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Monthly News – October 2013

November 13, 2013 by Clem·47 Comments

Sponsorships:

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Gold Sponsors:

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Libre-Assistance
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To become a sponsor or to see the full list of Linux Mint sponsors, please visit: http://www.linuxmint.com/sponsors.php

Donations:

A total of $4532 was raised thanks to the generous contributions of 207 donors:

$150, Richard K. H.
$129.93 (2nd donation), Frederic L. aka “”nofrog””
$129.93, Jörg-michael S.
$100 (5th donation), Vallin E.
$100 (2nd donation), Rich H.
$100, EarthNeptune.com LLC
$100, Erik H.
$100, Marc-anthony A.
$100, LG Supplements LLC
$100, Scott B.
$100, Magne L.
$64.97, Matthias Z.
$64.97, Hannu H.
$64.97, Samuel T. P.
$64.97, Hendrik M.
$64.96, Fernando G. S.
$51.97, Robert B.
$50 (43th donation), Matthew M.
$50 (6th donation), Benoit Frigon aka “bfrigon.com“
$50 (5th donation), Yves L. aka “amadeus128”
$50, Michael W.
$50, Timothy P.
$50, Mario F.
$50, Robert C.
$50, Liz K.
$50, Chris D W aka “squidly“
$40, James H.
$40, Nick P.
$38.98 (44th donation), Olli K.
$38.98, Radu D.
$38.98, Manuel H.
$38.98, Juergen D. B.
$35, Real F.
$35, Jack D.
$32.48 (8th donation), Jerry Jackson aka “900i”
$32.48, Bob G.
$32.48, Arve E.
$32.48, Vyacheslav M.
$30 (47th donation), Slavoljub aka “slw”
$30, Brad L. aka “Linux Lifer”
$30, Chris R.
$25.99 (5th donation), Pinna A.
$25.99 (2nd donation), Andrew R.
$25.99, Hans H. S.
$25.99, Robert B.
$25.99, Christian B.
$25.99, Marco E.
$25.99, Jani-matti T.
$25.99, Silvestre J.
$25.99, Fabien M.
$25.99, Reinhard S. aka “rs”
$25 (25th donation), Ronald W.
$25 (3rd donation), David van Geest
$25 (2nd donation), Robert H.
$25 (2nd donation), Bruce N.
$25, Thomas G.
$25, Matthew A.
$25, David R.
$25, Robert L.
$25, José C. R. M.
$25, Michael Z.
$25, Alex N.
$25, Vincent A.
$25, Fred H.
$25, Joseph M.
$20 (31st donation), Tsuguo S.
$20 (8th donation), Utah B.
$20 (7th donation), Utah B.
$20 (2nd donation), Arrowhead Computer Consulting, LLC aka “Jim (JR)“
$20 (2nd donation), Robert aka “33MHz”
$20, Rolf B.
$20, Matthew H.
$20, Dmitry T.
$20, Kirby M.
$20, Ranald C.
$20, Jeff A.
$20, William S.
$20, Freddy W.
$20, Dennis H.
$20, David H.
$20, Steven A.
$20, Wing T.
$20, Jimmie D.
$19.49 (3rd donation), Niklas M.
$19.49, Jose P. S.
$18.19, Linus P.
$15 (9th donation), Robert E.
$15 (5th donation), David Kelly aka “Daveinuk”
$15 (3rd donation), Andrzej W.
$15 (2nd donation), Marcelo T. L. D. S.
$15 (2nd donation), Alrik S.
$15, McGlew Pty. Ltd.
$15, Gonzalo M. D. O.
$15, Charles L.
$15, Michael S.
$15, Richard G.
$12.99 (8th donation), Mark W.
$12.99 (6th donation), Siegfried H.
$12.99 (4th donation), Marcos Antonio S.
$12.99 (3rd donation), Robert P.
$12.99 (2nd donation), Guido S.
$12.99, Johann J. A.
$12.99, Touko N.
$12.99, Kevin R.
$12.99, Yves G.
$12.99, Javier M. L.
$12.99, Stefan W.
$12.99, Marco H.
$12.99, Joanna Z. aka “GreenCatX”
$12.99, Stephan M.
$12.99, Ralf W. aka “Flarrebew”
$12.99, Henrique S.
$12.99, Andrea L.
$12.99, Javier H.
$12.98, Frederic S.
$10 (32nd donation), Tony C. aka “S. LaRocca”
$10 (7th donation), Jose P.
$10 (5th donation), Christopher R.
$10 (3rd donation), Andrew B.
$10 (2nd donation), Paul V.
$10 (2nd donation), Ashoka P.
$10 (2nd donation), Serguei S.
$10, Michael Y.
$10, Egashira T.
$10, Ohmura M.
$10, Jurgen Myrthe
$10, William N.
$10, Долгасов И.
$10, М А.
$10, Audrey M.
$10, Marcus D.
$10, French Road Bakery
$10, PushCoin
$10, sure chap
$10, Edgar T.
$10, Jason S.
$10, Randolph Carter aka “Schattenjager”
$10, Fernando G.
$10, John L.
$10, Dimitrios S.
$10, Simon B.
$10, Steven G.
$10, Richard C.
$7, Евдокимов А.
$6.5 (22nd donation), Marco aka “Dictionary-Maker“
$6.5 (21st donation), Marco aka “Dictionary-Maker“
$6.5 (7th donation), Robert K.
$6.5 (2nd donation), Guillaume G. aka “Tidusrose”
$6.5 (2nd donation), Raymond E.
$6.5, Juergen M.
$6.5, Moeris B.
$6.5, Ruben S.
$6.5, Fabian G.
$6.5, Peter K.
$6.5, Robert O.
$6.5, Frederic B.
$6.5, Alexandru A.
$5.44 (3rd donation), Dave Sailer
$5 (7th donation), L M. aka “LinuxMint”
$5 (6th donation), L M. aka “LinuxMint”
$5 (6th donation), David Vantongerloo
$5 (3rd donation), Ryan T.
$5 (3rd donation), Mordi K. aka “Mordik”
$5 (3rd donation), Vladimír V.
$5 (2nd donation), Randy R.
$5 (2nd donation), Grant Gordon aka “Puffy”
$5 (2nd donation), Kyle T.
$5, Thomas Morrow II
$5, Stephen S.
$5, Gregory A. C.
$5, Туйков Д.
$5, Anton W. Zimakos aka “Koss“
$5, Sukhovilin D.
$5, VARATHARAJAN M
$5, Connor L.
$5, John C.
$5, David B.
$5, Dan G.
$5, Evan K.
$5, Robert M.
$5, Ahmed R.
$5, Kyle B.
$5, Dipjyoti G.
$4, Vladislav H.
$3.9 (2nd donation), Miguel C. M.
$3.9, Juhani S. H.
$3, Комаров А.
$2.6, Roberto C.
$2.6, Идуков А.
$2.5, Aleš Z.
$22.01 from 17 smaller donations

If you want to help Linux Mint with a donation, please visit http://www.linuxmint.com/donors.php

Rankings:

Distrowatch (popularity ranking): 3405 (1st)
Alexa (website ranking): 5689th

Events:

The development team posted 5 articles on Segfault
mintCast produced 5 podcast episodes

News and summary:

First, a huge thank you to all the people who donated to us in the past 2 months! As you know our Platinum sponsorship from Blue Systems came to an end and so will our Gold sponsorship with Opera at the end of this year. Losing our two main sponsors is tough, and we hope to find new sponsors going forward, but the support you’re giving us with your donations is amazing. Between September and October more than 400 people donated to Linux Mint. We made adjustments for 2014 but we’re also stronger than ever, as ambitious as before and we’re very confident about the future.
We didn’t communicate much lately and I have 271 unread emails in my inbox (if you wrote to me please accept my apologies for the delay, I can’t guarantee I’ll reply to every single email, but they will all get read)…. the good news, is that we’ve been working really hard and achieving fantastic results and it’s this time of year when we’re ready to share it out with you.
The Cinnamon and MATE editions of Linux Mint 16 “Petra” were approved today, shipping the latest Cinnamon 2.0 and MATE 1.6 desktop environments. They will be available as RC (Release Candidates) on the 15th of November. Their stable release is planned for the end of the month.
The KDE and Xfce editions entered QA this week and will follow shortly after.
The improvements featured in Linux Mint 16 as well as the latest MATE and Cinnamon desktops will be backported to LMDE and Linux Mint 13 in December.

Linux Mint related news:

If you’re in the USA, you can now order the mintBox 2 straight from Amazon (same price, but with free shipping and no customs): MintBox 2 on Amazon US

Andrew Gregory, Mike Saunders and Ben Everard left Linux Format to dedicate themselves to the creation of a new magazine. Linux Voice plans to give 50% of its profits back to the community and release its articles under Creative Commons 9 months after their publication. You can help with the crowd-funding at http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/linux-voice. If this happens and it creates a source of CC licensed articles of the same quality as the ones we enjoy from Linux Format, we’ll consider developing a newsstand application for Linux Mint.

Monthly News – September 2013

November 13, 2013 by Clem·0 Comments

Sponsorships:

Linux Mint is proudly sponsored by:

Gold Sponsors:

Silver Sponsors:

Bronze Sponsors:

Community Sponsors:

To become a sponsor or to see the full list of Linux Mint sponsors, please visit: http://www.linuxmint.com/sponsors.php

Donations:

A total of $5070 was raised thanks to the generous contributions of 241 donors:

$250 (2nd donation), Ali A.
$129.93 (5th donation), Goran A.
$116.94, Jean B.
$100, André T.
$100, Donald L. D.
$80, Stevie S.
$77.96, Gregor W.
$75 (12th donation), Ralph Siegler aka “ziggy“
$75 (8th donation), Richard H.
$75, Attribyte, LLC
$75, Jim Ross
$64.97, Sourygna L.
$64.97, Manuel M.
$60 (11th donation), Wolfgang P.
$51.97, Brian M.
$50 (42th donation), Matthew M.
$50 (5th donation), Benoit Frigon aka “bfrigon.com“
$50 (4th donation), Kevin B.
$50 (2nd donation), Jeff W.
$50 (2nd donation), William W.
$50, George H.
$50, Christophe J.
$50, G W.
$50, David P.
$50, Damian J.
$50, Marcel T.
$40 (2nd donation), James M.
$40, David R.
$38.98 (43th donation), Olli K.
$38.98, Giuseppe L.
$38.98, Margarete S.
$38.98, Jens P. B.
$35 (2nd donation), Devendra R.
$32.48, Hans-joachim V.
$32.48, Carsten F.
$32, Homyakov E.
$30 (4th donation), LDW
$30, Michael F.
$30, Michael S.
$30, Sam B.
$30, Jaroslav S. aka “jarek163”
$30, Stephen B.
$30, Bertrand PLE
$26, Jonathan D.
$25.99 (8th donation), Frank Bechstein
$25.99 (4th donation), John Scott aka “‘Whitefort'”
$25.99 (3rd donation), Walter S.
$25.99 (2nd donation), Emilien K.
$25.99 (2nd donation), Gordon T.
$25.99, Thomas H.
$25.99, Steve M.
$25.99, Manu G. D.
$25.99, Leon Domingo aka “leon.domingo“
$25.99, Markus G.
$25.99, Heinrich G.
$25.99, Rainer L.
$25.99, Iiro K.
$25.99, Ziga M.
$25 (24th donation), Ronald W.
$25 (4th donation), James S.
$25 (2nd donation), Jeffrey W.
$25 (2nd donation), Stephens D.
$25, Lindsay A.
$25, Robert H.
$25, Rodney S.
$25, Patrick F.
$25, Des C.
$25, Robert G.
$25, D M. J.
$25, Bruce N.
$25, Abhinav C.
$25, David J.
$23.39 (7th donation), Dominik K. aka “doke“
$23.39, Saruman Kataklysm
$20 (30th donation), Tsuguo S.
$20 (6th donation), Utah B.
$20 (5th donation), Thomas M.
$20 (2nd donation), Dany V.
$20 (2nd donation), jc
$20, Andrew L.
$20, Edson K.
$20, Voicu K.
$20, Renate M.
$20, Sunswept F. I.
$20, Richard B. I.
$20, Christopher J.
$20, Bolat D.
$20, PCSW Inc.
$20, Rafal B.
$20, Ralph C.
$20, Peter A.
$20, Xiaojing S.
$20, Thomas H. B.
$20, Andrew B.
$20, Nathan P.
$20, Jacobsparts I.
$20, Oleg A.
$20, Richard P.
$20, Tal L.
$20, Douglas H.
$20, Manali P. R. D. P.
$20, Ali A.
$20, Mali
$20, Mahendra J.
$20, Jason K.
$19.49 (2nd donation), Marion T.
$19.49, Volkmar S.
$19.49, Tobi K.
$19.49, Wolfgang B.
$19.49, Joe B.
$15.59 (22nd donation), Jarkko K.
$15.59, Lee A.
$15 (8th donation), Robert E.
$15 (3rd donation), Edward H.
$15 (2nd donation), Bruce H.
$15, Kjell K. aka “Gemini89”
$15, Annie B.
$15, Kevin D.
$13 (5th donation), Joachim M.
$13, Mati K.
$12.99 (5th donation), Siegfried H.
$12.99 (2nd donation), Damien G.
$12.99, Pasquale A.
$12.99, Christian R.
$12.99, Torsten W.
$12.99, Eneko S. N.
$12.99, Oliver P.
$12.99, Fabien C.
$12.99, Massimiliano M. aka “phucuda”
$12.99, Julien D.
$12.99, Pascal D.
$12.99, Lorenzo R.
$12.99, Philippe G.
$12.99, Sven J.
$12.99, Edward C.
$12.99, Kuldar O.
$12.99, Dominique O.
$10 (31st donation), Tony C. aka “S. LaRocca”
$10 (10th donation), Vance R. aka “helmsdeeper”
$10 (6th donation), Maarten E.
$10 (2nd donation), Thomas H. B.
$10 (2nd donation), Eleusmario M. R.
$10 (2nd donation), Benjamin G.
$10 (2nd donation), Robert F.
$10 (2nd donation), Michael S.
$10, Oleg K.
$10, Jose V.
$10, Zachery P. aka “ZachP“
$10, Michael Fumicello aka “Fumo”
$10, Arti aka “Coherent Veteran”
$10, Samuel B.
$10, Dominik S.
$10, Aaron T.
$10, Timothy C.
$10, Louis Y.
$10, Martin J.
$10, Aleksandr R.
$10, Esteban M. R.
$10, Dzmitry Lazerka aka “dlazerka“
$10, Jacek G.
$10, Jose M.
$10, K S.
$10, Chad H.
$10, 刘风刚 aka “liulitchi”
$10, Gohda K.
$10, Michael M.
$10, Marcelo T. L. D. S.
$10, J. Carlos Navea aka “loconet“
$10, Jim Walker
$10, Kevin M.
$10, Artúr P.
$10, Elected E.
$10, Park Jung Kyu aka “bagjunggyu“
$10, Antoine T.
$10, James J. Q.
$10, Muhsin T.
$10, Conrado G.
$10, Val S.
$9.5, Stephen S.
$9.1, Christian T.
$9, Adam E.
$7, Riaz V.
$6.5 (20th donation), Marco aka “Dictionary-Maker“
$6.5 (6th donation), Robert K.
$6.5, Raymond E.
$6.5, Michel G.
$6.5, Guillaume G. aka “Tidusrose”
$6.5, Christoph B.
$6.5, Marc H.
$6.5, Sebastian E.
$6.5, Christoph C.
$6.5, Michele M. A.
$6.5, Arie de Jonge
$6.5, Mikael S.
$5 (9th donation), lupinehorror
$5 (5th donation), L M. aka “LinuxMint”
$5 (4th donation), Shane K aka “BeyondCr”
$5 (4th donation), Carlos W.
$5 (2nd donation), Paul C. aka “pacman67”
$5 (2nd donation), Mordi K. aka “Mordik”
$5, Keith S.
$5, O E.
$5, Michael G.
$5, Jose V.
$5, Aaron M.
$5, Donald S.
$5, Bernardino R.
$5, Nils K.
$5, Mutlu B.
$5, Juan S.
$5, Pedro M.
$5, Donald H.
$5, Tyler C.
$5, Mordi K. aka “Mordik”
$3.9, Alen Mangafic aka “Mazinga”
$3.9, Stefan G.
$3.9, Manuel G.
$3.19, Thiago A.
$3 (5th donation), Marc D.
$3, Janis V.
$3, John B.
$2.6, Kin W. H.
$2.5, Martin K.
$22.1 from 18 smaller donations

If you want to help Linux Mint with a donation, please visit http://www.linuxmint.com/donors.php

Events:

The development team posted 6 articles on Segfault
mintCast produced 3 podcast episodes

Farewell Medibuntu

October 18, 2013 by Clem·54 Comments

The Medibuntu repository was discontinued and is no longer available.

As a consequence, you might see error messages in the Update Manager, Package Manager and Software Manager.

The solution is to remove Medibuntu from your list of repositories:

Open a terminal
Type gksu gedit /etc/apt/sources.list to edit the list of repositories (replace “gedit” with “pluma” if you are running MATE, or with “kate” if you are running KDE)
Remove any line which contains “medibuntu” in it and save the file
Type apt update in the terminal

Notes:

If you are running Linux Mint 15 you’ve nothing to do (Medibuntu isn’t used in Mint 15)
If you are running the KDE edition, sources might not be present in /etc/apt/sources.list but in another file in the /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ directory instead

Medibuntu provided us with additional codecs since 2006. It’s sad to see them go and we wish their maintainers the best of luck for the future.

In Linux Mint 16 onwards libdvdcss2 (which allows us to watch DVDs) will be provided via a new Linux Mint repository at http://extra.linuxmint.com.