Monthly Stats – May 2009

Donations & Sponsorships:

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

Donors:

  • $147, Andrew K. (Russia)
  • $147, Daniel F. (Germany)
  • $147, Rodney M. (Australia)
  • $110, Aleksandr A. (Russia)
  • $100, 12EasyHosting (USA)
  • $100, Loyal B. (USA)
  • $100, Terry B. (USA)
  • $100, Reject the Herd (USA)
  • $77, Peter T. (Australia)
  • $74, David N. (Czech Republic)
  • $74 (2nd donation), Eric H. (Germany)
  • $74, Marwan B. (Ireland)
  • $73 (5th donation), John Trapp (foggytown – USA)
  • $72, Sean R. (USA)
  • $60 (2nd donation), William R. (USA)
  • $50 (3rd donation), Arron J. (UK)
  • $50 (2nd donation), Barry Patterson (UK) – http://www.redsandstonehill.net
  • $50, Lauro F. (Switzerland)
  • $50, Paul M. (UK)
  • $50, Andrew F. (Australia)
  • $50, S R W. (Malaysia)
  • $50, Krishna M. (USA)
  • $50, Rodney C. (USA)
  • $50, Scott P. (USA)
  • $44 (2nd donation), Uwe S. (Germany)
  • $44, Jonas G. (Sweden)
  • $41 (5th donation), Peter Fitzsimons (UK)
  • $35, Fernando G. (Mexico)
  • $30, Lipton C. (UK)
  • $30, Bernard B. (USA)
  • $30, Juergen G. (Canada)
  • $29 (3rd donation), Marco R. (Italy)
  • $29 (2nd donation), Peter Kasbergen (PiEp – Netherlands) –  http://www.piep.nu/
  • $29, Gilles J. (France)
  • $29, Frans N. (Netherlands)
  • $29, Diego C. (Ireland)
  • $25 (2nd donation), William S. (USA)
  • $25, James M. (USA)
  • $25, Michael F. (USA)
  • $25, Colin C. (Canada)
  • $25, Joel O. (USA)
  • $25, Daniel B. (USA)
  • $25, Joseph K. (USA)
  • $25, Mike E. (USA)
  • $22, Stephen P. (UK)
  • $20 (2nd donation), David S. (UK)
  • $20 (2nd donation), Carl K. (USA)
  • $20, Paul G. (USA)
  • $20, Mike D. (USA)
  • $20, Dale B. (USA)
  • $20, Paul G. (USA)
  • $20, Sam R. (USA)
  • $20, Sebastian C. (Australia)
  • $20, Bill E. (USA)
  • $20, Kenneth S. (USA)
  • $20, Gary V. (USA)
  • $15, Kostas G. (Greece)
  • $15, Ole P. (Denmark)
  • $15, Herman V. (Belgium)
  • $15, Pavel U. (Czech Republic)
  • $15, Jakub G. (Poland)
  • $25, Richard G. (USA)
  • $15, Tim K. (Germany)
  • $15, Urs M. (Switzerland)
  • $15, Daniel W. (Switzerland)
  • $15, Catalin T. (Romania)
  • $15, David B. (Ireland)
  • $15, Andrew A. (USA)
  • $15, Nikos A. (Greece)
  • $15, Pawe P. (Poland)
  • $15, Carl B. (Belgium)
  • $15, Zak McG. (Australia)
  • $10 (9th donation), Phillip Blake (USA)
  • $10 (2nd donation), Justin Peterson (USA) – http://www.jp23.net/
  • $10 (2nd donation), David Morris (DPMorris – USA)
  • $10, Garry K. (USA)
  • $10, Jonathan H. (New Zealand)
  • $10, Clemens N. (USA)
  • $10, Mark C. (UK)
  • $10, Csaba S.  (Hungary)
  • $9, Georgetta B. (Romania)
  • $9, Agostino G. (Italy)
  • $8, Clyde N. (USA)
  • $7, Monika P. (Estonia)
  • $7, Lennart B. (Germany)
  • $5, Jose P. (USA)
  • $5, Marijan D. (Croatia)
  • $5, Khalil S. (USA)
  • $2, Bruno L. (Brazil)
  • $1, Zekeriya t K. (Turkey)
  • $1, Julie S. (USA)

    Sponsors:

    Money raised in May:

    * Donations: $3135
    * Sponsors: $396

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

    User Stats:

    Repartition of Linux Mint users across releases:

    • Linux Mint 4.0 Daryna: 4%
    • Linux Mint 5 Elyssa LTS: 11%
    • Linux Mint 6 Felicia: 37%
    • Linux Mint 7 Gloria: 48%

    Web Stats:

    • Visits: 1,378,407 (+12.45%)
    • Pageviews: 2,689,945 (+15.06%)
    • Page impressions: 1,425,021
    • Search queries: 2,564,610
    • Forum users: 16650
    • Forum posts: 146441

    Rankings:

    • Distrowatch (popularity ranking): 1408 (3rd)
    • Distrowatch (traffic share): 4.3% (2nd)
    • Alexa (website ranking): 31,388th

    Events:

    Summary:

    • We’ve received a fantastic amount of support from the community last month. Donations have never been so high. 91 people donated money in May for a total of $3135. That’s about 3 times the average we normally get.
    • All indicators show a boom in the size of our user base.
    • Among Distrowatch visitors, Linux Mint (4.3%) has twice as many users as Mandriva (2.1%) and Fedora (1.8%) and 3 times as many as OpenSuse (1.4%).
    • The Overall income is up 33%, and May 2009 was the best month ever since the start of the distribution.

    11 comments

    1. Linux Mint is a fantastic distibution, and many have obviously noticed because Mint is currently #1 at distrowatch with 7 day span.
      Keep up the great work everybody involved!!! 🙂

    2. By far the best distro available. This is the reason your numbers are going through the roof. My company will make a donation next month to your cause. Ubuntu us a wonderful O/S; linuxmint takes it even further!

      ADAM

    3. You deserve even more!
      I’m one of the new users. Congratulations and thank you for the great linux experience!

    4. Congratulations. The thing that stands out to me is how few people use the LTS, I would have thought it would be a larger percentage.
      I would also think that the quality of Gloria will help grow the base, I have never been happier with a Mint release.

    5. I’ve tried (twice) to make a donation, but for some strange reason Paypal wouldn’t accept my card. The card is fine and I’ve used it elsewhere without any problems. Maybe it’s because my mailing address is in one country, but I live overseas and my DNS is different? Is there alternative way to Paypal for donations? Perhaps the Mint Team could add this to the donations page in the future.

      As for Mint 7, it’s wonderful and the best release yet. Keep up the good work.

    6. I’m a Linux convert and I made Mint as my distro of choice. Good work on Gloria, hope the KDE version will be released soon.

    7. just checked the distrowatch “page hit rankings”

      three months:
      1 Ubuntu 2503
      2 Mint 1363
      3 Fedora 1340

      thirty days
      1 Ubuntu 1883
      2 Mint 1512
      3 Fedora 1361

      seven days
      1 Mint 2012
      2 openSUSE 1592
      3 Ubuntu 1570

    8. I’ve tried to make a donation, but for some strange reason PayPal wouldn’t accept my card. The card is fine. I installed Linux o.s. in my p.c. from Apollo Hosting, they given me good service and I am satisfied with their service.
      You can go to the following link for help & services
      http://www.apollohosting.com/

    Leave a Reply

    Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *