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Donations & Sponsorships:

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

Donors:

  • $163, Adnan Z. (Germany)
  • $120, Nicolas B. (Germany)
  • $102, James Marsh (Australia) – http://www.engadinecycles.com.au/
  • $100, Micah Gravel aka “micahman” (USA)
  • $74 (2nd donation), David F. (Ireland)
  • $74, Badr R. (France)
  • $74, Matthias R. (France)
  • $60, Jim Duffield aka “sapperk9” (Australia)
  • $50, Andreas Rumpenhorst (Germany)
  • $50, James Donaldson (USA)
  • $50, Robert D. (United Kingdom)
  • $50, William G. (USA)
  • $50, Stefano Candotti aka “Stevewonder” (Italy)
  • $50, Eric Pate (USA) – http://www.carolinagreenpc.com
  • $50, Billy S. (USA)
  • $50, Andre D. (USA)
  • $44 (2nd donation), Wolfgang P. (Austria)
  • $44, Francisco C. C. (Spain)
  • $37, Thomas G. (Germany)
  • $37, Bernhard M. (Germany)
  • $30, Mark O’D. (World)
  • $30, David C. (USA)
  • $28, Pau Carre Cardona (Spain)
  • $27, Jeffrey K. (USA)
  • $25, Gavin Engel (USA)
  • $25, Ed D. (USA)
  • $25, Clifton Rhodes (USA)
  • $25, Sudheer S. (United Kingdom)
  • $25, Paul Bary (USA)
  • $20 (2nd donation), Dan B. (USA)
  • $20, Dalibor Saula (Australia)
  • $20, Amiel H. (Australia)
  • $20, Sven S. (Australia)
  • $20, David Brown (Canada)
  • $20, Jonathan P. (USA)
  • $20, Winston G. (USA)
  • $16, John B. (United Kingdom)
  • $15, Matthew G. (USA)
  • $15, Slavoljub M. (Norway)
  • $15, Paul George (United Kingdom) – http://www.paulgeorge.me
  • $14, Patrick Baumann (Germany)
  • $14, Iain G. (United Kingdom)
  • $14, L G DE L. (Netherlands)
  • $14, Charl P. (Netherlands)
  • $14, Claudio Gabriele N. (Italy)
  • $14, Bruno M. (Italy)
  • $14, Joseph W. (United Kingdom)
  • $14, Gunter D. (Austria)
  • $13.13, Mac C. (USA)
  • $11, Mongolisch-Deutsch.de aka “rmbw” (Germany) – http://www.mongolisch-deutsch.de
  • $10 (2nd donation), Richard G. (USA)
  • $10, Henry W. (USA)
  • $10, Dmitry O. (Russia)
  • $10, Ludovic G. aka “Lewdsquirrel” (Canada)
  • $10, Kevin M. (USA)
  • $10, Tom Perry (United Kingdom) – http://twitter.com/tomp83
  • $10, Ralph N. (USA)
  • $10, Bob H. (Australia)
  • $10, Christopher G. (USA)
  • $10, Anthony N. (United Kingdom)
  • $10, Steinar M. (Norway)
  • $10, Donald D’A. (USA)
  • $10, MuddBuddha (USA) – http://muddbuddha.com
  • $10, John P. (Australia)
  • $10, Marcel P. (Canada)
  • $10, Chaitanya K aka “thegoodmelon” (India)
  • $10, Krzysztof J. (USA)
  • $10, Gabriel S. (World)
  • $7, Geoffroy M. (Canada)
  • $7, Marcus Wikstrom aka “mece” (Finland) – http://twitter.com/mece66
  • $5 (2nd donation), Matthew O. (Ireland)
  • $5, Malcolm B. (USA)
  • $5, Francesco Coiro (Italy)
  • $5, Apollo V. Melo aka “teflashfire” (USA) – http://militarylinuxusers.blogspot.com
  • $5, Doug Berch (USA) – http://dougberch.com
  • $5, Venkatesh B. (United Kingdom)
  • $5, Helen J. (United Kingdom)
  • $5, Peter Hope-Tindall aka “hopetindall” (Canada)
  • $5, Brandon P. (USA)
  • $4, Johan T. (Sweden)
  • $2, Remy van Elst (Netherlands) – http://relst.nl/
  • $2, PartEase (USA) – http://www.partease.com
  • $1, Viktor Semenovskiy (Russia) – http://ubuntunnru.blogspot.com/
  • $1, Pierre G. (Belgium)

Sponsors:

Money raised in August:

* Donations: $2162.13 (85 donors)
* Sponsors: $775.5 (42 sponsors)

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

User Stats:

Repartition of Linux Mint users across releases:

  • Linux Mint 7 Gloria: 75% (+7%)
  • Linux Mint 6 Felicia: 15% (-5%)
  • Linux Mint 5 Elyssa LTS: 7% (-1%)
  • Linux Mint 4.0 Daryna: 3% (-1%)

Web Stats:

  • Visits: 1,874,462 (+12%)
  • Pageviews: 3,341,385 (+10%)
  • Page impressions: 1,381,550
  • Search queries: 4,131,663
  • Forum users:20,272
  • Forum posts:175,325

Rankings:

  • Distrowatch (popularity ranking): 1279 (3rd)
  • Distrowatch (traffic share): 4.2% (2nd)
  • Alexa (website ranking): 28,272nd

Events:

Summary:

  • August 2009 was the (6th consecutive) best month ever since the creation of Linux Mint.
  • The overall income is up 24%.
  • Our user base is the second largest in the desktop Linux market.
  • The community support is outstanding: 85 people donated last month for a total of $2162 and our sponsors raised $775.

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* News about Mint

Mint 7: Flash in full screen with Firefox 3.5.x – a fix

Clem has commented on a review of the Gloria KDE edition

* News about Linux

Security flaw in the kernel discovered, it’s in all kernels for the last 8 years, but it is only local, it cannot be used remotely

This is the second flaw discovered in about a month (previous one here Standard Mint does not have a kernel that is at risk for this one) Patches exist for both

Several vulnerabilities regarding the parsing of XML data have been found – this affects some libraries in Mint, check the link to see which

Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

Alan Cox Quits As Linux TTY Maintainer — “I’ve Had Enough” – and Linus Torvalds starts programming TTY

Microsoft Acknowledges Competition from Linux

Dell: Linux v Windows netbook returns a ‘non-issue’

Novell – More Support for the openSUSE Project (not so long ago Novell fired developers for openSUSE)

openSUSE Cuts Maintenance Cycle to 18 Months

Moonlight 2.0 goes Beta

A possible change of direction for Foresight Linux

The latest news about the kernel is always found here

* News about Open Source

KDE 4.3.0 released

Khronos Releases OpenGL 3.2 with easier portability of Direct3D applications.

Nokia says Qt is the best framework, and is to drop Symbian and makes Qt a subdomain of Nokia.com (no more Trolltech or qtsoftware) Qt is used by KDE

* News about IT

Twitter DOS attack targeted Georgian blogger

Twitter-based Botnet Command Channel

Zeus botnet’s Real Host cut off from the internet (Zeus is alleged to be the world’s biggest cybercrime botnet)

Three indicted in largest U.S. identity theft scheme, according to some sources it was simple: Theft Of 130 Million Credit Card Numbers Didn’t Take Much

Researchers hijack computer during software update

OpenDNSSEC Launched to Help Drive Adoption of DNSSEC

Researchers find insecure BIOS ‘rootkit’ pre-loaded in laptops

Bootkit bypasses hard disk encryption

Microsoft at a loss in Word patent case?

Microsoft Finally Joins HTML 5 Standard Efforts

Microsoft IE 8 shines in Web browser security test paid for by Microsoft

* Hardware news

eXtreme Power Suppply Calculator Helps Accurately Select a PSU – more important than you may think

* Other news

Microsoft and Nokia announce close cooperation, Office Mobile comes to Nokia smartphones – could this cooperation “kill” Windows Mobile?

* Comic of the week

Credit goes to xkcd

* More about Linux Mint

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Enjoy life

Husse

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Description of the problem:

As we’re upgrading the repositories with Firefox 3.5.2, Exploder suggested we fix an upstream bug in Firefox 3.5 which makes the application crash when Adobe Flash is used in full screen mode. To be precise, the problem occurs when going back from full screen to normal view.

The fix suggested consists in pre-loading Flash with Firefox and it apparently works with any hardware spec. It doesn’t work in 64 bit though, and so for x64 users, the solution is different. For this reason, we decided not to fix this bug in Linux Mint 7 Gloria, but to let you know about the problem and how to fix it manually.

Solution for Main, Universal, and Community editions:

As root, edit /usr/bin/firefox-3.5 and add the following as the second line (below  “#!/bin/sh”):

export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libGL.so.1

Solution for x64 edition:

Right click on the Flash content, go to Settings and disable the “Hardware acceleration”.

Note:

Firefox 3.5 is not installed by default in Linux Mint 7. Read this post for more information.