Before we talk about new features and project news I’d like to send a huge thank you to all the people who support our project. Many thanks to our donors, our sponsors, our patrons and all the people who are helping us. I’d also like to say we’ve had a lot of fun working on developing Linux Mint lately and we’re excited to share the news with you.

Release schedule

We will be working to get Linux Mint 19.1 out for Christmas this year, with all three editions released at the same time and the upgrade paths open before the holiday season.

Patreon

Following the many requests we received to look into an alternative to Paypal, we’re happy to announce Linux Mint is now on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/linux_mint.

Our project received 33 pledges so far and we decided to use this service to help support Timeshift, a project which is very important to us and adds significant value to Linux Mint.

Mint-Y

Joseph Mccullar continued to improve the Mint-Y theme. Through a series of subtle changes he managed to dramatically increase the theme’s contrast.

The screenshot below shows the Xed text editor using the Mint-Y theme as it was in Mint 19 (on the left), and using the Mint-Y theme with Joseph’s changes (on the right):

The difference is immediately noticeable when the theme is applied on the entire desktop. Labels look sharp and stand out on top of their backgrounds. So do the icons which now look darker than before.

The changes also make it easier to visually identify the focused window:

In the above screenshot, the terminal is focused and its titlebar label is darker than in the other windows. This contrast is much more noticeable with Joseph’s changes (below the red line) than before (above the red line).

Status icons

Linux Mint 19 featured monochrome status icons. Although these icons looked nice on dark panels they didn’t work well in white context menus or in cases where the panel background color was changed by the user.

To tackle this issue, Linux Mint 19.1 will ship with support for symbolic icons in Redshift, mate-volume-control-applet, onboard and network-manager-applet.

Xapp

Stephen Collins added an icon chooser to the XApp library.

The icon chooser provides a dialog and a button and will make it easier for our applications to select themed icons and/or icon paths.

Cinnamon

Cinnamon 4.0 will look more modern thanks to a new panel layout. Whether you enjoy the new look or prefer the old one, we want everyone to feel at home in their operating system, so you’ll have the option to embrace the change or to click a button to make Cinnamon look just like it did before.

The idea of a larger and darker panel had been in the roadmap for a while.

Within our team, Jason Hicks and Lars Mueller (Cobinja) maintained two of the most successful 3rd party Cinnamon applets, respectively “Icing Task Manager” and “CobiWindowList”, two attempts at implementing a window list with app grouping and window previews, a feature which had become the norm in other major desktop operating systems, whether it was in the form of a dock (in Mac OS), a panel (in Windows) or a sidebar (in Ubuntu).

And recently German Franco had caught our attention on the need to use strict icon sizes to guarantee icons looked crisp rather than blurry.

We talked about all of this and Niko Krause, Joseph, Jason and I started working on a new panel layout for Cinnamon. We forked “Icing Task Manager” and integrated it into Cinnamon itself. That new applet received a lot of attention, many changes and eventually replaced the traditional window list and the panel launchers in the default Cinnamon panel.

Users were given the ability to define a different icon size for each of the three panel zones (left, center and right for horizontal panels, or top, center and bottom for vertical ones). Each panel zone can now have a crisp icon size such as 16, 22, 24, 32, 48 or 64px or it can be made to scale either exactly (to fit the panel size) or optimally (to scale down to the largest crisp icon size which fits in the panel).

Mint-Y-Dark was adapted slightly to look even more awesome and is now the default Cinnamon theme in Linux Mint.

By default, Cinnamon will feature a dark large 40px panel, where icons look crisp everywhere, and where they scale in the left and center zones but are restricted to 24px on the right (where we place the system tray and status icons).

This new look, along with the new workflow defined by the grouped window list, make Cinnamon feel much more modern than before.

We hope you’ll enjoy this new layout, we’re really thrilled with it, and if you don’t that’s OK too. We made sure everyone would be happy.

As you go through the “First Steps” section of the Linux Mint 19.1 welcome screen, you’ll be asked to choose your favorite desktop layout:

With a click of a button you’ll be able to switch back and forth between old and new and choose whichever default look pleases you the most.

Update Manager

Support for mainline kernels was added to the Update Manager. Thanks to “gm10” for implementing this.

Sponsorships:

Linux Mint is proudly sponsored by:

Platinum Sponsors:
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Gold Sponsors:
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Donations in September:

A total of $9,932 were raised thanks to the generous contributions of 467 donors:

$500, Marc M.
$200, Anthony W.
$200, Lasse S.
$150 (4th donation), Jan S.
$109 (14th donation), Hendrik S.
$109 (2nd donation), Richard aka “Friendica @ meld.de
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$109, Juan E.
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$3.7, Alex H.
$3.6, Allen D.
$3.4, Patricia G.
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$3.1, Sarie B.
$3 (3rd donation), Lubos S.
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$3, Therese N.
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$2.9, Allison C.
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$2.6, Maureen M.
$2.6, Okneia F.
$2.5, Tonya G.
$2.4 (2nd donation), Tonya G.
$2.4, Jearlin B.
$2.3 (2nd donation), Edward K.
$2.3, Henry H.
$2.3, Pedro P.
$2.2, Joseph Lenzo DOB
$79.87 from 59 smaller donations

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

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To become a Linux Mint patron, please visit https://www.patreon.com/linux_mint

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Many thanks to all of you, for your donations and for your support.

I hope you had a great summer (or winter if you live in the South hemisphere). Here we’re eager to get into September, with LMDE 3 and Mint 19 behind us, we’re ready to get started on some of the big projects.

LMDE

LMDE 3 was released today. I’d like to thank all the people involved in the project and also all the people who reported issues to us and who helped us fix bugs during the BETA.

The upgrade path for the Cinnamon edition was also opened. Timeshift, Slick Greeter and mintupgrade were backported towards LMDE 2 to facilitate the upgrade and the switch from MDM with sysvinit to LightDM with Systemd.

If you are running LMDE 2 Cinnamon, please upgrade before the end of the year. We’ll continue to support LMDE 2 until the 1st of January 2019.

The LMDE 2 MATE edition cannot be upgraded (Debian’s version of MATE is only 1.16 and this edition is no longer present in LMDE 3), we recommend users perform data and software backups and upgrade their OS via fresh installations. MATE packages in LMDE 2 will also be supported until the 1st of the January 2019.

Software Sources

The Software Sources tool was given a new look. Similar to the welcome screen, it’s now using an Xapp sidebar and a headerbar.

The optional sources section was also simplified and we’re planning to add a new option to make it easy to add debug repositories (to adapt to Debian’s decision to move debug symbols to dbgsym packages/repositories).

Mint-Y theme contrast

Within the feedback we received during the release of Linux Mint 19 it was highlighted that the Mint-Y theme didn’t have enough contrast and that some labels were hard to read.

Work started on improving the theme’s contrast.

Here’s a picture of Timeshift as it appears in Mint 19:

And here’s a picture of it with the contrast improvements:

The foreground colors were darkened (this is particularly visible here in the symbolic toolbar icons). The titlebar label is more pronounced as well, and the frame and contour of some of the widgets appear more clearly within the user interface.

Sponsorships:

Linux Mint is proudly sponsored by:

Platinum Sponsors:
Private Internet Access
Gold Sponsors:
Linux VPS Hosting
Silver Sponsors:

Sucuri
Bronze Sponsors:
Vault Networks *
AYKsolutions Server & Cloud Hosting
7L Networks Toronto Colocation *
Goscomb
BGASoft Inc
David Salvo
OpusVL
Community Sponsors:

Donations in July:

A total of $11,880 were raised thanks to the generous contributions of 553 donors:

$200 (18th donation), Jon Espenschied aka “xeno”
$163 (3rd donation), Philippe L.
$123, Cary R.
$109 (19th donation), Pasi K.
$109 (5th donation), Marco L. aka “MAR9000
$109 (2nd donation), Norbert J.
$109 (2nd donation), John F.
$109, Thorsten L.
$109, Marc C.
$109, Russian Art and Culture Club Netherlands
$109, Pierre M.
$100 (6th donation), Jeff T. aka “JayBird707 Thanks Clem & Crew ”
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$100 (3rd donation), John P.
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$100, Gregory F.
$100, Edward J. C.
$100, Randal B.
$100, Hugh D. aka “Huge”
$100, Paul H.
$100, Robert S.
$100, David S.
$82, M H. U.
$82, Richard L.
$75 (2nd donation), Duncan G. aka “catraeus
$70 (3rd donation), Gerald H.
$65, Werner H.
$60 (2nd donation), Kostiantyn M.
$55, Arsen S. aka “arsen-s”
$54 (20th donation), Pasi K.
$54 (7th donation), Roger D. P. aka “Linux Users Group Monitor Niel
$54 (3rd donation), David B.
$54 (3rd donation), Jesus J. L. M.
$54 (3rd donation), Federico R.
$54 (2nd donation), Dan
$54, Steven d. R. aka “Scuba”
$54, Marlies T.
$54, Attila V.
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$54, Ernest R.
$54, Andreas T.
$54, Christian B.
$50 (10th donation), Thomas T. aka “FullTimer1489”
$50 (7th donation), Adam H.
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$50, Cyberhall, Inc.
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$44 (2nd donation), Manuel López
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$25 (13th donation), Kwan L. aka “DigitalHermit
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$25, Martin G.
$25, Jörg M.
$25, John P.
$25, Taste M.
$25, Aashranth B.
$25, Daniel M.
$25, Mark F.
$25, Vitaliy Y. aka “prez2017”
$25, Stonewall C.
$25, ronh
$25, Cheri H.
$25, Micah F.
$25, Calum T.
$24 (5th donation), Daniel V. M.
$22 (18th donation), Derek R.
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$22 (11th donation), Ross M aka “ro55mo”
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$22 (8th donation), Dick B. aka “Dick”
$22 (5th donation), Gerhard E.
$22 (4th donation), Martin L.
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$22 (4th donation), Klaus Schulz aka “northcup
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$22 (3rd donation), Franz Johannes Schütz aka “Josch”
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$22, Joerg N.
$22, Karsten R.
$22, Serban I. C.
$22, John M.
$22, Tapani H.
$22, Klaus-dieter H.
$22, Jason S.
$22, Michael B.
$22, Rintje B.
$22, Frank R.
$22, David P.
$22, Harri R.
$22, Bernard L.
$22, Scott P.
$22, Yashodhan M.
$22, 3D Matchmovers
$22, Goran L.
$22, Silvia A.
$22, IT teacher
$21 (6th donation), Malte J.
$21, Steffen K.
$20 (10th donation), Peter J.
$20 (7th donation), Justin Oros
$20 (5th donation), Brandon W.
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$20 (4th donation), Dan R.
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$20, M A.
$20, Eric J. Rich aka “e
$20, Robert R.
$20, Rares A. B. N.
$20, Derek C.
$20, Ueda Y.
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$20, Anand S.
$20, Ryan M.
$20, William P.
$20, Charl P.
$20, Robert H.
$20, Robert M. J.
$20, Bryan M.
$20, Bajan52
$20, Jeff A.
$20, John L.
$20, William R.
$20, Ken L.
$20, Jason R. aka “jgrimmortal
$20, Sonja H.
$20, Lowell W.
$19 (14th donation), Anton W. aka “redant
$19 (12th donation), Ke C.
$19 (9th donation), François P.
$19 (6th donation), Martin I.
$17 (18th donation), Johann J.
$17 (13th donation), Ray
$17, Pierre A.
$16 (4th donation), Erwin v K. aka “Erwin Musicman”
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$16 (2nd donation), Alexander H.
$16, Jürgen K.
$16, Stéphane W.
$16, Torsten P.
$16, Claude M.
$16, Richard K.
$16, Henry Z.
$15 (10th donation), Michel C.
$15 (8th donation), David W.
$15 (8th donation), Lance M.
$15 (7th donation), Feroz E.
$15 (4th donation), Mary H.
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$15 (3rd donation), Lukasz G.
$15 (3rd donation), Tsuchiya Akira
$15 (2nd donation), Thomas M.
$15, George P.
$15, Vickie M.
$15, Roger L. R.
$15, Janos U.
$15, Radoslaw P.
$15, Rachel B.
$15, Steven M.
$15, American Pride Legal
$14, Robert G.
$13, Eduard K.
$12 (88th donation), Tony C. aka “S. LaRocca”
$12 (33rd donation), JobsHiringnearMe
$12 (2nd donation), Jeffrey O. aka “Loloy D
$12, Roberta P.
$11 (28th donation), Raymond E.
$11 (15th donation), Francisco L. D. A.
$11 (13th donation), Hans P.
$11 (11th donation), Gerard C.
$11 (8th donation), Denis D.
$11 (8th donation), Michael P. aka “www.perron.de
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$11 (5th donation), Kevin M.
$11 (5th donation), Henry G.
$11 (4th donation), Davide A.
$11 (3rd donation), Thomas Z. aka “Nagev for the Slamina”
$11 (3rd donation), Wolfgang M.
$11 (3rd donation), Martin H.
$11 (3rd donation), Jorge F. M.
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$11, Paul B.
$11, Gottfried A.
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$11, Matt R.
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$11, Scrum Master Training
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$11, Redbows Ltd
$11, Nik C.
$11, Antonio Prados aka “Toniprados”
$11, website
$11, Marcel S.
$11, Johan V. D.
$10 (32nd donation), Thomas C.
$10 (23rd donation), Frank K.
$10 (19th donation), Jim A.
$10 (13th donation), Rick R.
$10 (11th donation), Wilson G.
$10 (10th donation), Antoine T.
$10 (10th donation), Chris K.
$10 (9th donation), Masaomi Yoshida
$10 (9th donation), hotelsnearbyme.net
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$10, Johan C.
$10, Bradley T.
$10, Saurabh S.
$10, Jim T.
$10, Leah M.
$10, Edward C.
$10, Hector M.
$10, Graham J.
$10, Jeff F.
$10, Scott A.
$10, Pawel K.
$10, David P.
$10, Michal M.
$10, Fabian A.
$10, Mirko Bukilić aka “Bukela”
$10, Moises M. N.
$10, Thomas W.
$10, Scott F.
$10, Dzmitry B.
$10, Joseph F.
$10, Fnu P. A.
$10, Nathan Robinson
$10, Mark C.
$10, James M.
$10, Andrew B.
$10, 范 文新
$10, Jose R. P. N.
$10, Carlos M. G.
$10, Alexander M.
$10, Linda P.
$10, Pedro M.
$10, j0ck1e
$10, 大竹 哲也
$8 (15th donation), Alessandro S.
$8 (2nd donation), Luiz A. I.
$8, Rimas V.
$7 (20th donation), CV Smith
$7 (2nd donation), Daniel J G II
$7, Ian P.
$7, Hendrik H.
$7, Daniel J G II
$6 (4th donation), gmq
$6, Rodrigo S. B.
$6, Tomasz W.
$5 (26th donation), Eugene T.
$5 (19th donation), Todd A aka “thobin”
$5 (19th donation), Kouji Sugibayashi
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$5 (3rd donation), Justin H. aka “DoubleActionJ”
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$5, Wanda J.
$5, Mark C.
$5, Strelov A.
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$5, Alexander Z.
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$5, Бабиков Е.
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$3, Luciano Maciel Figueiró
$3, Sergei M.
$3, Mihai T. aka “whosyourdady3rm
$3, Roger Albeiro aka “Roco”
$75.38 from 57 smaller donations

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First of all, I’d like to thank our sponsors and all the people who sent us donations. Your help is appreciated. We’ve had to overcome tough issues since the start of this project in 2006, this last month in particular hasn’t been easy, but we’ve never had to worry about income. We often say it, but it is very true, you empower us, we’re able to focus solely on the distribution itself and it feels like a real privilege.

Sleepless nights

A mistimed MESA update in Xenial temporarily broke Ubuntu and Linux Mint upgrades. We were able to block it on the 7th of July, and ask people to revert the upgrade with Timeshift. On the 9th, everything was resolved, and the upgrade path was fixed and re-opened.

More recently, a grub update triggered an issue in one of our own packages. That issue could only be triggered by a new grub update and so it had gone undetected during QA and the BETA test. Although it was fixed in a matter of hours in the repositories, it still affects our installation ISO images and it breaks EFI installations when the live session is connected to the Internet. The release notes were updated to ask people to install offline. New 64-bit ISO images for Linux Mint 19 Cinnamon, MATE and Xfce were produced with the fixed package and they passed QA yesterday. These new ISOs will replace the current images in the days to come.

Be careful with Kernel 4.15.0-24. A critical issue causes some computers to boot really slowly, or not to boot at all. Ubuntu is aware of it and working on a fix. We’ve also received negative feedback from the 4.15 kernel series in Mint 18.x (based on Ubuntu Xenial). Although Ubuntu decided to switch the HWE series towards it, the 4.15 series doesn’t appear to support some proprietary drivers yet (nvidia-3.04 and nvidia-340 among them).

We’re also aware of regressions in the Bionic base affecting VPN, Samba, Wine (recently fixed). Ubuntu 18.04 is a brand new base and we’re sure it will settle, receive bug fixes and get more mature with time.

Of course our attention is mostly focused on the problems and we quickly forget about all the improvements. We had a great Linux Mint 19 release, we also received a huge amount of positive feedback and we’ve seen many great changes when moving from 16.04 to 18.04.

LMDE 3

LMDE 3 will feature 2 different installers. In addition to our own “live-installer”, you’ll also find Calamares in the application menu.

Although live-installer works well and is very easy for us to maintain, troubleshoot and improve, Calamares is ahead when it comes to partitioning schemes and it provides the ability to use LUKS full-disk encryption.

Both installers support BIOS and EFI installations. We’ll be interested to hear your feedback.

LMDE 3 is currently in QA and its BETA release is planned for the end of the month.

Cinnamon 4.0

In continuation with the “snappiness” improvements which came in Cinnamon 3.8, the team is currently looking at VSync, and in particular at CLUTTER_VBLANK which sets Sync to VBlank in Cinnamon.

Although Vsync prevents screen tearing from happening, it also has a performance cost. That cost is visible in Cinnamon when dragging a window with the mouse. As you move the mouse cursor left and right, you can notice that the window which is dragged under it doesn’t move exactly “with it”, but with a slight delay, as if there was some sort of elastic band between the cursor and the window it’s holding.

Removing Vsync removes that delay. Windows drags are then immediate and fully responsive. FPS measures also seem to confirm this observation and higher FPS figures lead us to believe this could have other positive impacts on Cinnamon’s performance.

The problem then is screen tearing.

On modern NVIDIA GPUs we’re able to get rid of screen tearing by using “Force Composition Pipeline” in NVIDIA-Settings. With Vsync disabled in Cinnamon we then enjoy a faster desktop environments with no screen tearing.

The team is currently looking into this and testing on a variety of different setups and graphics cards. There’s no guarantee we’ll find a “one size fits all” solution and be able to ship a Cinnamon 4.0 environment which will be fast and without screen tearing for everybody out of the box. If we can’t we’ll probably make it easier for people to tune their environment, with more information on screen-tearing, performance and the ability to set Vsync in the System Settings.

If you want to test this on your current Cinnamon setup, you can restart cinnamon with:

CLUTTER_SHOW_FPS=1 cinnamon --replace

And to restart it without Vsync:

CLUTTER_VBLANK=none CLUTTER_SHOW_FPS=1 cinnamon --replace

See if you see a difference in terms of FPS and when you move windows across the screen. Screen tearing, when it happens, is mostly visible in movies or when scrolling lists up and down. Test with non-fullscreen windows (full-screen windows can skip composition in Cinnamon, so that’s a different thing altogether).

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Donations in June:

A total of $10,126 were raised thanks to the generous contributions of 492 donors:

$250, Tim W.
$200, Abdu A.
$109 (8th donation), Frederic L. aka “nofrog”
$109 (4th donation), Renate J.
$109 (4th donation), Heinrich S.
$109 (3rd donation), Timothy W.
$109 (3rd donation), Udo J.
$109, Theo R.
$109, S. B.
$109, Eric P. K.
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$100 (5th donation), Timothy P.
$100 (3rd donation), Mark S.
$100, Philip J.
$100, Victor
$100, Bruno Weber
$100, Modi Baru
$100, Ben C.
$90, StarGaze1
$75, James L.
$65 (2nd donation), G. S. .
$65, Alexander S.
$54 (6th donation), Helmut S.
$54 (4th donation), Paul S. E. aka “Paul”
$54 (3rd donation), Volker Meyer
$54 (3rd donation), PeterH
$54 (2nd donation), Wladimir F.
$54 (2nd donation), Real Estate Market Data for Germany
$54, Andrew K.
$54, Ioannis F.
$54, Harald K.
$54, Götz H.
$54, Barton H.
$54, Peter R.
$54, Renaud C.
$54, Carl W.
$54, Manuel F.
$54, Gourmelon H.
$54, Sascha S.
$50 (26th donation), Anthony C. aka “ciak”
$50 (9th donation), Thomas T. aka “FullTimer1489”
$50 (7th donation), Hans J.
$50 (6th donation), Michael G. aka “Vaughn”
$50 (5th donation), Cody W. H.
$50 (4th donation), David P.
$50 (4th donation), John M.
$50 (4th donation), Michael K.
$50 (3rd donation), Geoff S.
$50 (3rd donation), Robert E.
$50 (3rd donation), tucsonlinux.com
$50 (2nd donation), Mark B.
$50 (2nd donation), Sunjay Varma
$50 (2nd donation), Gerald H.
$50 (2nd donation), Harry H. I.
$50, Gabriel M.
$50, Jeffery C. L.
$50, Ion L.
$50, Douglas C.
$50, Richard S.
$50, C S. W.
$50, Murray M.
$50, Karl G
$50, Ray W.
$50, David H.
$50, Patricia S.
$50, Robert R.
$50, Keith H.
$50, Gerald T.
$50, Dennis M.
$50, Patrick J.
$44 (6th donation), Roland Smit
$42 (2nd donation), David R.
$40 (2nd donation), Matthew F.
$40, Antony H.
$40, Rashed D.
$40, Быков А.
$38, Gregory V.
$35 (9th donation), Andrew M.
$33 (100th donation), Olli K.
$33 (3rd donation), Piotr C.
$33 (2nd donation), Lorenz K.
$33, Jean-claude M.
$33, Nico B.
$33, Martin M.
$33, Nevile W.
$33, Rune S.
$33, Michael L.
$33, Robert M.
$30 (11th donation), Kevin S.
$30 (4th donation), Paul C.
$30, Volodymyr N.
$30, Omnipotence Software
$30, Mario R.
$30, Vyacheslav C.
$30, Denis G.
$30, Eveline A.
$30, Craig M.
$30, Thomas W.
$27 (2nd donation), Ralf R.
$27 (2nd donation), GJC Bak.
$27, Van H. C.
$27, Johannes B.
$27, Patrick M.
$27, J. J.
$25 (83th donation), Ronald W.
$25 (41th donation), Curt Vaughan aka “curtvaughan ”
$25 (3rd donation), Gary E.
$25 (3rd donation), William C.
$25 (3rd donation), Andrew C.
$25 (2nd donation), Graham Sivill aka “Siv
$25 (2nd donation), Nicholas M.
$25, Laszlo G.
$25, Dominick D.
$25, Bruce I.
$25, Ian D.
$25, Robert L.
$25, Marvin M.
$25, Silvestre D. S.
$25, Jeff H.
$25, Roger L. E.
$25, Responsible Citizens of WV
$25, Rodney B.
$25, Robert G. S. J.
$25, Chase L.
$25, Colette H.
$24, Eugeniusz M.
$22 (17th donation), Derek R.
$22 (6th donation), Henrik H.
$22 (5th donation), Andrew V.
$22 (4th donation), Maurice G.
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$22, Antonino R.
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$22, Vincent D.
$22, Bonzai 2024
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$22, Konstantin H.
$22, Dan W.
$22, Atanas I.
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$22, Marcus W.
$22, Peter M.
$22, Bruno V.
$22, Daniel H.
$22, Roland B.
$22, Federico N. D. C.
$20 (40th donation), Curt Vaughan aka “curtvaughan ”
$20 (10th donation), Michel S.
$20 (6th donation), Widar H.
$20 (6th donation), Lance M.
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$20 (3rd donation), James M.
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$20 (2nd donation), Jesse D.
$20, John C. aka “Juanzelli”
$20, Trevor W.
$20, Brooks J.
$20, Stoyan G.
$20, Al Mello aka “melloa”
$20, Eric P.
$20, Fukui K.
$20, Paul Austin aka “Paulie”
$20, Michael S.
$20, M R. B.
$20, David D.
$20, James W.
$20, Shawn H.
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$20, Douglas C.
$20, Ludwig H.
$20, Bernard C.
$16 (17th donation), Andreas S.
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$16 (2nd donation), Ulrich K.
$16 (2nd donation), Thomas B.
$16 (2nd donation), Francois A. aka “fanetk
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$16, Ib O. J.
$16, Petri K.
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$16, Christina K.
$16, Stefan D.
$16, Trevor T.
$16, José G.
$16, Yves B.
$16, Torsten S.
$16, Alfredo Z. C.
$15 (3rd donation), Ventsislav R.
$15 (2nd donation), Kevin K.
$15, Vitaliy P.
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$15, Michael W.
$13 (2nd donation), Dennis K.
$13, Armin S.
$13, Piotr S.
$12 (87th donation), Tony C. aka “S. LaRocca”
$12 (32nd donation), JobsHiringnearMe
$12, Steve B.
$11.01, Kevin H.
$11 (17th donation), Johann J.
$11 (8th donation), Eskild T.
$11 (7th donation), Antonio aka “pengu73”
$11 (6th donation), Juan T.
$11 (5th donation), Michiel B.
$11 (5th donation), Stephen R.
$11 (3rd donation), Bernhard M.
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$11 (2nd donation), Marco C.
$11 (2nd donation), Michael T.
$11 (2nd donation), Daniel-Gabriel N.
$11, Fred V. H.
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$11, Kimmo K.
$11, Neil F.
$11, Jean-marie S.
$11, Benjamín Sánchez aka “jobenja5”
$11, Cedric B.
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