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The first release in the upcoming Linux Mint 19.x series will be named “Tara”.

Tara is a popular name here in Ireland, and the name of someone we really like 😉

The development cycle only just started so it’s a bit early to give details about Linux Mint 19, but here’s what we can say already:

• Linux Mint 19 is estimated to be released around May/June 2018.
• Linux Mint 19.x releases will be based on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and supported until 2023.
• Linux Mint 19.x will use GTK 3.22.

GTK 3.22 is a major stable release for GTK3. From there on, the theming engine and the APIs are stable. This is a great milestone for GTK3. It also means Linux Mint 19.x (which will become our main development platform) will use the same version of GTK as LMDE 3, and distributions which use components we develop, such as Fedora, Arch..etc. This should ease development and increase the quality of these components outside of Linux Mint.

The Linux Mint Translation Guide is ready.

To read it on your computer click https://linuxmint-translation-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest.

On your phone or tablet, scan this QR code:

This guide was written for translators. It explains how translations work, how to translate with Launchpad and/or POEdit and how to verify translations with a Mint tool called mint-check-translations.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year everyone!

The year is almost over, our latest release is out, all the work we’ve done has been delivered and this holiday season is an opportunity to take a little break to contemplate and enjoy where we are and what we have, before 2018 starts with a new development cycle, new ambitions and two important targets on the horizon: Linux Mint 19 and LMDE 3.

I’d like to thank you for your support, for your help and for your feedback. 2017 was a lot of fun. See you all next year for more! 🙂

Installation Guide

The Linux Mint Installation Guide is now available in English, Bulgarian, Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, Danish, French, German, Interlingua, Italian and Turkish.

It will soon also become available in Croatian, Dutch, Greek, Korean, Lithuanian, Spanish and Swedish.

Many thanks to all the people involved in translating it.

Donations and sponsorships

We’re late in processing December donations and sponsorships and we’ve built a bit of a backlog.

Please accept our apologies. We’ll process these and catch up with the backlog as soon as possible.

Sponsorships:

Linux Mint is proudly sponsored by:

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

Community Sponsors: Aliaksei Budnikau Anonymous anselm Betty UK Chris Mospaw Christian Funder Sommerlund Clare Florist Crossword Links dailyhosting.net David Goodnow David Vonka Easy Website Builder Ehline Law Firm PC – Long Beach Font Awesome Icon Maker Gao Fengyu GeriTrust HomeAlarmAdvisors.com htpcBeginner.com Jeff de Bruin Joe Hodges Jonathan B Horen Jumble Solver Kansas Attorneys Kenneth Brobst KoDDoS LAROS Load Testing Lucky Patcher Apk Download Mark Fletcher Melbourne Cup Merka-TIC Mikael M Murat Demir MyTipsHub Nick Kelly Olaf Baeyens Onecklace – Personalized Jewelry Pics n Places Travel Photography PSB Law Rick Nehora Robert Schouwenburg Roland Preisach Said Noori Sascha Reinsch SayWebHosting Saywebhosting SCHINFO Sebastien Walker sefcom computers Silver City Jewelers – Ocala Jewelry Solo Entertainment e.K. switchbit Tanning Ultimate Tero Pohjasniemi Thomas K. Unauthed 401 Uptime Pal – Web Site Monitoring Uwe Klosa VPN University Wayne Chapeskie Web Design Egypt – شركة تصميم مواقع What Is SEO? Wichita Web Design William Lewis www.flippymagz.com Yang, C.-C.

Donations in November:

A total of $11,200 were raised thanks to the generous contributions of 510 donors:

$300, Rodrigo F. P.
$200, Raffael G.
$163 (2nd donation), Heinz G.
$163, Matthias Z.
$150, Richard H.
$109 (13th donation), Hendrik S.
$109 (2nd donation), Philippe L.
$109 (2nd donation), Pieter S.
$109, Philippe A.
$109, Harald K.
$109, Willem H.
$109, Bent-bolko B.
$100 (2nd donation), Jerry S.
$100 (2nd donation), Gary S.
$100 (2nd donation), David W.
$100 (2nd donation), Anon.
$100, Padmadevan C.
$100, Rachmat J. D.
$100, Theresa H.
$100, Alexandros K.
$100, Russell B.
$100, Oliver J.
$100, Joshua H.
$100, David A. D.
$78 (2nd donation), MAHASWAMI SOFTWARE PRIVATE LIMITED aka “VENKAT K”
$75, Bradford H.
$60 (2nd donation), Richard C.
$54 (5th donation), Johannes F.
$54 (4th donation), Frank B.
$54 (2nd donation), Michael M.
$54 (2nd donation), Theo L.
$54, Christian S.
$54, Fernando A. C. M. C.
$54, David R.
$54, G. D. R.
$54, Philippe V.
$54, José M. N. C.
$54, Jure V.
$54, Peter S.
$50 (22nd donation), Anthony C. aka “ciak”
$50 (7th donation), James S.
$50 (6th donation), Hans J.
$50 (4th donation), John H.
$50 (4th donation), Alan H.
$50 (4th donation), Anthony L.
$50 (3rd donation), Leonardo E.
$50 (3rd donation), Allan G.
$50 (3rd donation), Wallace P. M. J.
$50 (3rd donation), Edward B.
$50 (3rd donation), Marie I.
$50 (2nd donation), Wei X.
$50 (2nd donation), Donnie B.
$50 (2nd donation), Thomas H.
$50 (2nd donation), James G.
$50 (2nd donation), Subramanian V.
$50, Jacki S.
$50, Algird A. T.
$50, Nikolaus M.
$50, H.
$50, Paulo B.
$50, Ken H.
$50, Chris A.
$50, David D.
$50, Karl K.
$50, Scott P.
$44 (5th donation), Ole P.
$44, Tanev, T.
$44, Massimo I.
$40 (5th donation), Patrick C.
$40 (2nd donation), M. B. .
$40 (2nd donation), Keith H.
$40, Gerald F.
$40, Neal K.
$40, Kevin D.
$35 (3rd donation), Kevin L.
$35 (2nd donation), John M.
$35, Christian M.
$33 (93th donation), Olli K.
$33 (8th donation), Henk van C.
$33 (4th donation), Lars-gunnar S.
$33, Brian E.
$33, Rudolf W.
$33, Clemens W.
$30 (10th donation), Kevin S.
$30 (6th donation), Real F.
$30 (4th donation), Mark E.
$30 (2nd donation), Glyn aka “oldgit”
$30, Omar Cordero
$30, Ronnie B.
$30, Manfred S.
$30, Ferran C.
$30, Matthew W. H.
$27 (9th donation), John K. aka “jbrucek”
$27 (4th donation), Helmut S.
$27 (4th donation), Gabriele G.
$27 (4th donation), Jotam
$27 (2nd donation), Ralf S.
$27 (2nd donation), Piotr C.
$27 (2nd donation), Juergen S.
$27, Jan V.
$27, Tomasz M.
$27, Tobias S.
$27, Theo G.
$27, Hendricus P. D. V.
$25 (76th donation), Ronald W.
$25 (33rd donation), Curt Vaughan aka “curtvaughan ”
$25 (19th donation), Peter D.
$25 (12th donation), JBHoren
$25 (5th donation), Murray C.
$25 (5th donation), Jack C.
$25 (5th donation), cocasema
$25 (4th donation), Jeffrey V.
$25 (4th donation), Reel D.
$25 (3rd donation), Paul S.
$25 (3rd donation), Craig M.
$25 (2nd donation), John H.
$25 (2nd donation), Nigel G. aka “SuperNigel”
$25 (2nd donation), Herb S.
$25 (2nd donation), Margaret W.
$25, Chidambaram C.
$25, Saribayev T.
$25, Salil K.
$25, Ramon A.
$25, William A. P.
$25, Jesse Boyd aka “Cloud City Consultants – That love Linux Mint!”
$25, Gerald C.
$25, Kevin H.
$25, Adarsha K.
$25, Forn
$25, Dave M.
$25, Felix J. H.
$25, Jeffrey W.
$25, Terence W. C.
$25, Walter A.
$25, Shane C.
$25, Ralph P.
$25, Thai V.
$25, Joseph R.
$25, Christopher B.
$22 (10th donation), Derek R.
$22 (8th donation), Anthony M.
$22 (7th donation), Rüdiger K.
$22 (6th donation), Jose G. aka “Jose”
$22 (5th donation), Sachindra Prosad Saha aka “Love you grand dad”
$22 (5th donation), nobody
$22 (4th donation), Hermann W.
$22 (4th donation), Vesa K.
$22 (3rd donation), Manfred W.
$22 (2nd donation), Stefan N.
$22 (2nd donation), Salatiel E. G.
$22 (2nd donation), Enrico G.
$22 (2nd donation), Miroslav Š.
$22 (2nd donation), Massimo P. S.
$22, Bruno H.
$22, Richard O.
$22, Emmanouil K.
$22, Justin K.
$22, Stefan N.
$22, Andreu R. G.
$22, aka “zsek”
$22, Markus E.
$22, Tobias B.
$22, Kai K.
$22, Florian S.
$22, Nicolas B.
$22, Serge Jadot
$22, Stephanie H.
$22, Ulrich P.
$22, Mike J.
$22, Anton J.
$22, Scoala Z.
$20 (34th donation), Curt Vaughan aka “curtvaughan ”
$20 (19th donation), Larry J.
$20 (6th donation), Scott Anderson aka “lwarranty”
$20 (5th donation), Juan T.
$20 (5th donation), Vaughan B.
$20 (4th donation), Justin Oros
$20 (3rd donation), Donald M.
$20 (3rd donation), Shaun I.
$20 (3rd donation), Kien Y. T.
$20 (3rd donation), Steve Jain
$20 (3rd donation), Larry H.
$20 (3rd donation), Keith N.
$20 (2nd donation), Fred C.
$20 (2nd donation), Jean-marie C.
$20 (2nd donation), Kostas M. K.
$20 (2nd donation), Lance B.
$20 (2nd donation), Geekoutdoors
$20 (2nd donation), Alex J.
$20 (2nd donation), Jorge V. S.
$20 (2nd donation), Godzilla McMurphy aka “Phanto”
$20, Clinton R.
$20, Haley A.
$20, Phillip H.
$20, Edward R. G.
$20, Donald B.
$20, Benoit R.
$20, Vance B.
$20, David G.
$20, Adam B.
$20, Scott H.
$20, John D.
$20, Ngoc P.
$20, Richard D.
$20, James D.
$20, Allan M.
$20, Kim P.
$20, Gene S.
$20, Nick S.
$20, Jesse D.
$20, Marc B.
$20, Florian M.
$20, Fabio P.
$20, Gregg L.
$20, Marc T.
$20, David V
$20, James S.
$20, Anton S.
$18.3 (8th donation), François P.
$18.3 (5th donation), Martin I.
$17 (2nd donation), Lucian B.
$17, Simon H.
$16 (10th donation), Gerard C.
$16 (4th donation), Jean-Marc B. aka “WD”
$16 (4th donation), Carlos N.
$16 (4th donation), Nigel B.
$16 (3rd donation), Volker P.
$16 (3rd donation), Thomas S.
$16 (2nd donation), Gunter S.
$16 (2nd donation), Antonio aka “pengu73”
$16, David M.
$16, Jan V.
$16, Michael H.
$16, Viktor O.
$16, Jacques D.
$16, Frank J.
$15 (14th donation), Stefan M. H.
$15 (6th donation), Rob.Knol aka “RoppIT”
$15 (5th donation), Intrinsic
$15 (3rd donation), Peter R.
$15, Darnell T.
$15, Shannon T.
$15, Vern K.
$15, Thomas K.
$15, Etienne
$15, Vern K.
$15, Louis C.
$15, Nicholas S.
$13 (19th donation), Anonymous
$13 (2nd donation), Martin F.
$13, ArtGirl
$12 (80th donation), Tony C. aka “S. LaRocca”
$12 (26th donation), JobsHiringnearMe
$12 (11th donation), Alessandro S.
$12 (10th donation), Johann J.
$12 (7th donation), Raymond M. (retired)
$12 (4th donation), Mihir D.
$11 (12th donation), Kevin O. aka “Kev”
$11 (6th donation), Denis D.
$11 (5th donation), Michael P.
$11 (5th donation), Joss S.
$11 (3rd donation), Rene T.
$11 (3rd donation), Eskild T.
$11 (2nd donation), Raffaele aka “NoBrain”
$11 (2nd donation), Thomas T.
$11 (2nd donation), Thierry L.
$11 (2nd donation), Krister R.
$11 (2nd donation), Marcus H.
$11 (2nd donation), Giuseppe T.
$11 (2nd donation), Gilles L. aka “Gil-s”
$11 (2nd donation), Martin G.
$11 (2nd donation), Michael L.
$11 (2nd donation), Alexander F.
$11, Christian G.
$11, Ove K.
$11, Frank S.
$11, Tamas S.
$11, Jacques D.
$11, Tup un Turies Ltd.
$11, Hans B.
$11, Ryszard M.
$11, Mary J.
$11, Giovanni aka “Giovo57 ”
$11, Thomaskutty K. J.
$11, Fernando M. G. B.
$11, Mati I.
$11, Michael T.
$11, Vsilij B.
$11, Silverio M. R. S.
$11, Susanna V. D.
$11, Austin C.
$11, Albert V. H.
$11, Michael F.
$11, Didier P.
$11, Alfonso Russo
$11, Carlo M.
$11, Axel R.
$11, Fulvio G.
$11, Benedikt W.
$11, Valdas Z.
$11, Jurgen G. B.
$10 (24th donation), Thomas C.
$10 (15th donation), Todd A aka “thobin”
$10 (15th donation), Frank K.
$10 (15th donation), Paul O.
$10 (14th donation), Mike C.
$10 (10th donation), Wilson G.
$10 (9th donation), Rick R.
$10 (8th donation), Terrance G.
$10 (8th donation), Aliki K.
$10 (7th donation), Terrance G.
$10 (7th donation), Chris K.
$10 (6th donation), barthossius
$10 (5th donation), Ray
$10 (5th donation), Elsukov V.
$10 (5th donation), John M.
$10 (5th donation), Carl B.
$10 (4th donation), Stephane T.
$10 (4th donation), Zbigniew D. aka “Ayel”
$10 (3rd donation), Raymond O.
$10 (3rd donation), gmq
$10 (3rd donation), John G.
$10 (3rd donation), Daniel L.
$10 (3rd donation), Wayne C.
$10 (3rd donation), Ellis
$10 (2nd donation), Larry P.
$10 (2nd donation), Ronaldo H.
$10 (2nd donation), Peter V.
$10 (2nd donation), Kabanov I.
$10 (2nd donation), William K.
$10 (2nd donation), Rodolfo C. A. aka “Rhodwulf”
$10 (2nd donation), Norv M. aka “norvman”
$10 (2nd donation), Derek H.
$10 (2nd donation), Peter H.
$10 (2nd donation), Thomas M.
$10 (2nd donation), John B.
$10 (2nd donation), Jorge M.
$10 (2nd donation), Robert F.
$10 (2nd donation), James M.
$10, Adam M.
$10, George P.
$10, Thomas W.
$10, Cyber Systems Engineering
$10, Iftimie C. P.
$10, Zachery M.
$10, Harvey U.
$10, John M.
$10, Uno M.
$10, Vincent D.
$10, William G.
$10, Philip V. S.
$10, Anthony F.
$10, Nicholas S.
$10, 宮本 良平
$10, Doug S.
$10, Klaus S.
$10, WhatsTheHost aka “Compare SiteGround vs Bluehost and Others”
$10, For You
$10, Ron W.
$10, David T.
$10, William O. Jr
$10, Knud J.
$10, Luis G. M. B.
$10, Michael G.
$10, Rajesh C.
$10, Ronald G.
$10, Jignesh R.
$10, Sergey P.
$10, Elias C.
$10, Brian C.
$10, Karen T.
$10, Nathan F.
$9, Jimmy D. V.
$8, Dave J.
$8, Chunfai C.
$7 (16th donation), CV Smith
$7 (3rd donation), Jonathan K.
$7 (3rd donation), Franz W.
$7, Pablo S.
$5.43, Caleb B.
$5 (20th donation), Slartibartfast
$5 (18th donation), Eugene T.
$5 (15th donation), Miljenko D. aka “ljacmi”
$5 (12th donation), Jim A.
$5 (10th donation), 杉林晃治
$5 (10th donation), Bhavinder Jassar
$5 (10th donation), anonymous
$5 (10th donation), Alessandro S.
$5 (7th donation), Olaf B.
$5 (7th donation), Hemant Patel
$5 (7th donation), George H.
$5 (7th donation), Ken Weill Lumacad
$5 (7th donation), Dmitry P.
$5 (6th donation), Niko K.
$5 (6th donation), Cathi I.
$5 (4th donation), Grzegorz I.
$5 (4th donation), Stefan B.
$5 (4th donation), Konstantin S.
$5 (3rd donation), Kārlis M. aka “BismarX”
$5 (3rd donation), Laura NL aka “lauranl”
$5 (3rd donation), Ian E.
$5 (3rd donation), Mattias E.
$5 (3rd donation), rptev
$5 (3rd donation), Cedric L.
$5 (2nd donation), Joseph P. aka “oops”
$5 (2nd donation), Viktor D.
$5 (2nd donation), Romanov I.
$5 (2nd donation), Ivan M.
$5 (2nd donation), Carlos G. E. aka “@CarlosGE”
$5 (2nd donation), Laptop shops Lebanon
$5 (2nd donation), Gobinath L.
$5 (2nd donation), Arkādijs S.
$5 (2nd donation), Arie & Michell U.
$5 (2nd donation), Scott L.
$5 (2nd donation), John G.
$5 (2nd donation), hostflash.de
$5, Olivier B.
$5, ccm
$5, Harrogate Interiors
$5, Michael J.
$5, Marius M.
$5, Tibor T.
$5, United Business Rent a Car Service
$5, Veit K.
$5, Sam S.
$5, Daniel W.
$5, simplepayday.co.uk
$5, Dmitry N. aka “Dimex”
$5, Fredrik N.
$5, Florian W.
$5, Ramona K.
$5, Alyn L.
$5, Antonios K.
$5, Jan G.
$5, Ian C.
$5, Lychagin A.
$5, Riccardo F.
$5, OzShoponline
$5, Gianandrea M.
$5, Norbert K.
$5, Guillaume G.
$5, Terry W. M.
$5, Alexey B.
$5, Michael N.
$5, Davide B.
$5, Simon P.
$5, Peter V.
$5, Willi E.
$5, Jesús P. G.
$5, Alejandro G. S.
$5, Brendan B.
$5, Jason S.
$5, Daniel P. J.
$4 (7th donation), Rockford C.
$4 (4th donation), chevaux a vendre
$3.13 (7th donation), Chetverikov K.
$3 (5th donation), Micoworker – Diseño de Páginas Web
$3 (5th donation), Maxime H.
$3 (3rd donation), Guo H.Z
$3 (2nd donation), Jason N. aka “IggyNelix”
$3 (2nd donation), Paul K.
$3 (2nd donation), Harrogate Interiors
$3 (2nd donation), Miguel A. G. C.
$3 (2nd donation), Christopher S.
$3, jerry
$3, Artur F.
$3, Mads J.
$2.5 (10th donation), David Y.
$2.5 (2nd donation), Thomas W.
$2.5, Gabriel A.
$2.5, Ikhwan A.
$2.5, E.g.j S.
$52.66 from 38 smaller donations