A.
  • $100, Jose G.
  • $82.2 (8th donation), Orlando M. M.
  • $68.5, Matthias M.
  • $50 (9th donation), Jonathan B. Horen aka “JBHoren”
  • $50 (4th donation), Trevor H.
  • $50 (3rd donation), Carl G.
  • $50 (2nd donation), Gregor M.
  • $50 (2nd donation), Bruce R.
  • $50 (2nd donation), Andreas S.
  • $50 (2nd donation), Michel S.
  • $50, George M.
  • $50, Sheldon J. R.
  • $50, Ronald W.
  • $50, William W.
  • $50, Matthew J.
  • $50, Greg B
  • $42, Robert K.
  • $41.1, B J. R.
  • $40, Andre L.
  • $40, Bryan S.
  • $35 (2nd donation), Jeff M.
  • $35, Andrew R.
  • $34.25, Keith S.
  • $34.25, Craig H.
  • $34.25, W J.
  • $32.13, Martin F. Schumann aka “mfs”
  • $30 (11th donation), Antonio M. aka “Rob Brill’s book-keeper”
  • $30 (2nd donation), Jose M.
  • $30 (2nd donation), Richard B Thompson
  • $30, Adam V.
  • $30, break-step productions ltd
  • $30, David G.
  • $30, Gavin B.
  • $28 (20th donation), Manuel F.
  • $28, Fabius T.
  • $28, Carolyn R.
  • $27.4 (15th donation), Olli K.
  • $27.4, Jiřík M.
  • $27.4, Niels G.
  • $27.4, Ruediger H.
  • $27.4, Thomas Wissel aka “fragmentom“
  • $27.4, Anonymous
  • $25 (18th donation), Pete Molina aka “pmolina”
  • $25 (8th donation), Kenny Hendrick aka “NprComputers“
  • $25 (5th donation), Michael L. aka “ddavid123“
  • $25 (4th donation), Anthony F H.
  • $25 (4th donation), James M. aka “jaspmatt”
  • $25 (3rd donation), Joseph V.
  • $25 (3rd donation), Henry Dubb aka “Henry“
  • $25 (2nd donation), stewy
  • $25, Alan B.
  • $25, Hawk Computer
  • $25, Sachin P.
  • $25, Michael H.
  • $25, My Linux Rig
  • $21, Nathan F.
  • $21, Manolo R.
  • $20.55, Ennio M.
  • $20 (14th donation), Matthew M.
  • $20 (4th donation), George R. aka “Az4x4”
  • $20 (3rd donation), Graham C. aka “gee7”
  • $20 (3rd donation), Ian M.
  • $20 (2nd donation), Vladimir O. aka “Vlad The Impatient“
  • $20 (2nd donation), Goran A.
  • $20, Les B.
  • $20, Donald V.
  • $20, Fred P.
  • $20, Mark S.
  • $20, Donald F.
  • $20, Neil Z.
  • $20, Raul L.
  • $20, Andrew S.
  • $20, John S.
  • $16.8, Dominik K.
  • $15 (6th donation), Jun Q.
  • $15, Michael I.
  • $15, Sybrand S.
  • $15, Brad O.
  • $15, David S.
  • $15, Kory D.
  • $14, Jarkko K.
  • $14, Lorand S.
  • $13.7 (13th donation), Paco C.C. aka “kannabix”
  • $13.7 (4th donation), Paul Evans aka “paul”
  • $13.7 (2nd donation), Ivan Bulychev aka “vanyok”
  • $13.7, Perrod C.
  • $13.7, Bastian E.
  • $13.7, Pierdomenico F.
  • $13.7, Pierre D.
  • $13.7, Sven A.
  • $13.7, Jose V. C. Z.
  • $10 (5th donation), P. S. B. aka “fixpcpaul“
  • $10 (5th donation), Kiril Sotirov
  • $10 (4th donation), Ralf H.
  • $10 (3rd donation), Paul V.
  • $10 (3rd donation), Rob Brown aka “Brownie“
  • $10 (3rd donation), Kim H. aka “grhdtj“
  • $10 (3rd donation), Tony C. aka “S. LaRocca”
  • $10 (2nd donation), Adauto Castro
  • $10, Carlos J. R.
  • $10, Fabio R.
  • $10, Glaucio R.
  • $10, Sami F.
  • $10, David Ondrejkovič
  • $10, Zach A.
  • $10, Xavier G.
  • $10, Daniel C. aka “Tox“
  • $10, Sergey M.
  • $10, Darrell W.
  • $10, Marc T.
  • $10, John D. G.
  • $10, Tom C.
  • $10, Astap A.
  • $6.85 (2nd donation), Jose A Roman S. aka “Jubeix”
  • $6.85 (2nd donation), Hector Richart P.
  • $6.85, Ramon C. aka “2Stoned“
  • $6.85, Samuel C.
  • $6.85, David S.
  • $6.85, Rick W.
  • $6.31, Liam W.
  • $5 (8th donation), Ulf S. aka “MonteDrago”
  • $5 (4th donation), Kelley J. aka “Kelley Green”
  • $5 (2nd donation), Victor Skovorodnikov aka “victorsk“
  • $5 (2nd donation), Michael F.
  • $5, Sushubh M.
  • $5, Michael H.
  • $5, Reinis K.
  • $5, Jes S.
  • $5, James K.
  • $5, Keith C.
  • $4.2, Radu B.
  • $3.4, Steliyan
  • $3 (2nd donation), Vadim B.
  • $2.8 (2nd donation), Matteo D. L.
  • $2.8, Andreas M.
  • $2.74, Francesco B.
  • $2.74, Sebastian N.
  • $2.74, Benjamin H.
  • $2 (3rd donation), Sam Ganzha aka “Sammy”
  • $2 (2nd donation), Rashed aka “linuxT“
  • $2, Meine K.
  • $2, Gianmatteo S.
  • $1.13 (3rd donation), Rusli P. Tandiabang
  • $1.05 (11th donation), Inga Muste aka “TokRa“
  • $1 (2nd donation), Chaushun Y.
  • $1, Kito Brandt
  • $0.5, Hristo J.

Sponsors:

Money raised in May:

* Donations: $3891.24 (153 donors)
* Sponsors: $1177.53 (120 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: 35.12%
  • Linux Mint 11 Katya: 26.91%
  • Linux Mint 9 Isadora LTS: 17.60%
  • Linux Mint 7 Gloria: 6.53%
  • LMDE: 6.03%
  • Linux Mint 8 Helena: 4.33%
  • Linux Mint 4.0 Daryna: 1.91%
  • Linux Mint 6 Felicia: 1%
  • Linux Mint 5 Elyssa LTS: 0.57%

Web Stats:

  • Visits: 3,184,198
  • Unique views: 4,104,583
  • Pageviews: 5,213,098
  • Page impressions: 3,425,494
  • Search queries: 8,567,003
  • Forum users: 49,231
  • Forum posts: 411,680

Rankings:

  • Distrowatch (popularity ranking): 2118 (2nd)
  • Distrowatch (traffic share): 2.4% (2nd) (made irrelevant by Firefox 4’s decision to hard-code user agents and most distributions not setting it up anymore)
  • Alexa (website ranking): 11,968th

Events:

Summary:

  • May 2011; All the focus was on Linux Mint 11 and it lead to a very nice release. Katya got a formidable echo throughout the community and the decision to stick to Gnome 2.32 didn’t go unnoticed. Our website attracted 14% more people than usual and our user base grew by 10%. This includes people who traditionally switch back to Linux Mint after the stable release, as well as newcomers switching from Mac and Windows, but this time also a lot of unhappy users from other distributions featuring Unity and to a lesser extent Gnome 3. Though it’s nice to see it happen and I hope they get a nice welcome, the main purpose of this decision wasn’t tactical, but rather technical. Mint 11, despite significant regressions (particularly with Compiz), gave us yet another great Gnome desktop and another 6 months to see how things go with the Gnome 3 and GTK3 projects.
  • In June, the focus will shift towards LMDE which will receive the Mint 11 features, and for which we’re also planning specific improvements (particularly on the installer and the update manager), as well as the KDE and LXDE editions. After this, we’ll be testing different scenarios and considering our options for the future, whether we want to switch to Gnome 3, how ready it is and what can be achieved with it. Many options are there for us, including forking Gnome 2 or even Gnome 3 and it’s too early to say what will happen next. But we have 6 months to decide and as always, we’re quite determined to come with something that’s better than before. We like our desktop the way it is, and comes Linux Mint 12, we’ll be looking to bring you something either as good or better than what we already have. It’s a hard promise to make considering the drastic changes occurring upstream, but this is what we’re aiming for and so we’ll be looking into the most efficient ways to implement our desktop and to reach our goals.
  • Although the donations weren’t as high as last month, we actually received money from more people this time around. I’d like to thank all the people who donated to Linux Mint, many thanks for supporting us! Our sponsors are high, and advertising generated more than usual due to the increases in traffic and user base. Overall we’re up 0.7% compared to April.