Merry Christmas and Happy New Year everyone!

The year is almost over, our latest release is out, all the work we’ve done has been delivered and this holiday season is an opportunity to take a little break to contemplate and enjoy where we are and what we have, before 2018 starts with a new development cycle, new ambitions and two important targets on the horizon: Linux Mint 19 and LMDE 3.

I’d like to thank you for your support, for your help and for your feedback. 2017 was a lot of fun. See you all next year for more! 🙂

Installation Guide

The Linux Mint Installation Guide is now available in English, Bulgarian, Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, Danish, French, German, Interlingua, Italian and Turkish.

It will soon also become available in Croatian, Dutch, Greek, Korean, Lithuanian, Spanish and Swedish.

Many thanks to all the people involved in translating it.

Donations and sponsorships

We’re late in processing December donations and sponsorships and we’ve built a bit of a backlog.

Please accept our apologies. We’ll process these and catch up with the backlog as soon as possible.

Sponsorships:

Linux Mint is proudly sponsored by:

Platinum Sponsors: Gold Sponsors: Silver Sponsors: Bronze Sponsors:

Community Sponsors: Aliaksei Budnikau Anonymous anselm Betty UK Chris Mospaw Christian Funder Sommerlund Clare Florist Crossword Links dailyhosting.net David Goodnow David Vonka Easy Website Builder Ehline Law Firm PC – Long Beach Font Awesome Icon Maker Gao Fengyu GeriTrust HomeAlarmAdvisors.com htpcBeginner.com Jeff de Bruin Joe Hodges Jonathan B Horen Jumble Solver Kansas Attorneys Kenneth Brobst KoDDoS LAROS Load Testing Lucky Patcher Apk Download Mark Fletcher Melbourne Cup Merka-TIC Mikael M Murat Demir MyTipsHub Nick Kelly Olaf Baeyens Onecklace – Personalized Jewelry Pics n Places Travel Photography PSB Law Rick Nehora Robert Schouwenburg Roland Preisach Said Noori Sascha Reinsch SayWebHosting Saywebhosting SCHINFO Sebastien Walker sefcom computers Silver City Jewelers – Ocala Jewelry Solo Entertainment e.K. switchbit Tanning Ultimate Tero Pohjasniemi Thomas K. Unauthed 401 Uptime Pal – Web Site Monitoring Uwe Klosa VPN University Wayne Chapeskie Web Design Egypt – شركة تصميم مواقع What Is SEO? Wichita Web Design William Lewis www.flippymagz.com Yang, C.-C.

 

Donations in November:

A total of $11,200 were raised thanks to the generous contributions of 510 donors:

$300, Rodrigo F. P.
$200, Raffael G.
$163 (2nd donation), Heinz G.
$163, Matthias Z.
$150, Richard H.
$109 (13th donation), Hendrik S.
$109 (2nd donation), Philippe L.
$109 (2nd donation), Pieter S.
$109, Philippe A.
$109, Harald K.
$109, Willem H.
$109, Bent-bolko B.
$100 (2nd donation), Jerry S.
$100 (2nd donation), Gary S.
$100 (2nd donation), David W.
$100 (2nd donation), Anon.
$100, Padmadevan C.
$100, Rachmat J. D.
$100, Theresa H.
$100, Alexandros K.
$100, Russell B.
$100, Oliver J.
$100, Joshua H.
$100, David A. D.
$78 (2nd donation), MAHASWAMI SOFTWARE PRIVATE LIMITED aka “VENKAT K”
$75, Bradford H.
$60 (2nd donation), Richard C.
$54 (5th donation), Johannes F.
$54 (4th donation), Frank B.
$54 (2nd donation), Michael M.
$54 (2nd donation), Theo L.
$54, Christian S.
$54, Fernando A. C. M. C.
$54, David R.
$54, G. D. R.
$54, Philippe V.
$54, José M. N. C.
$54, Jure V.
$54, Peter S.
$50 (22nd donation), Anthony C. aka “ciak”
$50 (7th donation), James S.
$50 (6th donation), Hans J.
$50 (4th donation), John H.
$50 (4th donation), Alan H.
$50 (4th donation), Anthony L.
$50 (3rd donation), Leonardo E.
$50 (3rd donation), Allan G.
$50 (3rd donation), Wallace P. M. J.
$50 (3rd donation), Edward B.
$50 (3rd donation), Marie I.
$50 (2nd donation), Wei X.
$50 (2nd donation), Donnie B.
$50 (2nd donation), Thomas H.
$50 (2nd donation), James G.
$50 (2nd donation), Subramanian V.
$50, Jacki S.
$50, Algird A. T.
$50, Nikolaus M.
$50, H.
$50, Paulo B.
$50, Ken H.
$50, Chris A.
$50, David D.
$50, Karl K.
$50, Scott P.
$44 (5th donation), Ole P.
$44, Tanev, T.
$44, Massimo I.
$40 (5th donation), Patrick C.
$40 (2nd donation), M. B. .
$40 (2nd donation), Keith H.
$40, Gerald F.
$40, Neal K.
$40, Kevin D.
$35 (3rd donation), Kevin L.
$35 (2nd donation), John M.
$35, Christian M.
$33 (93th donation), Olli K.
$33 (8th donation), Henk van C.
$33 (4th donation), Lars-gunnar S.
$33, Brian E.
$33, Rudolf W.
$33, Clemens W.
$30 (10th donation), Kevin S.
$30 (6th donation), Real F.
$30 (4th donation), Mark E.
$30 (2nd donation), Glyn aka “oldgit”
$30, Omar Cordero
$30, Ronnie B.
$30, Manfred S.
$30, Ferran C.
$30, Matthew W. H.
$27 (9th donation), John K. aka “jbrucek”
$27 (4th donation), Helmut S.
$27 (4th donation), Gabriele G.
$27 (4th donation), Jotam
$27 (2nd donation), Ralf S.
$27 (2nd donation), Piotr C.
$27 (2nd donation), Juergen S.
$27, Jan V.
$27, Tomasz M.
$27, Tobias S.
$27, Theo G.
$27, Hendricus P. D. V.
$25 (76th donation), Ronald W.
$25 (33rd donation), Curt Vaughan aka “curtvaughan ”
$25 (19th donation), Peter D.
$25 (12th donation), JBHoren
$25 (5th donation), Murray C.
$25 (5th donation), Jack C.
$25 (5th donation), cocasema
$25 (4th donation), Jeffrey V.
$25 (4th donation), Reel D.
$25 (3rd donation), Paul S.
$25 (3rd donation), Craig M.
$25 (2nd donation), John H.
$25 (2nd donation), Nigel G. aka “SuperNigel”
$25 (2nd donation), Herb S.
$25 (2nd donation), Margaret W.
$25, Chidambaram C.
$25, Saribayev T.
$25, Salil K.
$25, Ramon A.
$25, William A. P.
$25, Jesse Boyd aka “Cloud City Consultants – That love Linux Mint!”
$25, Gerald C.
$25, Kevin H.
$25, Adarsha K.
$25, Forn
$25, Dave M.
$25, Felix J. H.
$25, Jeffrey W.
$25, Terence W. C.
$25, Walter A.
$25, Shane C.
$25, Ralph P.
$25, Thai V.
$25, Joseph R.
$25, Christopher B.
$22 (10th donation), Derek R.
$22 (8th donation), Anthony M.
$22 (7th donation), Rüdiger K.
$22 (6th donation), Jose G. aka “Jose”
$22 (5th donation), Sachindra Prosad Saha aka “Love you grand dad”
$22 (5th donation), nobody
$22 (4th donation), Hermann W.
$22 (4th donation), Vesa K.
$22 (3rd donation), Manfred W.
$22 (2nd donation), Stefan N.
$22 (2nd donation), Salatiel E. G.
$22 (2nd donation), Enrico G.
$22 (2nd donation), Miroslav Š.
$22 (2nd donation), Massimo P. S.
$22, Bruno H.
$22, Richard O.
$22, Emmanouil K.
$22, Justin K.
$22, Stefan N.
$22, Andreu R. G.
$22, aka “zsek”
$22, Markus E.
$22, Tobias B.
$22, Kai K.
$22, Florian S.
$22, Nicolas B.
$22, Serge Jadot
$22, Stephanie H.
$22, Ulrich P.
$22, Mike J.
$22, Anton J.
$22, Scoala Z.
$20 (34th donation), Curt Vaughan aka “curtvaughan ”
$20 (19th donation), Larry J.
$20 (6th donation), Scott Anderson aka “lwarranty”
$20 (5th donation), Juan T.
$20 (5th donation), Vaughan B.
$20 (4th donation), Justin Oros
$20 (3rd donation), Donald M.
$20 (3rd donation), Shaun I.
$20 (3rd donation), Kien Y. T.
$20 (3rd donation), Steve Jain
$20 (3rd donation), Larry H.
$20 (3rd donation), Keith N.
$20 (2nd donation), Fred C.
$20 (2nd donation), Jean-marie C.
$20 (2nd donation), Kostas M. K.
$20 (2nd donation), Lance B.
$20 (2nd donation), Geekoutdoors
$20 (2nd donation), Alex J.
$20 (2nd donation), Jorge V. S.
$20 (2nd donation), Godzilla McMurphy aka “Phanto”
$20, Clinton R.
$20, Haley A.
$20, Phillip H.
$20, Edward R. G.
$20, Donald B.
$20, Benoit R.
$20, Vance B.
$20, David G.
$20, Adam B.
$20, Scott H.
$20, John D.
$20, Ngoc P.
$20, Richard D.
$20, James D.
$20, Allan M.
$20, Kim P.
$20, Gene S.
$20, Nick S.
$20, Jesse D.
$20, Marc B.
$20, Florian M.
$20, Fabio P.
$20, Gregg L.
$20, Marc T.
$20, David V
$20, James S.
$20, Anton S.
$18.3 (8th donation), François P.
$18.3 (5th donation), Martin I.
$17 (2nd donation), Lucian B.
$17, Simon H.
$16 (10th donation), Gerard C.
$16 (4th donation), Jean-Marc B. aka “WD”
$16 (4th donation), Carlos N.
$16 (4th donation), Nigel B.
$16 (3rd donation), Volker P.
$16 (3rd donation), Thomas S.
$16 (2nd donation), Gunter S.
$16 (2nd donation), Antonio aka “pengu73”
$16, David M.
$16, Jan V.
$16, Michael H.
$16, Viktor O.
$16, Jacques D.
$16, Frank J.
$15 (14th donation), Stefan M. H.
$15 (6th donation), Rob.Knol aka “RoppIT”
$15 (5th donation), Intrinsic
$15 (3rd donation), Peter R.
$15, Darnell T.
$15, Shannon T.
$15, Vern K.
$15, Thomas K.
$15, Etienne
$15, Vern K.
$15, Louis C.
$15, Nicholas S.
$13 (19th donation), Anonymous
$13 (2nd donation), Martin F.
$13, ArtGirl
$12 (80th donation), Tony C. aka “S. LaRocca”
$12 (26th donation), JobsHiringnearMe
$12 (11th donation), Alessandro S.
$12 (10th donation), Johann J.
$12 (7th donation), Raymond M. (retired)
$12 (4th donation), Mihir D.
$11 (12th donation), Kevin O. aka “Kev”
$11 (6th donation), Denis D.
$11 (5th donation), Michael P.
$11 (5th donation), Joss S.
$11 (3rd donation), Rene T.
$11 (3rd donation), Eskild T.
$11 (2nd donation), Raffaele aka “NoBrain”
$11 (2nd donation), Thomas T.
$11 (2nd donation), Thierry L.
$11 (2nd donation), Krister R.
$11 (2nd donation), Marcus H.
$11 (2nd donation), Giuseppe T.
$11 (2nd donation), Gilles L. aka “Gil-s”
$11 (2nd donation), Martin G.
$11 (2nd donation), Michael L.
$11 (2nd donation), Alexander F.
$11, Christian G.
$11, Ove K.
$11, Frank S.
$11, Tamas S.
$11, Jacques D.
$11, Tup un Turies Ltd.
$11, Hans B.
$11, Ryszard M.
$11, Mary J.
$11, Giovanni aka “Giovo57 ”
$11, Thomaskutty K. J.
$11, Fernando M. G. B.
$11, Mati I.
$11, Michael T.
$11, Vsilij B.
$11, Silverio M. R. S.
$11, Susanna V. D.
$11, Austin C.
$11, Albert V. H.
$11, Michael F.
$11, Didier P.
$11, Alfonso Russo
$11, Carlo M.
$11, Axel R.
$11, Fulvio G.
$11, Benedikt W.
$11, Valdas Z.
$11, Jurgen G. B.
$10 (24th donation), Thomas C.
$10 (15th donation), Todd A aka “thobin”
$10 (15th donation), Frank K.
$10 (15th donation), Paul O.
$10 (14th donation), Mike C.
$10 (10th donation), Wilson G.
$10 (9th donation), Rick R.
$10 (8th donation), Terrance G.
$10 (8th donation), Aliki K.
$10 (7th donation), Terrance G.
$10 (7th donation), Chris K.
$10 (6th donation), barthossius
$10 (5th donation), Ray
$10 (5th donation), Elsukov V.
$10 (5th donation), John M.
$10 (5th donation), Carl B.
$10 (4th donation), Stephane T.
$10 (4th donation), Zbigniew D. aka “Ayel”
$10 (3rd donation), Raymond O.
$10 (3rd donation), gmq
$10 (3rd donation), John G.
$10 (3rd donation), Daniel L.
$10 (3rd donation), Wayne C.
$10 (3rd donation), Ellis
$10 (2nd donation), Larry P.
$10 (2nd donation), Ronaldo H.
$10 (2nd donation), Peter V.
$10 (2nd donation), Kabanov I.
$10 (2nd donation), William K.
$10 (2nd donation), Rodolfo C. A. aka “Rhodwulf”
$10 (2nd donation), Norv M. aka “norvman”
$10 (2nd donation), Derek H.
$10 (2nd donation), Peter H.
$10 (2nd donation), Thomas M.
$10 (2nd donation), John B.
$10 (2nd donation), Jorge M.
$10 (2nd donation), Robert F.
$10 (2nd donation), James M.
$10, Adam M.
$10, George P.
$10, Thomas W.
$10, Cyber Systems Engineering
$10, Iftimie C. P.
$10, Zachery M.
$10, Harvey U.
$10, John M.
$10, Uno M.
$10, Vincent D.
$10, William G.
$10, Philip V. S.
$10, Anthony F.
$10, Nicholas S.
$10, 宮本 良平
$10, Doug S.
$10, Klaus S.
$10, WhatsTheHost aka “Compare SiteGround vs Bluehost and Others”
$10, For You
$10, Ron W.
$10, David T.
$10, William O. Jr
$10, Knud J.
$10, Luis G. M. B.
$10, Michael G.
$10, Rajesh C.
$10, Ronald G.
$10, Jignesh R.
$10, Sergey P.
$10, Elias C.
$10, Brian C.
$10, Karen T.
$10, Nathan F.
$9, Jimmy D. V.
$8, Dave J.
$8, Chunfai C.
$7 (16th donation), CV Smith
$7 (3rd donation), Jonathan K.
$7 (3rd donation), Franz W.
$7, Pablo S.
$5.43, Caleb B.
$5 (20th donation), Slartibartfast
$5 (18th donation), Eugene T.
$5 (15th donation), Miljenko D. aka “ljacmi”
$5 (12th donation), Jim A.
$5 (10th donation), 杉林晃治
$5 (10th donation), Bhavinder Jassar
$5 (10th donation), anonymous
$5 (10th donation), Alessandro S.
$5 (7th donation), Olaf B.
$5 (7th donation), Hemant Patel
$5 (7th donation), George H.
$5 (7th donation), Ken Weill Lumacad
$5 (7th donation), Dmitry P.
$5 (6th donation), Niko K.
$5 (6th donation), Cathi I.
$5 (4th donation), Grzegorz I.
$5 (4th donation), Stefan B.
$5 (4th donation), Konstantin S.
$5 (3rd donation), Kārlis M. aka “BismarX”
$5 (3rd donation), Laura NL aka “lauranl”
$5 (3rd donation), Ian E.
$5 (3rd donation), Mattias E.
$5 (3rd donation), rptev
$5 (3rd donation), Cedric L.
$5 (2nd donation), Joseph P. aka “oops”
$5 (2nd donation), Viktor D.
$5 (2nd donation), Romanov I.
$5 (2nd donation), Ivan M.
$5 (2nd donation), Carlos G. E. aka “@CarlosGE”
$5 (2nd donation), Laptop shops Lebanon
$5 (2nd donation), Gobinath L.
$5 (2nd donation), Arkādijs S.
$5 (2nd donation), Arie & Michell U.
$5 (2nd donation), Scott L.
$5 (2nd donation), John G.
$5 (2nd donation), hostflash.de
$5, Olivier B.
$5, ccm
$5, Harrogate Interiors
$5, Michael J.
$5, Marius M.
$5, Tibor T.
$5, United Business Rent a Car Service
$5, Veit K.
$5, Sam S.
$5, Daniel W.
$5, simplepayday.co.uk
$5, Dmitry N. aka “Dimex”
$5, Fredrik N.
$5, Florian W.
$5, Ramona K.
$5, Alyn L.
$5, Antonios K.
$5, Jan G.
$5, Ian C.
$5, Lychagin A.
$5, Riccardo F.
$5, OzShoponline
$5, Gianandrea M.
$5, Norbert K.
$5, Guillaume G.
$5, Terry W. M.
$5, Alexey B.
$5, Michael N.
$5, Davide B.
$5, Simon P.
$5, Peter V.
$5, Willi E.
$5, Jesús P. G.
$5, Alejandro G. S.
$5, Brendan B.
$5, Jason S.
$5, Daniel P. J.
$4 (7th donation), Rockford C.
$4 (4th donation), chevaux a vendre
$3.13 (7th donation), Chetverikov K.
$3 (5th donation), Micoworker – Diseño de Páginas Web
$3 (5th donation), Maxime H.
$3 (3rd donation), Guo H.Z
$3 (2nd donation), Jason N. aka “IggyNelix”
$3 (2nd donation), Paul K.
$3 (2nd donation), Harrogate Interiors
$3 (2nd donation), Miguel A. G. C.
$3 (2nd donation), Christopher S.
$3, jerry
$3, Artur F.
$3, Mads J.
$2.5 (10th donation), David Y.
$2.5 (2nd donation), Thomas W.
$2.5, Gabriel A.
$2.5, Ikhwan A.
$2.5, E.g.j S.
$52.66 from 38 smaller donations

Many thanks for your donations. Your help and support is greatly appreciated. It empowers us of course but it’s also a huge boost in confidence and motivation. Many thanks to all of you who help our project.

Linux Mint 18.3 BETA

The BETA for the Cinnamon and the MATE editions will be released this week.

We hope you’ll enjoy them and we look forward to receiving your feedback. We’ll announce their official release in a couple of days.

Last minute changes

Some improvements got into Linux Mint 18.3 at the last minute. These include:

• Better out of the box support for spell-checking and synonyms in English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese and Russian.
• Easy installation of Skype, Google Earth and WhatsApp in the Software Manager
• In MATE’s mintmenu: Recently used apps

There are also a couple of changes in Xfce and KDE, but it’s a bit too early to report on them (we’ll release these editions after Cinnamon and MATE).

Read the Docs

We’re happy to announce we’ll be porting our documentation to a promising service called “Read the Docs“.

Our Linux Mint User Guide helped us for years. It was updated continuously and translated in more than 20 languages. It’s been a great resources for new users. Although the LibreOffice format in which it was written made it easy for anyone to review it or translate it, it’s also become an issue which made its maintenance and development harder than it should have been. Changes are hard to keep track of and the various documents available in each different language are becoming more and more different.

If we were to rewrite a paragraph, that effort would only benefit one language in the short term, and likely only a select few long term.

The structure of the user guide is also problematic. It’s a big document which covers many different aspects. It tries to do to much, and doesn’t necessarily do it very well. It goes too much in the details for some of the topics but also lacks important information on others.

During the Linux Mint 19 development cycle we’ll write small guides, each dedicated to their own topic. In particular, we’ll write:

• An installation guide
• A developer guide
• A troubleshooting/bug-reporting guide
• A getting-started guide with an overview of the Mint project and its community

Read the Docs was chosen primarily because it separates content and layout and because it allows us to simply write content and have it automatically translated, built and hosted into documentation you can read online (in HTML) or offline (in PDF/ePUB).

The documentation will be written in reStructuredText (RST) and version-controlled on Github. We’ll be using Gettext to generate translations templates which will be imported into Launchpad. In other words, we’ll have the documentation written and translated the same way we already write and translate our software projects. Read the Docs will then continuously update the hosted documentation. Whenever it changes, it will automatically be rebuilt.

Note: Flatpak is already using Read the Docs. Don’t hesitate to visit http://flatpak.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ to see how it looks. Their documentation is available in English, French and Spanish. We’ll need some time to write our guides, but from experience and knowing how amazing the translation teams are on Launchpad (the pace at which they translate our code is quite humbling… in a matter of days we’re usually ready to ship any new features, translated in all major languages), we’re quite confident we’ll have documentation in more than 20 languages pretty fast.

 

Sponsorships:

Linux Mint is proudly sponsored by:

Donations in October:

A total of $8,998 were raised thanks to the generous contributions of 483 donors:

$200, Luc S.
$131, Mark W.
$109 (5th donation), Sten L.
$109 (3rd donation), Frank B.
$109 (2nd donation), Jean-yves B.
$109, Detlef S.
$109, Tom S.
$100 (4th donation), Markus S.
$100 (3rd donation), Steve D. aka “taosld”
$100 (3rd donation), Gary M.
$100, Flemming M.
$100, Steven J.
$100, Per H. L.
$100, Andrew S.
$100, Dindar N.
$65 (3rd donation), Ion L. I.
$60 (3rd donation), Martin R.
$60, Wayne R.
$54 (8th donation), Claude M.
$54 (7th donation), Volker P.
$54 (2nd donation), Christian T.
$54, Barretteau M.
$54, Kevin D.
$54, Hans J. L.
$54, Rafael S. A.
$54, Krol S.
$54, Andreas A.
$54, Philipp R.
$54, Jacek S.
$54, Frederick K.
$50 (21st donation), Anthony C. aka “ciak”
$50 (5th donation), Thomas T. aka “FullTimer1489”
$50 (4th donation), Kenneth P.
$50 (4th donation), Douglas J.
$50 (4th donation), Cody W. H.
$50 (4th donation), JimM
$50 (3rd donation), Michael S.
$50 (2nd donation), Zhatkin A.
$50 (2nd donation), Fred W.
$50, Mark T.
$50, John C.
$50, Michael P.
$50, Odd I.
$50, K-Fi D Marketing Communications
$50, Mark H.
$50, Brian R.
$50, Graeme L.
$50, Henry S.
$50, Richard O.
$50, Michael C.
$49 (34th donation), Mark W.
$44, Jakob V.
$44, Olivier H. W. aka “Kuripot”
$40, John B.
$40, John W.
$40, Lance W. G.
$40, Josip B.
$40, Erik C.
$38 (2nd donation), Wolfgang CP Gensch
$36, JBHoren
$35 (5th donation), Jeff S.
$35, Charles A.
$35, Jeffrey K.
$33 (92th donation), Olli K.
$33 (8th donation), Julian M.
$33 (4th donation), John H.
$33, Jean-pierre J.
$33, Carl A.
$30, Rex H.
$30, Mickael D.
$27 (13th donation), Ky LMDE
$27 (6th donation), Jon Marks aka “ESL Materials Writer”
$27 (4th donation), Jan B.
$27 (3rd donation), Martin W.
$27, Antonio aka “pengu73”
$27, Bernd J.
$27, David W.
$27, Brian L.
$27, Günter S.
$25 (75th donation), Ronald W.
$25 (31st donation), Curt Vaughan aka “curtvaughan ”
$25 (6th donation), Eric W. aka “powerwagon75”
$25 (6th donation), Michael Welch aka “Dr. Mike”
$25 (5th donation), Bill R.
$25 (3rd donation), James M.
$25 (3rd donation), Dennis B.
$25 (3rd donation), J. C. .
$25 (3rd donation), Roberto O. L.
$25 (2nd donation), Gary B.
$25, Joe K.
$25, Earl P.
$25, Ted S.
$25, Robert F.
$25, Tatesawa O.
$25, Bruce R.
$25, Jim H.
$25, Marco C.
$25, Rogulin P.
$25, Andrew S.
$25, Nathaniel V.
$25, Stephen P.
$25, PCSW Inc
$25, Morten K.
$22 (10th donation), Ross M aka “ro55mo”
$22 (9th donation), Johann J.
$22 (4th donation), Malte J.
$22 (3rd donation), nobody
$22 (3rd donation), Andreas R.
$22 (3rd donation), CySoTec
$22 (3rd donation), nobody
$22 (3rd donation), Tom B.
$22 (2nd donation), Thomas L.
$22 (2nd donation), Florent G.
$22 (2nd donation), Michael T.
$22 (2nd donation), Wolfgang B. aka “Bösi”
$22 (2nd donation), Jean-philippe P.
$22 (2nd donation), jacobsen.biz
$22 (2nd donation), Eric V. C.
$22, Der S.
$22, Jean R.
$22, Baptiste Z.
$22, Peter P.
$22, Wim W.
$22, Hannu K.
$22, Jean-pierre G.
$22, Ciprian T.
$22, Pavel K.
$22, nordtapete
$22, Olivier R.
$22, Gabriel G.
$22, Francis N.
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$22, Christophe B.
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$22, Linda R.
$22, Derek R.
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$20, Thomas J. M.
$20, Adam C.
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$20, Ireneusz D.
$20, Alain S.
$20, John S.
$20, John M.
$20, Leopold D.
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$12 (79th donation), Tony C. aka “S. LaRocca”
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$10, Eugene C.
$10, Nikolas K.
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$10, mvpngn.com
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$10, P R.
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$10, Divya S.
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$10, Jerry P.
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$10, Jonathan M.
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$10, Chris K.
$10, William B. aka “TheMesquito”
$8.44, Rare Earth Computing
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$8, Yannick S.
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$5, Christian U. aka “Jowe1999”
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$5, Robert T.
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$5, Иван Ложкин aka “Berry”
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$5, Pierre B.
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$2, Ryszard J.
$2, Cuauhtemoc U. aka “regicide”
$2, 合同会社hartanah
$26.75 from 26 smaller donations

Many thanks to all of you, for your donations and for your support.

Upcoming releases

We are preparing 4 additional releases and we are hoping to publish them this month:

• Linux Mint 18.1 “Serena” Xfce Edition (Stable release)
• Linux Mint 18.1 “Serena” KDE Edition (Stable release)
• LMDE 2 “Betsy” Cinnamon Edition (BETA release)
• LMDE 2 “Betsy” MATE Edition (BETA release)

Note that LMDE 2 “Betsy” was originally released in 2015. It has received a continuous flow of updates since and we thought the time had come to re-release it, with the latest Cinnamon and MATE desktop environments, all the included updates and some fixes applied to its installer.

Upgrade paths

Users of the Xfce and KDE editions of Linux Mint 18 will be able to upgrade to 18.1 as soon as the stable releases are announced.

Cinnamon Spices

Many changes were implemented to facilitate the development, the maintenance and the delivery of Cinnamon add-ons, a.k.a. “spices”.

If you missed the earlier announcements, please read http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=3199.

The design team is currently working on authentication, comments and rating to make the Cinnamon Spices website compatible with popular APIs such as Facebook, Google and Github. This will make it easier for people to comment and rate spices going forward.

In parallel to that, each spice is currently reviewed by the development team. The goal is to get to the point where all spices properly install and run and all themes properly support Cinnamon 3.2. It will take a few weeks for everything to work.. spices are 3rd party and some of them haven’t been maintained in years, but we’ll get there.

Sponsorships:

Linux Mint is proudly sponsored by:

Platinum Sponsors: Gold Sponsors: Silver Sponsors: Bronze Sponsors:

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