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Monthly News – July 2014

August 7, 2014 by Clem·40 Comments

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fotokasten GmbH
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Donations:

A total of $8341 was raised thanks to the generous contributions of 307 donors:

$1000 (7th donation), Ian M. aka “bcc4foss“
$398.56 (2nd donation), Frank Z.
$150, Dwight B.
$132.85, Nils B.
$132.85, Wolfgang B.
$132.85, Marco L.
$100 (4th donation), Jackson T. B.
$100 (2nd donation), Philip W.
$100 (2nd donation), Peter D.
$100, Clayton H.
$100, RD Technical Solutions
$100, George A.
$79.71 (11th donation), Raymond E.
$66.43 (2nd donation), Le bretzel
$66.43 (2nd donation), Matthias P.
$66.43, Ruurd T.
$66.43, Brian E.
$66.43, Angus L.
$66.43, Arnulf O.
$66.43, Gilles B.
$66.43, Jean D. N.
$53.14 (2nd donation), Sebastian B.
$53.14, Yves G.
$50 (52th donation), Matthew M.
$50 (51th donation), Matthew M.
$50 (14th donation), Wolfgang P.
$50 (2nd donation), Anthony C.
$50 (2nd donation), Amanda H.
$50, Lester B.
$50, John aka “xargs”
$50, Joe C.
$50, Carl S.
$50, Alex G Doll Consulting Ltd
$50, Stephen T.
$50, Kenny H.
$50, Bernd M.
$50, Deague B.
$50, C Bailey
$50, Steven B.
$50, Marie S.
$46.5 (3rd donation), Reinhard W.
$45.17 (4th donation), Ion B.
$43.84, Holger L.
$42 (2nd donation), Greg R.
$41.18 (2nd donation), George M.
$40, James G.
$39.86 (53th donation), Olli K.
$39.86 (4th donation), Steve Guard aka “SteveG”
$39.86 (2nd donation), Antonio B.
$39.86 (2nd donation), Kevin W.
$39.86, Christian P.
$39.86, SPY ITALY srl aka “SPY“
$39.86, Tomi K.
$39.86, Frank V.
$39.86, Brigitte E.
$39.86, Leonidas E.
$35, Jeffrey S.
$33.21 (5th donation), LD114
$33.21 (5th donation), Robert P.
$33.21, Robert D. aka “Wilbobob”
$33.21, John T.
$33.21, Patrick M.
$33.21, Si B.
$30 (2nd donation), Robert E.
$30, Bernard C.
$30, Christopher S.
$30, Michael H.
$30, Motalia Ltd
$26.57 (4th donation), Intars Students aka “mobix“
$26.57 (4th donation), Dick B. aka “Dick”
$26.57 (2nd donation), Erwin O. aka “DJNightchild”
$26.57, Logan M.
$26.57, Gerhard H.
$26.57, Andre C.
$26.57, Pascal G.
$26.57, DeanO
$26.57, Manfred W.
$26.57, home
$26.57, Christian W.
$26.57, Herbert M.
$26.57, Peter M.
$26.57, Miguel V.
$26.57, Nicolas M.
$26.57, Stefan L.
$26.57, Peter M.
$26, Glen G.
$25 (34th donation), Ronald W.
$25 (9th donation), Robert H.
$25 (4th donation), Steve T.
$25 (3rd donation), Rudolph C.
$25 (3rd donation), Brendan M.
$25 (2nd donation), Permacycle
$25 (2nd donation), Jon G.
$25, Patrick M.
$25, Bob M.
$25, Jerry T.
$25, Jason S.
$25, Nutu T.
$25, James B.
$25, Michael S. aka “Mickey6”
$25, James N.
$25, Todd L.
$25, Roland H.
$25, Chris C.
$25, Daryl L.
$21.26, Thomas L.
$20 (36th donation), Tsuguo S.
$20 (36th donation), Tsuguo S.
$20 (5th donation), David M.
$20 (4th donation), Gene C.
$20 (3rd donation), Ian B.
$20 (2nd donation), Zombiedude
$20 (2nd donation), Cristiano S.
$20 (2nd donation), Dennis H.
$20 (2nd donation), Sven A.
$20 (2nd donation), Pierre J.
$20 (2nd donation), Tony V.
$20 (2nd donation), Dave G.
$20 (2nd donation), Amer K.
$20, Shakeel A.
$20, Gary N.
$20, Neil A.
$20, Rohan V. D.
$20, Karl S.
$20, Ian M.
$20, Jeffrey T.
$20, Peter P.
$20, Shane H.
$20, David T.
$20, Johnny F.
$20, William M.
$20, Jackie O
$20, Michael D.
$20, Digital Creatures Studio
$20, Hemant P.
$20, Larry P.
$20, Patrick D.
$20, Carleton S.
$20, Robert E.
$20, Кузнецов А.
$20, John W.
$20, Lampshade
$20, Michael T.
$20, Ray H.
$20, Dave E.
$19.93, Andreas V.
$19.93, Bertrand W.
$19.93, Florian B.
$19.93, Jean J. S.
$19.93, Tobias S.
$17.27 (2nd donation), Kamaljit S.
$17, Jacob V. C.
$15.94, Peter C.
$15 (3rd donation), Benjamin G.
$15, Colin C.
$15, Linden R.
$15, Francisco Y.
$15, Daniel P.
$14.61 (3rd donation), Tomasz K.
$13.29 (12th donation), Mark W.
$13.29 (7th donation), Jens-uwe R.
$13.29 (3rd donation), Hans P.
$13.29 (3rd donation), Alrik S.
$13.29 (2nd donation), Holger B.
$13.29 (2nd donation), Francois G.
$13.29 (2nd donation), Toni C.
$13.29, Andrzej S.
$13.29, Jakisa T.
$13.29, Steven S.
$13.29, Marius B.
$13.29, Nicola V.
$13.29, Michael E.
$13.29, Stoyan N.
$13.29, Ondrej V.
$13.29, James B.
$13.29, Stefán J.
$13.29, James S.
$13.29, Veronika H.
$13.29, Eugen S.
$13.29, Derek L.
$13.29, Petr S.
$13.29, Luuk V. ‘. H.
$13.29, Thomas C. aka “3dBloke”
$13.29, Matteo A. C.
$13.29, Janis E.
$13.29, Benjamin R.
$13.29, Wolfgang M.
$13.29, Arthur V. A.
$13.29, Sergiy R.
$13.29, Kevin M.
$13.29, Wawanta R.
$13.29, Jan C.
$13.29, Ralf O.
$12.82, Stephen G.
$12.24, Taeyuun M.
$11 (6th donation), Randolph K.
$10 (40th donation), Tony C. aka “S. LaRocca”
$10 (11th donation), Charlie Robinson
$10 (5th donation), Mark C.
$10 (3rd donation), Antoine T.
$10 (3rd donation), Vincent C.
$10 (3rd donation), Robert L.
$10 (2nd donation), Hubert P.
$10 (2nd donation), S. Falcão
$10 (2nd donation), Wilson G.
$10 (2nd donation), Andrei R.
$10, Ivo S.
$10, Cristiano de Oliveira
$10, Thomas L.
$10, Ailson O.
$10, Steven L.
$10, Evan M.
$10, ROG. FER.FOLIENI
$10, Mercedes R. O.
$10, Robert B.
$10, Charles P.
$10, Hermanus B.
$10, Debra B.
$10, Robert S.
$10, Jared W.
$10, Jesper L.
$10, Carlos E. P. M.
$10, Toshihiro K.
$10, Raul C.
$10, Theis H.
$10, 2N COMPANY
$10, Chen C.
$10, Heikki L.
$10, Denton D.
$10, Tihonov V.
$10, Rafael M. A.
$10, Roger K.
$10, Paul W.
$10, Justin M.
$7.97 (2nd donation), Jaime C.
$7, Best Electronic Place
$6.64 (6th donation), anonymous
$6.64 (2nd donation), Mario G.
$6.64 (2nd donation), Etienne N.
$6.64 (2nd donation), Jouni S.
$6.64, Manuel C. aka “Manel“
$6.64, José V.
$6.64, Peter W.
$6.64, Laurence W.
$6.64, Pavel D.
$6.64, Alan S.
$6.64, Sebastian D.
$6.64, Antonella M.
$6.64, Athauda M.
$6.3, Cao W.
$6 (6th donation), Nicolás Costa de la Colina aka “NCosta”
$5 (11th donation), Carlos W.
$5 (8th donation), Randy R. aka “MonkeyMint”
$5 (7th donation), Randy R. aka “MonkeyMint”
$5 (6th donation), Randy R. aka “MonkeyMint”
$5 (5th donation), Randy R. aka “MonkeyMint”
$5 (4th donation), Jh B.
$5 (4th donation), Rockford C.
$5 (3rd donation), Ronnie K
$5 (2nd donation), frisky
$5 (2nd donation), Graham A.
$5 (2nd donation), Matthew L.
$5 (2nd donation), Pikavippi
$5 (2nd donation), William Menezes
$5, David H.
$5, Robert L.
$5, Christopher S.
$5, Agus S.
$5, Marcelo A. R. S.
$5, Yano K.
$5, Sean H.
$5, Peter Nielsen aka “PeterN“
$5, John Wilson
$5, Leandro R. P. Beock
$5, Bo H.
$5, Eugen L.
$5, Gianluigi M.
$5, Unknown
$5, Davis P.
$5, Jan N.
$5, Marco O.
$5, Johanna R.
$5, Elton B.
$5, Angela C.
$4.64986, Andrew O. C.
$3.99, Domenico E. L. N.
$3.99, Jaroslav V.
$3.99, Gonzalo T. M.
$3, Chetverikov K.
$3, Rodrigo R. aka “Akira Kazama”
$22.4 from 17 smaller donations

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

Rankings:

Distrowatch (popularity ranking): 3186 (1st)
Alexa (website ranking): 5313rd

News and summary:

Many thanks to all the people who have sent us donations and to all our sponsors.
New features for Linux Mint 17.1 are being developed and described on the Segfault blog as they near completion. Lately, the Update Manager received an improved kernel selection screen as well as richer and localized package descriptions.
After a long reflection and many discussions the decision was made to switch Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) from its current snapshot cycle to a Debian Stable package base. The transition from Update Pack 8 to Debian Jessie should be smooth and similar to a traditional UP upgrade, in sync with the upstream Jessie freeze planned for November this year.

Monthly News – June 2014

July 14, 2014 by Clem·74 Comments

Sponsorships:

Linux Mint is proudly sponsored by:

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Community Sponsors:

Alyx Biologicals B.V.
Windows VPS Hosting
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Caturix
Cesar Alvarez
Charles Rivers
Craig
D M Hamilton
DRA MEDICAL
Evgeniy Lykov
fotokasten GmbH
Ivan Rodrigues da Silva
Johan Grip
John Bayles Pianos
Marcus Seidler
Marcus Seidler
Martin del Mazo
Nikolaj Petersen
Sascha Reinsch
SEER Interactive
sefcom computers
Steve Philipp
switchbit
The Survival Monkey
Uwe Klosa

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 $9941 was raised thanks to the generous contributions of 398 donors:

$500, Daniel G.
$265.71, Jörg S.
$200, Neil S.
$132.85, Oliver S.
$132.85, Ute M.
$100 (8th donation), Anonymous
$100 (4th donation), Jon Espenschied aka “xeno”
$100 (2nd donation), Saha S. K.
$100, Duncan G. aka “catraeus“
$100, Lee R.
$100, Michael P.
$100, Lu G.
$100, Matthew D.
$100, webby-books.com
$100, Zhatkin A.
$99, David O.
$79.71, Hans-georg T.
$75 (14th donation), Ralph Siegler aka “ziggy“
$75, Michael M.
$71.74 (3rd donation), Ion B.
$66.43 (2nd donation), Michiel aka “Zonnevuur”
$66.43, David R.
$66.43, Fabio Q.
$66.43, Didier H.
$66.43, Uwe K.
$66.43, Silvio R.
$66.43, Roeland B. V. D. W.
$66.43, Augusto P.
$66.43, Richard S.
$60, Stuart S.
$57.13 (2nd donation), Ion B.
$53.14, hogliux
$51.28, K A. S.
$50 (8th donation), Robert H.
$50 (5th donation), Marcus M.
$50 (2nd donation), David P.
$50, Alan S.
$50, Alassane S.
$50, Bruce M.
$50, Krister P.
$50, Valter E.
$50, Dr.Sam Bledsoe aka “sam”
$50, Simon H.
$50, Permacycle
$50, Bradford H.
$50, Richard D.
$50, Kirby S.
$50, Richard C.
$50, Nathan S.
$50, Neil K.
$50, Kevin K.
$50, Arthur A.
$40 (12th donation), Philippe W.
$40 (7th donation), Andrew M.
$40, Ramon S. I.
$40, Braeburn Inc.
$40, Paul C.
$40, Charles P.
$40, Sheila S.
$40, Robert Y.
$39.86 (52th donation), Olli K.
$39.86 (3rd donation), Gordon T.
$39.86 (2nd donation), Klaus G.
$39.86, Daniel N.
$39.86, Bernard R. aka “Beer4661”
$35.87, S. Bisseswar aka “shailin”
$35 (2nd donation), Leonardo Frazao aka “Leoninx“
$33.21 (6th donation), Joachim M.
$33.21 (6th donation), J J. V. K.
$33.21 (3rd donation), John K. aka “jbrucek”
$33.21 (2nd donation), Mixso QLD
$33.21 (2nd donation), R.S.
$33.21 (2nd donation), Fabio C.
$33.21 (2nd donation), Frank B.
$33.21, Albert B.
$33.21, Ron M.
$33.21, David R.
$33.21, Francesco C. aka “cimux”
$33.21, Cjm V. D. W.
$33.21, Bjørn J. N.
$33.21, António B.
$33.21, Armin F.
$31.34, Clemens H.
$30 (3rd donation), Brooke Dukes aka “BandonRandon“
$30 (3rd donation), Anne-christine U.
$30 (2nd donation), Steve Schaller
$30 (2nd donation), Raymond C.
$30, Gilles B.
$30, chasmodo
$30, Arnaldo S.
$30, Doug Z.
$30, James D.
$30, Bret M.
$30, Lennart J.
$30, Neil W.
$27, Rosalea R.
$26.57 (13th donation), Orlando M. M.
$26.57 (2nd donation), Derry H.
$26.57 (2nd donation), Laurent M. aka “lolomeis”
$26.57 (2nd donation), Rob Mimpriss
$26.57 (2nd donation), Nathan H.
$26.57 (2nd donation), David aka “RedWarrior“
$26.57 (2nd donation), Stephan S.
$26.57, Markus L.
$26.57, Markus F.
$26.57, Santi
$26.57, Karl S.
$26.57, Ihor H.
$26.57, Peter H.
$26.57, Lars E.
$26.57, Stefan B.
$26.57, Iván B.
$26.57, Greg H.
$26.57, Manuel A. M.
$26.57, Pep C. F.
$26.57, Primeford L.
$26.57, Albrecht S.
$26.57, Michael S.
$26.57, Matt L.
$26.57, Grigore G.
$26.57, Clemens B.
$26 (2nd donation), Geoff_P
$25.24, Tetsu S.
$25 (33rd donation), Ronald W.
$25 (19th donation), John M.
$25 (7th donation), Peter T.
$25 (3rd donation), Richard W.
$25 (2nd donation), Joseph G.
$25 (2nd donation), Ryan K.
$25 (2nd donation), Michael Z.
$25, Ron W.
$25, Vi B.
$25, Berardino D. P.
$25, Frank J.
$25, Christopher K.
$25, Torstein F.
$25, Stephen A.
$25, Kiril Z.
$25, James M.
$25, Tomas P. aka “pechyx”
$25, Brad E.
$25, Rebecca G.
$25, Robert W.
$25, Guillaume C.
$25, Reijo V. J. R.
$23.02, aka “WalterCD”
$20 (35th donation), Tsuguo S.
$20 (16th donation), Maarten E.
$20 (13th donation), Utah B.
$20 (6th donation), Phillip H.
$20 (4th donation), David M.
$20 (4th donation), Uncle Geek
$20 (3rd donation), Paul C. aka “pacman67”
$20 (3rd donation), Gregg L.
$20 (2nd donation), David W.
$20 (2nd donation), Bryant L.
$20 (2nd donation), Craig W.
$20 (2nd donation), Bryan F.
$20 (2nd donation), Patrick C.
$20 (2nd donation), Mikael S.
$20 (2nd donation), Michael C.
$20, Bakthavatchalam R.
$20, Steven R.
$20, Seth C.
$20, Craig E.
$20, Tim W.
$20, Larry J.
$20, Steven C.
$20, Automated Applications
$20, David R.
$20, IVA
$20, Infinitely Mystical
$20, Akelas B.
$20, Andrew P.
$20, Anthony S.
$20, George M.
$20, Brian F.
$20, Jeremy K.
$20, Stephen L.
$20, Peter E.
$20, Uğur Ata
$20, Manuel Kehl aka “mank319“
$20, Brian G.
$19.93 (5th donation), Frederic S.
$19.93 (4th donation), Kirk P.
$19.93 (4th donation), Francisco L. D. A.
$19.93 (3rd donation), Stoyan N.
$19.93 (2nd donation), Daniel P.
$19.93 (2nd donation), Patrick M.
$19.93 (2nd donation), Richard
$19.93, Roy W.
$19.93, Todor Hristov
$19.93, Prcasher@gmail.com
$19.93, Roger A. H.
$17 (7th donation), Nate Schmolze aka “Nate“
$17, Mr S. D.
$17, K Soulsby
$16.61, Steven S.
$16 (3rd donation), wb
$15.94, J M. aka “JM0804”
$15.94, Jan K.
$15 (3rd donation), Vjaceslavs L.
$15, Pascal L.
$15, Bonita R.
$15, Yamandu P.
$15, Derric F.
$15, DvW informatiemanagement en advies
$13.29 (11th donation), Mark W.
$13.29 (10th donation), Raymond E.
$13.29 (7th donation), Jean-michel A.
$13.29 (4th donation), Francesco Galgani
$13.29 (3rd donation), Isidro P. A.
$13.29 (3rd donation), Gabriel T.
$13.29 (3rd donation), Tom M.
$13.29 (2nd donation), Henry G.
$13.29 (2nd donation), Edward F.
$13.29 (2nd donation), Armin F.
$13.29 (2nd donation), Stefan M.
$13.29 (2nd donation), Mikko M.
$13.29 (2nd donation), Antonios P.
$13.29 (2nd donation), Stephan M.
$13.29 (2nd donation), Andrew N.
$13.29, Xeodek Aloptec Andreas Wendel Manufaktur
$13.29, Cristian P.
$13.29, Eduard H.
$13.29, Bruno P.
$13.29, Lukas F.
$13.29, Alfred G.
$13.29, Mikkel S.
$13.29, Waldemar K.
$13.29, Srdjan B.
$13.29, Rein D. V.
$13.29, Exec IT
$13.29, Gerard F. F.
$13.29, Bartosz W.
$13.29, Power-on.at
$13.29, Шардинов В.
$13.29, Torsten M.
$13.29, Olly Bolly
$13.29, Günter W.
$13.29, kalfasyan
$13.29, Frank F.
$13.29, Lu F.
$13.29, Bernhard M.
$13.29, Juergen F.
$13.29, Francis R.
$13.29, David L.
$13.29, John E.
$13.28 (2nd donation), Doriano G. M.
$13.28, Philipp H.
$12 (2nd donation), Omar J. A. C. aka “Sanedrak”
$12, Vanessa M.
$12, John W.
$10.63, Harri
$10 (39th donation), Tony C. aka “S. LaRocca”
$10 (8th donation), Christopher R.
$10 (7th donation), Hartmann Maier aka “hkmle”
$10 (5th donation), Neb Radojkovic
$10 (5th donation), Theis Hinz
$10 (4th donation), Michal Narecki
$10 (4th donation), Gabriele G.
$10 (4th donation), Mark C.
$10 (4th donation), Alexander Grigoriev
$10 (3rd donation), Hormis K.
$10 (2nd donation), Shinichi Tagashira
$10 (2nd donation), Glen C.
$10 (2nd donation), Vincent C.
$10 (2nd donation), Jaroslav L.
$10 (2nd donation), Gil W.
$10 (2nd donation), John C.
$10 (2nd donation), Jack M.
$10 (2nd donation), Mikael J.
$10 (2nd donation), Peter B.
$10 (2nd donation), Evgeny Z. aka “rus-fan”
$10, Hernán P. A.
$10, Elraul R. M.
$10, Michel C.
$10, Sarkis B.
$10, John M.
$10, Bennie R.
$10, Lindsey H.
$10, Mikhail A.
$10, S K.
$10, Patrick Moran aka “Cynyster”
$10, Justin H.
$10, Wilson G.
$10, William P.
$10, L R.
$10, Marek z Klodzka
$10, Jae M. P.
$10, Andy W.
$10, Steven W.
$10, Игитханян Г.
$10, PHOENIX UNICOM INTERESTS
$10, Matty P.
$10, James D. B.
$10, Stig P.
$10, James K.
$10, Elizabeth M.
$10, Samet E.
$10, Matheus D. M.
$10, Ievgen K.
$10, Jorge L. V.
$10, Matthew A.
$10, Antonio B.
$10, Raymond M.
$10, David H.
$10, Randy M.
$10, Nicolae M. V.
$10, Robert S.
$10, Franck D.
$10, Stephen S.
$10, Bernard S. E.
$10, Piotr S.
$10, Nathaniel H.
$7.97 (2nd donation), Tomasz K.
$6.64 (5th donation), anonymous
$6.64 (2nd donation), Javier V. B.
$6.64 (2nd donation), Jose A. D. F.
$6.64 (2nd donation), Ivy
$6.64, Endijs L.
$6.64, Karl-heinz P.
$6.64, Hilario G. M.
$6.64, Mr D. K. C.
$6.64, Robert E.
$6.64, Christian O.
$6.64, Sebastian K.
$6.64, Ruggero S.
$6.64, Ralf H.
$6.64, solidorbit
$6.64, Stijn D.
$6.64, Srđan K.
$6, Sarah B. T.
$5.31 (2nd donation), Larimar Media aka “Larimar Media“
$5 (10th donation), Edward S.
$5 (10th donation), Carlos W.
$5 (8th donation), Mordi K. aka “Mordik”
$5 (7th donation), Roman Nikolaevitch aka “rv82”
$5 (4th donation), Stuart K.
$5 (4th donation), Randy R.
$5 (3rd donation), Jimmy R. W.
$5 (2nd donation), Sonmez S.
$5 (2nd donation), John V. D.
$5 (2nd donation), Mauricio Hernández aka “Wicho”
$5 (2nd donation), Ernesto D.
$5, Michael L.
$5, Peter B.
$5, Thomas B.
$5, Dorian F.
$5, Howard S.
$5, www.nyttigbras.dk
$5, Lukman Anwar Arifin aka “locco81”
$5, Jh B.
$5, Emīls S.
$5, Remi M.
$5, Yevgeniy A.
$5, Graham A.
$5, Camilo T.
$5, ranger6
$5, Michael E.
$5, Mark W.
$5, Pikavippi
$5, Benjamin C.
$5, Sonoran S.
$5, David D.
$4.91, Franklin Herrera
$3.99 (2nd donation), Vitali D.
$3.99, Christiaan D.
$3.99, Nathan J.
$3.5, Alan O. M. V.
$3 (5th donation), Thomas F.
$3, Atif A.
$3, Matias T.
$3, Krisanapol P.
$2.66 (12th donation), Javier Guijarro aka “chejofan“
$2.66 (11th donation), Javier Guijarro aka “chejofan“
$2.66 (2nd donation), Gabrielyan A.
$2.66, Jeroen P.
$2.66, Pedro J. G. G.
$25.98 from 19 smaller donations

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Events:

News and summary:

Many thanks to all the people who have sent us donations and to all our sponsors. I say it every month but it’s worth repeating: you empower us a lot and we’re really grateful.
All editions of Linux Mint 17 were released. Some important bugs were identified during the RC of the KDE and Xfce editions so the decision was taken to respin the ISOs of the Cinnamon and MATE editions.
Linux Mint 17 was the first release of the 17.x series and it opens a new era for our project and a very important cycle for us. During the next 2 years, popular applications will be backported to 17.x and the team will continue to bring improvements and newer desktop environments with each new release. Security updates will also be served until 2019. Whereas the team would normally focus on the next release, this time around the next release is 17.1 and it shares the exact same base. So although 17.1 will be a distinct release and users will opt-in to upgrade to it, that upgrade path will be trivial and both releases will be fully compatible and represent the same development target. Never in the past did Linux Mint invest so much focus in its base. For the release of Linux Mint 17, attention to detail spanned to new areas and the scope of the project got a little bigger… more upstream components were patched and bugs were tackled immediately without waiting for the fixes to be applied by Debian or Ubuntu. When the base was only used for 6 months, it didn’t always make sense to invest too much into it and fixing something often meant making sure it was being tackled in the next base to come. Using the base for 2+ years means we can improve future releases while better supporting existing ones and our level of expectation can raise to a point where part of what was considered upstream before now also falls under our own responsibility.
This new strategy is already very successful and not only will it make it easier for us to release 17.1 and allow us to focus more on the development side of things, it already benefited the 17 release greatly. The same strategy could be applied to LMDE by basing it on Debian Stable, essentially migrating it from a snapshot cycle to a frozen one, like in Linux Mint. The two distributions would then be more similar to each others. LMDE would gain in quality and attention to detail while requiring less maintenance. The pros and cons are being assessed at the moment. Don’t hesitate to use the section below if you want to comment on this or share your ideas with us.
RAR 5.0x support was added to file-roller, MATE components were upgraded to 1.8.1 and additional fixes are coming in the days to come for Cinnamon 2.2. All of these are published as level 1 updates in your Update Manager.
A lot of feedback and ideas were gathered and we’re getting ready to open the new development cycle. If you want to follow us don’t hesitate to keep an eye on the roadmap and on the Linux Mint Github repositories. Keep an eye out on Segfault also where we’ll try to cover new developments.

Monthly News – April 2014

May 14, 2014 by Clem·132 Comments

Sponsorships:

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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 $8912 was raised thanks to the generous contributions of 350 donors:

$500 (2nd donation), Travis C.
$500, chainsaw
$200, Tord K.
$132.85, Joerg P.
$132.85, Jane S.
$132.85, Meises I.
$132.85, Sten L.
$100 (3rd donation), Jon Espenschied aka “xeno”
$100, Daniel W.
$100, Laserlab, Inc.
$100, Mikael L.
$100, Gary C.
$100, Danny L.
$99.64, Wemmarus W.
$81.6, Jacques P.
$75 (4th donation), Trevor H.
$70, Joseph L.
$66.43 (8th donation), Raymond E.
$66.43 (2nd donation), C. Lamb aka “Mike”
$66.43, Kaj S.
$66.43, Carlos C. C.
$66.43, Christine T.
$66.43, F HOU2BERT
$66.43, Ausra P.
$50 (49th donation), Matthew M.
$50 (3rd donation), Jeff W.
$50 (2nd donation), James G.
$50 (2nd donation), Pamino F.
$50 (2nd donation), Roy Q.
$50 (2nd donation), Frédéric S.
$50 (2nd donation), Stephen C.
$50, David P.
$50, Michal C.
$50, Steven N.
$50, Daniel S.
$50, Christopher B.
$50, Levon P.
$50, Brad L.
$50, Rodney W.
$50, Peter J.
$50, Styles D. aka “threeta“
$50, John S.
$50, Graham M.
$40 (2nd donation), Tom W.
$39.86 (50th donation), Olli K.
$39.86 (2nd donation), Ines R.
$39.86, Rémy M.
$39.86, Jascha L.
$39.86, Javier C. M.
$39.86, Pascal H.
$39.86, Michael B.
$35 (2nd donation), Devendra R.
$33.21 (3rd donation), Simon C.
$33.21 (2nd donation), Christophe L.
$33.21 (2nd donation), Jolyon H.
$33.21, Ruth S.
$33.21, Stephan B.
$33.21, Jan Müller
$33.21, Lars G.
$33.21, Patrick Vollring aka “Falco2“
$33.21, Enrique G. G.
$33.21, Bartosz K.
$33.21, Robert Sweetnam
$33.21, Markus S.
$33.21, Eric S.
$30 (15th donation), Maarten E.
$30 (3rd donation), Robert O.
$30, Nancy M.
$30, bkn
$30, PulpKult
$30, Tony C.
$30, Stephen G.
$26.57 (9th donation), Frank Bechstein
$26.57 (2nd donation), Pentti T.
$26.57 (2nd donation), Marko aka “playforvoices“
$26.57 (2nd donation), Pedro C. F.
$26.57 (2nd donation), Mark S.
$26.57 (2nd donation), Kari Y.
$26.57 (2nd donation), Roberto R. D. T.
$26.57, Paolo S.
$26.57, Niall M.
$26.57, Ronan P.
$26.57, Johannes F.
$26.57, Markku T. K.
$26.57, Michel J.
$26.57, stathious
$26.57, Stefan E.
$26.57, Andreas L.
$26.57, Thomas G.
$26.57, Tommi T.
$26.57, Gerhard R.
$26.57, Julio F. T.
$26.57, Frank D.
$26.57, Matthias M.
$26.57, Heinz M. S.
$26.57, Alain T.
$26.57, Jens M.
$26.57, Stefan B.
$26.57, Anita Z.
$26.57, r
$26.57, A J. M.
$26.57, Jose L. R. M.
$26.57, Ahmed B.
$26.57, Helmut Z.
$26.57, Pascal F.
$26.57, Nigel J.
$25 (31st donation), Ronald W.
$25 (2nd donation), Don L. aka “I.M. Online”
$25 (2nd donation), Waqas S.
$25 (2nd donation), Anonymous aka “MrNiceGaay”
$25 (2nd donation), Richard L.
$25 (2nd donation), Evan N.
$25, Ian M.
$25, Robert B.
$25, David T.
$25, Bruce S.
$25, Kirk G.
$25, Michael B.
$25, William S.
$25, Timothy L.
$25, Miroslav K.
$25, Joseph G.
$25, Justin M. H.
$25, F. N.
$25, P H.
$25, Richard L.
$25, Thomas S.
$25, Cameron T.
$25, David L.
$25, Charles T.
$24, Vernon G.
$20 (34th donation), Tsuguo S.
$20 (5th donation), Roger B.
$20 (4th donation), Jonathan Drake
$20 (4th donation), Kevin Safford
$20 (3rd donation), David M.
$20 (3rd donation), Nicholas T.
$20 (2nd donation), Wing T.
$20 (2nd donation), Yahya The Impaler
$20, Glover Electronics
$20, Richard L.
$20, Lindomar E. O.
$20, Tyler Mulligan aka “-z-“
$20, John M.
$20, Kelly S.
$20, Mary H.
$20, William J.
$20, James A.
$20, Beeblebrox, Z
$20, Adrian R.
$20, Milt K.
$20, Steven J.
$20, Carlos F. L.
$20, Jim D.
$20, Joseph V.
$20, Chris S.
$20, Brian Hilmers
$20, Brett H.
$20, Mauzz
$20, Gerardo E. R.
$20, Richard D.
$20, Conner C.
$19.93 (3rd donation), Roy S.
$19.93 (2nd donation), Michael J. L.
$19.93, Herminio F.
$19.93, Stoyan N.
$19.93, Michael J. L.
$19.93, Daniel C. M.
$17.27, Juergen F.
$17 (2nd donation), Athanasios F. aka “thanosfrag”
$16 (2nd donation), Rockford C.
$15 (3rd donation), Vincent B.
$15, Christian S.
$15, Mario L.
$15, Fraser P.
$15, Y.Satoru
$15, Harvey M.
$15, Gordon M.
$15, Kostiantyn M.
$15, John S.
$15, Kathy A.
$14.61, Ivy
$13.55, Andreas A.
$13.29 (10th donation), Mark W.
$13.29 (5th donation), Joanna Z. aka “GreenCatX”
$13.29 (5th donation), Rene Schwietzke aka “Rene S.“
$13.29 (3rd donation), anonymous
$13.29 (3rd donation), Veeti
$13.29 (2nd donation), Robin KAY
$13.29 (2nd donation), Viktor F.
$13.29 (2nd donation), Touko N.
$13.29 (2nd donation), Dirk G. aka “Dirken”
$13.29, Michele B.
$13.29, Franz J. S.
$13.29, Fabio L.
$13.29, Lorenzo Novara
$13.29, Rik aka “rik”
$13.29, Ticià Sala
$13.29, Thomas S.
$13.29, Ralf R.
$13.29, Bernd D.
$13.29, Thomas F.
$13.29, Wilfried S.
$13.29, Robert I.
$13.29, Carsten S.
$13.29, George S.
$13.29, Roger B.
$13.29, Marcel C. G.
$13.29, Harpreet D.
$13.29, Jürgen M.
$13.29, Stephan K.
$13.29, Herbert T.
$13.29, Mark P.
$13.29, Kevin O.
$13.29, Markus T.
$13.29, Leonhard K.
$13.29, S D
$13.29, Christian B.
$13.29, Richard G.
$13 (2nd donation), John C.
$12, CHAZMAN
$10 (37th donation), Tony C. aka “S. LaRocca”
$10 (3rd donation), Larry I.
$10 (2nd donation), Indarien’s G. T.
$10 (2nd donation), Michael S.
$10 (2nd donation), Владислав Х.
$10 (2nd donation), Darlan P. C.
$10, Duncan O.
$10, Acm V. R.
$10, Corey W.
$10, Charles G.
$10, Pouya T.
$10, Richard M. aka “Richmelk”
$10, Steve D.
$10, Donald M.
$10, Federico L.
$10, Mark O.
$10, David M.
$10, Johnny O.
$10, D. M.
$10, Charlie T.
$10, Paweł S.
$10, Craig M.
$10, Raphael S. D. O.
$10, Bobylev O. aka “QDesnic“
$10, Annaniassen B.
$10, Matthew T.
$10, Frank V. Pedersen
$10, 手塚優.
$10, Ian C.
$10, Nicklas L.
$10, Nicholas P.
$10, Pete D.
$10, Kurt B.
$10, Runar B.
$10, Niels T.
$10, Victor B.
$10, Kevin H.
$10, Shawn L.
$10, Ron A.
$10, Irma O.
$10, Mark Y.
$10, Lars M.
$10, Leonhard K.
$10, Ashlon H.
$10, Breno B. T.
$10, Kyle R.
$10, Peter Nielsen
$9.3, Fabian van B. aka “Nishe”
$7.97, Lluis Solanelles
$7.97, Benedict B.
$7 (7th donation), Christopher R.
$6.64 (28th donation), Marco aka “Dictionary-Maker“
$6.64 (4th donation), Theis Hinz
$6.64, Ferit O.
$6.64, Philippe L.
$6.64, Oscar J. G. C.
$6.64, Francisco J. M. S.
$6.64, Jörg U.
$6.64, Matthias M.
$6.64, Michael F.
$6.64, Ivaylo K.
$6.64, Rafael Kallis aka “rafael94b“
$6 (3rd donation), Nicolás Costa de la Colina aka “NCosta”
$6, Piotr G.
$6, Dewey R.
$5 (13th donation), Mein Lenovo aka “LinuxMint“
$5 (9th donation), Carlos W.
$5 (9th donation), Edward S.
$5 (7th donation), Mordi K. aka “Mordik”
$5 (5th donation), Randolph K.
$5 (5th donation), Vladimir Kivernik
$5 (4th donation), Scanplus aka “The Brochure Printers“
$5 (3rd donation), Jh B.
$5 (3rd donation), Radim aka “myself”
$5 (3rd donation), Toronto Maple Leafs
$5 (2nd donation), Dan N.
$5 (2nd donation), Ronald K.
$5 (2nd donation), Dadykin A.
$5 (2nd donation), Marcin B.
$5, Kochetkov S.
$5, Diego L. F.
$5, Ondrej M.
$5, William S. M.
$5, John Sandora aka “obiwanjohn”
$5, Jerry L.
$5, Nicholas S.
$5, Daryl S.
$5, Mark D.
$5, Arwen N. A.
$5, Thomas B.
$5, Nicholas P.
$5, Bernard H.
$5, Heinz W. K.
$5, Robbie K.
$5, David H.
$5, Mohri K.
$5, Christopher D.
$5, Torsten T.
$5, Arno S.
$5, Thomas M.
$5, Dmitry Rutkov aka “Scanerdarkly“
$5, Geoffrey H.
$5, Kevin P.
$5, Frank P.
$5, Rick Gilley
$5, Sheldon F.
$5, Al S.
$5, Andy M.
$5, Business Credit Workshop
$4.42 (2nd donation), Erick P.
$4, Helton B. T. P. J.
$3, Clayton S.
$3, Susan M.
$2.7, Thomas P.
$14.82 from 15 smaller donations

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Rankings:

Distrowatch (popularity ranking): 3792 (1st)
Alexa (website ranking): 5335th

Events:

The development team announced the release of Cinnamon 2.2 on Segfault

News and summary:

Many thanks to all the people who have sent us donations and to all our sponsors. You’re making it easy for us to focus on Linux Mint without worrying about anything else. In April, your help reached an all-time high. Not only did it surprise us, but we could see that donations had been high yet very stable since the beginning of the year. That put us in the very comfortable position where we were able to identify the reasons for our success and allocate a new budget to boost them even further. We get a lot of help from volunteers and people from our community who step up, get involved and join our teams. These people come with very different skills, very different interests, and they all have very different lives, jobs and availabilities. What they all have in common though, is that they love to help us with their spare time and when we look at the net result, their contribution to the overall Linux Mint project is simply amazing. Linux Mint 17 is just around the corner, and if I look at all the features that were developed for it, all the new improvements, I can see so many of them coming from volunteers. With this new budget, for the very first time, we’re funding these contributions. Money is given without asking anything in return to people who made a difference to our project. Ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars, the sums involved aren’t large enough for volunteers to leave their jobs or to consider changing the way they live, but if their passion makes them work with us, it empowers them to have that spare time, to buy equipment if they need to, and to not worry about money, overtime, and whether they shouldn’t be doing something better with their spare time than helping Linux Mint. We’re also being very careful not to change the nature of these contributions. Linux Mint is not run like a company and it would lose a lot of flexibility if it was. Contributors are not entitled to funds and they are not expected to produce anything. We’re trying to get the best of both worlds with this new scheme, where people who are part of a team and actively make Linux Mint better also benefit from it financially, yet where the reason for their involvement remains the fact that they love what they’re doing and they’re not actually working but simply enjoying themselves. It’s only been a month but it seems to be working really well so far within the development team. The moderation team is currently discussing the idea and deciding whether or not they want to be part of it as well.
Linux Mint 17 “Qiana” passed QA yesterday. It was approved for an RC release which should come out either tomorrow or the day after. Some of the improvements featured in Linux Mint 17 came extremely late in the release cycle but they all managed to get in and we can’t wait to show you what’s new. Of course, you always find a lot of bugs during the RC process, and we’re ready for your feedback, we know we’re going to be busy. But in the meantime, I found the quality of this release to be outstanding. Everything is smooth, some bugs which affected multiple past releases (the shutdown sequence, the inability to install broadcom drivers offline..etc) have been fixed, and Qiana comes with the same traditional look-and-feel but implemented in a brand new Mint-X theme, so the experience feels very polished.
The decision was made to stick to LTS bases. In other words the development team will be focused on the very same package base used by Linux Mint 17 for the next 2 years. It will also be trivial to upgrade from version 17 to 17.1, then 17.2 and so on. Important applications will be backported and we expect this change to boost the pace of our development and reduce the amount of regressions in each new Linux Mint release. This makes Linux Mint 17.x very important to us, not just yet another release, but one that will receive security updates until 2019, one that will receive backports and new features until 2016 and even more importantly, the only package base besides LMDE which we’ll be focused on until 2016.
New equipment was acquired, including hidpi laptops for two members of the development team, a broadcom chipset (finally), a macbook pro and some NUC units sent by Intel.
Our traffic doubled lately and all our stats are on the raise, and we don’t know why. Maybe it’s related to the the end-of-life of Windows XP. We’re not really sure. The blog went down a few times, we’re addressing this by tuning its configuration. Post-release we’re likely to buy more servers to split services and scale our infrastructure.

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