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Donations & Sponsorships:

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

Donors:

  • $150 (9th donation), Antonio M. aka “Rob Brill’s book-keeper”
  • $150 (2nd donation), C. L. aka “Rev Mike“
  • $132 (2nd donation), Drazen P.
  • $100 (4th donation), Jordan S.
  • $100, Alexander M. aka “Alex“
  • $100, David Clearwater
  • $79.2 (6th donation), Orlando M. M.
  • $66 (3rd donation), Achim L.
  • $60 (3rd donation), Darrel Norstrom aka “Darrel”
  • $50 (2nd donation), Christian Porter
  • $50 (2nd donation), Terry G.
  • $50, Mark F.
  • $50, Rodney G.
  • $50, Thomas K.
  • $50, James M.
  • $50, Jon N.
  • $39.6, Christian E.
  • $39.6, Lorenz F.
  • $35 (16th donation), Pete Molina aka “pmolina”
  • $35, Rob
  • $34.5 (2nd donation), Henk van C.
  • $33, Hartmut B.
  • $33, Florian
  • $30 (4th donation), Avery W. aka “willie42”
  • $30, Thomas D.
  • $27.6 (18th donation), Manuel F.
  • $27.6, ALKO aka “Loïc”
  • $26.4 (14th donation), Marco R.
  • $26.4 (14th donation), Olli K.
  • $26.4, Raymond C.
  • $26.4, Giuseppe S.
  • $26.4, Michele P. aka “mikipao”
  • $26.4, Sorin Silaghi aka “sorin7486“
  • $25 (7th donation), John M.
  • $25 (6th donation), Kenny Hendrick aka “NprComputers“
  • $25 (3rd donation), Michael L. aka “ddavid123“
  • $25, B Smith aka “corktowner”
  • $25, Arnold H.
  • $25, Robert F.
  • $25, Willi G.
  • $25, Ahmad M.
  • $25, Stoffberg’s
  • $20 (20th donation), Славољуб aka “slw”
  • $20 (12th donation), Matthew M.
  • $20 (2nd donation), Clifton W.
  • $20 (2nd donation), Trevor H.
  • $20, Daniel H.
  • $20, Bruno N.
  • $20, Thomas M.
  • $20, Mr D. A. R.
  • $20, Randy K.
  • $20, Steven M.
  • $20, Juan F. L. M.
  • $20, Jannik W.
  • $20, Jason W.
  • $20, David K.
  • $20, John S.
  • $20, Martin D.
  • $20, Hugh T.
  • $19.8, Simone F.
  • $15 (6th donation), Michael Krusch aka “MAD”
  • $15 (4th donation), P. S. B. aka “fixpcpaul“
  • $15, Sebastian P.
  • $15, Ben H.
  • $13.8, Philip E.
  • $13.2 (4th donation), Marcos Antonio S.
  • $13.2 (3rd donation), Jacques aka “germanix”
  • $13.2, Kris G.
  • $13.2, Alberto S.
  • $13.2, Jörg B.
  • $13.2, Rwhl W.
  • $13.2, Christian D.
  • $13.2, Johannes G.
  • $13.2, Anita P.
  • $13.2, Aron K.
  • $13.2, Thomas T.
  • $13.2, Christopher B.
  • $13.2, Nicolas A.
  • $11, aka “kalamarr”
  • $10 (5th donation), Jun Q.
  • $10 (5th donation), Henry W.
  • $10 (3rd donation), Kiril Sotirov
  • $10 (3rd donation), lupinehorror
  • $10 (3rd donation), Ian W. aka “Wiggy25”
  • $10 (2nd donation), Zoe Q.
  • $10 (2nd donation), Stuart M.
  • $10, Kasper E.
  • $10, Antonio B.
  • $10, Tony C. aka “S. LaRocca”
  • $10, Hannes G.
  • $10, John C. Gage aka “Linux411“
  • $10, Sharif A.
  • $10, Evan B.
  • $10, Andras Porga aka “GodmaNZ”
  • $10, Timothy C.
  • $10, Matthew M.
  • $9.7, Robert S.
  • $9 (3rd donation), Philip A.
  • $8 (3rd donation), Philip A.
  • $7 (3rd donation), Philip A.
  • $7 (3rd donation), lupinehorror
  • $6.6 (4th donation), Kevin D.
  • $6.6 (3rd donation), Andreas G.
  • $6.6, Mikko H.
  • $6.6, Giuseppino M.
  • $6.6, TravelProtect GmbH
  • $6.6, Jindřich Z. aka “cechi”
  • $6.44 (2nd donation), Marcus W. aka “Cranium Slows”
  • $6 (2nd donation), Terry G.
  • $6, Adam W.
  • $5 (8th donation), Inga Muste aka “TokRa“
  • $5 (2nd donation), Manoj Devdas Prabhu
  • $5 (2nd donation), Aaron C.
  • $5 (2nd donation), Rob Brown aka “Brownie“
  • $5 (2nd donation), Eugene L.
  • $5, Levi H.
  • $5, Iván R. F. M.
  • $5, Luis B. aka “Wicho“
  • $5, Anatol P.
  • $5, Faisal O. A.
  • $5, TK aka “Glory to the Son of God/Jesus”
  • $5, Michael F.
  • $4, Jamie F.
  • $3.96 (6th donation), Ulf S. aka “MonteDrago”
  • $3.96, Florian C.
  • $3.18 (3rd donation), Bojan Kopanja
  • $3, Natalya Belenko aka “tlm”
  • $3, Jake Th.
  • $2.74 (3rd donation), Bojan Kopanja
  • $1.74, Graham L.
  • $1 (11th donation), Cool Computer Tricks
  • $1 (6th donation), Romeo C. D. aka “Yupy“
  • $1 (2nd donation), Rusli P. Tandiabang
  • $1 (2nd donation), Kim H. aka “grhdtj“
  • $1 (2nd donation), StuzzHosting.com
  • $1, Vincent P.
  • $1, Sanz G. L.
  • $1, Easter Island Hotels
  • $1, Armia aka “Evan Andika“
  • $1, Charlesley L.
  • $0.65, Andrzej C.
  • $0.36 (9th donation), Inga Muste aka “TokRa“

Sponsors:

Money raised in March:

* Donations: $3017.03 (142 donors)
* Sponsors: $1119.71 (113 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: 50.4%
  • Linux Mint 9 Isadora LTS: 24.37%
  • Linux Mint 7 Gloria: 7.85%
  • LMDE: 7.29%
  • Linux Mint 8 Helena: 5.64%
  • Linux Mint 4.0 Daryna: 2.30%
  • Linux Mint 6 Felicia: 1.36%
  • Linux Mint 5 Elyssa LTS: 0.79%

Web Stats:

  • Visits: 2,891,507
  • Unique views: 3,645,403
  • Pageviews: 4,646,967
  • Page impressions: 2,595,738
  • Search queries: 8,168,539
  • Forum users: 46,070
  • Forum posts: 387,497

Rankings:

  • Distrowatch (popularity ranking): 1816 (2nd)
  • Distrowatch (traffic share): 3.7% (2nd)
  • Alexa (website ranking): 14,950th

Events:

Summary:

  • March started with some very bad news. Due to personal circumstances Ikey had to focus on his personal life and could no longer work on Linux Mint.
  • The mintCast project was extremely successful and released 5 quality episodes, interviewing 2 team members.
  • The LXDE edition was released as stable and the Xfce edition switched to Debian.
  • From a financial point of view, none of the figures were bad, but none were particular high either. The overall daily income went down by 6%.
  • Improvements were made to the Update Manager and the Desktop Settings tool for the upcoming Mint 11 and LMDE.
  • In April, improvements should be made to the Software Manager and time will be spent in testing our desktop, including new packages such as LibreOffice and Firefox 4 and making sure upstream changes related to Gnome and Unity don’t impact it in any negative way.

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Linux Mint 8 Helena

Linux Mint 8 Helena will reach end of life on April 29th, 2011. This release was based on Ubuntu 9.10 which is planned to reach end-of-life at the same date.

Repositories will remain open for another while but no more updates or security fixes will be made available. Users of Linux Mint 8 Helena are asked to migrate to Linux Mint 9 LTS Isadora (Long Term Release which will be supported until April 2013).

Announcement from Ubuntu: “As with the earlier releases, Ubuntu committed to ongoing security and critical fixes for a period of 18 months. The support period is now nearing its end and Ubuntu 9.10 will reach end of life  on Friday, April 29, 2011. At that time, Ubuntu Security Notices will no longer include information or updated packages for Ubuntu 9.10.”

Note: This edition of Linux Mint follows the Ubuntu release cycle with a new release every 6 months, a lifespan of about 1.5 years per release and 3 years per LTS release. LTS stands for Long Term Support. Linux Mint 9 is our latest LTS release.

Upgrade instructions: To upgrade to a newer version of Linux Mint, please use this tutorial.