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Codenames

The codenames for the next releases of Linux Mint and LMDE were chosen:

  • Linux Mint 22.2 will be called “Zara”
  • LMDE 7 will be called “Gigi”

PewDiePie

We have a new user!

How many of us now? We don’t count. Dozens at least, dozens! 🙂

Welcome to Linux PewDiePie!

A hint of Blue in Mint-Y

We’re adding a little bit of blue in our theme.

This is common practice in UI design. It’s done on mobile, desktop and all over the web. Grey is rarely completely grey, it usually has a little bit more blue in it than red and green.

Take your color picker and check the grey on GitHub. It’s not #f8f8f8, it’s #f6f8fa. Firefox does that well, Google docs, Trello etc..

The reason this is done is to make grey slightly more metallic looking and appear more modern. Pure grey is neutral, it can be perceived as cold or warm based on its surroundings. By bumping the blue (or in the case of github both the green and the blue) we force it to look cold.

Here’s an interesting discussion on the topic: https://www.reddit.com/r/UXDesign/comments/1cd40iz/why_apples_systemwebsite_grey_shades_always_lean/

Another reason this makes the UI look more modern is because this is done a lot nowadays but it wasn’t done so much 10 years ago. Like with all new trends, sticking to past standards can make things feel outdated.

Interestingly libAdwaita also just did this.

If you update your Flatpak libAdwaita applications you’ll see they now use #222226 for dark and #ebebed for light.

Because there are many libAdwaita apps already in Flathub and since our own theme is already quite close to it in terms of colors,  we’re adapting Mint-Y to use the same colors.

The difference in the light theme is subtle. It probably wouldn’t be noticed by someone who wasn’t told this had been done. The headers go from #e8e8e8 to #ebebed.

The difference is more visible in the dark theme, which also affects dark apps and the panel and cinnamon clutter elements in the default theme. This one is going from #2b2b2b to #222226 and #404040 to #2e2e33. It looks more modern but also much softer than before.

These changes bring the following improvements:

  • The themes look more modern
  • The dark theme and Cinnamon elements are softer and much nicer looking
  • Flatpak libAdwaita applications fit in a little bit better since they use the same colors

Accent Colors

We made a small change to the XDG Desktop Portal XApp to support accent colors.

The XApp desktop portal simply scans the GTK theme for a named color called “accent_color”. If this color is present it provides it via the XDG Settings API.

Put simply this changes the accent color in Flatpak libAdwaita applications based on your chosen GTK theme.

This works in Cinnamon, MATE and Xfce. All that is needed is for the theme to define its “accent_color”.

Note to theme artists: This is a one-liner in your GTK CSS.

@define-color accent_color #9ab87c;

libAdwaita

A year ago we complained about libAdwaita, not because it was bad, but because it didn’t support us. Applications made with this library only properly integrated with GNOME and broke functionality in Cinnamon, MATE and Xfce.

With the release of Linux Mint 22, GNOME Apps which used libAdwaita were downgraded back to their GTK3 versions so that they could continue to function properly in the desktop environments we support. This was a temporary solution until these applications either got replaced, removed, forked, or until we found a way to continue to use them.

I know our audience isn’t ready to let theming die. It would be extremely unpopular right now if we were to remove theme selection. And since we provide it, it has to work. We cannot ship with a desktop that provides theme selection and a core set of applications which violate it.

As shown above, we’ve updated Mint-Y to use the same colors as libAdwaita. We also made the libAdwaita accent color follow the theme. This helps the integration but it’s only a small step towards properly integrating these applications. It doesn’t solve the issue with window controls and doesn’t help with other themes.

Whether we downgrade or fork applications, I know many of the GNOME developers are as sad as we are about this fragmentation and duplication of efforts. We were talking about extracting epub support in Xreader last week and making a new app. It would take between a week and a month to achieve the level of functionality we see in something like Foliate, but what’s the point long-term? Wouldn’t it be better for Foliate to work outside of GNOME and for us to use it?

Within our XApp discussions we talk about Qt, GTK3, application alternatives, forks and rewrites. What we looked at recently is slightly different. How do we make GNOME apps continue to work outside of GNOME?

Is there anything actually wrong with them once they follow the theme and provide proper window controls?

We gave it a try. We added libAdwaita stylesheets in Mint-X and Mint-Y and made a few changes in libAdwaita to not use its own stylesheet.

As you can see, the layout and style of libAdwaita widgets is different than in traditional GTK3 applications. It’s more touch friendly with sidepanes, split navigation headerbars rather than menubars and toolbars. It works really well for some of the apps though.

In the GIF above, gnome-calendar, gnome-characters and foliate are libAdwaita applications. They integrate really well.

If we apply these patches to libAdwaita we probably won’t need to continue to downgrade the GNOME applications.

Upstream and long-term, if we continue to use libAdwaita applications we probably need an XApp platform lib similar to libAdwaita, either in the form of a soft-forks (libs and/or apps which are often rebased on upstream) or in the form of an extension library (something that extends libAdwaita, similar to libGranite).

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Many thanks for your donations and for your support.

I’d like to welcome and thank our new sponsor: IPv6rs. They specialize in self hosting solutions and make it easy to host a server from anywhere, at home, on the go, on your own computers. Many thanks to them for supporting our project!

Many thanks also to all the people who are participating in the BETA phase for Linux Mint 22. We received 109 bug reports so far, 53 are still open.

I’ll be very brief with the news this month because the BETA is taking all our time.

Linux Mint 22 looks like a solid base for the future, but there are many bugs in this BETA. Some of the issues are important (apparmor security changes leading to application crashes, HW acceleration playback libs making Xorg crash, Flatpak/mintinstall issues…etc.) so we’re really happy to get this feedback before the stable release. We’re fixing them bit by bit and sending updates as we go along. It’s exciting, the release gets better every day, but it takes time.

It’s hard to give a precise ETA for the Stable release. We will release this month, but this BETA phase will take longer than the traditional 2 weeks.

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Donations in May:

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$50, Matthew T.
$50, Michael H.
$50, Nicholas B.
$50, Oliver Jacob Nicolaj G.
$50, Pearce N.
$50, Peter K.
$50, Richard M.
$50, Ronald J.
$50, Shira G.
$50, Terry F.
$50, Thomas R.
$45 (5th donation), Pavel P.
$44 (5th donation), Viesturs P.
$40 (7th donation), Bruce I.
$40 (5th donation), William L.
$40 (2nd donation), Richard B. T.
$40, Dean P.
$35 (6th donation), Ricardo M.
$35 (5th donation), John W.
$35, Nicolas M.
$35, Pierreandre B.
$33, awesometoast
$32 (10th donation), Chema Cortés
$32 (6th donation), Arno W.
$32 (4th donation), Arminas A.
$32, Alvaro R.
$32, Cyril Matthieu J.
$32, Helge Z.
$32, Jonathon M.
$32, Steffen P.
$31 (5th donation), Brent F.
$30, Charles B.
$30, Longo Vicivm Digital
$27 (2nd donation), Krešimir T.
$27, Wolfgang G.
$25 (39th donation), Linux Mint Sverige
$25 (16th donation), Richard N.
$25 (8th donation), Ron C.
$25 (7th donation), Timothy L.
$25 (3rd donation), Mike G.
$25 (2nd donation), Richard T.
$25, Greg A.
$25, Gregory E.
$25, Philip A.
$25, Robert O.
$24 (95th donation), Johann J.
$22 (48th donation), Peter E.
$22 (25th donation), Denis D.
$22 (11th donation), Marek S. [LMDE SUPPORTER]
$22 (10th donation), Benjamin W.
$22 (10th donation), Harald M.
$22 (8th donation), Gabriele B.
$22 (8th donation), Kostas M. K.
$22 (7th donation), Zile
$22 (4th donation), William H.
$22 (3rd donation), Dragomir Deltchev aka “Drago”
$22 (3rd donation), J.G.
$22 (3rd donation), Juan Francisco J.
$22 (3rd donation), Kai D.
$22 (3rd donation), Luis D.
$22 (3rd donation), Michalis L.
$22 (3rd donation), Sami K.
$22 (2nd donation), Adian K.
$22 (2nd donation), Ferdinand S.
$22 (2nd donation), Gonzalo M.
$22 (2nd donation), Hakan C.
$22 (2nd donation), Pierre V.
$22 (2nd donation), Ralf W.
$22 (2nd donation), Samy S.
$22 (2nd donation), Shaun M.
$22 (2nd donation), Stefan N.
$22 (2nd donation), Thomas W.
$22 (2nd donation), Ulrich I.
$22, Alessio R.
$22, Anquetil D.
$22, Armin G.
$22, Braulio C.
$22, Cyril C.
$22, David K.
$22, Dominik K.
$22, Eduard E.
$22, Florent D.
$22, Foivos S.
$22, Frederic H.
$22, Jan B.
$22, Janosch B.
$22, Jean-paul P.
$22, Joerg O.
$22, Jonas M.
$22, Jörg P.
$22, Lars H.
$22, Manolis R.
$22, Matthew L.
$22, Matthias K.
$22, Mauro P.
$22, Michael A.
$22, Rasmus K.
$22, Robin C.
$22, Shadow H.
$22, Stefan S.
$22, Torsten R.
$22, Valentin D.
$22, Wolfgang P.
$20 (47th donation), Stefan M. H.
$20 (9th donation), Andreas G.
$20 (7th donation), Antonio Misaka
$20 (4th donation), Bjorn P. M.
$20 (4th donation), Gary S.
$20 (3rd donation), Dave B.
$20 (3rd donation), Frank T.
$20 (3rd donation), xexus.us
$20 (2nd donation), Arnis D.
$20 (2nd donation), N K.
$20, Aaron C.
$20, Anaximander G.
$20, Benjamin D.
$20, Brian B.
$20, Bruce D.
$20, Charles C.
$20, Clyde W.
$20, Eugenia Loli
$20, Frank E.
$20, Glenn L.
$20, Jarvis C.
$20, Jason C.
$20, Jorge T.
$20, Joshua D.
$20, Jovanotti T.
$20, Juan Z.
$20, Kenneth T.
$20, Krishna M.
$20, Leslie J.
$20, Michael S.
$20, Richard M.
$20, Rune J.
$20, Taylor K.
$20, Terence H.
$20, Tom B.
$20, Tracey A.
$20, Two Schuh’s
$20, William K.
$20, Yoram P.
$20, ZM
$19, Thomas K.
$18 (2nd donation), Mutinus Titinus
$16 (76th donation), Andreas S.
$16 (7th donation), Terry R.
$16, Daniel B.
$16, Federico Z.
$15 (4th donation), Terry P.
$15, Emma H.
$14 (5th donation), Matthew Gracie aka “Nethound
$13 (2nd donation), Alexander D.
$12 (5th donation), Panagiotis S.
$12, Jane C.
$11 (49th donation), Daniel S.
$11 (26th donation), Tugaleres.com
$11 (23rd donation), Denys G.
$11 (13th donation), Stefan W.
$11 (12th donation), Robert W.
$11 (9th donation), Axel R. aka “Airwave”
$11 (9th donation), Thomas R.
$11 (7th donation), Jeanmichel T.
$11 (5th donation), Daniel H.
$11 (5th donation), Ezequiel O.
$11 (5th donation), Matthias S.
$11 (5th donation), Sandu I.
$11 (4th donation), Christoph B.
$11 (4th donation), Harold H.
$11 (4th donation), Jan V.
$11 (4th donation), Miquel S. aka “msolde
$11 (3rd donation), Bernhard W.
$11 (3rd donation), Carlos P.
$11 (3rd donation), GYE
$11 (3rd donation), Marc L. aka “Néliox”
$11 (3rd donation), Pedro Antonio U.
$11 (3rd donation), Sascha M.
$11 (2nd donation), Alessio Ligabue aka “Consulenza Cloud e Supporto Linux
$11 (2nd donation), Andreas R.
$11 (2nd donation), Chrull
$11 (2nd donation), Ingo H.
$11 (2nd donation), Nikolaos S.
$11 (2nd donation), Rainer K.
$11 (2nd donation), Sascha S.
$11 (2nd donation), Simon M.
$11 (2nd donation), Vladimir S.
$11 (2nd donation), Volker S.
$11, Abu
$11, Alec B.
$11, Alessandro C.
$11, Alexander P.
$11, Alfredo E.
$11, András K.
$11, Andreas E.
$11, Anthony P.
$11, Antonio P.
$11, Bor G.
$11, Dagmar B.
$11, Erik K.
$11, Felix L.
$11, François D.
$11, Gica78R
$11, Ivan D.
$11, Javier C.
$11, Jean Charles A.
$11, Jean-luc S.
$11, Jochen aka “Schorsch”
$11, José M. V.
$11, José R.
$11, Kornel E.
$11, Laurent A.
$11, Leon B.
$11, Leonardo C.
$11, Louis O.
$11, Marco B. aka “OldSnake”
$11, Maxime H.
$11, Michael W.
$11, Mieterverein im Internet e.V.
$11, Miguel G.
$11, Mindaugas S.
$11, MoÏse H.
$11, Nicolas G.
$11, Patrick P.
$11, Philip S.
$11, Pietro G.
$11, Poul Hegelund
$11, Raimund O.
$11, Ramification.fr
$11, Ramona M.
$11, Reinhard P.
$11, Roberto C.
$11, Szymon S. aka “Rzymoon”
$11, Thomas M.
$10 (98th donation), Thomas C.
$10 (35th donation), Carpet Cleaning Winnipeg
$10 (23rd donation), Christopher R.
$10 (14th donation), Dave S.
$10 (13th donation), William M.
$10 (11th donation), Thevirtua
$10 (9th donation), Andrei Sinkevich
$10 (9th donation), Neil B.
$10 (7th donation), Alan C.
$10 (7th donation), Joel C.
$10 (6th donation), Kevin K.
$10 (6th donation), Mario M.
$10 (4th donation), TONY aka “STRUZZIN ELECTRONICS
$10 (3rd donation), Andre D.
$10 (3rd donation), Casca de copiat
$10 (3rd donation), Dwane S.
$10 (3rd donation), Eric T.
$10 (3rd donation), Zsolt T.
$10 (2nd donation), casca de copiat
$10 (2nd donation), Frank K.
$10 (2nd donation), Fred B.
$10 (2nd donation), Harvey B.
$10 (2nd donation), Hung T.
$10 (2nd donation), Norman B.
$10 (2nd donation), Winfield B.
$10, Andrew E.
$10, Brandon H.
$10, David M.
$10, Gareth B.
$10, Gregory C.
$10, Ivan G.
$10, Ivan H.
$10, John H.
$10, Kalib B.
$10, Larry C.
$10, Matthew B.
$10, Matthew J.
$10, Nicolas M.
$10, Ping-charng L.
$10, Raymond B.
$10, Robert L.
$10, Saleh A.
$10, Samuel Q.
$10, Sergei G.
$10, Stefan L.
$10, Steven K.
$10, Van P.
$10, William Rivera
$155 from 41 smaller donations

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Package repositories

Work continues on the repositories.

We’re now using Datadog to monitor the bandwidth, connections and response time during high load.

This allows us to understand the nature and length of the bottlenecks better. It also provides us with long-term volume stats which are important when we look at pricing with Fastly and cloud solutions.

Software Manager

The mintinstall Software Manager received some welcome changes.

It loads faster than before and the main window appears instantly.

Unverified Flatpaks are disabled by default.

A warning explains the security risks associated with them in the newly added preferences window.

When enabled, these Flatpaks are clearly marked as unverified.

Note that unverified Flatpaks also do not feature any reviews and do not have a score.

Matrix

We’ve been using Matrix for more than a month now and we’re really happy with it.

The integration in the upcoming Linux Mint 22 is fully ready.

There are more than 600 members in the Linux Mint space already, and more than 2400 in the main channel.

Other than providing support to users the Matrix channels also allowed us to communicate with other projects and to form a team of artists who focus on the Linux Mint artwork.

GTK, libAdwaita, Adwaita, Xapp

The concerns voiced last month about GTK, Adwaita and libAdwaita were heard.

They were heard by many projects, including upstream apps, desktop environments and distributions.

They led to many discussions with a huge number of developers involved.

I want to stress the fact that some of these discussions involve GNOME developers and are very constructive.

Although no big decisions or solutions emerged yet there is a general consensus on the issues of cross-DE compatibility and independence from the GNOME project. There’s also consensus on the idea of working together on common technologies.

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Donations in April:

A total of $10,500 were raised thanks to the generous contributions of 351 donors:

$539, Andreas B.
$500, Michael L.
$314 (2nd donation), Darwin H.
$300, Clark H.
$200 (3rd donation), Gregory F.
$200 (2nd donation), Charles K.
$200 (2nd donation), Larry F.
$200, James Fallin aka “Jimmy Fallin
$108 (2nd donation), aka “EAS”
$108, Gregor F.
$108, Marin L.
$108, Viktoria N.
$105, Myke C. (Minty since Bea)
$100 (12th donation), Mihail S.
$100 (11th donation), Mountain Computers, Inc aka “MTNCOMP aka GGPCTU
$100 (6th donation), David T.
$100, Caitlin M.
$100, Donald E.
$100, Goran L.
$74, Andy Frank S.
$65 (6th donation), Glen P.
$54 (22nd donation), Naoise G. aka “Gaff”
$54 (17th donation), Bernard H.
$54 (11th donation), Roland H.
$54 (8th donation), David M. D.
$54 (4th donation), John A.
$54 (4th donation), Jyrki A.
$54 (2nd donation), Mark L.
$54 (2nd donation), Roger B.
$54 (2nd donation), Ronan B.
$54 (2nd donation), Ulrich D.
$54, Andrew H.
$54, Andrey M.
$54, Christine S.
$54, Holger B.
$54, Jacek B.
$54, Lukas C.
$54, Mike D.
$54, Patricia T.
$54, Slawomir B.
$54, Steven W.
$54, Sylvain B.
$54, Thomas B.
$54, Thomas E.
$54, Thomas K.
$54, Thomas L.
$54, Tony A.
$54, Udo L.
$53 (8th donation), John Mc
$50 (83th donation), Anthony C. aka “ciak”
$50 (23rd donation), George H.
$50 (10th donation), Robert K. aka “usmc_bob”
$50 (6th donation), Colin B.
$50 (5th donation), Far West Computer Consulting
$50 (5th donation), Frank F.
$50 (5th donation), Keith M.
$50 (5th donation), Martin Ch.
$50 (4th donation), Clifford N.
$50 (4th donation), Robert S.
$50 (2nd donation), Brenda C.
$50 (2nd donation), Christopher Y.
$50 (2nd donation), Eugene D.
$50 (2nd donation), Harry M.
$50, Charles P.
$50, Daryl F.
$50, Donald A.
$50, Donald C.
$50, Kaiden S.
$50, Richard S.
$50, Ryan Y.
$50, Shane R.
$50, Visaggio & Co., LLC
$43, Ignacio A.
$40 (7th donation), Kenneth R.
$40, Eric W.
$35 (2nd donation), Michael F.
$30 (9th donation), John Eady
$30 (5th donation), Kevin H.
$30 (4th donation), John W.
$30, pasu
$30, Raymond R.
$27 (4th donation), Kiaran Smyth.
$27 (2nd donation), William L. aka “Hilyxx”
$25 (38th donation), Linux Mint Sverige
$25 (10th donation), Timothy C.
$25 (8th donation), Stephen W.
$25 (3rd donation), Rashed D.
$25, Gary B.
$25, Patrick L.
$25, Paul C.
$24 (53th donation), Francois-R L.
$22 (47th donation), Peter E.
$22 (12th donation), H ScottB
$22 (12th donation), Stefan W.
$22 (11th donation), Nicklas L.
$22 (10th donation), Marek S. [LMDE SUPPORTER]
$22 (9th donation), Benjamin W.
$22 (9th donation), L. Mikkel
$22 (7th donation), Vittorio F.
$22 (6th donation), Antonio C.
$22 (6th donation), Davide P. aka “Dragone2
$22 (6th donation), Iain S.
$22 (5th donation), Manuel R.
$22 (4th donation), Alexandre Gambier
$22 (3rd donation), Christoph F.
$22 (3rd donation), Friedrich W. J.
$22 (3rd donation), Geurt S.
$22 (3rd donation), Jadran D.
$22 (3rd donation), Mr Christopher J W.
$22 (2nd donation), Alain M.
$22 (2nd donation), Charles A.
$22 (2nd donation), Florian H.
$22 (2nd donation), Frits M.
$22 (2nd donation), Heiko K.
$22 (2nd donation), Helgi J.
$22 (2nd donation), Herman Franciscus B.
$22 (2nd donation), Rolf S.
$22 (2nd donation), Ronnie B.
$22 (2nd donation), Stefan E.
$22, Albert P.
$22, Alwin K.
$22, Andrea Bonvicini aka “bonvi83”
$22, Christian W.
$22, Daniel T.
$22, David A.
$22, Enrico D.
$22, Hermann H.
$22, Jaime R.
$22, Jonathan B.
$22, Karl-heinz L.
$22, Kevin R.
$22, Laurent D.
$22, Manfred B.
$22, Marcel P.
$22, Mario P.
$22, Martin Huettemann aka “dr-huetti
$22, Nicholas A.
$22, Ortwin F.
$22, Patrick D.
$22, Peter L.
$22, Sebastian H.
$22, Stefan D.
$22, Stefan F.
$22, Thomas K.
$21 (22nd donation), aka “AsciiWolf”
$20 (41th donation), John D.
$20 (23rd donation), Aimee W.
$20 (15th donation), Dana S.
$20 (12th donation), RexAlan
$20 (11th donation), Robert D. aka “MacDhai
$20 (10th donation), Lamont C.
$20 (9th donation), Nate P. aka “cog_nate”
$20 (9th donation), Peter L. aka “Pedro
$20 (6th donation), Kendall G.
$20 (5th donation), Denis C.
$20 (4th donation), Chris B.
$20 (4th donation), Everett F.
$20 (4th donation), Mark S.
$20 (4th donation), Michael B.
$20 (3rd donation), Randolph M.
$20 (3rd donation), Sam B.
$20 (2nd donation), Duryea E.
$20 (2nd donation), Gordon L.
$20 (2nd donation), Ian J.
$20 (2nd donation), John B.
$20 (2nd donation), Steve S.
$20, Chad M.
$20, Charles M.
$20, Chris S.
$20, Damir T.
$20, Darrin B.
$20, Edward P W.
$20, Esteban Balmore C.
$20, Ethan T.
$20, Gustavo L.
$20, Jack B.
$20, John H N.
$20, Manuel G.
$20, Marcus J.
$20, Martin M.
$20, Michael C.
$20, Michael S.
$20, Raymond T.
$20, Regis G.
$20, Richard L K.
$20, Robert M S.
$20, Robert T.
$20, Steven T.
$20, Thomas K.
$20, Timothy H.
$20, Tyler Jones
$20, Wladyslaw T.
$20, Working Solutions
$18 (8th donation), ineuw
$16 (94th donation), Johann J.
$16 (75th donation), Andreas S.
$16, Joaquin P.
$15 (11th donation), Stephen F.
$15 (10th donation), Corey J.
$14 (12th donation), Francois B. aka “Makoto
$14 (7th donation), Heston
$11 (48th donation), Daniel S.
$11 (41th donation), Thomas R.
$11 (25th donation), Tugaleres.com
$11 (22nd donation), Denys G.
$11 (22nd donation), Raymond M. (retired)
$11 (19th donation), Arvis Lācis aka “arvislacis
$11 (9th donation), Axel R.
$11 (9th donation), Bengt Falke aka “Falke”
$11 (9th donation), Dimitar S.
$11 (9th donation), Hans-Dieter S. aka “hadisch”
$11 (8th donation), Antoni Aloy Torrens
$11 (8th donation), Enrico C.
$11 (8th donation), Ronald S.
$11 (6th donation), Donatas Dainys
$11 (6th donation), Joel E.
$11 (6th donation), Paolo C.
$11 (5th donation), Peter C.
$11 (4th donation), Claudio A.
$11 (4th donation), Jouko Tiilikainen aka “JT65”
$11 (3rd donation), Attila C.
$11 (3rd donation), Francois S.
$11 (3rd donation), Henry B.
$11 (3rd donation), John K.
$11 (2nd donation), Can G.
$11 (2nd donation), Emanuele S.
$11 (2nd donation), Francis B.
$11 (2nd donation), Guillaume M.
$11 (2nd donation), Heiko L.
$11 (2nd donation), Jose J.
$11 (2nd donation), Julio Cesar S.
$11 (2nd donation), Krzysztof M.
$11 (2nd donation), Robert H.
$11, Alexander R.
$11, Alistair W.
$11, Amedeo A.
$11, Anon
$11, Attila M.
$11, Daniel D.
$11, Daniel M.
$11, Daniele V.
$11, David K.
$11, Fabien S.
$11, Fabrizio C.
$11, Giancarlo T.
$11, Gianfranco C.
$11, Gita M.
$11, Hannes S.
$11, Hristo B.
$11, Ingo K.
$11, Jörg K.
$11, Josef H.
$11, Lukasz M.
$11, Martin G.
$11, Mick B.
$11, Noe Zhana A.
$11, Peter B.
$11, Peter O.
$11, Peter S.
$11, Raffaele S.
$11, Ralph O.
$11, Silvano C.
$11, Thomas S.
$11, Timothy W.
$11, Tobias H.
$11, Wojciech S.
$10 (97th donation), Thomas C.
$10 (34th donation), Carpet Cleaning Winnipeg
$10 (29th donation), Hemant Patel
$10 (22nd donation), Pawel M.
$10 (21st donation), Bruce M.
$10 (17th donation), Minneapolis Towing and Roadside Assistance
$10 (13th donation), Dave S.
$10 (10th donation), platypus products
$10 (9th donation), Allyn G.
$10 (5th donation), Chamnong N.
$10 (3rd donation), Alessandro M.
$10 (3rd donation), Michael S.
$10 (3rd donation), Timothy M.
$10 (3rd donation), TONY aka “STRUZZIN ELECTRONICS
$10 (2nd donation), Axel P.
$10 (2nd donation), Garry H.
$10 (2nd donation), Óscar R.
$10 (2nd donation), Robert N.
$10 (2nd donation), Santiago G.
$10 (2nd donation), Thomas A.
$10, 8 Hobbies, LLC
$10, Alessio Ligabue aka “Consulenza Cloud e Supporto Linux
$10, Anibal C.
$10, Arnold P.
$10, Benjamin B.
$10, COMERCIALIZADORA ANGEL DE ORIENTE
$10, Dave C.
$10, Denise D.
$10, Eli D.
$10, Frank K.
$10, Gaetan T.
$10, Gerardo F.
$10, Jaiden H.
$10, James W.
$10, Jonathan G.
$10, Marcus F.
$10, Matheus S.
$10, Michael K.
$10, Miguel B.
$10, Rowan C.
$163 from 43 smaller donations

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