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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:
Private Internet Access
Gold Sponsors:
Linux VPS Hosting
Silver Sponsors:
ThinkPenguin.com
Bronze Sponsors:
Vault Networks *
AYKsolutions Server & Cloud Hosting
7L Networks Toronto Colocation *
BayLibre
BGASoft Inc
David Salvo
Michael Sartain
Milton Security Group
Sysnova Information Systems		 Community Sponsors:

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

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Sponsorships:

Linux Mint is proudly sponsored by:

Gold Sponsors:
VMware Cloud Hosting
Silver Sponsors:
ThinkPenguin.com
Bronze Sponsors:
Vault Networks *
AYKsolutions Server & Cloud Hosting
7L Networks Toronto Colocation *
compute.ch gmbh
David Salvo
Gutscheindrache.de Coupons
MBCEStore Mexico
Sysnova Information Systems		 Community Sponsors:

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

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

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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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 $4,667 was raised thanks to the generous contributions of 210 donors:

  • $500 (10th donation), Mohammed A.
  • $200, Karl F.
  • $125.23, Frederic L. aka “”nofrog””
  • $100, Marc H.
  • $100, Stacy D.
  • $100, Frédéric S.
  • $100, anonymous
  • $90, John S.
  • $75 (10th donation), Ralph Siegler aka “ziggy“
  • $63.24, Nicholas L.
  • $63.24, Walter P.
  • $63.24, Stuart H.
  • $63.24, Mathieu L. aka “Matlo”
  • $62.61, Dr. R. M.
  • $51 (2nd donation), Mike M.
  • $50.09, Jean-claude R.
  • $50 (37th donation), Matthew M.
  • $50 (4th donation), JMB
  • $50 (4th donation), stuart
  • $50 (3rd donation), Jonathan L.
  • $50, Howard S.
  • $50, Jerry S.
  • $50, 2001 Refrigeration & HVAC, Inc.
  • $50, Johan R.
  • $50, Peter G.
  • $44.27, Julian S.
  • $40 (4th donation), Alex Dolhescu
  • $37.94, Alfred R.
  • $37.94, Baroukh M.
  • $37.57 (38th donation), Olli K.
  • $37.57, Raimo M.
  • $31.62 (2nd donation), Christian P.
  • $31.31, Malcolm C.
  • $30, Jerrick D.
  • $30, Rene K.
  • $30, Jean-pierre R.
  • $26 (2nd donation), Robert F.
  • $25.3, Tamas S.
  • $25.3, Hans E.
  • $25.05, Jukka K.
  • $25.05, Damien G.
  • $25 (19th donation), Ronald W.
  • $25 (11th donation), Adam D.
  • $25 (2nd donation), Michael P.
  • $25, Rhyss E.
  • $25, Douglas L.
  • $25, Peter P.
  • $25, Dianna H.
  • $25, Renquan C.
  • $25, Galileo M.
  • $25, Robert M.
  • $25, Craig C.
  • $25, David E.
  • $20 (43th donation), Slavoljub aka “slw”
  • $20 (25th donation), Tsuguo S.
  • $20 (2nd donation), Gabriel D.
  • $20 (2nd donation), iMarketing Solutions LLC aka “iMarketing“
  • $20 (2nd donation), Nicholas T.
  • $20 (2nd donation), Utah B.
  • $20 (2nd donation), Tom T.
  • $20, Stephen J.
  • $20, Web M.
  • $20, Mike T.
  • $20, Moacir I. C. J.
  • $20, Shestakov V.
  • $20, John R.
  • $20, Singing F.
  • $20, Petr V.
  • $20, Brent S.
  • $20, Alex M.
  • $20, Victor W.
  • $20, Daniel B.
  • $20, Evandro M. L. J.
  • $20, Uncle Geek
  • $20, Philip M.
  • $20, Terri C. aka “Austin’s Mom”
  • $18.97 (4th donation), Knut E. E. aka “Animoy”
  • $18.78 (18th donation), Jarkko K.
  • $18.78 (3rd donation), Antonio M. M. aka “zantaz“
  • $18.78 (2nd donation), Antonio M. M. aka “zantaz“
  • $18.78, Eoin E.
  • $18.78, Antonios P.
  • $18.78, Jeroen W.
  • $18.78, Loris A. aka “lorisangele“
  • $18 (6th donation), Dominik K. aka “doke“
  • $16, Terry I.
  • $15 (3rd donation), Steve T.
  • $15 (3rd donation), Robert E.
  • $15 (2nd donation), Dani Kupak
  • $15 (2nd donation), Daniel H. aka “Semper Fidelis“
  • $15, Seth E.
  • $15, George P.
  • $15, Edward S.
  • $13.91, Guillermo O. A.
  • $12.65 (2nd donation), Andreas S.
  • $12.65, Hugo L. R.
  • $12.65, Daniel W.
  • $12.65, Jose M. R.
  • $12.65, Thorsten S.
  • $12.65, Meiko M.
  • $12.65, Ulrich H.
  • $12.65, Simo M.
  • $12.52 (2nd donation), Nicolas B.
  • $12.52, Giorgio B.
  • $12.52, Mario R.
  • $12.52, Peter Mc Aulay
  • $12.52, Pierre S.
  • $12.52, Rune J.
  • $12.52, Joachim T.
  • $12 (25th donation), John A.
  • $12, Aylen B.
  • $10 (26th donation), Tony C. aka “S. LaRocca”
  • $10 (7th donation), Jerry Jones
  • $10 (4th donation), Antonio M. M. aka “zantaz“
  • $10 (3rd donation), iPhone & iPad apps
  • $10 (3rd donation), Kirk P.
  • $10 (2nd donation), Charles P.
  • $10 (2nd donation), Eduardo R.
  • $10 (2nd donation), Stephen B. aka “Fio”
  • $10 (2nd donation), Brian T.
  • $10, Christopher H.
  • $10, Alain M.
  • $10, Alfredo A.
  • $10, Neil B.
  • $10, Brandon C.
  • $10, Bretislav W.
  • $10, Michael Dowden
  • $10, Roberto B. O.
  • $10, Beom J. S.
  • $10, Matthew L.
  • $10, Howard P.
  • $10, George W.
  • $10, Charles P.
  • $10, Paul P.
  • $10, Garre B.
  • $10, Carlos W.
  • $10, Brian B.
  • $10, Richard A.
  • $10, Jerry H.
  • $10, Dmitry F.
  • $10, William Wynn
  • $9 (26th donation), John A.
  • $8.77, Nelson T. Silva
  • $7.99 (4th donation), Stephan J.
  • $7.84 (5th donation), Librestickers.com
  • $7 (2nd donation), Grigore R.
  • $6.32 (16th donation), Marco aka “Dictionary-Maker“
  • $6.32 (6th donation), Yannick G. aka “Uggy”
  • $6.32 (2nd donation), Vrettos M.
  • $6.32, Giovanni B.
  • $6.32, Frank B.
  • $6.32, Judith S.
  • $6.32, Manfred G.
  • $6.32, David R. G.
  • $6.32, Antonio T.
  • $6.32, Adam K. aka “Dakiro”
  • $6.26 (18th donation), Marco R.
  • $6.26 (15th donation), Marco aka “Dictionary-Maker“
  • $6.26 (8th donation), SilFox
  • $6.26 (6th donation), Mark W.
  • $6.26 (3rd donation), Patrick R.
  • $6.26, Stephane F.
  • $6.26, Tobias K.
  • $6.26, Juan A. B. M.
  • $6.26, Umberto B.
  • $6.26, Jens P. F.
  • $6, Andy Chung
  • $5.69, Mihai A.
  • $5.3, Christopher L.
  • $5 (11th donation), Michael Gstettenbauer
  • $5 (4th donation), Roman Nikolaevitch aka “rv82”
  • $5 (3rd donation), Jose M. D. A.
  • $5 (2nd donation), Christopher D.
  • $5 (2nd donation), Redsandro
  • $5, Justin S.
  • $5, Alexander P.
  • $5, Hendrik C.
  • $5, Jacob G.
  • $5, Rodrigo H. M.
  • $5, Wei-ju Wu
  • $5, Jerod F.
  • $5, Roofing Grand Rapids
  • $5, Marco C.
  • $5, Donald K.
  • $5, Matthew S.
  • $5, Larry F.
  • $5, Freddy Shen
  • $5, Luong B.
  • $5, Alhakim
  • $5, Andrew P.
  • $4.25, Ivan I.
  • $3, Matthew Brener aka “akkatracker“
  • $2.53 (2nd donation), Athales.com Nantes
  • $2.53, Stefano V.
  • $2.53, Andrea F.
  • $2.26, Dean W.
  • $14.03 from 14 smaller donations

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

Rankings:

  • Distrowatch (popularity ranking): 3876 (1st)
  • Alexa (website ranking): 6,745th

Events:

Latest development:

Development is a lot of fun and it doesn’t take much to get started. If you’re tempted to join the team, don’t hesitate to follow our development on http://github.com/linuxmint and come and chat with the developers at #linuxmint-dev (irc.spotchat.org).

Last months we talked about “mintSources” and the fact that it was going to replace “software-properties-gtk”. One of the features handled by software-properties-gtk and which isn’t handled by mintSources is the installation of proprietary drivers. In Linux Mint 15, this is handled by a tool called “mintDrivers”.

MintDrivers, the “Driver Manager”,  relies on the same Ubuntu backend as software-properties-gtk. The main difference is that “Driver Manager” isn’t just a tab in some other tool but its very own independent application.

That makes it easier to discover for novice users and we took the opportunity to improve its user interface a little bit as well:

  • Drivers are no longer listed by description but by package name.
  • Versions are clearly stated (in the case of the nVidia drivers you can therefore choose according to a particular version instead of wondering what “current” or “updates” really mean)
  • The recommended choice is clearly stated
  • Devices from popular brands (nVidia, ATI, Broadom, Samsung…etc) are now illustrated with an icon

News and summary:

  • Many thanks to our sponsors, partners, donors and all the people who supported us this month and who allowed us to work on Linux Mint. As always you’ve been really generous and this is helping us a lot.
  • In addition to EUR and USD, Linux Mint now accepts Bitcoins. Users of the P2P currency can donate to Linux Mint using the following address: 1PQCrkzWweCw4huVLcDXttAZbSrrLbJ92L
  • A new blog called Segfault was created, targeted at enthusiasts and people interested in upcoming technology, technique and development. Articles are written by developers and team members at a rough pace of 1 post per day. If you want more in-depth news from us, more often, and you’re not afraid of getting too much details.. go and check it out.
  • Cinnamon 1.8 should be out in a matter of days, this week-end or early next week. Only one bug left is considered a release blocker.
  • Linux Mint 15 is just around the corner. The MATE and the Cinnamon editions will come out first, with an RC mid-may and a stable release at the end of the month.