The Linux Mint Blog

The repositories (packages.linuxmint.com) are currently down, giving 403 errors or not responding at all.

Sorry for the inconvenience. We’re aware of it and we’re trying to fix them as quick as possible.

Affected parts of the desktop: APT, mintInstall and Synaptic can only install from Ubuntu or 3rd party repositories. MintUpdate cannot work at all.

Update (7th July, 4:38pm GMT0): I made a temporary fix. The repository is working at the moment but expect some more downtime later when this gets properly fixed by Michael (d00p).

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

Sponsors:

– $70, Philippe Lotz, MBA, International Consulting & Coaching (alsaphil – France)
– $25, Az Van (newW2 – USA)
– $11, LinuxISOS.de (Germany) – http://www.linuxisos.de
– $10, Tuxdevil Outsourcing LLC http://www.tuxdevil.net
– $10, TOPIMMOBILIEN (Tim – Germany) – http://www.immobilien-es.com
– $10, MXD Internet Solutions (Filip Oscadal – Czech Republic) – http://www.mxd.biz
– $7, Panagiotis Papasaikas (Greece) – http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/ppapasai/
– $5, Vassilis Skoullis (Greece)
– $5, linuxmint-italia.org (Pietro Martino / prior123 – Italy) – http://www.linuxmint-italia.org
– $5, Robert Holland
– $5, Kevin Gabbert
– $2, LinuxMint-Forum.de (Germany) – http://linuxmint-forum.de/
– $2, Khurt Williams (USA) – http://islandinthenet.com/
– $1, Lintelligence.de. (d00p – Germany) – http://www.lintelligence.de
– $1, Linuxmint.de (d00p – Germany) – http://www.linuxmint.de
– $0.5 Martijn van Loon (aapiethaaap – Netherlands)

Donors:

– $100 (3rd donation) Harald Gauslaa (Norway)
– $80 (3rd donation) Theodore T. (UK)
– $80 Eric H. (Germany)
– $80 Paul G. (Netherlands)
– $60 (3rd donation) Erik Anderson (deadguy – USA)
– $51 (in 2 donations) William G. (USA)
– $50 (2nd donation) Michael G. (subslug – USA)
– $50 Holland StJ. (USA)
– $50 Nordgard W. (Norway)
– $50 Gary Arter (UK)
– $50 Eric H. (USA)
– $50 Ernest M. (Australia)
– $40 Dariusz Z. (Ireland)
– $40 (4th donation) Peter Fitzsimons (UK)
– $40 (2nd donation) Philippe W. (Switzerland)
– $40 Matthew M. (USA)
– $32 (5th donation) Temel Balci (Germany)
– $30 (2nd donation) Randolph MacK. (Verlager – USA)
– $25 Julia C. (USA)
– $25 Samantha O. (USA)
– $25 James S. (USA)
– $25 David K. (USA)
– $25 Scott H. (USA)
– $24 Joan P. N. (Spain)
– $24 Till H. H. (Germany)
– $21 Timothy R. (USA)
– $16 Alan O. (UK)
– $16 (3rd donation) Frank Bechstein (Germany)
– $16 (2nd donation) Bernd M. (Germany)
– $13 Julien D. (Belgium)
– $10 Jesse N. (USA)
– $10 Erik L. (Germany)
– $10 Richard L. (USA)
– $10 Douglas S. (USA)
– $10 (3rd donation) Jaxon L. (USA)
– $10 Juan G. M. (Spain)
– $8 (7th donation) Phillip Blake (antiquexray – USA)
– $5 Ricardo G. E. (Argentina)
– $1 Shane E. (Canada)

Money raised in June:

• Donations: $1302
• Sponsors: $169.5

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

I just wanted to post about what happened these last few days and what’s coming up in the near future:

– We decided to postpone the developement of QT frontends for the Mint applications in the KDE CE. As a consequence, the bad news is that all mint tools will still come with GTK interfaces in Elyssa KDE CE and that due to a problem with how GTK handles transparency in systray GTK applications won’t be using the default KDE style by default. The good news is that, with this out of the way, there isn’t much holding Elyssa KDE CE from being released anymore… so we should see this edition come with a public BETA pretty soon now.

– Ubuntu released an update (8.04.1). I’m currently reviewing it. As always I tend to take a conservative approach and I’m not interested in updates which don’t fix any important known issues. If the decision is to catch up with 8.04.1 then Linux Mint 5 R2 will be released and I’ll take the opportunity to consider adding support for OEM installations and a fix for mintUpdate (which sometimes doesn’t always refresh itself).

– Firefox 3 stable was added to the repositories. Opera 9.5 is there as well (although this was added a while ago). We’ve also added Western Quake 3 ( http://linuxmint.com/software/?sec=item&id=675&release=3 ) and we might add Urban Terror 4.1 soon.