February 2010 – Page 3 – The Linux Mint Blog

Donations & Sponsorships:

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

Donors:

$200 (2nd donation), Alan D S. (USA)
$147, Michel H. (Luxembourg)
$100, Alfred Johnson aka “adj0159” (USA)
$100, William H. (Canada)
$100, Jacob B. (USA)
$100, Connie E. (USA)
$100, Anonymous (France)
$100, Eric V. (USA)
$75, Michael B. (Canada)
$74, Edwin Vervliet aka “edwin” (Belgium)
$70, Henk van C. (Netherlands)
$50, Mark G. (USA)
$50, Derek M. (Denmark)
$50, Pawel B. (Poland)
$50, James S. (USA)
$50, Robert D B. (USA)
$50, Michael H. (USA)
$50, Geoff Perry (Australia)
$50, John M. (USA)
$50, Hartmann M. (Germany)
$50, William K. (USA)
$40, Martin Pham-D. (Canada)
$40, Mason H. (USA)
$37 (8th donation), Temel Balci (Germany)
$37 (5th donation), Jerry Jackson (United Kingdom)
$29, Peter Schallmoser-Schlogl (Germany)
$29, Olaf L. (Germany)
$29, Oliver S. (United Kingdom)
$29, Jose A Roman S. (Spain)
$28, Manuel F. (Portugal)
$28, Rene D. (Canada)
$28, Klaas M. (Netherlands)
$28, Manfred G. (Germany)
$25, Jay Stewart aka “jag1182” (USA)
$25, Zeljko T S. aka “zts” (USA)
$25, David S. (USA)
$25, Gavin Engel (USA)
$25, Todd A. (USA)
$25, Phillip Z. T. and Silver Gallery (USA)
$25, Slavoljub M. (Norway)
$25, Nick Marsh aka “goaliefight” (USA) – http://dontfearthecommandline.blogspot.com
$25, Pete Molina aka “pmolina” (USA)
$25, Bill B. (USA)
$25, James M. aka “jaspmatt” (USA)
$25, Troy A. (USA)
$25, David Kaplan aka “vinoman” (USA)
$22, Mick J. (Germany)
$22, Manfred Saliger aka “mintfrind” (Germany) – http://saliger.net
$20, Igor Lawicki (Poland) – http://ilawicki.wordpress.com
$20, Samuel R. (USA)
$20, Foued Ramoul (Algeria)
$20, Kazuhiko T. (Japan)
$20, Justin M. (Canada)
$20, Orlando Jose M. R. (Nicaragua)
$20, Jacek G. (United Kingdom)
$20, Darrel D. (USA)
$20, Ecoh S. (USA)
$20, Chris Baldassari (USA)
$20, Mark C. aka “geekman” (USA)
$16, James S. (United Kingdom)
$15, Davide V. (Italy)
$15, Jeffrey Devries (USA)
$15, Emil Pavlov aka “emil_pavlov” (Bulgaria)
$15, Bruno G. (France)
$15, Jason V. (USA)
$15, Paul Oates aka “pauloates” (United Kingdom)
$15, Jimmy Bouma aka “jimbo_tank” (Netherlands)
$15, Samuel M. aka “vtired” (Italy) – http://it.ismico.org
$15, Miguel Cunha Duarte aka “mcduarte2000” (Portugal) – http://www.miguelduarte.net
$14, Daniele Tagliabue aka “iunthanaka” (Italy)
$14, Daniel S. (Switzerland)
$14, Marwan B. (Ireland)
$12, Jagat B. (USA)
$10 (2nd donation), Rob S. (United Kingdom)
$10, Marcin W. (USA)
$10, jmkent aka “Burton” (USA)
$10, Dan Jackson (United Kingdom)
$10, EagleRider F. (USA)
$10, Praveen M. (France)
$10, Alfred M A. (USA)
$10, Khalid Al-A. (Saudi Arabia)
$10, Dirk Kleinert (Germany)
$10, Thomas B. (USA)
$10, Rob T. (Netherlands)
$10, Johnson L. (Malaysia)
$10, J Anil K. (India)
$10, Anthony H. (USA)
$10, A User (New Zealand)
$7, Alberto Ballestri and Marco Fabbri (Italy)
$7, Flemming A. N. (Denmark)
$7, Alan F. (Ireland)
$5 (3rd donation), Jindrich Radic aka “amino” (Czech Republic)
$5, Kyle D. (USA) – http://neuraldump.com
$5, Michele P. (Italy)
$5, Donald McL. (USA)
$5, Shawn R. (USA)
$5, Daniel Hawkins aka “spikeman14” (United Kingdom) – http://www.the-hawk.co.uk
$5, Richard E. (USA)
$5, Fred N. (USA)
$5, Kamba Abudu (United Kingdom) – http://portaltoafrica.com
$5, Suryakant P. (USA)
$4, Savant B.D. (USA) – http://www.allyourprices.com
$3, Dawid Mondry (Germany)
$3, Stefan S. (Germany)
$2, Easwaran K. (India)
$2, Eunmi J. (South Korea)
$1, Junaidi J. (Malaysia)
$1, Peter Robert Jones (United Kingdom) – http://www.zendee.net
$1, Marvin L. (Germany)
$1, Lex V. (Netherlands)

Sponsors:

$231, R1Soft (USA) – http://www.r1soft.com/tools/linux-hot-copy/?ls=linuxmint
$88, Emilio A S.
$75, John Ritchie aka “Aging Technogeek” (USA)
$45, Linux Compatible Poker (USA) – http://www.linuxcompatiblepoker.com/
$40, Az Van aka “newW2” (USA)
$25, American Broadband Family of Companies (USA) – http://www.americanbroadbandservice.com/
$20, Scott P. (USA)
$16, Dimitris C. (Greece)
$15, Linux in the HAM Shack aka “HamShackLinux” (USA) – http://blacksparrowmedia.com/lhs
$11, Gustav Holm aka “Gustav” (Sweden) – http://gustavholm.com/
$11, cheap vps hosting – http://www.neosurge.com/
$10, advermedia.info – http://www.advermedia.info
$10, Christian Junghans aka “Hexenkind” (Germany)
$10, Real Estate Centers – http://www.realestatecenters.net
$10, Rechtsberatung, Steuerberatung, Internetrecht (Tim) aka “Tim” – http://www.rechtsundsteuerberatung.de/
$10, Website Auditor – http://www.websiteauditor.org
$10, Brandon P.
$10, Jack H. – http://www.dlxcompany.com
$10, Stitz Computers, LLC (USA) – http://stitzcomputers.com/
$10, worldsrealestate.net – http://www.worldsrealestate.net
$7, Unixmen – http://www.unixmen.com/
$7, Jesse Burroughs aka “JpBя” (USA)
$6, Kenneth E.
$5, Contact lenses (Ireland) – http://www.eye-care-4u.com
$5, David Simmons (USA)
$5, Linuxmint-FR.org (France) – http://www.linuxmint-fr.org
$5, Christopher D.
$5, Sohier C.
$5, J.A. Sin aka “Futari” (Spain)
$5, Stuart C.
$5, linuxmint-italia.org aka “prior123” (Italy) – http://www.linuxmint-italia.org
$4.5, Chile travel (Chile) – http://www.letsgochile.com
$4, Ian E. aka “EchoLynx ” (USA)
$3, CreationsByRichie – Animated Banners & Graphical Designs – http://creationsbyrichie.com
$2, NVISN TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS AND CONSULTING (USA) – http://www.nvisn.com/
$2, Douglas T.
$2, Ryan Lewon aka “vt102” – http://vt102.com
$2, funkelectric (Spain) – http://www.funkelectric.com/
$2, Scott M.
$2, Joerg Dreckmann (Germany)
$1.5, Farbyte (United Kingdom) – http://farbyte.com
$1, Cyprus Weather (Cyprus) – http://www.mycyprusweather.com
$1, Недвижимость на Кипре (Cyprus) – http://www.cyprusresaleproperties.ru
$1, LinBoo.com – http://linboo.com/linux/mint.html
$1, Surf in Peace (United Kingdom) – http://www.surfinpeace.co.uk/
$1, Alex Smith (United Kingdom) – http://alexsmith.im
$1, Kevin H.
$1, very-clever.com – http://www.very-clever.com/
$1, Renelou Esperanzate (Philippines)
$1, Mohd Ismail B.
$1, Cyprus Resale (Cyprus) – http://www.cyprusresaleproperties.com
$1, Frank S.
$1, Greg Flynn (South Africa)
$1, Erin G.
$1, Jakub Jasiulewicz (Poland) – http://jasiulewicz.pl/
$1, Prasad.S.R (India) – http://saysprasad.wordpress.com/
$1, Pokerschule – http://pokerschulen.com
$0.5, Dedicated Servers Hosting – http://www.dedicatedservershostingdeals.com
$0.5, Nottingham web design (United Kingdom) – http://www.drawmyattention.co.uk/

Money raised in January:

* Donations: $3091 (111 donors)
* Sponsors: $769 (59 sponsors)

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

User Stats:

Repartition of Linux Mint users across releases:

Linux Mint 8 Helena: 52% (+9%)
Linux Mint 7 Gloria: 37% (-6%)
Linux Mint 6 Felicia: 6% (-1%)
Linux Mint 5 Elyssa LTS: 3% (-1%)
Linux Mint 4.0 Daryna: 2% (-0%)

Web Stats:

Visits: 3,222,724 (-3%)
Pageviews: 4,203,501 (-3%)
Page impressions: 1,690,235
Search queries: 5,492,122
Forum users: 26,441
Forum posts: 224,726

Rankings:

Distrowatch (popularity ranking): 1556 (3rd)
Distrowatch (traffic share): 5% (2nd) (not accurately recorded, between 4.8% and 5.1%, strong 2nd position anyway and a clear increase in the last two months).
Alexa (website ranking): 18,498th

Events:

A Hardware Database was added to the Community Website: http://www.linuxmint.com/blog/?p=1234
Linux Mint 8 KDE CE RC1 was released: http://www.linuxmint.com/blog/?p=1238
Linux Mint 8 Fluxbox CE RC1 was released: http://www.linuxmint.com/blog/?p=1242
mintCast released 3 episodes of their podcast: http://mintcast.org/

Summary:

The inevitable has finally happen and the streak of “best consecutive months” is over, this month wasn’t as good as the previous one. But with such a fantastic month in December 09 and considering what’s happening now, things aren’t that bad at all.
The overall income is down 3% and so are most of our statistics. Everything is still pretty good though. There are clear indications that our user base has been growing a lot since November 09, the distribution is getting momentum and if it wasn’t for the huge numbers we got in December, January would have looked excellent.
The KDE and Fluxbox CE will be released in February, work has begun on the recently codenamed Linux Mint 9 “Isadora” and we should hear news about whether or not time is given, and how much of it, to the Debian CE project.

Donations & Sponsorships:

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

Donors:

$150, Bernhard I. (Germany) – http://www.platinlyrics.com
$120, PokerKanone.com (Germany) – http://pokerkanone.com
$100, Jaggy R. (Singapore)
$100, Robert K. (USA)
$100, Gregory C. (Australia)
$100, Glenn W. (USA)
$89, Yu-min L. (New Zealand)
$77 (2nd donation), Eric H. (Germany)
$77, Emil Dimitrov (Ireland)
$77, Jan W. (Netherlands)
$77, Sam Day aka “discord” (Australia)
$77, Juan Jose Castro aka “jjcmmgb” (Spain)
$75, Dan Wright (USA)
$54, Chris M. (Germany)
$50, Cesare D. (Netherlands)
$50, Richard White aka “rwhite5279” (USA) – http://hybridclassroom.com
$50, Chris Beaudry aka “NCFC” (Canada)
$50, Nathan B. (USA)
$50, Abdullah Al-Suwailem (Saudi Arabia)
$50, Carolyn B. (USA)
$50, Denis A. (Canada)
$50, Steve Hoffman aka “SteveHoffmanUK” (United Kingdom)
$50, Gary Martin (USA)
$50, John Bilston (Australia)
$50, Dan K. (USA)
$50, John S. (USA)
$50, Raino P. (Finland)
$50, Chris B. (USA)
$46, Mario G. aka “scrat” (Italy)
$40, William S. (USA)
$38 (2nd donation), Michael Krusch aka “MAD” (Germany)
$38, Richard Cail (United Kingdom)
$38, James W. (Switzerland)
$31 (2nd donation), Carsten Wehner (Germany) – http://superlinuxpc.de
$31, Frederic S. (France)
$31, Bernard Schurdevin (France)
$31, Haydn P. (United Kingdom)
$30, Sung P. (USA)
$30, Manuel F. (Portugal)
$30, Pete Molina aka “pmolina” (USA)
$30, Abel R. (Argentina)
$30, William B. (USA)
$30, Badr R. (France)
$30, Dmitry V. (Russia)
$30, Patrick Taylor aka “pataylo” (USA)
$30, Michael A. (Switzerland)
$30, Jonathan L. (USA)
$30, Errol Lisonbee (USA)
$30, Milan S. (Slovakia)
$25 (4th donation), Philippe W. (Switzerland)
$25 (2nd donation), Bjorn S. Nielsen aka “bjornie” (Norway)
$25, Joseph R. (USA)
$25, Anonymous (USA)
$25, Erick J B. (USA)
$25, Raphael C. (World)
$25, Americo R. (Venezuela)
$25, John B. (USA)
$25, Tomas B. (Sweden)
$25, Rev Richard R. (USA)
$25, Slavoljub M. (Norway)
$25, Jay Stewart aka “jag1182” (USA)
$25, Zeljko T S. aka “zts” (USA)
$25, Joseph V. (USA)
$23, Marianne M. (France)
$23, Marc Floris (Netherlands)
$23, Francisco C. C. (Spain)
$23, Giorgio C. aka “thetall82” (Italy)
$23, Anonymous (Netherlands)
$20 (2nd donation), Colin Casey (Canada)
$20 (2nd donation), Dan B. (USA)
$20, Chris Jones (USA) – http://caringcompy.org
$20, Michael D. (USA)
$20, David F. (USA)
$20, Michael W. (Canada)
$20, Trevor B. (Canada)
$20, Donna Fontenot aka “DonnaFontenot – DazzlinDonna” (USA) – http://www.dazzlindonna.com
$20, David LaButte aka “dlabutte” (Canada)
$20, Kazuhiko T. (Japan)
$20, Ludovic G. aka “Lewdsquirrel” (Canada)
$20, Ventura M (Canada)
$20, Eugene C. (USA)
$20, Catherine N. (Australia)
$15 (2nd donation), Douglas S. (USA)
$15, George T. (Greece)
$15, Richard L. (USA)
$15, Peter H. (Netherlands)
$15, Martin S. (Germany)
$15, Wolfgang B. (Germany)
$15, Alex W. (Germany)
$15, Rodrigo Dias aka “roddias” (Brazil)
$15, Costas Krallis aka “sv1xv” (Greece) – http://www.qsl.net/sv1xv/
$15, Alessandro R. (Italy)
$15, Volker B. (Germany)
$15, Mario B. (Portugal)
$15, Robert D B. (USA)
$15, Kevin Dermott (United Kingdom)
$15, Alexander R. (Germany)
$15, Emil Pavlov aka “emil_pavlov” (Bulgaria)
$15, Pasqualino F. (Italy)
$15, John S. (USA)
$15, Brian G. (United Kingdom)
$15, Eberhard J. (Germany)
$15, Simon M. (Australia)
$14, Bernard S. (Netherlands)
$10, David Chandra aka “dakochan” (Singapore) – http://dakotux.wordpress.com
$10, Christopher W. (Germany)
$10, Robert S. (Germany)
$10, Tan Sin W. (Singapore)
$10, Luke Blackmore (Australia)
$10, Sammy F. aka “sammyF70” (France) – http://www.cosmic-bandito.com
$10, Steven J G. (USA)
$10, Stephen Woodward (United Kingdom)
$10, Alberto Ballestri and Marco Fabbri (Italy)
$10, Mark B. (USA)
$10, Troy C. (USA)
$10, Michael Lewis aka “HAM” (USA)
$10, Charlie Wolcott aka “714snoopy” (USA)
$10, Richard E. (USA)
$10, M Akbar M. (Indonesia)
$10, Ross Scalise aka “rmscalise” (USA)
$10, Timothy G. (USA)
$10, Andrew A. (USA)
$8, BOXnDICE INTERNET (Australia)
$7, Simon B. E. (Spain)
$7, Simone B. (Italy)
$7, Vasluianu M. A. (Spain)
$7, Janne B. (Finland)
$7, Martin J. (USA)
$7, Miguel Cunha Duarte aka “mcduarte2000” (Portugal) – http://www.miguelduarte.net
$7, Edward L Dunlap III (USA)
$6, Fabio Barbieri (Mexico)
$6, Michal F. (Slovakia)
$5, Jennifer P. (Canada)
$5, Ruben C. M. (Spain)
$5, Wasim Soukieh (Australia)
$5, Marc van der Wolf (Netherlands) – http://www.vdwolf.nl
$5, Brian O. (USA)
$5, Enrico Galli (Italy) – http://www.egw.it
$5, Weslly Labrador (Venezuela) – http://wesllyoni.blogspot.com
$5, Mehmet C. (Turkey)
$5, Hideaki T. (Japan)
$3, Francesco S. (Italy)
$2, Hendra P. (Indonesia)
$2, Savant B.D. (USA) – http://www.allyourprices.com
$2, Lucille Paulis aka “Duysterwald” (Netherlands)
$2, Maciej Z. (Poland)
$1, Shahmir Karim aka “kl2u” (Malaysia) – http://www.squidoo.com/toy-watch
$1, Alan F. (Ireland)
$1, Pawel W. (United Kingdom)
$1, Peter G. (Germany)
$1, Serge M. (France)
$1, Jiri P. (Czech Republic)
$1, Parmesh F. (USA)

Sponsors:

$231, R1Soft (USA) – http://www.r1soft.com/tools/linux-hot-copy/?ls=linuxmint
$106, SEOMoves (USA) – http://www.seomoves.org
$88, Emilio A S.
$75, John Ritchie aka “Aging Technogeek” (USA)
$45, Linux Compatible Poker (USA) – http://www.linuxcompatiblepoker.com/
$40, Az Van aka “newW2” (USA)
$25, American Broadband Family of Companies (USA) – http://www.americanbroadbandservice.com/
$20, TOPIMMOBILIEN aka “Tim” – http://www.immobilien-es.com/
$20, Scott P. (USA)
$15, Linux in the HAM Shack aka “HamShackLinux” (USA) – http://blacksparrowmedia.com/lhs
$15, Dimitris C.
$11, Gustav Holm aka “Gustav” (Sweden) – http://gustavholm.com/
$11, cheap vps hosting – http://www.neosurge.com/
$10, Brandon P.
$10, Todd W.
$10, Christian Junghans aka “Hexenkind” (Germany)
$10, Jack H. – http://www.dlxcompany.com
$10, Stitz Computers, LLC (USA) – http://stitzcomputers.com/
$10, Rechtsberatung, Steuerberatung, Internetrecht (Tim) aka “Tim” – http://www.rechtsundsteuerberatung.de/
$10, Website Auditor – http://www.websiteauditor.org
$10, Real Estate Centers – http://www.realestatecenters.net
$7, Unixmen – http://www.unixmen.com/
$7, Jesse Burroughs aka “JpBя” (USA)
$6, Kenneth E.
$5, David Simmons (USA)
$5, Einar Orn E.
$5, Sohier C.
$5, linuxmint-italia.org aka “prior123” (Italy) – http://www.linuxmint-italia.org
$5, Contact lenses (Ireland) – http://www.eye-care-4u.com
$5, Linuxmint-FR.org (France) – http://www.linuxmint-fr.org
$5, Christopher D.
$5, Stuart C.
$4, Ian E. aka “EchoLynx ” (USA)
$3, CreationsByRichie – Animated Banners & Graphical Designs – http://creationsbyrichie.com
$2, Joerg Dreckmann (Germany)
$2, Douglas T.
$2, NVISN TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS AND CONSULTING (USA) – http://www.nvisn.com/
$2, funkelectric (Spain) – http://www.funkelectric.com/
$2, Scott M.
$2, Ryan Lewon aka “vt102” – http://vt102.com
$1.5, Farbyte (United Kingdom) – http://farbyte.com
$1, very-clever.com – http://www.very-clever.com/
$1, Renelou Esperanzate (Philippines)
$1, Prasad.S.R (India) – http://saysprasad.wordpress.com/
$1, Busybits aka “Submit Website” – http://www.busybits.com/
$1, Jakub Jasiulewicz (Poland) – http://jasiulewicz.pl/
$1, Kevin H.
$1, Surf in Peace (United Kingdom) – http://www.surfinpeace.co.uk/
$1, Pokerschule – http://pokerschulen.com
$1, Недвижимость на Кипре (Cyprus) – http://www.cyprusresaleproperties.ru
$1, Cyprus Weather (Cyprus) – http://www.mycyprusweather.com
$1, Mohd Ismail B.
$1, Cyprus Resale (Cyprus) – http://www.cyprusresaleproperties.com
$1, Daryl J.
$1, Frank S.
$1, Erin G.
$1, LinBoo.com – http://linboo.com/linux/mint.html
$1, Greg Flynn (South Africa)
$0.9, Michael K.
$0.5, Nottingham web design (United Kingdom) – http://www.drawmyattention.co.uk/
$0.5, Dedicated Servers Hosting – http://www.dedicatedservershostingdeals.com

Money raised in December:

* Donations: $4174 (155 donors)
* Sponsors: $886.4 (62 sponsors)

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

User Stats:

Repartition of Linux Mint users across releases:

Linux Mint 8 Helena: 43% (+11%)
Linux Mint 7 Gloria: 43% (-10%)
Linux Mint 6 Felicia: 7% (-1%)
Linux Mint 5 Elyssa LTS: 4% (-0%)
Linux Mint 4.0 Daryna: 2% (-1%)

Web Stats:

Visits: 3,316,286 (+12%)
Pageviews: 4,327,171 (+14%)
Page impressions: N/A
Search queries: N/A
Forum users: N/A
Forum posts: N/A

Rankings:

Distrowatch (popularity ranking): N/A (3rd)
Distrowatch (traffic share): N/A (2nd)
Alexa (website ranking): N/A

Events:

Linux Mint 8 x64 edition was released: http://www.linuxmint.com/blog/?p=1183
The Community Website was opened to the public (at ALPHA stage) with a module similar to Brainstorm: http://www.linuxmint.com/blog/?p=1195
mintCast released 1 episode of their podcast: http://mintcast.org/

Summary:

December 2009 was the (10th consecutive) best month ever since the creation of Linux Mint.
The overall income was up 12%.
Our user base is the second largest in the desktop Linux market.
The community support was higher than ever seen before: 155 people giving a total of over $4,000.
We released these statistics a month late and so some of the figures weren’t recorded but December 2009 was by far the best month for us since the creation of the distribution. Whether it’s the income, the traffic, the rankings, this month just broke all previously established records and closed a very positive 2009 year for us on a truly fantastic note!

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