{"id":233,"date":"2008-08-10T13:46:11","date_gmt":"2008-08-10T11:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.linuxmint.com\/blog\/?p=233"},"modified":"2008-08-10T14:01:47","modified_gmt":"2008-08-10T12:01:47","slug":"distrowatch-donates-400-to-linux-mint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/?p=233","title":{"rendered":"Distrowatch donates $400 to Linux Mint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Linux Mint just received a donation of $400. This is the single biggest donation the project received since it was started in 2006. The donation came from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.distrowatch.com\">Distrowatch<\/a> in association with <a href=\"http:\/\/linuxcd.org\/\">LinuxCD.org<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.osdisc.com\">OSDisc.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.distrowatch.com\">Distrowatch<\/a> is known to donate a part of its income to upstream projects and distributions on a monthly basis. This single donation of $400 makes it the second biggest Linux Mint donor. \u00a0By the past <a href=\"http:\/\/www.distrowatch.com\">Distrowatch<\/a> donated a total of $18,183 to the following projects:<\/p>\n<p>*  2004: GnuCash ($250), Quanta Plus ($200), PCLinuxOS ($300), The GIMP ($300), Vidalinux ($200), Fluxbox ($200), K3b ($350), Arch Linux ($300), Kile KDE LaTeX Editor ($100) and UNICEF &#8211; Tsunami Relief Operation ($340)<br \/>\n* 2005: Vim ($250), AbiWord ($220), BitTorrent ($300), NdisWrapper ($250), Audacity ($250), Debian GNU\/Linux ($420), GNOME ($425), Enlightenment ($250), MPlayer ($400), Amarok ($300), KANOTIX ($250) and Cacti ($375)<br \/>\n* 2006: Gambas ($250), Krusader ($250), FreeBSD Foundation ($450), GParted ($360), Doxygen ($260), LilyPond ($250), Lua ($250), Gentoo Linux ($500), Blender ($500), Puppy Linux ($350), Inkscape ($350), Cape Linux Users Group ($130), Mandriva Linux ($405, a Powerpack competition), Digikam ($408) and SabayonLinux ($450)<br \/>\n* 2007: GQview ($250), Kaffeine ($250), sidux ($350), CentOS ($400), LyX ($350), VectorLinux ($350), KTorrent ($400), FreeNAS ($350), lighttpd ($400), Damn Small Linux ($350), NimbleX ($450), MEPIS Linux ($300), Zenwalk Linux ($300)<br \/>\n* 2008: VLC ($350), Frugalware Linux ($340), cURL ($300), GSPCA (Linux webcam support) ($400), FileZilla ($400), MythDora ($500)<\/p>\n<p>As you can see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.distrowatch.com\">Distrowatch<\/a> isn&#8217;t only one of the most popular websites about Linux, it&#8217;s also one of the biggest financial supporter of small distributions and upstream projects. \u00a0On behalf of the Linux Mint distribution I would like to thank <a href=\"http:\/\/www.distrowatch.com\">Distrowatch<\/a>, and in particular Ladislav Bodnar, for this donation and for all they&#8217;ve done for our project. Linux Mint is a successful distribution but it wouldn&#8217;t have been as popular if it wasn&#8217;t for websites like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.distrowatch.com\">Distrowatch<\/a> which allowed users to know about it in the first place. Today, we&#8217;re receiving the biggest donation since we started Mint. I feel really grateful. Thank you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.distrowatch.com\">Distrowatch<\/a>, Ladislav, and also thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/linuxcd.org\/\">LinuxCD.org<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.osdisc.com\">OSDisc.com<\/a> for being part of this.<\/p>\n<p>Many thanks for supporting us,<\/p>\n<p>Clem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linux Mint just received a donation of $400. This is the single biggest donation the project received since it was started in 2006. The donation came from Distrowatch in association with LinuxCD.org and OSDisc.com. Distrowatch is known to donate a part of its income to upstream projects and distributions on a monthly basis. 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