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.