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The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 6 Fluxbox Community Edition. Linux Mint Fluxbox Community Edition is based on Xubuntu 8.10 Intrepid, Linux 2.6.27, Fluxbox 1.0.0 and Xorg 7.4. Included is an all-new menu system, Mint-FM2, Slim as a display manager, Live CD features that should make it easier to install on low-end machines, a brand new “Software Manager”, FTP support in mintUpload, proxy support and history of updates in mintUpdate, mint4win (a Linux Mint installer for Microsoft Windows), and much more minty goodness. For a complete list of new features read: What’s new in Felicia Fluxbox CE?

Introduction to the Fluxbox Edition:

The Fluxbox Community Edition is built with the emphasis on a lightweight and yet fully functional desktop centered on the Fluxbox window manager. Even though we strive to provide out-of-the-box readiness for all your hardware and common computing tasks, Linux Mint Fluxbox CE is easily configurable to run on lower-spec hardware with the tools needed for doing so readily available.

For a list of know issues and for upgrade instructions, please visit the Release Notes.

System requirements:

• x86 processor
• 128 MB of system memory (RAM)
• 2 GB of disk space for installation
• VGA graphics card capable of 800×600 resolution
• CD-ROM drive

Order Linux Mint 6 Fluxbox on CD:

You can order the Linux Mint 6 Fluxbox live CD for $10 from our partner on-disk.com:

http://on-disk.com/product_info.php/products_id/708

For each CD sold, on-disk.com contributes $5.41 back to our distribution.

Download Linux Mint 6 Fluxbox:

You can download Linux Mint 6 Fluxbox via torrent or via HTTP:

Size: 613MB LiveCD
MD5Sum: 501afcf7c00a2be3a2492101b336fa26

Torrent download: http://www.linuxmint.com/torrent/LinuxMint-6-Fluxbox.iso.torrent
HTTP download: http://www.linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=35

Europe:

• http://cesium.di.uminho.pt/pub/linuxmint/stable/6/community/ (Portugal)
• http://mirrors.cytanet.com.cy/linux/mint/stable/6/community/ (Cyprus)
• http://mirror.sov.uk.goscomb.net/linuxmint.com/stable/6/community/ (UK)
• http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/linuxmint.com/stable/6/community/ (Ireland)
• http://ftp.klid.dk/ftp/linuxmint/stable/6/community/ (Denmark)
• http://ftp.cc.uoc.gr/mirrors/linux/linuxmint/stable/6/community/ (Greece)

Northern America:

• http://mirror.amarillolinux.com/linuxmint/stable/6/community/ (USA)
• http://linuxmint.secsup.org/stable/6/community/ (USA)
• http://linuxmint.sourcemirrors.org/stable/6/community/ (USA)
• http://distroplanet.com/dists/linuxmint/stable/6/community/ (USA)
• http://mint.ez.by/linuxmint.com/stable/6/community/ (USA)

Asia & Oceania:

• http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/linuxmint/stable/6/community/ (Australia)
• http://mirror-fpt-telecom.fpt.net/linuxmint/stable/6/community/ (Vietnam)

Have fun!

Enjoy this new version of the Fluxbox edition and don’t hesitate to send us your feedback. Congratulations and thanks to the maintainer, Shane Joe Lazar, for the excellent work done on this release.

Have a lot of fun and thanks for using Linux Mint.

Donations & Sponsorships:

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

Donors:

• $100, Bill S. (Canada)
• $100, Jack W. S. (Denmark)
• $100, Richard M. (UK)
• $50 (2nd donation), Herbert L. (UK)
• $50, Andrew B. (USA)
• $50, Jamie G. (UK)
• $50, Larry B. (USA)
• $50, Clive B. (UK)
• $41, Andreas S. (Germany)
• $34, Peter K. (Netherlands)
• $34 (2nd donation), Lothar S. (Germany)
• $30, Robert P. (USA)
• $27, Bernard L. (Norway)
• $25, Gary B. (USA)
• $25, Dean Di P. (USA)
• $25, Tim B. (USA)
• $25, William S. (USA)
• $25, Paul B. (USA)
• $25 (2nd donation), Jim D. (Australia)
• $20, Felipe M. V.  (Mexico)
• $20, James T. (USA)
• $20, Yance F. (USA)
• $20 (4th donation), Jaxon L. (USA) – http://um-reloaded.blogspot.com/
• $20, Syrinx (Canada)
• $20, Jose D. G. (USA)
• $20, Matthew W. (USA)
• $20, Seth S. (USA)
• $15 (3rd donation), Brian B.  (USA)
• $15, Jacob S. (USA)
• $15, Andrew M. (Australia)
• $14, Asgeir K. (Norway)
• $14, Eniko V. (Italy)
• $14, Marion T. (UK)
• $14, Germano S. (Italy)
• $14, Robert B. (UK)
• $10 (2nd donation), Richard Garrison (garrisonr – USA) – http://www.richard-garrison.com/
• $10 (3rd donation), Henry W. (USA)
• $10, Steven M. (USA)
• $10, Dan B. (USA)
• $10 (2nd donation), Jindrich Radic (Czech Republic)
• $8, Israel V. (USA)
• $7, All-Access Customer (USA)
• $7, Matthias Z. (Germany)
• $7, Frantisek Z. (Slovakia)
• $7 (2nd donation), Wilken S. (Germany)
• $7, Eoin S. (Ireland)
• $7, Giuseppe P. (Germany)
• $5, Alex K. (USA)
• $5, Sean D. (USA)
• $5, Timothy K. (USA)

Sponsors:

• $70, Philippe Lotz (alsaphil – France)
• $50, Linux-Onlineshop (Germany) – http://www.linux-onlineshop.de
• $45, Linux Compatible Poker (USA) – http://www.linuxcompatiblepoker.com
• $40, Az Van (newW2 – USA)
• $20, TOPIMMOBILIEN (Tim – Germany) – http://www.immobilien-es.com
• $10, Jim Rogers (USA)
• $7, Jesse Burroughs (JpBя – USA)
• $7, Panagiotis Papasaikas (Greece) – http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/ppapasai/
• $5, Dimitris Athanasiou (RHO, Greece) – http://www.speedtest.gr
• $5, Vassilis Skoullis (Greece)
• $5, linuxmint-fr.org (ludal – France) – http://www.linuxmint-fr.org
• $5, linuxmint-italia.org (Pietro Martino / prior123 – Italy) – http://www.linuxmint-italia.org
• $5, Guillermo Enrique Guglietti (Canada) – http://www.urbancsa.org
• $5, J. Cain (ronnoc – USA) – http://realestatepointe.blogspot.com/
• $5, LA Express
• $5, MPD Digital
• $3.5, Ian Egland (Echolynx – USA)
• $2, Joerg Dreckmann (Germany)
• $1, BusinessSale – http://www.webvaluer.org
• $1, very-clever.com – http://www.very-clever.com
• $1, Busybits – http://www.busybits.com
• $1, linboo.com – http://www.linboo.com
• $1, Expert Bookings – http://www.expert-bookings.com
• $0.5 Martijn van Loon (aapiethaaap – Netherlands)

Money raised in March:

* Donations: $1256
* Sponsors: $300

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: 7.99%
• Linux Mint 5 Elyssa LTS: 19.76%
• Linux Mint 6 Felicia: 72.24%

Web Stats:

• Visits: 1,277,408 (+18.66%)
  
• Pageviews: 2,437,531 (+17.62%)
• Page impressions: 1,019,289
• Search queries: 2,630,797
• Forum users: 14266
• Forum posts: 131709

Rankings:

• Distrowatch (popularity ranking): 1482 (3rd)
• Distrowatch (traffic share): 2.5% (3rd)
• Alexa (website ranking): 37,932th

Events:

• Linux Mint 6 KDE CE RC1 was released: http://www.linuxmint.com/blog/?p=655
• Linux Mint 6 Fluxbox CE RC1 was released: http://www.linuxmint.com/blog/?p=651
• Linux Mint 4 Daryna reaching end of life: http://www.linuxmint.com/blog/?p=698
• mintCast released 3 episodes of their podcast: http://mintcast.org/
• Don Cosner, our release manager, also known as Exploder had a baby 🙂

Summary:

• We’ve had a really successful month. If we ignore the depreciation of the US dollar our income went up 31%. Both sponsorship and donations were up as well. Of course we’re comparing a 31 days month with a 28 days one, but still, the results are extremely good.
• The activity also grew on the forums and the traffic got bigger on our start pages, indicating a growth of our user base.
• Our Distrowatch rankings went down but their website only covered 2 of our releases this year. In comparison Ubuntu hit their frontpage 6 times with 4 Alphas, 1 Beta and 1 revision release. This is not a complaint and Distrowatch have explained their stand on this, but our apparent lack of activity partly explains the figures. We’ve also lost our novelty factor and if Mint is still quite new in some circles it is well known by now among Distrowatch visitors. The traffic share is at 2.5% which is very good but not accurate since it’s only based on the figures for April, which just started.
• 20% is the share of Elyssa LTS among Linux Mint users. It is quite low. Mint 5 LTS will get updates, the latest tools and innovations, long after Mint 6 and even Mint 7 will be made obsolete. It represents the best alternative for people who don’t want to upgrade every 6 months. In fact people moving away from Linux Mint 4 Daryna, which is about to reach end of life, are typical users who do not follow Linux Mint with each new release and instead of migrating to Linux Mint 6 Felicia which will be replaced by Linux Mint 7 Gloria in a few months they would be better off opting for Linux Mint 5 Elyssa LTS. We made changes to our download page to put more emphasis on Mint 5 LTS and we’ll make our best to promote it more efficiently. This is a sign of a lack of communication and we’ll address it.