Sponsorships:

Linux Mint is proudly sponsored by:

Gold Sponsors:

Opera

VMware Cloud Hosting

Silver Sponsors:

Idera (formerly R1Soft)

ThinkPenguin.com

Bronze Sponsors:

Vault Networks *

AYKsolutions Server & Cloud Hosting

7L Networks Toronto Colocation *

Gutscheindrache.de Coupons

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 $4532 was raised thanks to the generous contributions of 207 donors:

  • $150, Richard K. H.
  • $129.93 (2nd donation), Frederic L. aka “”nofrog””
  • $129.93, Jörg-michael S.
  • $100 (5th donation), Vallin E.
  • $100 (2nd donation), Rich H.
  • $100, EarthNeptune.com LLC
  • $100, Erik H.
  • $100, Marc-anthony A.
  • $100, LG Supplements LLC
  • $100, Scott B.
  • $100, Magne L.
  • $64.97, Matthias Z.
  • $64.97, Hannu H.
  • $64.97, Samuel T. P.
  • $64.97, Hendrik M.
  • $64.96, Fernando G. S.
  • $51.97, Robert B.
  • $50 (43th donation), Matthew M.
  • $50 (6th donation), Benoit Frigon aka “bfrigon.com
  • $50 (5th donation), Yves L. aka “amadeus128”
  • $50, Michael W.
  • $50, Timothy P.
  • $50, Mario F.
  • $50, Robert C.
  • $50, Liz K.
  • $50, Chris D W aka “squidly
  • $40, James H.
  • $40, Nick P.
  • $38.98 (44th donation), Olli K.
  • $38.98, Radu D.
  • $38.98, Manuel H.
  • $38.98, Juergen D. B.
  • $35, Real F.
  • $35, Jack D.
  • $32.48 (8th donation), Jerry Jackson aka “900i”
  • $32.48, Bob G.
  • $32.48, Arve E.
  • $32.48, Vyacheslav M.
  • $30 (47th donation), Slavoljub aka “slw”
  • $30, Brad L. aka “Linux Lifer”
  • $30, Chris R.
  • $25.99 (5th donation), Pinna A.
  • $25.99 (2nd donation), Andrew R.
  • $25.99, Hans H. S.
  • $25.99, Robert B.
  • $25.99, Christian B.
  • $25.99, Marco E.
  • $25.99, Jani-matti T.
  • $25.99, Silvestre J.
  • $25.99, Fabien M.
  • $25.99, Reinhard S. aka “rs”
  • $25 (25th donation), Ronald W.
  • $25 (3rd donation), David van Geest
  • $25 (2nd donation), Robert H.
  • $25 (2nd donation), Bruce N.
  • $25, Thomas G.
  • $25, Matthew A.
  • $25, David R.
  • $25, Robert L.
  • $25, José C. R. M.
  • $25, Michael Z.
  • $25, Alex N.
  • $25, Vincent A.
  • $25, Fred H.
  • $25, Joseph M.
  • $20 (31st donation), Tsuguo S.
  • $20 (8th donation), Utah B.
  • $20 (7th donation), Utah B.
  • $20 (2nd donation), Arrowhead Computer Consulting, LLC aka “Jim (JR)
  • $20 (2nd donation), Robert aka “33MHz”
  • $20, Rolf B.
  • $20, Matthew H.
  • $20, Dmitry T.
  • $20, Kirby M.
  • $20, Ranald C.
  • $20, Jeff A.
  • $20, William S.
  • $20, Freddy W.
  • $20, Dennis H.
  • $20, David H.
  • $20, Steven A.
  • $20, Wing T.
  • $20, Jimmie D.
  • $19.49 (3rd donation), Niklas M.
  • $19.49, Jose P. S.
  • $18.19, Linus P.
  • $15 (9th donation), Robert E.
  • $15 (5th donation), David Kelly aka “Daveinuk”
  • $15 (3rd donation), Andrzej W.
  • $15 (2nd donation), Marcelo T. L. D. S.
  • $15 (2nd donation), Alrik S.
  • $15, McGlew Pty. Ltd.
  • $15, Gonzalo M. D. O.
  • $15, Charles L.
  • $15, Michael S.
  • $15, Richard G.
  • $12.99 (8th donation), Mark W.
  • $12.99 (6th donation), Siegfried H.
  • $12.99 (4th donation), Marcos Antonio S.
  • $12.99 (3rd donation), Robert P.
  • $12.99 (2nd donation), Guido S.
  • $12.99, Johann J. A.
  • $12.99, Touko N.
  • $12.99, Kevin R.
  • $12.99, Yves G.
  • $12.99, Javier M. L.
  • $12.99, Stefan W.
  • $12.99, Marco H.
  • $12.99, Joanna Z. aka “GreenCatX”
  • $12.99, Stephan M.
  • $12.99, Ralf W. aka “Flarrebew”
  • $12.99, Henrique S.
  • $12.99, Andrea L.
  • $12.99, Javier H.
  • $12.98, Frederic S.
  • $10 (32nd donation), Tony C. aka “S. LaRocca”
  • $10 (7th donation), Jose P.
  • $10 (5th donation), Christopher R.
  • $10 (3rd donation), Andrew B.
  • $10 (2nd donation), Paul V.
  • $10 (2nd donation), Ashoka P.
  • $10 (2nd donation), Serguei S.
  • $10, Michael Y.
  • $10, Egashira T.
  • $10, Ohmura M.
  • $10, Jurgen Myrthe
  • $10, William N.
  • $10, Долгасов И.
  • $10, М А.
  • $10, Audrey M.
  • $10, Marcus D.
  • $10, French Road Bakery
  • $10, PushCoin
  • $10, sure chap
  • $10, Edgar T.
  • $10, Jason S.
  • $10, Randolph Carter aka “Schattenjager”
  • $10, Fernando G.
  • $10, John L.
  • $10, Dimitrios S.
  • $10, Simon B.
  • $10, Steven G.
  • $10, Richard C.
  • $7, Евдокимов А.
  • $6.5 (22nd donation), Marco aka “Dictionary-Maker
  • $6.5 (21st donation), Marco aka “Dictionary-Maker
  • $6.5 (7th donation), Robert K.
  • $6.5 (2nd donation), Guillaume G. aka “Tidusrose”
  • $6.5 (2nd donation), Raymond E.
  • $6.5, Juergen M.
  • $6.5, Moeris B.
  • $6.5, Ruben S.
  • $6.5, Fabian G.
  • $6.5, Peter K.
  • $6.5, Robert O.
  • $6.5, Frederic B.
  • $6.5, Alexandru A.
  • $5.44 (3rd donation), Dave Sailer
  • $5 (7th donation), L M. aka “LinuxMint”
  • $5 (6th donation), L M. aka “LinuxMint”
  • $5 (6th donation), David Vantongerloo
  • $5 (3rd donation), Ryan T.
  • $5 (3rd donation), Mordi K. aka “Mordik”
  • $5 (3rd donation), Vladimír V.
  • $5 (2nd donation), Randy R.
  • $5 (2nd donation), Grant Gordon aka “Puffy”
  • $5 (2nd donation), Kyle T.
  • $5, Thomas Morrow II
  • $5, Stephen S.
  • $5, Gregory A. C.
  • $5, Туйков Д.
  • $5, Anton W. Zimakos aka “Koss
  • $5, Sukhovilin D.
  • $5, VARATHARAJAN M
  • $5, Connor L.
  • $5, John C.
  • $5, David B.
  • $5, Dan G.
  • $5, Evan K.
  • $5, Robert M.
  • $5, Ahmed R.
  • $5, Kyle B.
  • $5, Dipjyoti G.
  • $4, Vladislav H.
  • $3.9 (2nd donation), Miguel C. M.
  • $3.9, Juhani S. H.
  • $3, Комаров А.
  • $2.6, Roberto C.
  • $2.6, Идуков А.
  • $2.5, Aleš Z.
  • $22.01 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): 3405 (1st)
  • Alexa (website ranking): 5689th

Events:

News and summary:

  • First, a huge thank you to all the people who donated to us in the past 2 months! As you know our Platinum sponsorship from Blue Systems came to an end and so will our Gold sponsorship with Opera at the end of this year. Losing our two main sponsors is tough, and we hope to find new sponsors going forward, but the support you’re giving us with your donations is amazing. Between September and October more than 400 people donated to Linux Mint. We made adjustments for 2014 but we’re also stronger than ever, as ambitious as before and we’re very confident about the future.
  • We didn’t communicate much lately and I have 271 unread emails in my inbox (if you wrote to me please accept my apologies for the delay, I can’t guarantee I’ll reply to every single email, but they will all get read)…. the good news, is that we’ve been working really hard and achieving fantastic results and it’s this time of year when we’re ready to share it out with you.
  • The Cinnamon and MATE editions of Linux Mint 16 “Petra” were approved today, shipping the latest Cinnamon 2.0 and MATE 1.6 desktop environments. They will be available as RC (Release Candidates) on the 15th of November. Their stable release is planned for the end of the month.
  • The KDE and Xfce editions entered QA this week and will follow shortly after.
  • The improvements featured in Linux Mint 16 as well as the latest MATE and Cinnamon desktops will be backported to LMDE and Linux Mint 13 in December.

Linux Mint related news:

  • If you’re in the USA, you can now order the mintBox 2 straight from Amazon (same price, but with free shipping and no customs): MintBox 2 on Amazon US

  • Andrew Gregory, Mike Saunders and Ben Everard left Linux Format to dedicate themselves to the creation of a new magazine. Linux Voice plans to give 50% of its profits back to the community and release its articles under Creative Commons 9 months after their publication. You can help with the crowd-funding at http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/linux-voice. If this happens and it creates a source of CC licensed articles of the same quality as the ones we enjoy from Linux Format,  we’ll consider developing a newsstand application for Linux Mint.

 

Cinnamon 2.0 was released today.

The release was announced on Segfault with a preview of the most important new features: http://segfault.linuxmint.com/2013/10/cinnamon-2-0-released/

Cinnamon 2.0 will be in Linux Mint 16 “Petra” which is planned for the end of November, and then ported to LMDE and Linux Mint 13 “Maya” LTS.

Sponsorships:

Linux Mint is proudly sponsored by:

Platinum Sponsors:
Blue Systems - Netrunner
Gold Sponsors:
Opera
VMware Cloud Hosting
Silver Sponsors:
Idera (formerly R1Soft)
ThinkPenguin.com
Bronze Sponsors:
Vault Networks *
AYKsolutions Server & Cloud Hosting
7L Networks Toronto Colocation *
Gutscheindrache.de Coupons
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 $4052 was raised thanks to the generous contributions of 185 donors:

  • $256, Samuel Brubaker aka “Worldsday
  • $129.93, Mats K.
  • $129.93, Jean-Philippe Meuret
  • $100, Jonathan E.
  • $100, Ib O. J.
  • $75 (11th donation), Ralph Siegler aka “ziggy
  • $64.97, E J. B.
  • $64.97, Heinz L.
  • $64.97, Geoff S.
  • $64.97, @Kode4Food
  • $51.97 (2nd donation), Emil K.
  • $51.97, Fabrizio C.
  • $50 (41th donation), Matthew M.
  • $50 (3rd donation), Tim B. aka “stripedtomato”
  • $50 (2nd donation), Christopher B.
  • $50 (2nd donation), Jason S.
  • $50, Soren K.
  • $50, Will C.
  • $50, David W.
  • $50, Dave S.
  • $50, Andrei R.
  • $50, Jim W.
  • $50, Edwin B.
  • $50, Bruce T.
  • $45, Emilio G. aka “Emiliano Zapata”
  • $38.98 (42th donation), Olli K.
  • $38.98, Cristian T. A.
  • $35, Samuel M.
  • $32.48 (5th donation), David Vantongerloo
  • $32.48, David M.
  • $31, Subramanian V.
  • $30, Robert T.
  • $30, Sergey Y.
  • $30, Mukesh R.
  • $30, Robert R. T.
  • $30, Bruce S.
  • $25.99, Jan M.
  • $25.99, Joseph G.
  • $25.99, Klaus G.
  • $25.99, Salvador C. M. O.
  • $25.99, Ralph W.
  • $25.99, Jens H.
  • $25.99, Jeremie G. aka “AceSlash
  • $25 (23rd donation), Ronald W.
  • $25 (16th donation), John M.
  • $25 (3rd donation), Andy N.
  • $25 (2nd donation), Robert O.
  • $25 (2nd donation), Computer Service Point GmbH
  • $25 (2nd donation), Jon G.
  • $25, Rick R.
  • $25, Mario’s Art Mart
  • $25, R C.
  • $25, Jeff S.
  • $20 (29th donation), Tsuguo S.
  • $20 (4th donation), Antony P.
  • $20 (3rd donation), Gary L.
  • $20 (3rd donation), Computer Service Point GmbH
  • $20 (2nd donation), Gregg L.
  • $20 (2nd donation), Vincent B.
  • $20, PMCDS.com
  • $20, Daniela K.
  • $20, Peter L.
  • $20, Tyler K. M.
  • $20, Charles A.
  • $20, David S.
  • $20, Bob D.
  • $20, Haukur H.
  • $20, Jeffrey B.
  • $20, Marcel S.
  • $20, Mark P.
  • $20, Fahad A.
  • $20, Jason D.
  • $20, Clive A. S.
  • $20, wishgranted.com
  • $20, jce
  • $20, David S.
  • $20, Paulo P. F.
  • $20, Krzysztof S.
  • $20, Christian K.
  • $20, Donald S.
  • $20, Chris R.
  • $20, Artur P.
  • $19.99, Raymond M.
  • $19.49 (21st donation), Jarkko K.
  • $19.49 (2nd donation), Niklas M.
  • $19.49, Eduard L.
  • $19.49, Lars Gersmann aka “Orangevolt Ampere
  • $19.49, Josef B.
  • $19.49, Alexander W.
  • $19.49, Christian R.
  • $15.59 (2nd donation), Salvador Coin aka “Johnny”
  • $15 (7th donation), Robert E.
  • $15 (2nd donation), Nikolaus S.
  • $15, Roger P.
  • $15, Devon B.
  • $15, Charles K.
  • $15, Petr B.
  • $12.99 (7th donation), Mark W.
  • $12.99, Andrew R.
  • $12.99, Gerard C.
  • $12.99, Sergii O.
  • $12.99, Steven B.
  • $12.99, Nico K.
  • $12.99, Hakan E.
  • $12.99, Data Power Development Limited
  • $12.99, Martin R.
  • $12.99, Eric P. K.
  • $12.99, Linus S.
  • $12.99, Marcin K.
  • $12.99, Michael K.
  • $11.28 (4th donation), Marco Zanatta aka “Reiki75”
  • $10 (30th donation), Tony C. aka “S. LaRocca”
  • $10 (6th donation), Charles P.
  • $10 (5th donation), Tony W.
  • $10 (3rd donation), Javier Guijarro aka “chejofan
  • $10 (2nd donation), Robert L.
  • $10 (2nd donation), Gerard M. Cormick aka “gmacor2”
  • $10 (2nd donation), Иван Ф.
  • $10, Nattasit S.
  • $10, culturecrazy.com.au
  • $10, Chirawat C.
  • $10, Nathan C.
  • $10, Scott S.
  • $10, Sergey Pavlov aka “Qiwichupa
  • $10, James B.
  • $10, Samuel O.
  • $10, Eleusmario M. R.
  • $10, Matt M.
  • $10, Daniel B.
  • $10, James P.
  • $10, Robert G. C.
  • $10, Christian D. C. H.
  • $10, Jason J.
  • $10, Allan E.
  • $10, Seth S.
  • $9.1 (2nd donation), Jack E.
  • $6.66, Jason S.
  • $6.5 (19th donation), Marco aka “Dictionary-Maker
  • $6.5 (18th donation), Marco aka “Dictionary-Maker
  • $6.5 (3rd donation), Paulo N. aka “uLusu”
  • $6.5, Marcin T.
  • $6.5, Mark H.
  • $6.5, Bjoern W. aka “wulfi”
  • $6.5, Sascha O.
  • $5.2, Joseph aka “joerack
  • $5.09, Andrew C.
  • $5 (23rd donation), Antonio M. M. aka “zantaz
  • $5 (8th donation), Pronto Admin
  • $5 (7th donation), Jose M. D. A.
  • $5 (4th donation), L M. aka “LinuxMint”
  • $5 (4th donation), Marco Zanatta aka “Reiki75”
  • $5 (4th donation), Jose A. Ruiz
  • $5 (3rd donation), Carlos W.
  • $5 (3rd donation), Alexey aka “hellman”
  • $5 (2nd donation), Artem G. aka “shrewmus”
  • $5 (2nd donation), tapin13
  • $5, Randy R.
  • $5, Sebastian B.
  • $5, Brian B.
  • $5, Jesus M. S.
  • $5, Bryan R.
  • $5, Jon W.
  • $5, Alistair G.
  • $5, Leandro S.
  • $3.9, Benjamin S.
  • $3.25, Wolfgang B.
  • $3 (2nd donation), Muhd Hafiz B. Mastro aka “monarsh”
  • $3, Ahmad S.
  • $3, Muhd Hafiz B. Mastro aka “monarsh”
  • $2.6 (4th donation), Marco Zanatta aka “Reiki75”
  • $2.6, Patrick S.
  • $2.6, Jani aka “Sinuhesieda”
  • $2.6, Rafał K.
  • $12.07 from 12 smaller donations

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

Rankings:

  • Distrowatch (popularity ranking): 3417 (1st)
  • Alexa (website ranking): 7590th

Events:

News and summary:

  • First of all, I’d like to take the opportunity to thank all the people who are funding us. August is our last month in partnership with Blue Systems and with Opera moving to a new engine and new versions of their browser not yet being available to Linux, we might lose our two biggest sponsors next months. The financial help we get from the community is helping us a lot and it’s also a huge motivation considering how supportive you are. Looking at other Free and Open Source projects and at how hard it is to sustain such activity without corporate funding, we feel really privileged and extremely grateful. Many thanks to all the donors and all the sponsors for their support.
  • In partnership with CompuLab, the MintBox 2 should be announced in the coming days. At roughly the same price as its predecessor the new unit will boast 4 times the processing power.
  • We’re planning to include 2 new search engines in Linux Mint 16. Details will be given and announcements made when agreements are finalized.
  • LMDE’s Update Pack 7 landed in ‘incoming’. The team noted a couple of important issues and is currently working on solving them.
  • Development continues in preparation for Mint 16 (note that these improvements will also land in LMDE and Mint 13):
    • Improvements were made to the USB Image Writer and a new tool was developed to format USB Sticks. The tool supports FAT32, EXT4 and NTFS.

    • Cinnamon sound events are now configurable (so you can set your own sounds for desktop login, maximizing windows, switching workspace etc..). The design was shared with the MATE team so we might see this get into MATE 1.8 as well.

    • There’s good news for people with multiple monitors: The Cinnamon display module was improved and the team is currently considering a redesign of the panels which would make it possible to move panels, create multiple panels on the screen, and assign different panels to different monitors.

  • Between now and November, the development team will focus on the following projects: architectural improvements and redesigns for MDM and mintUpdate, UI improvements in mintInstall and mintWelcome, additional features in nemo and Cinnamon.