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Donations & Sponsorships:

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

Donors:

  • $100 (5th donation), Jordan S.
  • $100 (3rd donation), Bob Donnelly aka “rdonnelly”
  • $100, Serge G.
  • $75, Joseph C.
  • $72, Ramsey E.
  • $70, Vincent V.
  • $50 (7th donation), Michael L. aka “ddavid123“
  • $50 (4th donation), Andreas S.
  • $50 (3rd donation), James Marsh
  • $50 (3rd donation), Dale R. aka “MintyCAP“
  • $50 (2nd donation), Glenn R.
  • $50 (2nd donation), Ronald W.
  • $50, White Wind Zen Community
  • $40, Rebecca F.
  • $40, Graham Sivill aka “Siv“
  • $40, T L. L.
  • $35.5 (5th donation), Jerry Jackson aka “900i“
  • $35.5, Martin W.
  • $35 (19th donation), Pete Molina aka “pmolina”
  • $35, Philippe S.
  • $30, Gordon T.
  • $28.4 (17th donation), Olli K.
  • $28.4 (8th donation), Michael Krusch aka “MAD”
  • $28.4 (5th donation), Miguel Duarte
  • $28.4, Gerhard B.
  • $28 (22nd donation), Manuel F.
  • $28 (2nd donation), Pinna A.
  • $28 (2nd donation), Aurelien P. aka “nabnut”
  • $28, Anna K & Martin R aka “martin on #linuxmint-debian”
  • $27, Charles S.
  • $25 (9th donation), Kenny Hendrick aka “NprComputers“
  • $25 (8th donation), John M.
  • $25 (3rd donation), Bruce D. aka “travtek”
  • $25 (2nd donation), Eric M.
  • $25, Srikanth M.
  • $25, Øyvind S.
  • $25, CK
  • $25, Sridhar A.
  • $21.3, Davide M. Onofrio aka “qvantvm”
  • $21, Alexandre L.
  • $20 (22nd donation), Славољуб aka “slw”
  • $20 (16th donation), Matthew M.
  • $20 (13th donation), Antonio M. aka “Rob Brill’s book-keeper”
  • $20 (4th donation), Vance R. aka “helmsdeeper”
  • $20 (4th donation), Ian M.
  • $20 (3rd donation), edinblack aka “edinblack”
  • $20 (2nd donation), Trevor H.
  • $20 (2nd donation), Robert T.
  • $20 (2nd donation), Daniel A.
  • $20 (2nd donation), Eduardo O.
  • $20, Leonardo Frazao
  • $20, Major D.
  • $20, David G.
  • $20, Erwin V.
  • $20, GeekTech Solutions
  • $20, Robert C.
  • $20, Allan S.
  • $20, Paul Y.
  • $20, Benjamin Rochefort aka “oysterboy”
  • $20, E Tech Electronics LTD
  • $20, Kim H. aka “grhdtj”
  • $20, Joshua B.
  • $20, Colin de Klerk
  • $15 (7th donation), P. S. B. aka “fixpcpaul“
  • $15 (2nd donation), Herbs and Helpers
  • $15, Mats E.
  • $15, Security-camera-warehouse.com
  • $14.2 (14th donation), Paco C.C. aka “kannabix”
  • $14.2 (2nd donation), Slavko B.
  • $14.2 (2nd donation), Bruno V.
  • $14.2, Antonio P.
  • $14.2, Xavier P.
  • $14.2, Michael K.
  • $14, Sakis Koltsidas aka “sakisk“
  • $12, Svein K.
  • $11.36, Mikko Y.
  • $10 (7th donation), Kiril Sotirov
  • $10 (5th donation), Tony C. aka “S. LaRocca”
  • $10 (3rd donation), Sprueche & Gedichte
  • $10 (3rd donation), Haydn P.
  • $10 (2nd donation), Astap A.
  • $10 (2nd donation), Costas Krallis aka “sv1xv“
  • $10 (2nd donation), Sprueche & Gedichte
  • $10 (2nd donation), Bill R.
  • $10 (2nd donation), Richard G. aka “Trollboy”
  • $10, Thomas S.
  • $10, John S. aka “replicantx”
  • $10, Pat D. aka “pjd3”
  • $10, Johnnie D.
  • $10, Paweł H.
  • $10, Сергей Ф.
  • $10, Jay P.
  • $10, Alberto Rivera M. aka “armx”
  • $10, Richard G. aka “Trollboy”
  • $10, Mike M.
  • $9.94, Bastiaan M. D.
  • $9.8 (8th donation), Sylwia Bialczak
  • $7.1 (9th donation), Ulf S. aka “MonteDrago”
  • $7.1, Andrea D. N.
  • $7.1, James C.
  • $7.1, Martin B.
  • $7, Dalton R. J.
  • $7, Jurek W.
  • $5 (6th donation), Miljenko D.
  • $5 (6th donation), Michael K.
  • $5, Yuriy R. aka “Jhoop“
  • $5, Redsandro
  • $5, James H.
  • $5, Uwe R.
  • $5, Sara A. C.
  • $5, Phillip C.
  • $5, James R.
  • $4.26, Rodriguez C. M.
  • $3, Wade V.
  • $2.84 (2nd donation), Ke C.
  • $2.84, Philipp R.
  • $2.84, Kari K. aka “Kartsa”
  • $2.5 (2nd donation), Immunolytics, Inc aka “Immunolytics, Inc“
  • $2 (2nd donation), Johnny R. aka “Jraz”
  • $2, Ivan P.
  • $2, Guido S.
  • $2, Ethoseo Internet Marketing Washington
  • $2, Anil Kumar P. K
  • $1.42, Maximilian W. aka “frumble“
  • $1 (14th donation), free backlinks
  • $1, Vagas de Empregos
  • $1, Snoring Solutions
  • $1, Ernesto R. J.
  • $0.73, Aaaron N.
  • $0.5, Tanner M. aka “Tannn3r”

Sponsors:

Money raised in July:

* Donations: $2627.53 (130 donors)
* Sponsors: $1451.03 (126 sponsors)

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

User Stats:

Repartition of Linux Mint users across releases:

  • Linux Mint 11 Katya: 39.63%
  • Linux Mint 10 Julia: 28.65%
  • Linux Mint 9 Isadora LTS: 15.91%
  • Linux Mint 7 Gloria: 5.46%
  • Linux Mint 8 Helena: 3.69%
  • LMDE: 3.10%
  • Linux Mint 4.0 Daryna: 2.24%
  • Linux Mint 6 Felicia: 0.79%
  • Linux Mint 5 Elyssa LTS: 0.50%

Web Stats:

  • Visits: 3,364,668
  • Unique views: 4,156,997
  • Pageviews: 5,264,751
  • Page impressions: 2,814,658
  • Search queries: 9,681,254
  • Forum users: 52,851
  • Forum posts: 438,506

Rankings:

  • Distrowatch (popularity ranking): 2177 (2nd)
  • Distrowatch (traffic share): 1.8% (2nd) (made irrelevant by Firefox 4′s decision to hard-code user agents and most distributions not setting it up anymore)
  • Alexa (website ranking): 11,637th

Events:

Summary:

  • Linux Mint Gnome and Linux Mint Xfce (both based on Debian testing) are currently being tested.
  • The Update Packs and the new Update Manager were a success and allowed us to warn the community about upstream breakages (Gnome 3 regressions, MESA incompatibilities..etc) and to adapt our technology before updates were made available to the public. The next step is already in progress and it consists in developing a network of mirrors for the new Debian repositories.
  • A quick interview was given to “My Linux Rig“
  • The decision was taken to migrate our KDE and Fluxbox editions to LMDE. Going forward our project will support 2 desktops with a frozen Ubuntu base (Gnome and LXDE) and 4 desktops on top of a rolling Debian base (Gnome, KDE, Xfce and Fluxbox).
  • Our daily income went down 9% in July due to a smaller number of donations and the average price paid per clicks/impressions in advertising. July and August are traditionally quiet so these results are not alarming. In fact the slight increases observed in the number of impressions and search queries are extremely positive for us, especially in the middle of the summer holidays.

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Donations & Sponsorships:

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

Donors:

  • $200 (2nd donation), Eric H. (USA)
  • $100, Greg H (United Kingdom) – http://www.pokersoft.co.uk
  • $100, Whit N. (USA)
  • $100, Brad C. (USA)
  • $100, John K. (USA)
  • $86 (2nd donation), Jan W. (Netherlands)
  • $72, Andrej C. (Slovenia)
  • $67, Joachim S. (Germany)
  • $62 (2nd donation), Kevin D. (USA)
  • $50 (6th donation), Gordon Hilliard aka “ghilly” (United Kingdom)
  • $50 (2nd donation), James Marsh (Australia) – http://www.engadinecycles.com.au/
  • $35 (7th donation), Jerry Jackson (United Kingdom)
  • $30 (7th donation), Pete Molina aka “pmolina” (USA)
  • $30 (3rd donation), Olli K. (Finland)
  • $30, Isaac Luria (USA)
  • $27 (10th donation), Manuel F. (Portugal)
  • $25 (3rd donation), David Morris aka “DPMorris” (USA)
  • $25, Clive G. (United Kingdom)
  • $25, Kamal G. (United Kingdom)
  • $25, Nathan Iverson (USA)
  • $25, Bob H. (USA)
  • $25, Kenny H. (USA)
  • $25, Guillermo Vives (Chile)
  • $25, Rob C. (Australia)
  • $25, Cody W. H. (USA)
  • $25, Dag S (Sweden)
  • $21 (11th donation), Slavoljub M. (Norway)
  • $21 (3rd donation), Bernard S. (Netherlands)
  • $20 (8th donation), Frank Bechstein (Germany) – http://www.gamer-site.de/
  • $20 (3rd donation), Thomas B. (USA)
  • $20 (3rd donation), Thomas B. (USA)
  • $20 (2nd donation), Jay Butcher (USA)
  • $20, Daniel R-K. (Germany)
  • $20, Daryl L. (World)
  • $20, Baldur M. R. (United Kingdom)
  • $20, Ali Ayoubi (Australia)
  • $20, Adam Hainstock aka “Acid_1” (Canada)
  • $20, Digital Academy (USA)
  • $20, Marcus Taylor (USA)
  • $20, Victor Jose J.J. aka “alanmoore” (Spain)
  • $20, Michael F. (Norway)
  • $20, Matthew M. (USA)
  • $20, Michael A. (USA)
  • $20, Jared S. aka “jspice9000” (Canada)
  • $20, James D. (USA)
  • $20, Simon M. (Australia)
  • $20, Kim Vexborg (Denmark)
  • $20, Steve Schaller (Canada)
  • $15 (8th donation), Marco R. (Italy)
  • $15 (7th donation), Emil Pavlov aka “emil_pavlov” (Bulgaria)
  • $15 (2nd donation), Samuel M. aka “vtired” (Italy) – http://it.ismico.org
  • $15 (2nd donation), John Minear aka “sparky51” (United Kingdom)
  • $15, Massimo M. (Italy)
  • $15, Roland A. (United Kingdom)
  • $15, Ville L. aka “vplampo” (Finland)
  • $15, Martin B. (Germany)
  • $15, Александр С. (Russia)
  • $15, Marko Kovic (Switzerland)
  • $14, Daniel H. (Germany)
  • $14, Lee Sturman aka “Hammerlee” (United Kingdom)
  • $14, Nadia C. (France)
  • $14, Massimo C. (Italy)
  • $13, Mikkel M. aka “msm” (Denmark)
  • $12 (3rd donation), Juergen G. (Canada)
  • $12, Dylan (USA) – http://digitalliberation.com
  • $10, Richard A. (Australia)
  • $10, Jose G. A. (Spain)
  • $10, Ashley Peach (United Kingdom) – http://www.dog-toy.co.uk
  • $10, ashari (USA)
  • $10, Matthew M. (United Kingdom)
  • $10, Marina Moldovan (Romania) – http://despre.md
  • $10, Steven W. (Australia)
  • $10, Anonymous (USA)
  • $10, Erik F. (USA)
  • $10, Michael N. (Australia)
  • $10, Brian Blonski (USA)
  • $10, Ricardo G. R. aka “hackob” (Mexico)
  • $10, Sven Akerlund (Sweden)
  • $10, Eleonor S. (USA)
  • $8, Westly Ward aka “sonicrules1234” (USA) – http://github.com/sonicrules1234
  • $8, Jeff P. (USA)
  • $8, Edward S. (USA)
  • $7 (4th donation), Jennifer McBride (Canada) – http://www.only-green.ca
  • $7 (2nd donation), George238 (Portugal)
  • $7, Steven M. (United Kingdom)
  • $7, Marius D. (USA)
  • $7, Robert Collier (Canada)
  • $7, Giacomo D. (Italy)
  • $7, Tauras G. (Lithuania)
  • $5 (6th donation), Savant B.D. (USA) – http://www.allyourprices.com
  • $5, David Mitchel Stow aka “Optimist” (USA) – http://optimistictraining.blogspot.com
  • $5, Zoltan Siposs (Hungary)
  • $5, Szymon C. (Poland)
  • $5, Amir H. (United Arab Emirates)
  • $5, Jon Valentine aka “xarmyvet” (USA)
  • $5, Project Different Truth aka “nivosh” (Israel) – http://www.emetaheret.org.il
  • $5, Alessio R. (Italy)
  • $4, Dionysis V. (Greece)
  • $3 (4th donation), Inga Muste (Latvia) – http://inga.lv
  • $3, Kevin Kirkpatrick (USA) – http://www.realestatesignsplus.com
  • $2, HostingFest (United Kingdom) – http://www.hostingfest.com
  • $2, Charles Vlk aka “kunk” (Czech Republic)
  • $1 (4th donation), Inga Muste (Latvia) – http://inga.lv
  • $1 (2nd donation), Einar Orn Eidsson (Iceland) – http://www.sveimhugi.com
  • $1, Pavol D. (Slovakia)
  • $1, Arturas N. (Lithuania)
  • $1, Timothy L.M.M. (Indonesia)
  • $1, Dean B. (Australia) – http://australianguy.com/blogs
  • $1, Michael O. (Russia)
  • $1, Sebastiaan J. (Belgium)
  • $1, Norman U. (Germany)
  • $1, Gerd F. (Austria)

Sponsors:

Money raised in April:

* Donations: $2351 (112 donors)
* Sponsors: $915 (76 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: 65% (+3%)
  • Linux Mint 7 Gloria: 26% (-2%)
  • Linux Mint 6 Felicia: 5% (-0%)
  • Linux Mint 5 Elyssa LTS: 3% (-0%)
  • Linux Mint 4.0 Daryna: 2% (-0%)

Web Stats:

  • Visits: 2,451,208 (-8%)
  • Unique views: 3,211,078 (-9%)
  • Pageviews: 4,127,728 (-10%)
  • Page impressions: 1,632,652
  • Search queries: 5,713,887
  • Forum users: ?
  • Forum posts: ?

Rankings:

  • Distrowatch (popularity ranking): ? (3rd)
  • Distrowatch (traffic share): ?% (2nd)
  • Alexa (website ranking): ?

Events:

Summary:

  • April was the last month in our release cycle. It was quiet in terms of public events, Ubuntu 10.04 was released and our Adsense publisher contract switched from Google Inc to Google Ireland.
  • These monthly statistics are being published quite late, due to the work involved on the Linux Mint 9 release, and as a result, some figures are missing.
  • Sponsorships continued to increase. We received $915 in April and the project now counts more than 75 sponsors.
  • The Linux Mint user base got 8% smaller. It’s still far behind Ubuntu’s but far ahead of any other Linux distribution.
  • The overall income went down 11%.
  • Donations are traditionally high but they were down 42%. Still, the monthly results would have been far worse if it wasn’t for the 112 people who donated a total of $2351 that month. This is really appreciated and I’d like to say a big thank you to them.
  • May 2010 sees the release of Linux Mint 9 with an expectation for much better results.

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Donations & Sponsorships:

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

Donors:

  • $163, Adnan Z. (Germany)
  • $120, Nicolas B. (Germany)
  • $102, James Marsh (Australia) – http://www.engadinecycles.com.au/
  • $100, Micah Gravel aka “micahman” (USA)
  • $74 (2nd donation), David F. (Ireland)
  • $74, Badr R. (France)
  • $74, Matthias R. (France)
  • $60, Jim Duffield aka “sapperk9” (Australia)
  • $50, Andreas Rumpenhorst (Germany)
  • $50, James Donaldson (USA)
  • $50, Robert D. (United Kingdom)
  • $50, William G. (USA)
  • $50, Stefano Candotti aka “Stevewonder” (Italy)
  • $50, Eric Pate (USA) – http://www.carolinagreenpc.com
  • $50, Billy S. (USA)
  • $50, Andre D. (USA)
  • $44 (2nd donation), Wolfgang P. (Austria)
  • $44, Francisco C. C. (Spain)
  • $37, Thomas G. (Germany)
  • $37, Bernhard M. (Germany)
  • $30, Mark O’D. (World)
  • $30, David C. (USA)
  • $28, Pau Carre Cardona (Spain)
  • $27, Jeffrey K. (USA)
  • $25, Gavin Engel (USA)
  • $25, Ed D. (USA)
  • $25, Clifton Rhodes (USA)
  • $25, Sudheer S. (United Kingdom)
  • $25, Paul Bary (USA)
  • $20 (2nd donation), Dan B. (USA)
  • $20, Dalibor Saula (Australia)
  • $20, Amiel H. (Australia)
  • $20, Sven S. (Australia)
  • $20, David Brown (Canada)
  • $20, Jonathan P. (USA)
  • $20, Winston G. (USA)
  • $16, John B. (United Kingdom)
  • $15, Matthew G. (USA)
  • $15, Slavoljub M. (Norway)
  • $15, Paul George (United Kingdom) – http://www.paulgeorge.me
  • $14, Patrick Baumann (Germany)
  • $14, Iain G. (United Kingdom)
  • $14, L G DE L. (Netherlands)
  • $14, Charl P. (Netherlands)
  • $14, Claudio Gabriele N. (Italy)
  • $14, Bruno M. (Italy)
  • $14, Joseph W. (United Kingdom)
  • $14, Gunter D. (Austria)
  • $13.13, Mac C. (USA)
  • $11, Mongolisch-Deutsch.de aka “rmbw” (Germany) – http://www.mongolisch-deutsch.de
  • $10 (2nd donation), Richard G. (USA)
  • $10, Henry W. (USA)
  • $10, Dmitry O. (Russia)
  • $10, Ludovic G. aka “Lewdsquirrel” (Canada)
  • $10, Kevin M. (USA)
  • $10, Tom Perry (United Kingdom) – http://twitter.com/tomp83
  • $10, Ralph N. (USA)
  • $10, Bob H. (Australia)
  • $10, Christopher G. (USA)
  • $10, Anthony N. (United Kingdom)
  • $10, Steinar M. (Norway)
  • $10, Donald D’A. (USA)
  • $10, MuddBuddha (USA) – http://muddbuddha.com
  • $10, John P. (Australia)
  • $10, Marcel P. (Canada)
  • $10, Chaitanya K aka “thegoodmelon” (India)
  • $10, Krzysztof J. (USA)
  • $10, Gabriel S. (World)
  • $7, Geoffroy M. (Canada)
  • $7, Marcus Wikstrom aka “mece” (Finland) – http://twitter.com/mece66
  • $5 (2nd donation), Matthew O. (Ireland)
  • $5, Malcolm B. (USA)
  • $5, Francesco Coiro (Italy)
  • $5, Apollo V. Melo aka “teflashfire” (USA) – http://militarylinuxusers.blogspot.com
  • $5, Doug Berch (USA) – http://dougberch.com
  • $5, Venkatesh B. (United Kingdom)
  • $5, Helen J. (United Kingdom)
  • $5, Peter Hope-Tindall aka “hopetindall” (Canada)
  • $5, Brandon P. (USA)
  • $4, Johan T. (Sweden)
  • $2, Remy van Elst (Netherlands) – http://relst.nl/
  • $2, PartEase (USA) – http://www.partease.com
  • $1, Viktor Semenovskiy (Russia) – http://ubuntunnru.blogspot.com/
  • $1, Pierre G. (Belgium)

Sponsors:

Money raised in August:

* Donations: $2162.13 (85 donors)
* Sponsors: $775.5 (42 sponsors)

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

User Stats:

Repartition of Linux Mint users across releases:

  • Linux Mint 7 Gloria: 75% (+7%)
  • Linux Mint 6 Felicia: 15% (-5%)
  • Linux Mint 5 Elyssa LTS: 7% (-1%)
  • Linux Mint 4.0 Daryna: 3% (-1%)

Web Stats:

  • Visits: 1,874,462 (+12%)
  • Pageviews: 3,341,385 (+10%)
  • Page impressions: 1,381,550
  • Search queries: 4,131,663
  • Forum users:20,272
  • Forum posts:175,325

Rankings:

  • Distrowatch (popularity ranking): 1279 (3rd)
  • Distrowatch (traffic share): 4.2% (2nd)
  • Alexa (website ranking): 28,272nd

Events:

Summary:

  • August 2009 was the (6th consecutive) best month ever since the creation of Linux Mint.
  • The overall income is up 24%.
  • Our user base is the second largest in the desktop Linux market.
  • The community support is outstanding: 85 people donated last month for a total of $2162 and our sponsors raised $775.