Many thanks to all our donors, sponsors and partners and all the people who are involved in helping our project and our community. We received 380 donations in June and more than 500 in July. Not only do your donations help us they constantly remind us you enjoy our work. On top of your feedback and support messages this is an amazing source of focus, pride and motivation for us.
Linux Mint 20.2 “Uma”
Linux Mint 20.2 was very well received. Over at ZDNet, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols said:
The years go by, and I keep trying one Linux desktop distro after the other. But for more than a decade now, I come back to Linux Mint. Why? It’s simple: Year in and year out, Mint remains the best, easiest-to-use Linux desktop. That’s the case again with the latest release, called Linux Mint 20.2 “Uma.”
We were delighted to see your reactions here on the blog when you started to use some of the new features. The search functions and the bulk renamer in particular proved to be very popular.
The upgrade path was opened shortly after the official release and a few weeks later the new features were ported towards LMDE 4.
We also took the opportunity to provide some of the improvements and bug fixes from Linux Mint 20.2 to 20 and 20.1 by backporting the latest version of the following packages: folder-color-switcher, gnome-online-accounts, hypnotix and youtube-dl, lightdm-settings, mint-themes, mintbackup, mintdrivers, mintinstall, mintlocale, mintreport, mintstick, mintsystem, mintupdate, mintupload, nvidia-prime-applet, warpinator and yelp.
The next development cycle is now open and the next target is Linux Mint 20.3. It is planned for Christmas 2021.
New website
When our current website was revealed it looked amazing. It did, people loved it, but that was in 2008. This was 13 years ago. The first thing people say when they see it nowadays is that it looks old and outdated. And they’re right, it is exactly that, old and outdated.
Although it was interrupted by the release of Linux Mint 20.2 work continues on a new website.
The new website will have a new look but it will also feature an adaptive layout, work well on any device, present information in a modern way and focus on what most visitors expect to find when they first browse it:
- What is Linux Mint?
- Why use Linux Mint?
- How to install it?
With the stable release just behind us the timing is right and this project is given more focus.
If you’re talented in graphics design, UI/UX design, web design or even artwork in general get in touch with us. This project is hosted on github at https://github.com/linuxmint/website-wizixo and you can also get in touch with us directly by email at root@linuxmint.com.
Right now we’re working on this website but we’re also constantly looking for artists. Put bluntly we can implement pretty much anything, any website, any software application, we can make it work and work really well, but we can’t make it look nice 🙂 After this website we’ll have more websites to redesign, we’ll want our icon theme, GTK theme, titlebars and the look of the Linux Mint desktop in general to improve as well, and for this we need more artists to come and join us.
Sponsorships
Donations in June:
A total of $9,129 were raised thanks to the generous contributions of 380 donors:
$350 (3rd donation), Blue Ridge POS, LLC aka “Dewey“
$216 (6th donation), Duncan G. aka “catraeus“
$200, Fulton H.
$150 (2nd donation), Garlin Security Consulting, LLC
$135 (3rd donation), J aka “look but don’t touch. Thank you”
$120, Grigoriy Demin
$108 (7th donation), Jacques P.
$108 (2nd donation), Michael F.
$108, Jan S.
$108, Hans R.
$100 (4th donation), Andrew Gouw
$100 (3rd donation), Michael P.
$100, na5m
$100, John C.
$100, Brad C.
$100, John K.
$86 (4th donation), Rhydwen V.
$86 (3rd donation), Thomas I.
$75, Gord S.
$75, Amy B.
$54 (6th donation), Ingo Luedeke aka “TheGo”
$54 (6th donation), Bernard H.
$54 (5th donation), Karl H.
$54 (4th donation), Mark DR
$54 (4th donation), Philipp S.
$54 (4th donation), Rasmus A.
$54 (3rd donation), John B.
$54 (3rd donation), Uwe W.
$54 (2nd donation), A. P. .
$54 (2nd donation), Stephan D.
$54 (2nd donation), Vasiliy B.
$54, David V.
$54, Norbert V.
$54, Roman W.
$54, Graham H.
$54, H.S. aka “Huub”
$54, Alexandra V.
$54, Joseph K.
$54, Mike H.
$54, Bent Nielsen aka “BNi”
$54, Joachim R.
$50 (50th donation), Anthony C. aka “ciak”
$50 (17th donation), Hans J.
$50 (11th donation), Douglas J.
$50 (9th donation), stewy
$50 (5th donation), Guy L.
$50 (5th donation), Marty L.
$50 (5th donation), Edmund B.
$50 (4th donation), Joe K.
$50 (3rd donation), Pj Sylvia.
$50 (3rd donation), Martin C.
$50 (3rd donation), Michel R.
$50 (3rd donation), Terry P.
$50 (2nd donation), Nathaniel B.
$50 (2nd donation), Mark Patterson
$50 (2nd donation), William M.
$50 (2nd donation), Andrew S.
$50 (2nd donation), Jeff A.
$50 (2nd donation), Scott P.
$50 (2nd donation), Leopold F.
$50 (2nd donation), Scott N.
$50 (2nd donation), roger
$50 (2nd donation), Adam W.
$50 (2nd donation), Stuart C. D.
$50 (2nd donation), Jack B.
$50 (2nd donation), Clayton H.
$50 (2nd donation), Harry Fine Paralegal Services
$50 (2nd donation), John A. F.
$50, Claude A.
$50, Rhoda O.
$50, Myron S.
$50, Maxime B.
$50, Michael R.
$50, Kari K.
$50, Harry N.
$50, John B.
$50, Christ P.
$50, Alejandro P.
$50, Yul R.
$50, R Michael A.
$50, Ján L.
$50, Jerry R.
$43 (135th donation), Olli K.
$40 (7th donation), Robert T.
$40 (2nd donation), Charles R.
$38, Mr Ian Sheppard
$35 (14th donation), Ted S.
$35, Ali S.
$32 (2nd donation), Christian S.
$32 (2nd donation), Manuel López
$30 (18th donation), Kevin S.
$30 (9th donation), Vladimir Litvinenko
$30 (7th donation), jowind
$30 (2nd donation), Birger M.
$30 (2nd donation), :Karen-Ann: aka “Annie”
$30 (2nd donation), Ken S.
$30 (2nd donation), Carl T.
$30, James H.
$28 (6th donation), Adam K.
$27 (16th donation), John K.
$27, Thomas H.
$27, Christian T.
$27, Peter Thornton Tate.
$27, Mariano V.
$26 (14th donation), Tsatsorin E. aka “Eugene713“
$26 (3rd donation), Marion P.
$25 (13th donation), George R. aka “Az4x4”
$25 (8th donation), Andrew Currie
$25 (5th donation), Michael M.
$25 (5th donation), Linux Mint Sverige
$25 (3rd donation), Thomas N.
$25 (3rd donation), Michael F.
$25 (2nd donation), David K.
$25 (2nd donation), Matt W.
$25 (2nd donation), Kyle S.
$25, Ivan D.
$25, In honor of Bob B
$25, Jessy Cheung
$25, Sean B.
$24, Marcus E.
$22 (25th donation), Doriano G. M.
$22 (15th donation), Peter E.
$22 (11th donation), Dick B. aka “Dick”
$22 (10th donation), Teobaldo D.
$22 (6th donation), Chema Cortés
$22 (6th donation), Martin L.
$22 (6th donation), Jerome M.
$22 (5th donation), Krister R.
$22 (5th donation), Tapani H.
$22 (4th donation), daoud
$22 (4th donation), Andreas G.
$22 (4th donation), Sven-Uwe U. aka “surban”
$22 (4th donation), Joe S.
$22 (3rd donation), Benedikt F.
$22 (3rd donation), Wolfgang N.
$22 (2nd donation), Werner K.
$22 (2nd donation), William H.
$22 (2nd donation), Michel J.
$22 (2nd donation), Erwin S.
$22 (2nd donation), Klaus B.
$22 (2nd donation), Martin L.
$22 (2nd donation), Edward A Lockhart
$22 (2nd donation), Robert S.
$22 (2nd donation), Patrick C.
$22 (2nd donation), Vittorio A.
$22 (2nd donation), Marko B.
$22, Jonathan S.
$22, Juan M.
$22, Tony M.
$22, Lukas W.
$22, Johann K.
$22, John Baines
$22, Hans-helmut H.
$22, Ralf S.
$22, J.
$22, Jukka H.
$22, Henk T.
$22, Josef Z.
$22, Andreas Berg R.
$22, Dominykas C.
$22, Andrej K.
$22, Werner P.
$22, aka “splash”
$22, Daniel J.
$22, Rolf S.
$22, Ueli S.
$22, David Z.
$22, Lucas E.
$22, Cord S.
$22, Zoltan N.
$22, Farah K.
$20 (55th donation), Curt Vaughan aka “curtvaughan “
$20 (35th donation), Bryan F.
$20 (34th donation), Stefan M. H.
$20 (31st donation), Mike W aka “bajan52”
$20 (18th donation), vagrantcow
$20 (17th donation), Ke C.
$20 (15th donation), Michel S.
$20 (15th donation), François P.
$20 (11th donation), Brent P.
$20 (11th donation), Anon
$20 (8th donation), Robert L.
$20 (8th donation), Joao Kodama
$20 (6th donation), Stephen F.
$20 (5th donation), Mark F.
$20 (4th donation), Thomas C.
$20 (4th donation), Leroy H.
$20 (4th donation), David H.
$20 (4th donation), Kevin M.
$20 (4th donation), James W.
$20 (4th donation), Eric W.
$20 (4th donation), Lennart S.
$20 (4th donation), Paul S.
$20 (4th donation), Sidney F.
$20 (3rd donation), Michael A C.
$20 (3rd donation), Pavel N.
$20 (3rd donation), David V.
$20 (3rd donation), Dennis G.
$20 (2nd donation), Patrick M.
$20 (2nd donation), Anthony K.
$20 (2nd donation), Timothy P.
$20 (2nd donation), Micheal H.
$20 (2nd donation), a donor
$20 (2nd donation), Everett F.
$20 (2nd donation), Steven O.
$20 (2nd donation), Donna J.
$20 (2nd donation), Robert H.
$20, Brian S.
$20, Jay H.
$20, OBIE ENT.
$20, Van K.
$20, Richard J.
$20, Jim H.
$20, John P.
$20, Austin C.
$20, Joseph Y.
$20, Paul B.
$20, Jonathan M.
$20, Samuel W.
$20, Boone A.
$20, James F.
$20, Brian S.
$20, Andrew R.
$20, Jonathon F.
$20, Richard L.
$20, Wesley C.
$20, Wolfgang S.
$20, Michael M.
$20, Sylvain M.
$20, Fernandes J.
$20, James G.
$18 (31st donation), Michael R.
$18 (5th donation), Alexey T.
$16 (53th donation), Andreas S.
$16 (15th donation), Kevin Safford
$16 (2nd donation), Dave Langers
$16, Reidar S.
$15 (13th donation), Constantin M.
$15 (4th donation), Douglas S.
$13 (2nd donation), le-key
$13, Antony L.
$12 (124th donation), Tony C. aka “S. LaRocca”
$12 (22nd donation), Lance A.
$12 (15th donation), Simone G.
$12, Daniel J.
$11 (17th donation), Denis D.
$11 (15th donation), Daniel S.
$11 (12th donation), Antonio aka “pengu73”
$11 (11th donation), Štefan V. aka “Thinker8”
$11 (10th donation), Yves R.
$11 (9th donation), Tomi P.
$11 (9th donation), Davide A.
$11 (7th donation), Soutarson P.
$11 (6th donation), Eduard L.
$11 (6th donation), Mirko A.
$11 (5th donation), Rupert B.
$11 (5th donation), Robert W.
$11 (5th donation), Florian L.
$11 (4th donation), John Marakis
$11 (4th donation), Marko U.
$11 (4th donation), Nicolas R.
$11 (4th donation), Tom S.
$11 (4th donation), Michael K.
$11 (3rd donation), Emanuel C.
$11 (3rd donation), Gerard D. W.
$11 (3rd donation), Jean R.
$11 (3rd donation), Richard Bergen (Writer)
$11 (3rd donation), Stefan P.
$11 (2nd donation), Patrice C.
$11 (2nd donation), Norbert D.
$11 (2nd donation), Christian W.
$11 (2nd donation), Galder D.
$11 (2nd donation), Ralf M.
$11 (2nd donation), Thomas K.
$11 (2nd donation), Peter B.
$11 (2nd donation), Martin K.
$11 (2nd donation), aka “billia”
$11 (2nd donation), William D.
$11 (2nd donation), Ernaelsten G. aka “MaitrePylos”
$11 (2nd donation), Thomas P. H.
$11 (2nd donation), Bernd Lauert
$11, Luigino V.
$11, Jan S.
$11, Heiko W.
$11, Antonio D.
$11, Paul vd B.
$11, Richard A.
$11, Sven J.
$11, Anastasios P.
$11, Patricio M.
$11, Ib Oscar J.
$11, Bruno S.
$11, Ruben V.
$11, Maurice E.
$11, Sebastian H.
$11, Jordi F.
$11, Bonato G.
$11, Matthias O.
$11, Olaf F.
$11, Jorge T.
$11, IAX
$11, Mario S.
$11, Miguel Angel L.
$11, Daniel A.
$11, Miki M.
$11, jo
$11, Luis Renato C.
$11, Joan A.
$11, Kenan C.
$11, Louis M.
$11, Daniel Čermák
$11, Bernd B.
$11, Surinameclubcard
$11, Mehdi A.
$11, Ørjan S.
$10 (86th donation), Tree Service Kansas City
$10 (80th donation), Tree Removal Raleigh NC
$10 (64th donation), Thomas C.
$10 (58th donation), Fence Baton Rouge
$10 (41th donation), Rick R.
$10 (25th donation), Francois-R L.
$10 (23rd donation), Serhii B. aka “sinpavla“
$10 (18th donation), Wilson G.
$10 (14th donation), Michel C.
$10 (12th donation), Tree Service Eau Claire
$10 (11th donation), Fence Company Raleigh
$10 (11th donation), Philip Woodward
$10 (10th donation), mintmem.com aka “mintmem.com“
$10 (9th donation), Philip E.
$10 (8th donation), Owen D.
$10 (8th donation), Concrete Contractors Raleigh
$10 (8th donation), Frank H.
$10 (7th donation), retaining wall blocks Salem Oregon
$10 (7th donation), Kenton B.
$10 (6th donation), Beloit Tree Service
$10 (6th donation), Michael P. K.
$10 (6th donation), Mathias aka “Sorglos”
$10 (5th donation), Minneapolis Commercial Cleaners
$10 (5th donation), Team Clean llc
$10 (5th donation), Mesa Towing Company
$10 (5th donation), galaxy projector
$10 (4th donation), Stuart Hedditch
$10 (4th donation), Michael K.
$10 (4th donation), Alexei S.
$10 (4th donation), Joseph G.
$10 (4th donation), Wilfrid W.
$10 (3rd donation), Minneapolis Commercial Painting
$10 (3rd donation), Edward H.
$10 (3rd donation), brooklyn park commercial cleaning
$10 (2nd donation), Minneapolis Roofing Pros
$10 (2nd donation), Johannes W.
$10 (2nd donation), Warner Cascante
$10 (2nd donation), Shy Zedaka.
$10 (2nd donation), Tomasz G.
$10 (2nd donation), Azbiel L.
$10 (2nd donation), Cesar A.
$10 (2nd donation), Waleed A.
$10 (2nd donation), Plymouth Roofing
$10 (2nd donation), Michael G.
$10 (2nd donation), Imre N.
$10 (2nd donation), Volodymyr K.
$10 (2nd donation), Auguste H.
$10 (2nd donation), Window Tinting Mackay
$10 (2nd donation), Eden Prairie Roofing
$10 (2nd donation), Anthony H.
$10, Daniel P.
$10, Mark B.
$10, Andrew K.
$10, C Felipe S P
$10, Raymond G.
$10, Gerson M.
$10, Dmitry K.
$10, Timothy L.
$10, Allen W.
$10, Robert Z.
$10, zzzzzz .
$10, Daniel W.
$10, Curtis B.
$10, Maryna P.
$10, Rick H. aka “Rick”
$10, Patrick Å.
$10, Guilherme M.
$10, Piyush A.
$10, Guillermo C.
$10, Andres U.
$10, Bruce M.
$10, Jean-françois P.
$10, Marcela D.
$10, Atheer A.
$10, Semyon K.
$10, Chirag B.
$10, Giso G.
$10, Everson D.
$10, Rupert T.
$10, Roman
$10, John T.
$10, Edward C.
$10, Rene A.
$10, Sönke P.
$10, Andrew G.
$8 (2nd donation), Henk-jan J.
$8 (2nd donation), Kevin M.
$6 (5th donation), Keith W.
$6, Serg K
$6, Pierre C.
$5 (61th donation), Eugene T.
$5 (51th donation), Bhavinder Jassar
$5 (38th donation), Dmitry P.
$5 (32nd donation), William Menezes
$5 (25th donation), Hristo Gatsinski
$5 (21st donation), Blazej P. aka “bleyzer”
$5 (20th donation), Thomas R.
$5 (12th donation), Sérgio D. S. S. aka “sersantos”
$5 (8th donation), Timo K.
$5 (8th donation), dgtworx.com
$5 (6th donation), Josef H. R. H.
$5 (6th donation), Vanessa & Markus
$5 (5th donation), Attila V.
$5 (4th donation), Louis C.
$5 (4th donation), Christopher S.
$5 (3rd donation), Massimo Balzi aka “massimobalzi”
$5 (3rd donation), Damir L.
$5 (3rd donation), Matthias W.
$5 (2nd donation), aka “Miro”
$5 (2nd donation), Victoria Hastings
$5 (2nd donation), J. Camargo
$5 (2nd donation), Donatas Dainys
$5 (2nd donation), Juan R. aka “Zorencen”
$5 (2nd donation), Antonio B.
$5, Alfred J.
$5, Keith O.
$5, Andrejas H.
$5, Niles M.
$5, David C.
$5, Paulo A.
$5, Klaus-Dieter M.
$5, Daniel A.
$5, Openoffer
$5, Matthew N.
$5, Viktor Z.
$5, Michael M.
$5, Gunesh C.
$5, Raul B.
$5, Norbert Sebastian
$5, Michael V.
$5, Paul R.
$5, Johan M.
$5, Krzysztof L.
$5, Vacaloura
$5, Evan Dort aka “Evand”
$5, Frederic J.
$5, Tamas C.
$5, Yuri V.
$4 (19th donation), Oleksandr P.
$4, Alan C.
$3 (11th donation), Fabio Baratti
$3 (10th donation), Szilard S.
$3 (6th donation), Ashraf H.
$3 (3rd donation), Ivan Zhelev
$3 (2nd donation), Erly T. O.
$3, Anton F.
$25 from 19 smaller donations
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