Sponsorships:

Linux Mint is proudly sponsored by:

 

Platinum Sponsors:
Blue Systems - Netrunner

Gold Sponsors:
Opera

Dedicated Hosting Server *

Silver Sponsors:
R1Soft

Bronze Sponsors:
ThinkPenguin.com

Vault Networks *

AYKsolutions Server & Cloud Hosting

7L Networks Toronto Colocation *

Brucey99

 

 

Community Sponsors:

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

Donations:

$5870 were raised thanks to the generous contributions of 228 donors: http://www.linuxmint.com/donors.php

  • $500 (6th donation), Mohammed A.
  • $373.57, Norbert C.
  • $100 (6th donation), Ronald S.
  • $100 (2nd donation), Gerhard W.
  • $100 (2nd donation), About Canada
  • $100, Timur Evdokimov
  • $100, Christopher P.
  • $100, Don C.
  • $100, Slava Vishnyakov
  • $100, Nick J.
  • $80, Davydov D.
  • $75 (9th donation), Ralph Siegler aka “ziggy
  • $62.26 (3rd donation), Josue M.
  • $62.26 (2nd donation), Wolfgang B.
  • $62.26, Stefan K.
  • $62.26, Dominique P.
  • $62.26, Damon L.
  • $62.26, Stefan H.
  • $62.26, HHW
  • $62.26, Bernhard P.
  • $60 (3rd donation), Alex Dolhescu
  • $60, Benjamin S.
  • $50 (31st donation), Matthew M.
  • $50, Dimitar K.
  • $50, Dixon C.
  • $50, Glenn Meyer
  • $50, Northern Mike
  • $50, Paul G.
  • $50, Jeremy G.
  • $50, Roody A.
  • $50, James H.
  • $50, Brian P.
  • $50, Paul S.
  • $50, Christophe W.
  • $50, Marcus M.
  • $49.81, Klaus-Peter F.
  • $43.58, David B.
  • $40, Slava A.
  • $40, Brucey99
  • $40, Guillaume P.
  • $37.36 (5th donation), Frans Van O.
  • $37.35 (32nd donation), Olli K.
  • $35 (2nd donation), Houston Estate Attorney
  • $35, Houston Estate Attorney
  • $31.13 (2nd donation), Walter S.
  • $31.13, Jonathan M.-G. aka “Jmgr
  • $31.13, Michael U.
  • $30 (37th donation), Slavoljub aka “slw”
  • $30 (3rd donation), Bill E.
  • $30 (2nd donation), Quinten C.
  • $30 (2nd donation), Clovis F.
  • $30, Harold G.
  • $30, Donald K.
  • $30, Gilles S.
  • $30, Brendan C.
  • $30, Srdjan I.
  • $30, Rudnevskiy A.
  • $27.99 (2nd donation), hempforest.net aka “rufong
  • $25 (13th donation), Ronald W.
  • $25 (10th donation), Adam D.
  • $25 (2nd donation), Geoff_P.
  • $25 (2nd donation), David van Geest
  • $25, Oskar L.
  • $25, Charles R.
  • $25, Andrew M.
  • $25, C.L
  • $25, Martin Vieira
  • $25, Gareth C.
  • $25, Jon R.
  • $24.9 (2nd donation), Ostap M.
  • $24.9, Timo L.
  • $24.9, Mathias D.
  • $24.9, Wolfgang H.
  • $24.9, Pnevmatikos D.
  • $24.9, Oliver Anhuth
  • $24.9, E F.
  • $20 (20th donation), Tsuguo S.
  • $20 (4th donation), Earl Dukerschein aka “Bitflogger
  • $20 (3rd donation), Thomas M.
  • $20 (2nd donation), George M.
  • $20, William S.
  • $20, Nicholas T.
  • $20, Gerard D.
  • $20, David B.
  • $20, N1X3L
  • $20, Gabor K.
  • $20, alexander taylor
  • $20, Bezantnet, L.
  • $20, Gustavo Molina
  • $20, Raphael S.
  • $20, Jason Graun
  • $20, Jay B.
  • $20, Ghost7
  • $20, Devanandan J.
  • $20, Maxime G.
  • $20, joshg253 aka “Josh Gunderson
  • $20, Will Elliott aka “rstrcogburn
  • $20, Austin K.
  • $20, netzpartner.ch – Dachzelte und mehr… aka “Direktimport von Autodachzelten
  • $20, iMarketing-Solutions, LLC
  • $20, Peter F.
  • $20, Calvin L.
  • $20, Peter B.
  • $20, Anthony C.
  • $20, Craig P.
  • $20, Marcus K.
  • $18, Brian T.
  • $15, Lloyd A.
  • $15, Voropaev P.
  • $15, John K.
  • $15, Andrew L.
  • $15, Jesse D.
  • $15, Andrea K.
  • $13, Leopold H. Birkholm
  • $12.74, Richard D. B.
  • $12.45 (17th donation), Marco R.
  • $12.45 (13th donation), Jarkko K.
  • $12.45 (6th donation), zerozero
  • $12.45 (4th donation), Werner G.
  • $12.45 (2nd donation), Rene T.
  • $12.45, James Q.
  • $12.45, Thomas B.
  • $12.45, Ennio T.
  • $12.45, James K.
  • $12.45, Emma D.
  • $12.45, Thomas F.
  • $12.45, Petri P.
  • $12.45, Roberto S.
  • $12.45, Kostrab A.
  • $12.45, Alpo T.
  • $12.45, Harald T.
  • $12.45, Kortingscode Omoda
  • $12.45, Werner O.
  • $12.45, Eros F.
  • $12.45, Michael P.
  • $11.11, Bernhard B. aka “Xethron”
  • $10 (20th donation), Tony C. aka “S. LaRocca”
  • $10 (12th donation), Kiril Sotirov
  • $10 (6th donation), Charlie Robinson
  • $10 (5th donation), Geoff Perry
  • $10 (4th donation), Alcides Salinas
  • $10 (2nd donation), Mathias B. aka “Sorglos”
  • $10 (2nd donation), Andre T.
  • $10, Julio J.
  • $10, Stefan K. aka “radi1962”
  • $10, Bruce M.
  • $10, Harsh V. D.
  • $10, wes342
  • $10, Johan L.
  • $10, Edilbert N.
  • $10, Tahir C. B.
  • $10, Todd P.
  • $10, Adrian D.
  • $10, Ben Creasy
  • $10, Brandon K.
  • $10, Michael F.
  • $10, Marek F.
  • $10, Keith W.
  • $10, T. Lennon
  • $10, Derek F.
  • $10, Yoonkai W.
  • $10, Hubert P.
  • $9, Rich F. H.
  • $8.72, Janne P.
  • $7.77, Robert K.
  • $7.6 (2nd donation), Librestickers.com
  • $7, Alexander Galkin
  • $6.23 (8th donation), Marco aka “Dictionary-Maker
  • $6.23 (3rd donation), Kjell O. B. aka “kob”
  • $6.23 (3rd donation), Christelle aka “voyance par telephone
  • $6.23 (2nd donation), Genet W.
  • $6.23 (2nd donation), Paulo N. aka “uLusu”
  • $6.23 (2nd donation), Mark W.
  • $6.23, M. T.
  • $6.23, Stefan Infanger aka “noob_fl
  • $6.23, Ellis D.
  • $6.23, Manuel aka “voyance gratuite
  • $6.23, Dimitar D. aka “dimitrovden
  • $6.23, Mauro A.
  • $6.23, Bernhard L.
  • $6.2262, Juergen aka “bitblokes
  • $5 (15th donation), Antonina K. aka “Tonya”
  • $5 (3rd donation), CouponCodeSwap.com
  • $5 (2nd donation), Hostandreg.co.uk .
  • $5 (2nd donation), Marko Kovic
  • $5 (2nd donation), Greg aka “Gho.st Community Web Services
  • $5, Asher C.
  • $5, David C.
  • $5, A. D.
  • $5, James S.
  • $5, Hugo P.
  • $5, Justin H.
  • $5, Bobby K.
  • $5, Andrew C.
  • $5, Joseph B.
  • $5, Georgios B.
  • $5, Josh R. aka “bigj231
  • $5, Michael Q. J.
  • $5, aka “Jokeerek”
  • $5, Theodore C.
  • $5, Carlos H. M. M.
  • $5, Misyurkeev A.
  • $5, Ronald K. I.
  • $5, Vladyslav T.
  • $4, Mushtuk S.
  • $4, Dino B.
  • $3.74, Stephan M.
  • $3 (5th donation), Web Design Company
  • $3 (2nd donation), Joe C.
  • $3, Grigore R.
  • $3, cheap halloween costumes
  • $2.88, Travis W. R. I.
  • $22.17 from 16 smaller donations

Rankings:

  • Distrowatch (popularity ranking): 3349 (1st)
  • Alexa (website ranking): 7,307th

Events:

Developer of the month:

Each month we feature one developer and explain his contributions to the community. 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).

This month’s “developer of the month” is: Michael Webster (mtwebster)!

In terms of commits, Michael is the 4th biggest contributor to the Cinnamon project. Many of the late fixes going in the Cinnamon 1.6 series came from him. This month, he focused on Nemo, the Cinnamon file manager and gave it numerous fixes and a lot of new features:

  • View buttons
  • GTK Bookmarks support in MoveTo/CopyTo
  • Support for Thunderbird, Balsa and Evolution
  • Proper Open as Root support
  • Set as Wallpaper

Nemo in Linux Mint 14

The result is a fantastic application which complements the improvements and refinements of Cinnamon 1.6 and makes the desktop even more comfortable to use.

The improved file browser will be featured in Linux Mint 14 and backported to Linux Mint 13 and LMDE.

News and summary:

  • Many thanks to our sponsors, partners and donors. The amount of support we got this month was amazing and it really helps us focus on the development. We’re ahead of schedule, we achieved all our goals, I’m not sure what to say, we’re really grateful!
  • Linux Mint 14 MATE Edition and Linux Mint 14 Cinnamon Edition passed QA and were approved for an RC release yesterday. They should be announced in the coming days.
  • Both MATE 1.4 and Cinnamon 1.6 bring significant improvements to their previous releases. They will be backported to Linux Mint 13 and LMDE.
  • The stable release of Linux Mint 14 will be available at the end of this month for MATE and Cinnamon.
  • The following releases are planned for December 2012: Linux Mint 14 Xfce, Linux Mint 14 KDE, LMDE UP6.
  • Improvements in live-installer and a new tool called DDM which simplifies the installation of 3rd party drivers are also planned for LMDE. Depending on how fast they progress, new LMDE ISOs based on UP6 might be released in December or in January.

Sponsorships:

Linux Mint is proudly sponsored by:

 

Platinum Sponsors:

Blue Systems - Netrunner

Gold Sponsors:

Opera

Dedicated Hosting Server *

Silver Sponsors:

R1Soft

Milton Security Group

Bronze Sponsors:

ThinkPenguin.com

Vault Networks *

AYKsolutions Server & Cloud Hosting

7L Networks Toronto Colocation *

Brucey99

 

Community Sponsors:

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

Donations:

$3659 were raised thanks to the generous contributions of 184 donors: http://www.linuxmint.com/donors.php

  • $304, Central Contracts
  • $124.52, Martin L.
  • $100 (9th donation), Jordan S.
  • $100, Pejman G.
  • $100, Antony B.
  • $87.17 (8th donation), Wolfgang P.
  • $62.26 (3rd donation), Ralph H.
  • $62.21 (4th donation), Lyudmyla H.
  • $50 (30th donation), Matthew M.
  • $50 (29th donation), Matthew M.
  • $50 (8th donation), Ralph Siegler aka “ziggy
  • $50 (4th donation), Carl G.
  • $50, Gene D.
  • $50, Samuel W.
  • $50, binareoptionen.org
  • $50, Tim B aka “stripedtomato”
  • $50, Carl T.
  • $50, Carol T.
  • $40 (36th donation), Slavoljub aka “slw”
  • $40, Jan K. aka “fotonix”
  • $37.36 (31st donation), Olli K.
  • $37.36, Ferdinand U.
  • $37.36, Deborah H.
  • $37.36, Philippe D.
  • $35, Craig S.
  • $31.13 (2nd donation), John H.
  • $31.13, Nadim K.
  • $31.13, Robert P.
  • $31.13, Jim aka “Jimbo”
  • $30, Lowpriced-laptops.com
  • $30, Øystein R.
  • $30, Richard W.
  • $30, Samuel P.
  • $25 (12th donation), Ronald W.
  • $25 (4th donation), Vallin E.
  • $25 (3rd donation), John S.
  • $25 (2nd donation), Donald F.
  • $25, George J.
  • $25, Tom S.
  • $25, Clifford S.
  • $25, Robert Y.
  • $24.9 (11th donation), Orlando M. M.
  • $24.9 (5th donation), Hartmann Maier aka “hkmle”
  • $24.9 (3rd donation), Joachim M.
  • $24.9, Tobias R.
  • $24.9, Andrea S.
  • $24.9, Stefan S.
  • $24.9, Roman H.
  • $24.9, Linux Mint Test – Erfahrungen.com
  • $24.9, Peter P.
  • $24.9, Paul G.
  • $23.95 (2nd donation), Hans-joachim U. K.
  • $23.95, Max P.
  • $21, Carl C.
  • $20 (19th donation), Tsuguo S.
  • $20 (4th donation), Benoit Frigon
  • $20 (2nd donation), mr m r b.
  • $20 (2nd donation), Sean H.
  • $20, John H.
  • $20, David K.
  • $20, Online V. G. L.
  • $20, Bruce H.
  • $20, Candelario E.
  • $20, Renars C.
  • $20, Luke C.
  • $20, Patrick S.
  • $20, Gerald J.
  • $20, Loïc R.
  • $20, Todd M.
  • $20, Robert M.
  • $20, J. R.
  • $17.96 (12th donation), Jarkko K.
  • $15 (19th donation), John A.
  • $15 (4th donation), Greg Dawes
  • $15 (3rd donation), Dean F.
  • $15 (2nd donation), Jonathan D.
  • $15, Igor V.
  • $15, Mark S.
  • $12.45 (5th donation), Jens-uwe R.
  • $12.45 (3rd donation), Werner G.
  • $12.45 (2nd donation), Mathieu P. aka “Pyros65”
  • $12.45, Juergen M.
  • $12.45, Philippe C. -. P.
  • $12.45, Vesa K.
  • $12.45, Geoffrey R.
  • $12.45, Milan S.
  • $12.45, Evgeni Kunev
  • $12.45, Holger B.
  • $12.45, Enrique
  • $12.45, Stefan G.
  • $12.45, James C.
  • $12.45, Giovanni T. aka “giova86
  • $12.45, Marco D. B.
  • $11.97 (2nd donation), Chris W.
  • $11.97 (2nd donation), Siegfried H.
  • $11.97, Goldynet
  • $11.97, Antonio Troina aka “thoeni
  • $11.97, Alex C. B.
  • $11.97, Richard C.
  • $10 (19th donation), Tony C. aka “S. LaRocca”
  • $10 (12th donation), Ronald Trip
  • $10 (7th donation), CW P.
  • $10 (3rd donation), Salinas A. Alcides
  • $10 (3rd donation), Keith H.
  • $10 (3rd donation), Christopher R.
  • $10 (2nd donation), Elwood R. Hoffman aka “TrsSHO”
  • $10, Murray C.
  • $10, Andrew K.
  • $10, Essam G.
  • $10, Daniel B.
  • $10, Ana M. L.
  • $10, Jonathan M.
  • $10, Justen P.
  • $10, Dmytro P.
  • $10, Brandon S.
  • $10, Ashish Nabira
  • $10, Prashant Shah
  • $10, Pawan K.
  • $10, Geoffroy M.
  • $10, Danil S. aka “sgtpep”
  • $10, Ömer B.
  • $8.71 (2nd donation), Teemu V.
  • $8, Corbin A.
  • $7.18 (7th donation), lupinehorror
  • $6.23 (3rd donation), Marcin Skiba aka “marcinski”
  • $6.23 (2nd donation), Jose J. A. M.
  • $6.23 (2nd donation), Florian Bermuth aka “Vaothien”
  • $6.23, Vasilis aka “billm”
  • $6.23, Xavier Barbot aka “Reyvax
  • $6.23, Satkit.com aka “Reballing Solder Stations
  • $6.23, Satkit.fr aka “Arduino hacks
  • $6.23, Alberto D. V. M.
  • $6.23, Patrick E.
  • $6.23, Leonid R.
  • $6.22 (7th donation), Marco aka “Dictionary-Maker
  • $6.14 (3rd donation), Shane K aka “BeyondCr”
  • $5.99 (3rd donation), Stef A.
  • $5.99, Yuriria H.
  • $5.99, Wolfgang Friedrich aka “wof”
  • $5.99, Toni C.
  • $5.99, Mark W.
  • $5 (14th donation), Antonina K. aka “Tonya”
  • $5 (9th donation), Paul B. aka “Dude”
  • $5 (4th donation), David E. aka “DubiousAlliance”
  • $5 (2nd donation), Xavier Barbot aka “Reyvax
  • $5 (2nd donation), Paul S.
  • $5 (2nd donation), CouponCodeSwap.com
  • $5, Robert F.
  • $5, Heiko O.
  • $5, Eva aka “www.voyance-partel.com
  • $5, Elwood R. Hoffman aka “TrsSHO”
  • $5, Steven M.
  • $5, Sergio Ramirez G. aka “SeRGio”
  • $5, Justin O.
  • $5, L M.
  • $5, Brandon Kessler
  • $5, Kevin K.
  • $5, Damian K.
  • $5, som99
  • $5, Alan G.
  • $5, Gadget Shop Online aka “Andrew Luecke
  • $4.01, Luis F. S. G.
  • $4 (3rd donation), Fastest Hosting
  • $4, Dani D.
  • $3 (4th donation), Web Design Company
  • $3, Sergiy G. aka “emutant”
  • $2.49, Kristian S.
  • $17.3 from 17 smaller donations

Rankings:

  • Distrowatch (popularity ranking): 3414 (1st)
  • Alexa (website ranking): 7,433rd

Events:

Developer of the month:

Each month we feature one developer and explain his contributions to the community. 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).

This month’s “developer of the month” is: Gwendal Le Bihan (glebihan)!

Gwendal is famous within the development team for his work on many aspects of Linux Mint and for his key role in the Cinnamon and Nemo projects. This month, he stepped away from Cinnamon and focused on another project: the Software Manager (mintinstall).

He implemented two extremely important improvements: Debconf support and replacing aptd with aptclient.

  • AptClient is mintInstall’s new very own interaction layer with APT. The Software Manager no longer crashes when aptd’s dbus interface goes down. Installation and removal of software is smoother and without lag and the application is now able to run as root, which means you no longer need to input your password every time you click the install button.
  • Debconf is a Debian technology which allows packages to ask users questions during their installation. For instance, if you try to install the Microsoft Fonts you’ll be asked to agree to the licencing terms and this all happens via Debconf. In a terminal, Debconf would use an ncurse interface, in the Update Manager it uses a GTK frontend, and in the Software Manager… well… it didn’t work at all until now. This made it impossible for packages which used debconf to be installed via the Software Manager and users had to use Synaptic or the command line instead.

Gwendal is now looking at a long list of mintInstall ideas gathered by Vincent Vermeulen (Mint Moderator) from the Community Website.

The improved Software Manager will be featured in Linux Mint 14 and backported to Linux Mint 13 and LMDE.

News and summary:

  • I’d like to thank our sponsors, partners and donors. Linux Mint wouldn’t be what it is without their support. Many thanks for your contributions and for allowing us to focus on our work without worrying about the financial aspects!
  • I’ll be very brief in this section because I’m eager to get back to work and get Linux Mint 14 closer to its final state. The Linux Mint 14 repositories are ready, we’re half-way through the production of the ISOs internally and we’re feeding the release with development and upstream improvements. We’re a bit ahead of schedule and things are looking extremely bright for the upcoming release. Technologies such as MDM, MATE and Cinnamon have matured in the last 6 months and we’re really excited about some of the new features we’ll unveil in Linux Mint 14. There are currently regressions in Ubiquity (partitions detection), which introduces full disk encryption and LVM support,  and G[NOME|TK] 3.6 (theme engine and screensaver) because these are still very new but they’ll be fixed in time for the RC release.
  • As an LTS release, Linux Mint 13 will receive backports and follow most of the changes coming in Linux Mint 14.
  • LMDE will receive these backports as well, and an Update Pack 6 with ISO images later on this year.

Current Status

  • It is not safe to upgrade any package unless your mirror points to UP5
    • Here is the current status of the LMDE mirrors:
      • debian.linuxmint.com (USA): UP5
      • http://debian.lth.se (Sweden): UP5
      • http://mirror.rts-informatique.fr (France): UP5
    • To change which mirror you’re pointing to:
      • make sure “mint-debian-mirrors” is installed
      • open a terminal and run the following command: mint-choose-debian-mirror
  • Make sure to read http://debian.linuxmint.com/latest/update-pack.html
  • If you experience issues or if you’re going through the update at the moment, don’t hesitate to connect to the IRC chatroom (irc.spotchat.org, #linuxmint-debian)

Introduction

Update Pack 5 was released as the “latest” update pack today. If you’re not using Linux Mint Debian, please ignore this post.

Using the Update Manager

… to update itself

The Update Manager always updates itself before other packages. If you see an update for “mintupdate-debian“, accept it and wait for the Update Manager to restart itself.

… to check your APT sources

  1. Click on the “Update Pack Info” button
  2. Make sure “Your system configuration” shows up as green and doesn’t show any warnings or errors
  3. If you see a warning or an error, follow the instructions given and repeat the process until they’re gone.

… to know more about Update Pack 5

In the “Update Pack Info” window, make sure to read all the information related to Update Pack 5. Some of it might be irrelevant to you, but it will only take you a minute and it might you save you hours.

… to upgrade to Update Pack 5

When you’re ready and you know all that there is to know, press the “Install Updates” button.

During the update you’ll be asked a few things. One is quite important.. the new kernel will ask you where to install Grub. Answer with the location of your current Grub menu (which on most systems is “/dev/sda“).

FAQ

Will LMDE get new ISO images with Update Pack 5?

Yes, in the coming weeks/months, the following editions will be released either with Update Pack 5 or Update Pack 6 (depending on whether UP6 is a quick/short follow-up update-pack or not):

  • Cinnamon
  • MATE
  • Xfce