Apologies for posting late this month. LMDE 2 “Betsy” was released. I know many LMDE 1 users are eagerly waiting for us to announce an upgrade path to Betsy so I’ll keep these news short and go back to working on that 🙂

MATE 1.10 is being labeled as we speak and should be released very shortly.

Cinnamon 2.6 will reach feature-freeze mid-May and become stable at the end of the month. It’s already full of improvements and new features but there are a couple of very important sub-projects we wanted to put in it: The ability for users to change whether Cinnamon works with consolekit or logind without recompiling, a queue for file operations in Nemo so they can be performed one after the other, actual screensavers in cinnamon-screensaver (we’ve got support for xscreensaver and webkit screensavers already, we need to work on the configuration UI)… etc.

Linux Mint 17.2 “Rafaela” is planned for the end of the June, with an RC release mid-June.

Many thanks to our sponsors and to all the people who donated to us. Special thanks also to the artists who answered our call for help last month.

Sponsorships:

Linux Mint is proudly sponsored by:

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

Community Sponsors: Sam Torno AWcode Co Ltd Charles Rivers Clare Florist Dalin Seivewright Dr James Southwell-Keely fotokasten GmbH htpcBeginner.com Jeramy Ross John Bayles Pianos Mahen Martin del Mazo MilesWeb Hosting Nikolaj Petersen Peter K. PSB Law S Thistle Sascha Reinsch sefcom computers switchbit Tam Le Uwe Klosa Yang, C.-C.

To become a sponsor or to see the full list of Linux Mint sponsors, please visit: http://www.linuxmint.com/sponsors.php

Donations in March:

A total of $6,849 were raised thanks to the generous contributions of 356 donors:

$200 (17th donation), Ralph Siegler aka “ziggy”
$128.25, Jørgen R.
$100 (10th donation), Jordan S.
$100 (2nd donation), Lu G.
$100, Fidel Q.
$100, Jaroslaw L.
$100, Simon Edwards
$100, Alexander G.
$100, Timothy M.
$75 (7th donation), Jon Espenschied aka “xeno”
$66, Cevad OZTUG
$59.59, Klaus K.
$59.59, Stefan K.
$59.59, Luis P.
$59.59, Markus B.
$59.59, E M. K.
$51.3 (2nd donation), Michel D. W. aka “NicNac”
$51.3 (2nd donation), Novica aka “Novica”
$51.3, Henk B.
$51.3, Andreas Z.
$50 (59th donation), Matthew M.
$50 (58th donation), Matthew M.
$50 (6th donation), Samson S. aka “Samtastic”
$50 (6th donation), Peter D.
$50 (2nd donation), Torben C.
$50 (2nd donation), Paul L.
$50, Carlos R.
$50, Gervais R.
$50, Brent B.
$50, Winston T.
$50, Robert E.
$43.09, Aubert (Holdup)
$42.42, Pierce H.
$42, Martin K.
$41.71, Giuseppe V.
$41.04 (3rd donation), Claus F. B.
$35.91 (10th donation), Frank Bechstein
$35.75 (61th donation), Olli K.
$35.75 (2nd donation), Martin W.
$35.75, Juha L.
$35.75, Philipp E.
$35.75, Kjartan H.
$30.78 (15th donation), Orlando M. M.
$30.78, Jean-paul R.
$30.78, Mario R.
$30.78, Andreas R.
$30.78, David B.
$30.78, Karoly T.
$30 (2nd donation), Murray C.
$30, Mike S.
$30, Jean P. O. O.
$30, Mj F.
$30, Gordon L.
$30, Brian S. G.
$30, Keith K.
$30, Art D. aka “darkruby”
$29.79, Helmut S.
$29.79, Sascha L.
$27.41, Julien C.
$25.65 (6th donation), Henk van C.
$25.65 (3rd donation), Carsten Wehner
$25.65, Karolien aka “Lina”
$25.65, Iris W.
$25.65, Christoph R.
$25.65, Krzysztof G.
$25.65, Klaus J. O. E.
$25.65, Chaz C. aka “utopia”
$25 (42th donation), Ronald W.
$25 (4th donation), Scott L.
$25 (3rd donation), Charles R. H.
$25 (3rd donation), John H.
$25 (2nd donation), Justin F.
$25 (2nd donation), Phillip Z. T. and Silver Gallery
$25 (2nd donation), David T.
$25 (2nd donation), Louis P. aka “BikeLouP”
$25, Dave K.
$25, David S. A.
$25, T. L. K.
$25, R Biz LLC
$25, Richard R.
$25, Stephen M.
$25, Jaan S.
$25, Raymond L.
$25, Eugene H.
$25, James W.
$25, Jay J.
$25, J R. L.
$25, Matt G.
$24 (3rd donation), Don R.
$23.83 (3rd donation), Ky LMDE
$23.83 (2nd donation), Steverj aka “Somerset Scrumpy”
$23.83 (2nd donation), Joe T. aka “The Tekkie”
$23.83 (2nd donation), Peter L.
$23.83, Peter J. C.
$23.83, Dusko K.
$23.83, Michel M.
$23.83, Anthony M.
$23.83, Daniel R.
$23.83, Peter W.
$23.83, Yan O.
$23.83, Wolfgang W.
$23.83, Francesca P.
$23.83, Ørnulv A.
$23.59, Matthias K.
$23 (2nd donation), Lael B.
$20.52 (3rd donation), Darek P.
$20.52 (2nd donation), CySoTec
$20.52, Peter N.
$20.52, Ueli L.
$20.52, Joel G.
$20.52, Daniel H.
$20.52, Toni P.
$20.52, Richard B.
$20.52, Johannes K.
$20.5, Bernard K.
$20 (7th donation), Thomas M.
$20 (4th donation), Arrowhead Computer Consulting, LLC aka “Jim (JR)”
$20 (3rd donation), Alex N.
$20 (3rd donation), Ian M.
$20 (2nd donation), Ivan F. D. S.
$20 (2nd donation), James S.
$20 (2nd donation), Doug Person aka “Doug”
$20 (2nd donation), Kanapat T.
$20 (2nd donation), John L.
$20 (2nd donation), CapraJack
$20, Peter G.
$20, Ronnie A.
$20, Gregory C. &. A.
$20, James N.
$20, Alexis C.
$20, Andrew M.
$20, Fredy A.
$20, Marvin H.
$20, Paul O.
$20, William N.
$20, Bruce M.
$20, Christopher A.
$20, Kevin M.
$20, Kirk C.
$20, Christine J. R.
$20, Layton N.
$20, John T.
$20, Christophe A.
$20, Alan W.
$20, Ronald R.
$20, Curt Vaughan aka “curtvaughan ”
$20, John Correa aka “JohnC”
$18, Dmitry K.
$17.87, Achim K.
$17.87, David C.
$17.87, Holger F.
$17.87, Aleksejs B.
$15.39 (2nd donation), Hamilton B.
$15.39, Clurow C.
$15.39, Luis B.
$15.39, Michael P.
$15.39, Xabier S. S.
$15.39, Thomas S.
$15, Robert R.
$15, Rajesh Hazari aka “Rajesh”
$15, Eduardo B.
$15, Ricardo M.
$15, Nestor E. aka “eltolo”
$15, Paul T. aka “Tabo”
$14.5 (10th donation), Dominik K. aka “doke”
$14.3, Martin C.
$11.91 (2nd donation), Alex A.
$11.91, Vladimir F.
$11.91, Andrea F.
$11.91, Christopher F.
$11.91, Pierre-gilles L.
$11.91, Aleksandar S.
$11.91, Eberhard R.
$11.91, Ollie J. aka “Ojay”
$11.91, Gopal P.
$11.91, Francisco U. R. R.
$11.91, Sven Lange aka “zven”
$11.91, Lisette J.
$11.91, Michele C.
$11.91, Christian S.
$11.91, Harald G.
$11.91, Patrick D.
$11.91, Graham M.
$11.91, Sebastian K.
$11.91, Danilo S.
$10.26 (19th donation), Raymond E.
$10.26 (5th donation), Matúš L.
$10.26 (4th donation), Daniel P.
$10.26 (2nd donation), Hans H.
$10.26 (2nd donation), Alessandro L. aka “Armido”
$10.26 (2nd donation), Dmytro K.
$10.26, Robbieka
$10.26, Mladen A.
$10.26, Tom B.
$10.26, Peter J.
$10.26, Joachim K.
$10.26, Dmytro K.
$10.26, Kelvin D.
$10.26, David W.
$10.26, Mauro M.
$10.26, Florian H.
$10.26, William H.
$10.26, Andy G.
$10 (48th donation), Tony C. aka “S. LaRocca”
$10 (4th donation), Kouji Kobayashi
$10 (4th donation), Rodolfo D. N.
$10 (4th donation), Robert L.
$10 (4th donation), Wilson G.
$10 (4th donation), Tom M.
$10 (3rd donation), Snorri G.
$10 (3rd donation), Libertad Tecnologica
$10 (2nd donation), Carlos C.
$10 (2nd donation), Steven P.
$10 (2nd donation), Robert S.
$10 (2nd donation), Chris Mospaw aka “Mospaw”
$10 (2nd donation), sure chap
$10 (2nd donation), Люблев Н.
$10 (2nd donation), Steve Jain
$10 (2nd donation), Bjørn A.
$10 (2nd donation), Larry J.
$10 (2nd donation), Donald K.
$10, George B.
$10, Jens E. D.
$10, Levent Ö.
$10, David G.
$10, Ramkumar I.
$10, Scott W.
$10, Erik L.
$10, Avi H.
$10, Luis H.
$10, Michael H.
$10, René López Caballero aka “renelc”
$10, Dariusz B.
$10, Sumit B.
$10, Mihir D.
$10, Caleb J.
$10, Henry R.
$10, Jörg A.
$10, Alex P.
$10, Michael D.
$10, Долгасов И.
$10, Mikael V.
$10, Steven M. C.
$10, Kyle H.
$10, Shahnewaz Maqbul Ahmed aka “Shahnewaz”
$10, Dan M.
$10, Chris K.
$10, Rowen C.
$10, Masaomi YOSHIDA
$10, Cyril W.
$10, Anthony B.
$10, Victor S.
$10, Yano Y.
$10, Pedro P. J. C.
$10, Mark C.
$10, Todd H.
$10, Piotr B.
$9.23 (4th donation), Tomasz K.
$8.34, Кучма Р.
$8.2 (2nd donation), Rachael N.
$8, Curtis R.
$7.7, Wladimir M. aka “Wlad”
$7.18, John G.
$7.14, Hugo M.
$7 (2nd donation), Jimmy M.
$7, Deaugustene D.
$6 (2nd donation), Robert M.
$6, Rajiv Gunja aka “GGR”
$5.95 (6th donation), Joanna Z. aka “GreenCatX”
$5.95 (2nd donation), Daniel G. aka “Ghedevil”
$5.95 (2nd donation), Liviu B.
$5.95 (2nd donation), Michael P.
$5.95, Stefan V. B.
$5.95, Dominik W.
$5.95, Tim H.
$5.95, Ocke K.
$5.95, narrow
$5.64, Jeffrey H.
$5.26, Laurent M.
$5.13 (9th donation), anonymous
$5.13 (3rd donation), Mario G.
$5.13, Stefan P.
$5.13, Patrick S.
$5.13, Mark L.
$5.13, Tiny W.
$5.13, Klaus Z.
$5.13, Sven W.
$5.13, Piotr K.
$5.13, Francisco A. V.
$5.13, Matthias S.
$5.13, Ivo K. aka “Rijia”
$5.13, Daniel L. D.
$5.13, Iraklis G.
$5.13, ebay
$5.13, Ruben C. V.
$5.1, Shamoun M.
$5.1, Andre K.
$5 (9th donation), Thomas F.
$5 (6th donation), frisky
$5 (4th donation), Michael E. aka “West”
$5 (3rd donation), Gonzalo M. D. O.
$5 (3rd donation), Harold F.
$5 (3rd donation), Andreas L.
$5 (3rd donation), Ahmed I. aka “Dr. King”
$5 (2nd donation), Jorge Contreras aka “jorgcon”
$5 (2nd donation), Ivo S.
$5 (2nd donation), Thomas L.
$5, Ernest G.
$5, Y. S. Chung
$5, Chad G.
$5, Philip B.
$5, Fernando O.
$5, Arie & Michell U.
$5, Thomas F.
$5, Joshua P.
$5, Bryan A.
$5, Timi A.
$5, Martin K.
$5, Dean S.
$5, Robert E.
$5, Alexandra P. aka “Alex”
$5, Juwon L.
$5, Nebula D. E. L.
$5, ac repair las vegas
$5, Todd A.
$5, Ivanov M.
$5, Patrick S.
$5, Jorge Contreras aka “jorgcon”
$5, David J.
$4.76, Luca P.
$4.2 (9th donation), Maple Leafs
$4.1, Θεόδωρος Μ. aka “theodoreippon”
$4.1, Lukas H.
$4, Dolev R.
$4, Decentralized Domain Names aka “PeerName”
$3.97 (2nd donation), Aleksandr K.
$3.57, Ritvars P.
$3 (3rd donation), RoDi – sprava siete
$3, Sravan K. N.
$2.38, Oliver K.
$2.05, Dimitri S.
$2 (3rd donation), Ian E.
$2, Terri A.
$13.93 from 13 smaller donations

If you want to help Linux Mint with a donation, please visit http://www.linuxmint.com/donors.php

The release candidate for LMDE 2 “Betsy” was announced. Bugs were fixed and we’re now getting ready for a stable release. Working on Betsy was very exciting and it paved the way for some of the work planned for Linux Mint 18 (in 2016). It also highlighted a few areas where things could be improved further, so some of Betsy’s improvements will also find their way into Linux Mint 17.2. I’d like to thank all the people who helped us test Betsy and who sent us their feedback.

The team also worked on MDM (the display manager which is responsible for your login screen) and redesigned the way it detects sessions. Technical details were posted on http://segfault.linuxmint.com/2015/03/better-session-detection-in-mdm-2-0. The upcoming version 2.0 of MDM should also bring better support for encrypted home directories, in particular where it comes to language, session and avatar detection.

Bugs were fixed also in mintstick (the USB formatting tool and ISO image writer) and in Cinnamon 2.4 (drag’n drop freezing issues, black bars in the screensaver, many small bug fixes). We want to test these a little more first and possibly put them in “Romeo” before we serve them to you as updates in Rebecca and Betsy.

A huge amount of work went into making Cinnamon load faster. Sadly, we’re only half-way there and the results aren’t conclusive yet. On one of our test machines Cinnamon is able to load in less than a second in normal conditions, but can take up to 12 seconds to load the very fist time the computer is turned on. Investigations showed that this delay took place in cinnamon-menus and cinnamon-desktop, during the initial loading of application info (from /etc/xdg/menus, /usr/share/applications) and icon themes. Through optimization, the loading time was reduced from 12 seconds to 7 seconds average… which is a first step but doesn’t yet solve anything (“slow” and “slower” both feel “slow”). We’re still working on this and hoping we’ll be able to drastically reduce that initial loading time.

New tools were released for Linux Mint developers and to make it easier to compile Linux Mint projects. For more info on the “mint-dev-tools”, please read http://segfault.linuxmint.com/2015/03/introducing-mint-dev-tools-a-collection-of-tools-for-linux-mint-developers/.

Linux Mint has a brilliant development team, but we need more artists, more photographs and more Web developers:

• Web interfaces: Many components in Linux Mint use Web technologies (the login screen, the welcome screen and the software manager use HTML, Cinnamon and GTK3 are styled in CSS…)
• Backgrounds: Each new release brings a new set of gorgeous photographs and backgrounds. We always need help on this.
• Widgets and icons: Our themes and icon themes are great but we’ve been using them since Linux Mint 10. We need to work on something new, maybe adapt to new trends in UI design, successfully marry our identity with flatter looks without falling into something that might be too minimalistic… there’s a lot of work on that and we’d like to get started.
• Websites: Some of them look old, some of them look bad even. We’d like to redesign all of them, make them look simpler, more in line with the current trends and more consistent with each others. If we can’t find the talent internally we’ll contract this work to an external company.

Producing themes, backgrounds, icons is something we can do or get done at least. When there’s a particular need or shortage of artwork, we’re able to outsource and either acquire or find material we can use. Long term though, we’d like to work with people, internally, and have them empowered to change and improve our visual identity, not only online, but within the operating system as well. If you know how to make things “look good”, if you’re talented with HTML, graphic design or even just your camera, don’t hesitate to come and talk to us on IRC at #linuxmint-dev (irc.spotchat.org).

Last but not least, we just got word from CompuLab that the first MintBox mini were produced… and we’re welcoming a champion of online privacy as our new Platinum sponsor. While we’re waiting to publish pictures of the new unit and details about this sponsorship I’d like to thank CompuLab and PIA, it’s a real pleasure to be working with them.

As always many thanks to our sponsors and to everybody who contributes to our project, via donations, feedback or even simply time spent on making Linux Mint better. Congratulations and thanks to all people involved.

Sponsorships:

Linux Mint is proudly sponsored by:

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

Community Sponsors: Sam Torno Karol ‘Zal’ Zalewski AWcode Co Ltd Charles Rivers Clare Florist Dalin Seivewright Dr James Southwell-Keely fotokasten GmbH htpcBeginner.com Jeramy Ross John Bayles Pianos Kristian Scheibe Mahen Martin del Mazo MilesWeb Hosting Nikolaj Petersen Peter K. PSB Law Sascha Reinsch SEER Interactive sefcom computers switchbit Tam Le Tekoia Ltd. Uwe Klosa Yang, C.-C.

To become a sponsor or to see the full list of Linux Mint sponsors, please visit: http://www.linuxmint.com/sponsors.php

Donations:

A total of $6,816 were raised thanks to the generous contributions of 353 donors:

$200, Krueger U.
$100, Vincent D.
$100, Paul B.
$100, Samuel M. P.
$75 (2nd donation), Danny L.
$75, Chris J.
$60 (2nd donation), Jan S. aka “… just a tiny lilltle Mint.”
$59.59, Michel D. W. aka “NicNac”
$59.59, Kurt S.
$59.59, Gerrit H.
$59.59, Orazio I.
$50 (16th donation), Wolfgang P.
$50 (3rd donation), William W.
$50 (2nd donation), Kirby S.
$50 (2nd donation), Michael Kay VK5ACX
$50 (2nd donation), Joshua R.
$50 (2nd donation), Richard D.
$50, Saito S.
$50, Donald Hammers aka “Don”
$50, Don P.
$50, Chris D.
$50, José W. F. J.
$50, Marion S. aka “Linux4Today”
$50, Patrick S.
$50, John S.
$50, Paul W.
$50, David Q.
$50, Stephan T.
$50, Charles G.
$50, Edward B.
$50, Martin R.
$50, Joseph B.
$50, Joseph S.
$50, Terrence P.
$50, Michael M.
$50, Vigil Y. F.
$47.67, Jarosław T.
$47.67, Uwe W.
$41.71 (2nd donation), Frédéric B.
$41.71, Martin M.
$40.52, Mr A.
$40, David C.
$40, 夏 瑞.
$40, Donato E.
$35.75 (60th donation), Olli K.
$35.75, Ondrej Stanek aka “ostan”
$35.75, Trudie L.
$35.75, Alexander D.
$35.75, Jose M. K. Z.
$35.75, Massimo V.
$35.75, Pierluigi T.
$35.75, Thomas L.
$35.75, aka “AnalogueMan”
$35.69, E V. D. V.
$35, Dale K.
$33, Jason B.
$31, Mark D.
$30 (5th donation), Steve Guard aka “SteveG”
$30 (3rd donation), Devendra R.
$30, Terry L.
$30, Benito C.
$30, Cecilio L. P.
$30, Jordan K.
$30, Tech Solutions
$30, Stephen B.
$29.79, Johann M.
$29.79, Enymind Production aka “Enymind Oy”
$29.79, John B.
$29.79, Yuko M.
$29.79, Andreas E.
$29.79, Ralf- D. G.
$29.79, Wulf D.
$29.79, Juan M. L.
$29.79, Rune Ø.
$25 (41th donation), Ronald W.
$25 (5th donation), Bill
$25 (2nd donation), Bob aka “electricworry”
$25 (2nd donation), James A.
$25, C S.
$25, John H.
$25, Philip J.
$25, Holt D.
$25, Tim B.
$25, April A.
$25, Joy C.
$25, John P.
$25, Luigi M. B.
$25, Thomas R.
$25, Roland V.
$25, Carroll K.
$23.83 (3rd donation), Francois G.
$23.83 (3rd donation), Denis B.
$23.83 (2nd donation), Antun K.
$23.83 (2nd donation), Thomas A.
$23.83 (2nd donation), Jan J.
$23.83, Lee S.
$23.83, Adam V.
$23.83, Daniel K.
$23.83, Giovanni C.
$23.83, Rob B.
$23.83, Sandra M.
$23.83, Marc A. P.
$23.83, Thomas W.
$23.83, Martin R.
$23.83, Michael F.
$23.83, Miguel A. C. R.
$23.83, Christopher T.
$23, Nathan L.
$20.39, Earl W.
$20 (16th donation), Utah B.
$20 (4th donation), Robert O.
$20 (3rd donation), Kendall G.
$20 (3rd donation), Jose M.
$20 (2nd donation), Sheila S.
$20 (2nd donation), Daniel L.
$20 (2nd donation), Robert D.
$20 (2nd donation), Rodrigo D.
$20 (2nd donation), John H.
$20 (2nd donation), David R.
$20 (2nd donation), Andriy K.
$20 (2nd donation), Peter J.
$20 (2nd donation), Charles P.
$20, Miroslav Franko
$20, Rajiv I.
$20, Frédéric F.
$20, Yue K. Y.
$20, Almut T.
$20, Charles S.
$20, Ana M.
$20, Brian S.
$20, James B.
$20, Robert S.
$20, Jarosław J.
$20, Jeff D.
$20, Steven W.
$20, Robert A.
$20, Michael G.
$20, William F.
$20, Susan R.
$20, Kelly K.
$20, Daniel O.
$20, Frederick S.
$20, William H.
$20, Peter J.
$20, John P.
$20, Maffiou
$20, Fabio S. D. A.
$17.87 (4th donation), Stoyan N.
$17.87 (2nd donation), Fredrik E.
$17.87 (2nd donation), David M.
$17.87, Morel I.
$17.87, Marko O.
$17.87, Henrik E.
$17.87, Michael D.
$17.87, Morten H.
$17.87, Edward S.
$15.25, Hugo L.
$15 (3rd donation), Timothy C.
$15, Martin G.
$15, Matthias W.
$15, Kok E. B.
$15, Michael Z.
$15, Michal C.
$15, Michael B.
$14.3 (2nd donation), Alexandru R.
$14.3, Antonio G. N.
$14, Pedro P. R. C.
$13.37, Justin V. E.
$11.93, Matīss J.
$11.91 (18th donation), Raymond E.
$11.91 (4th donation), Brendan M.
$11.91 (4th donation), Touko N.
$11.91 (4th donation), Kevin O. aka “Kev”
$11.91 (3rd donation), Queenvictoria
$11.91 (2nd donation), Jordi F. N.
$11.91 (2nd donation), Günther K.
$11.91 (2nd donation), Lodovico Settembrini
$11.91 (2nd donation), Philip King
$11.91 (2nd donation), Roger P.
$11.91 (2nd donation), In gratitude for the forum help
$11.91, Artur H. K.
$11.91, Jose L. C. R.
$11.91, Viktor S.
$11.91, Carsten D.
$11.91, BITE GmbH aka “www.b-ite.de”
$11.91, Danilo R.
$11.91, Till B.
$11.91, Dieter F.
$11.91, Alfonso D. D.
$11.91, Patrick D.
$11.91, Faustino M. M.
$11.91, Francesco P.
$11.91, Andrea B.
$11.91, Mogens B.
$11.91, brotenet
$11.91, Ilpo L.
$11.91, Ian B.
$11.91, Adrian G.
$11.91, Dzintars M.
$11.91, Daniel P. M.
$11.91, Giuseppe M.
$11.91, Andreea M. S.
$11.91, Hans H.
$11.91, Thorsten H.
$11.91, Rodolphe V.
$11.91, Miklós B.
$10 (47th donation), Tony C. aka “S. LaRocca”
$10 (12th donation), Mark C.
$10 (7th donation), Stuart K.
$10 (7th donation), Trey H. aka “Ubuntaur”
$10 (4th donation), Mike C.
$10 (4th donation), Dadykin A.
$10 (4th donation), Jeffrey T.
$10 (3rd donation), Jobs Near You aka “Find Jobs”
$10 (3rd donation), Kouji Kobayashi
$10 (2nd donation), Roy R.
$10 (2nd donation), Kyle J. M.
$10 (2nd donation), Wang J.
$10 (2nd donation), Eric O.
$10 (2nd donation), Donald P. J.
$10 (2nd donation), Nicholas P.
$10 (2nd donation), Glover Electronics
$10, Robert S.
$10, Sander B.
$10, Nigel C.
$10, Alex S.
$10, Vincent L.
$10, Klemin E.
$10, Alik M.
$10, Indarien’s Game Theory
$10, Steven L.
$10, Andrew C.
$10, N R.
$10, Евгений Д.
$10, Есин С.
$10, Kaspar M.
$10, Mark C.
$10, Jason
$10, John R.
$10, Bread Kitchen Story aka “Amanda”
$10, Jason M.
$10, Noelle N.
$10, David B.
$10, Hélène G.
$10, Sargis A.
$10, Owen W.
$10, Carlos Saltos @ Listatree Talenteca
$10, Maurício T. F.
$10, Laz
$10, Anaya S.
$10, Mikel C.
$10, Dave B. C.
$10, Simeon O.
$10, Victor A. D. C.
$10, Richard N.
$10, Antonio C.
$10, William G.
$10, Paul C.
$10, Vladimir P.
$10, William S.
$9.53, Christian S.
$8, HJI aka “Hospital Jobs Inc”
$7.84, Luis E. Mesa aka “luismesalas”
$7.15, Christopher N.
$7, Gadgets Greece aka “Gadget Expert”
$7, David G.
$5.95 (3rd donation), Istvan Sz.
$5.95 (2nd donation), Marc Tutatis
$5.95 (2nd donation), Free hosting aka “Host 33”
$5.95 (2nd donation), Korneliusz M.
$5.95, Marcel J. Z.
$5.95, Bernard S.
$5.95, Tom E. S.
$5.95, William D.
$5.95, Heiko S.
$5.95, Tomas Garijo
$5.95, Michel L.
$5.95, Karl A. L.
$5.95, Joachim B.
$5.95, Roberto I.
$5.95, Aleksandr K.
$5.95, aka “BendőBandó”
$5 (16th donation), Carlos W.
$5 (12th donation), Randy R. aka “MonkeyMint”
$5 (9th donation), CW P.
$5 (8th donation), Toronto Maple Leafs
$5 (5th donation), frisky
$5 (5th donation), Cristiano S.
$5 (2nd donation), Karol Zalewski aka “Zal”
$5 (2nd donation), Snorri G.
$5 (2nd donation), Mojmír S.
$5 (2nd donation), http://www.newprojectfreetv.com/
$5 (2nd donation), J. D. Motta
$5 (2nd donation), Atilio P. B. J.
$5 (2nd donation), Harold F.
$5 (2nd donation), Wan Nor Arifin
$5 (2nd donation), John M.
$5, Richard D.
$5, Roger M.
$5, Christopher R.
$5, Christopher M.
$5, Luigi C.
$5, Paul J.
$5, Florian B.
$5, Tyler B.
$5, Andre D. A.
$5, Snorri G.
$5, Pablo L. L.
$5, Thomas D. C.
$5, J. D. Motta
$5, Juan P. C. C.
$5, Doug F.
$5, Chad M.
$5, Jason S.
$4 (2nd donation), Libertad Tecnologica
$4, Russell G.
$3.57, Temple Martin
$3.57, Ľuboš I.
$3.57, Dariusz K.
$3.57, Ismael V. Z.
$3.57, Daniel H.
$3.57, Jan M.
$3 (2nd donation), Správa IT
$3, Bartłomiej B.
$3, Mario A. N. U.
$2.38, Gonzalo C. V.
$2.38, Peter F.
$2.38, Renate J.
$2 (2nd donation), Hedy Botticelli aka “Hedy B”
$2 (2nd donation), Luis G.
$2, Christine D.
$2, T A.
$1.95, Fahad A.
$18.8 from 20 smaller donations

If you want to help Linux Mint with a donation, please visit http://www.linuxmint.com/donors.php

Spring is coming and so is “Betsy”. QA testing for the new version of LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition) is starting today. If you want to follow our progress on this please visit http://community.linuxmint.com/iso and https://github.com/linuxmint/Roadmap.

Thanks to our partner eUKhost we’re doubling the capacity and performance of one of our main servers. Many Linux Mint services are involved but we’ll migrate them one by one and we don’t expect any downtime. Note that the package repositories are not affected by this upgrade.

A preview of some of the new features developed for Cinnamon was published on Segfault. Among other things, Cinnamon 2.6 will introduce search providers and support for multiple panels.

Multiple panels in Cinnamon 2.6

Multiple panels give users more flexibility and they will be useful for users with more than one monitor.

Search providers will be a core part of Cinnamon. Applets, desklets and the Cinnamon desktop itself will be able to query them to retrieve search results. This will allow us but also applet developers to make it easy for you to search for a variety of things (a movie on IMDB, one of your emails, a Firefox bookmark, a page you recently visited, or one of your files on the hard drive…etc).

Example of an applet using search providers in Cinnamon 2.6

Last month we received donations from 380 people. Together they raised a total of $9,036. Many thanks to all of you who contribute to our project, to the people who donated and to our sponsors and partners. Many thanks also to the many people who help other users in the forums and chat rooms, and special thanks this month to two of our developers: dalcde and glebihan, whose exciting work on Cinnamon 2.6 was featured above.

Sponsorships:

Linux Mint is proudly sponsored by:

Gold Sponsors: Silver Sponsors: Bronze Sponsors:

Community Sponsors: Sam Torno AWcode Co Ltd Charles Rivers Clare Florist Dalin Seivewright Dr James Southwell-Keely fotokasten GmbH htpcBeginner.com Jeramy Ross John Bayles Pianos Kevin Marx Mahen Martin del Mazo MilesWeb Hosting Nikolaj Petersen Peter K. PSB Law Sascha Reinsch SEER Interactive sefcom computers switchbit Tam Le Uwe Klosa Yang, C.-C.

To become a sponsor or to see the full list of Linux Mint sponsors, please visit: http://www.linuxmint.com/sponsors.php

Donations:

A total of $9,036 was raised thanks to the generous contributions of 380 donors:

$200 (16th donation), Ralph Siegler aka “ziggy”
$200, Beth A.
$120 (2nd donation), Jan-erik Ö.
$119.19 (2nd donation), Ian L.
$119.19, Stephan S.
$119.19, Stefan A.
$119.19, Thomas Z.
$119.19, Martin Z.
$100 (8th donation), Ronald S.
$100 (5th donation), Peter D.
$100 (3rd donation), Kory W.
$100 (2nd donation), Glen A.
$100, Jerry C.
$100, Roger W.
$100, Terri O.
$100, Amanda B.
$100, Wesley H.
$100, Daniel B.
$100, Sai Vinoba
$100, Carl G.
$100, Ruben F.
$89.39, Martin G.
$71.51 (2nd donation), Fiorello F.
$60 (2nd donation), Brandon L.
$59.6, Ralf V.
$59.59 (13th donation), Philippe W.
$59.59 (3rd donation), Carlos M. S.
$59.59 (2nd donation), Markus M.
$59.59 (2nd donation), Javi Dieltron aka “ososoft”
$59.59, Jgb S.
$59.59, Tuomo aka “Happy Hacking Day”
$59.59, Yves M. A.
$59.59, Marc W.
$59.59, Volker P.
$50 (4th donation), jmro3006
$50 (2nd donation), Larwence P.
$50 (2nd donation), Mike H. aka “sloan”
$50, Andrew G.
$50, Jean-Christophe B.
$50, Forrest B.
$50, James P.
$50, Fred W.
$50, Douglas K.
$50, Stewart B.
$50, Marcin L.
$50, Paul D.
$50, Willy J.
$50, wilson.c
$47.67, Neil S.
$40, Pablo L. aka “LAFO”
$40, Jeffrey K.
$40, William S.
$40, TRC Technologies
$36 (59th donation), Olli K.
$35.75 (4th donation), Anne-christine U.
$35.75 (3rd donation), Pentti T.
$35.75 (2nd donation), José R. L. B.
$35.75, Maurizio C.
$35.75, Davud Evren
$35.75, Thomas B.
$35.75, Andreas W.
$35.75, Beat D.
$35.75, Lars-gunnar S.
$33, Raymond M.
$30 (4th donation), Gordon T.
$30 (2nd donation), Bill L.
$30, James P.
$30, Lonnie J.
$30, Mark F.
$30, David M.
$30, Itamar D. Z.
$30, Mark F.
$30, Max P.
$30, 500it aka “bOsO400”
$29.97, Bobby R.
$29.8 (3rd donation), Mark E.
$29.8, Shamana S.
$29.8, Enric P. R.
$29.79 (5th donation), Lars H.
$29.79 (3rd donation), Tony H. aka “TonyH1212”
$29.79, Berthold W. V. D. H.
$29.79, Eric L.
$29.79, Jan V. D. W.
$29.79, Jan B. L.
$29.79, Christof R.
$29.79, Ken J.
$29.79, Frits M.
$27.95, Armand V. D.
$26.9 (2nd donation), Marcin Ziółkowski aka Mario Nesta
$25 (40th donation), Ronald W.
$25 (12th donation), Robert H.
$25 (5th donation), Samson S. aka “Samtastic”
$25 (2nd donation), Ewa K.
$25 (2nd donation), Joseph M.
$25 (2nd donation), Robert A.
$25 (2nd donation), Thomas Nielsen
$25 (2nd donation), Viktor V.
$25 (2nd donation), Raphael C.
$25, Michael M.
$25, Carmelo G.
$25, Max M.
$25, Gavin S.
$25, John L.
$25, David L.
$25, Grant M.
$25, Data H. I.
$25, Timothy L.
$25, Randy S. H.
$25, Tim M.
$25, Phillip G.
$25, Gerhard E.
$25, Thomas F.
$25, Brent G.
$25, Cindy P.
$25, Ty F.
$25, Jose T. G. T.
$25, Carmelo G.
$25, Carmelo G.
$25, Walter S.
$25, M. S.
$24 (2nd donation), Gabriele B.
$24, Stefan W.
$24, Daniel K.
$24, Toomas M.
$23.84 (2nd donation), Iain S.
$23.84, Adriano A.
$23.84, Bernhard S.
$23.84, Giovanni R.
$23.83 (14th donation), Orlando M. M.
$23.83 (7th donation), Kevin D.
$23.83 (6th donation), Alessandro P.
$23.83 (4th donation), Ross M.
$23.83 (3rd donation), Daniel P.
$23.83 (3rd donation), Paul G.
$23.83 (2nd donation), Gabriel S.
$23.83 (2nd donation), aka “Roullio_n3”
$23.83 (2nd donation), Oliver G.
$23.83 (2nd donation), Jose Ayala V.
$23.83, Maximilian K.
$23.83, Marcus S.
$23.83, Alexander R.
$23.83, Roger B.
$23.83, Michael K.
$23.83, Rachel A.
$23.83, Joost S.
$23.83, Simone M.
$23.83, A W.
$23.83, Reijo H.
$22, Geraldo C.
$20.26 (12th donation), Ion B.
$20 (42th donation), Tsuguo S.
$20 (3rd donation), Leonardo Frazao aka “Liozek”
$20 (2nd donation), Matsufuji H.
$20 (2nd donation), Jon R.
$20 (2nd donation), Ivan R.
$20 (2nd donation), William N.
$20, Warren F.
$20, Peter S.
$20, Ernst L.
$20, Che H.
$20, Simon R.
$20, Larry K.
$20, Robert J.
$20, Marie B.
$20, Juan A. S. aka “okelet”
$20, Pierre T.
$20, Daniel A.
$20, Tony N.
$20, Doug E.
$20, Steve G.
$20, Michael M.
$20, Nicholas P.
$20, Reed W.
$20, Shaun T.
$20, Danny W.
$20, Charles H.
$20, Dane R.
$20, Geoff Ingram aka “jellybean”
$20, Skip H.
$20, Anders D.
$18, Florian U.
$17.88, Goran H.
$17.88, Renzo P.
$17.87 (3rd donation), Kevin O.
$17.87 (3rd donation), Anonymous
$17.87 (2nd donation), Gabriele B.
$17.87, Christoph Z.
$17.87, Emilio R. E.
$17.87, Luca Abbati
$16, Colin O.
$15 (3rd donation), Christopher D.
$15, Italo I.
$15, Harry E.
$15, Douglas M.
$15, Jesús H. M.
$15, Stan C.
$15, Ladislav M.
$15, Allan C.
$12 (3rd donation), Juan C. S. A.
$12 (2nd donation), Darek P.
$12 (2nd donation), Kevin C.
$12, Manfred B.
$12, Sinisa M.
$12, Stephen H.
$12, Marcelo G.
$12, Wsewolod W.
$12, Louis-Philippe L.
$12, A S.
$11.92 (6th donation), Dr. R. M.
$11.92 (2nd donation), Queenvictoria
$11.92, Kay K.
$11.92, Günther K.
$11.92, Jochim L.
$11.92, Philippe Dias aka “Philou”
$11.92, Sonoda H.
$11.92, Oliver H.
$11.91 (17th donation), Raymond E.
$11.91 (17th donation), Mark W.
$11.91 (6th donation), Nicolae Crefelean aka “kneekoo”
$11.91 (4th donation), Matúš L.
$11.91 (4th donation), Gabriel T.
$11.91 (3rd donation), Richard S.
$11.91 (2nd donation), Gerryt M.
$11.91 (2nd donation), Brian H.
$11.91 (2nd donation), Waldemar K.
$11.91 (2nd donation), Daniel W.
$11.91 (2nd donation), Lionel aka “Kinobi”
$11.91, Georg K.
$11.91, Frederic C.
$11.91, Moritz G.
$11.91, Milan K.
$11.91, Juan D. C. C.
$11.91, Franz D.
$11.91, Kilian U.
$11.91, P V. D. L.
$11.91, Filip Magnusson aka “FilleMang”
$11.91, Jan-albert D. L.
$11.91, Paul G.
$11.91, Ilmo P.
$11.91, F.D.P. Geurink
$11.91, Ivan S.
$11.91, Ilia D.
$11.91, Jakob B.
$11.91, Bo Simonsen
$11.91, Liviu B.
$11.91, Roberto R.
$11.91, Marcel M.
$11, Yalın A.
$10 (46th donation), Tony C. aka “S. LaRocca”
$10 (11th donation), Mark C.
$10 (10th donation), Mark C.
$10 (3rd donation), Alistair G.
$10 (3rd donation), Jeffrey T.
$10 (2nd donation), Jan O. A.
$10 (2nd donation), Neil B.
$10 (2nd donation), Arno S.
$10 (2nd donation), John C.
$10 (2nd donation), Ireneusz W.
$10, Alexander J.
$10, Люблев Н.
$10, Troy E.
$10, Randy D.
$10, Kenneth B.
$10, Sylvia R.
$10, Dave V.
$10, Aaron M.
$10, Alexander C. M.
$10, Brock C.
$10, Neil E.
$10, David G.
$10, Ramon O.
$10, Viktor Z.
$10, Gavin M.
$10, Ian H.
$10, Allen D.
$10, Uğur D. S.
$10, Anderson L. S. M.
$10, STEX Motorsports LLC
$10, 康 华.
$10, Reginaldo M. D. S.
$10, Barry L.
$10, William R.
$10, Limon Monte
$10, Thomas K.
$10, Gyurics L.
$8.34, Alexander B.
$8.34, alvfrias
$8, Wong H. Y.
$8, Felipe V. M.
$8, Ludek F.
$7.15 (5th donation), Hector Richart P.
$7.15, Nik K.
$7, Micha E.
$7, Jesús D. G.
$6.1 (3rd donation), Carpet Cleaning London aka “ParadiseCleaning”
$6 (7th donation), Nicholas S.
$6 (4th donation), Hector Richart P.
$6, Kai G.
$6, hostingreport.info
$6, Yvo T.
$5.95 (8th donation), Albert J. P.
$5.95 (4th donation), Stijn D.
$5.95, Christopher Reay aka “DAZY”
$5.95, Adam P.
$5.95, Christoph B.
$5.95, Tuomas K.
$5.95, Christoph K.
$5.95, Krisztián P.
$5.95, Yulian M.
$5.95, Adrián G. P.
$5.95, Carsten K.
$5.95, Miguel R.
$5.95, Marian V.
$5.95, Alberto Medici
$5.95, Marcel Schoenherr
$5.95, Rem
$5.95, Alfredo C.
$5 (15th donation), Carlos W.
$5 (11th donation), Randy R. aka “MonkeyMint”
$5 (10th donation), Randy R. aka “MonkeyMint”
$5 (4th donation), frisky
$5 (4th donation), William Menezes
$5 (3rd donation), Thedrish
$5 (3rd donation), Matthew L.
$5 (2nd donation), John M.
$5 (2nd donation), Murat Kutluer
$5, Robert M.
$5, Arif A.
$5, Devin K.
$5, Larry H.
$5, Toronto Maple Leafs Rumours
$5, Jiří J.
$5, Bernard B.
$5, Robert C. E.
$5, Luiz E. A. L.
$5, Юрий Л.
$5, Mojmír S.
$5, Leonard F.
$5, Radek H.
$5, Abraham P.
$5, Les R.
$5, Marcin Ziółkowski aka Mario Nesta
$4.76, Matteo T.
$4.66, Dimitri N.
$4.2, Edward F.
$4 (3rd donation), Donald H.
$4, Ali B.
$3.57 (2nd donation), Alberto B. C.
$3.57, SiriS Emanuel
$3.57, Luca F.
$3.5, Sinisa P.
$3 (2nd donation), Kouji Kobayashi
$3, Správa IT
$3, Frederic J.
$3, Scott L.
$3, Charles-david H.
$2.38 (5th donation), Guillaume G. aka “Tidusrose”
$2.38, George Navro
$28.23 from 22 smaller donations

If you want to help Linux Mint with a donation, please visit http://www.linuxmint.com/donors.php