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The “software” module was added to the Community Website.

The old “Software Portal” available for Mint 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 users contained approximately 400 applications. It was integrated with the main website and it was using the .mint format with mintInstall.

The new module contains every single package available in the repositories. So for instance, right now, it shows 30,592 packages. It’s integrated with the community website and it uses apturl which will come pre-installed in Linux Mint 9. It will also allow the new upcoming version of mintInstall to review packages straight from the application.

Reviews

Reviews now relate to packages, not to releases, so if you review a package now, your review will continue to be available after Mint 9, 10 and so on get released. You can see how long each review was written so obsolete data isn’t an issue. At any time you can update your review of a package and reset its timestamp. As a consequence we’re hoping to get a lot more reviews from the community in this module than we previously had in the Software Portal.

A review is basically a score and a comment. The comment is a one-liner. The score ranges from 1 to 5 depending on how much you like the application you’re reviewing.. 1 is for packages you hate, 2 for packages you don’t like, 3 for packages you think are so-so, 4 for packages you like, 5 for packages you think are “awesome” (or “brilliant” depending on where you live) 🙂

The overall score of a package is the sum of all the (individual score – 3). The rationale behind this, is that a 3 is neutral, and so you can impact the overall score of each application by -2, -1, 0, +1 or +2 depending on how much you like it. The more people like a package the higher the score… and vice-versa.

Screenshots (updated)

You can upload screenshots by clicking on the “no screenshot available” picture. Once your screenshot is uploaded, it will be under review by the admins. If approved it will then appear in the module.

Feedback

Happy reviewing, and don’t hesitate to give us some feedback.

Note: The categories are a bit mixed up. This is an issue we’re aware of. We’ll fix this in the coming days.

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Donations & Sponsorships:

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

Donors:

  • $200, Terry Mansfield aka “tmansfield” (USA)
  • $140, Hans G. (Germany)
  • $71, Alfred A. (Germany)
  • $60, Kitchener-Waterloo LUG (Canada) – http://www.kwlug.org
  • $57, Philip D. aka “phd7” (Ireland)
  • $50 (3rd donation), Mike G. aka “subslug” (USA)
  • $50 (2nd donation), Jonathan B H. (USA)
  • $50, Digital Linx Hosting (Canada) – http://vpsnoc.com
  • $50, Richard H. (USA)
  • $50, Louis P. aka “BikeLouP” (USA)
  • $50, Stephen B. (USA)
  • $50, James J. (USA)
  • $50, Nathan B. (USA)
  • $40, Pete Molina aka “pmolina” (USA)
  • $40, Rod McLaren aka “Ambertone” (Australia) – http://www.ambertone.com.au
  • $35, Andrew M. (Australia)
  • $35, Andreas S. (Germany)
  • $35, Marcus Norrgard (Finland) – http://www.hanken.fi/staff/manorrga
  • $30, James P. (United Kingdom)
  • $30, Bill R. (USA)
  • $28 (3rd donation), Marco R. (Italy)
  • $28, Mark R. (United Kingdom)
  • $28, Frank Schmidt (Germany)
  • $28, Lee B. (United Kingdom)
  • $28, Philippe Camus (France)
  • $28, Manuel F. (Portugal)
  • $28, Sven B. (Sweden)
  • $25, Aleksander S. (Norway)
  • $25, Peter B. (Australia)
  • $25, Brad Little aka “thelynx” (United Arab Emirates)
  • $25, Norman H. (USA)
  • $25, Tony R. aka “tonyric” (USA) – http://www.ournuthut.net
  • $25, Jens K. (Germany)
  • $25, Happy Nerds Workshop (USA)
  • $25, Glenn W. (Canada)
  • $25, Steve T. (Canada)
  • $21 (2nd donation), Antonio Gemelli aka “Antowen” (Italy)
  • $21, Francisco C. C. (Spain)
  • $21, Jose Luis S. M. (Sweden)
  • $21, Michael Krusch aka “MAD” (Germany)
  • $21, Hugh Crooke (United Kingdom)
  • $20, Edward H. (USA)
  • $20, Ludovic G. aka “Lewdsquirrel” (Canada)
  • $20, Sergio T. (USA)
  • $20, Jene W. (USA)
  • $20, David T. (USA)
  • $20, Bernardo Dias (Brazil)
  • $20, Peter C. (United Kingdom)
  • $20, Anthony S. (USA)
  • $20, Danielle S. (USA)
  • $20, David Tomlin (USA)
  • $20, Terry D. (Australia)
  • $20, Richard L. (United Kingdom)
  • $20, Anthony D. (United Kingdom)
  • $20, Mark E. aka “engram” (USA)
  • $20, Barry W. (USA)
  • $20, Samuel L. (USA)
  • $20, Anthony B. (USA)
  • $20, Beom K. (Australia)
  • $15, Darren K. (United Kingdom)
  • $15, Jacques St-O. (Canada)
  • $15, Darryl S. (USA)
  • $15, Slavoljub M. (Norway)
  • $15, Tobias S. (Germany)
  • $14, David Holstein (United Kingdom) – http://www.davyhulme.net
  • $14, Kevin Dermott (United Kingdom)
  • $14, Thomas S. (Austria)
  • $14, Michel A. (France)
  • $14, Antonis M. (Greece)
  • $14, Uwe M. (Germany)
  • $14, Emil Pavlov aka “emil_pavlov” (Bulgaria)
  • $14, Frank Dominik L. (Germany)
  • $10, D.Snyder aka “capt” (USA)
  • $10, Michael N. (USA)
  • $10, Salim Farah aka “Verix” (USA)
  • $10, Trey H. aka “Ubuntaur” (USA)
  • $10, Barron R. (USA)
  • $10, Alexander G. (USA)
  • $10, Paul V. (Canada)
  • $10, Apollo V. Melo aka “teflashfire” (USA) – http://militarylinuxusers.blogspot.com
  • $10, David E. (USA)
  • $10, Marcus Hui (USA) – http://marcushui.blog.co.uk
  • $10, Shofi A. (United Kingdom)
  • $10, George R. aka “Az4x4” (USA)
  • $10, Fyodor K. (Denmark)
  • $10, Desmond W. (USA)
  • $7, Rienk D. (Netherlands)
  • $7, Roberto T. (Italy)
  • $7, Alessio C. (Italy)
  • $7, Paulo Bartolomeu aka “bartmanpt” (Portugal) – http://pt.linkedin.com/in/paulobartolomeu
  • $7, Michael Klitschka (Germany)
  • $5, Thomas B. (USA)
  • $5, Donald McL. (USA)
  • $5, Eric W T. (USA)
  • $5, Dennis B. (Australia)
  • $5, Savant B.D. (USA) – http://www.allyourprices.com
  • $5, Matt G. (USA)
  • $5, Muhammad B. (Indonesia)
  • $4, Jackie R. (USA)
  • $3, Leo Ryan (Philippines) – http://websitesvalue.net
  • $3, Salvatore D. (Italy)
  • $2, Robert M. (Austria)
  • $2, Dominique Lemieux (Canada)
  • $1, Sylvestre Burgos aka “sylvestre” (France) – http://burgos.sourceforge.net
  • $1, Stefan B. (Germany)
  • $1, Rafal Kudlinski (Poland)
  • $1, Rovshan P. (Azerbaijan)
  • $1, Timothy G. (USA)
  • $1, Michael Falk (Germany) – http://wi.uni-giessen.de

Sponsors:

Money raised in February:

* Donations: $2518 (110 donors)
* Sponsors: $777 (56 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: 58% (+6%)
  • Linux Mint 7 Gloria: 30% (-7%)
  • Linux Mint 6 Felicia: 6% (-0%)
  • Linux Mint 5 Elyssa LTS: 3% (-0%)
  • Linux Mint 4.0 Daryna: 2% (-0%)

Web Stats:

  • Visits: 2,439,390 (+2%)
  • Unique views: 3,317,827 (+3%)
  • Pageviews: 4,330,486 (+3%)
  • Page impressions: 1,805,045
  • Search queries: 5,470,848
  • Forum users: 28,078
  • Forum posts: 237,158

Rankings:

  • Distrowatch (popularity ranking): 1595 (3rd)
  • Distrowatch (traffic share): 4.6% (2nd)
  • Alexa (website ranking): 18,142

Events:

Summary:

  • The overall income is up again, by 3% in February. This is particularly good considering there were only 28 days that month as opposed to 31 the month before.
  • Donations decreased. From $4,000 in December they’re down to $2,500 in February.
  • February was a very busy month for the team. 3 stable releases were out.
  • Although the most important Distrowatch indicator is down (traffic share: 4.6%), the distribution started to get more coverage in the press and in the media.
  • Development started on Linux Mint 9.
  • March should see the releases of the Xfce and LXDE editions.