Charles Olsen and the mintCast team published another episode of their podcast. Happy listening everyone!

In Episode 6:

• The News (64bit plugins in x64 edition, screencast and community repository projects, DRM in Gears of War and in Microsoft’s music store)
• Main Story: Asus eeePC netbook
• Rothgar’s segment: Linux Mint on a Sony Vaio VGN-TT190
• Tip: Printing graphics to PDF
• Website of the Week: http://www.userfriendly.org/

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For more information about this podcast please visit http://mintcast.org/

If you want to contribute to the podcast or join their mailing list, please visit https://launchpad.net/~linuxmint-podcast-project

Direct link to the podcast: http://media.podcastingmanager.com/9/2/2/8/4/157612-148229/Media/mintCast006.mp3

Shownotes: http://mintcast.org/2009/02/02/mintcast-episode-6.aspx

Donations & Sponsorships:

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

Donors:

• $139, AvanceIT (UK) – http://avanceit.co.uk
• $100, Upinderjit S. (USA)
• $100, Geoffrey U. (USA)
• $66, Andre B. (Germany) 
• $66 (4th donation), Theodore T. (UK)
• $66, Peter K. (Switzerland)
• $60, Richard G. (USA) 
• $50, Steven W. (USA) 
• $50 (2nd donation), Harvey Elliott (UK)
• $50, Stephen C. (USA) 
• $25, Sohier C. (Canada)
• $25, Kevin S. (USA) 
• $25, James S. (USA) 
• $20, Matthew S. (USA) 
• $20, Brian H. (USA) 
• $20, Richard C. (USA) 
• $20, David V. (USA) 
• $20, Brian B. (USA) 
• $15, Sooren B. (UK) 
• $13 (5th donation), Frank Bechstein (Germany) – http://www.gamer-site.de
• $13, Ken W. (UK) 
• $13, Desmond R. (Australia)
• $10, Eero T V. (Finland)
• $10, Andrew B. (USA) 
• $10, Sevan S. (USA) 
• $10, Alejandro C. C. (Spain)
• $7, Tomasz K. (Poland)
• $5, John N. (USA) 
• $4, Sebastien K. (Portugal)
• $1, Mark B. (USA) 

Sponsors:

• $70, Philippe Lotz (alsaphil – France)
• $50, Linux-Onlineshop (Germany) – http://www.linux-onlineshop.de
• $45, Linux Compatible Poker (USA) – http://www.linuxcompatiblepoker.com
• $40, Az Van (newW2 – USA)
• $20, TOPIMMOBILIEN (Tim – Germany) – http://www.immobilien-es.com
• $10, Jim Rogers (USA)
• $7, Jesse Burroughs (JpBя – USA)
• $7, Panagiotis Papasaikas (Greece) – http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/ppapasai/
• $5, Dimitris Athanasiou (RHO, Greece) – http://www.speedtest.gr
• $5, Vassilis Skoullis (Greece)
• $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, Guillermo Enrique Guglietti (Canada) – http://www.urbancsa.org
• $5, Alex P.
• $5, Torrent Truth (USA)
• $2, Joerg Dreckmann (Germany)
• $1, Lintelligence.de. (d00p – Germany) – http://www.lintelligence.de
• $1, Linuxmint.de (d00p – Germany) – http://www.linuxmint.de
• $1, Ian Egland (Echolynx – USA)
• $1, BusinessSale – http://www.webvaluer.org
• $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
• $0.5 Martijn van Loon (aapiethaaap – Netherlands)

Money raised in January:

* Donations: $1033
* Sponsors: $294.5

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: 11.30%
• Linux Mint 5 Elyssa LTS: 34.71%
• Linux Mint 6 Felicia: 53.98%

Web Stats:

• Visits: 1,052,738
• Pageviews: 2,052,209
• Page impressions: 902,532
• Search queries: 2,111,860
• Forum users: 12264
• Forum posts: 118744

Events: 

• Linux Mint 6 Felicia x64 RC1 release: http://www.linuxmint.com/blog/?p=536
• Linux Mint 6 Felicia XFCE RC1 release: http://www.linuxmint.com/blog/?p=562
• Linux Mint was added to the Linux Distribution Chooser: http://www.zegeniestudios.net/ldc/
• Felicia Mint tools were backported to Elyssa LTS: http://www.linuxmint.com/blog/?p=558
• MintCast released 2 episodes: http://www.mintcast.org
• New version of mintInstall, 5.3.6: http://www.linuxmint.com/blog/?p=545
• Linux Mint 7 to be called Gloria: http://www.linuxmint.com/blog/?p=543
• Screencast and Community Repository projects created: http://www.linuxmint.com/blog/?p=579