{"id":2771,"date":"2015-02-23T13:06:51","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T13:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/?p=2771"},"modified":"2015-09-08T18:39:35","modified_gmt":"2015-09-08T17:39:35","slug":"monthly-news-february-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/?p=2771","title":{"rendered":"Monthly News – February 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spring is coming and so is “Betsy”. QA testing for the new version of LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition) is starting today. If you want to follow our progress on this please visit http:\/\/community.linuxmint.com\/iso<\/a> and https:\/\/github.com\/linuxmint\/Roadmap<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Thanks to our partner eUKhost<\/a> we’re doubling the capacity and performance of one of our main servers. Many Linux Mint services are involved but we’ll migrate them one by one and we don’t expect any downtime. Note that the package repositories are not affected by this upgrade.<\/p>\n

A preview of some of the new features developed for Cinnamon was published on Segfault<\/a>. Among other things, Cinnamon 2.6 will introduce search providers and support for multiple panels.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Multiple panels in Cinnamon 2.6<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Multiple panels give users more flexibility and they will be useful for users with more than one monitor.<\/p>\n

Search providers will be a core part of Cinnamon. Applets, desklets and the Cinnamon desktop itself will be able to query them to retrieve search results. This will allow us but also applet developers to make it easy for you to search for a variety of things (a movie on IMDB, one of your emails, a Firefox bookmark, a page you recently visited, or one of your files on the hard drive…etc).<\/p>\n

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Example of an applet using search providers in Cinnamon 2.6<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Last month we received donations from 380 people. Together they raised a total of $9,036. Many thanks to all of you who contribute to our project, to the people who donated and to our sponsors and partners. Many thanks also to the many people who help other users in the forums and chat rooms, and special thanks this month to two of our developers: dalcde and glebihan, whose exciting work on Cinnamon 2.6 was featured above.<\/p>\n

Sponsorships:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Linux Mint is proudly sponsored by:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Gold Sponsors:
\n\"Linux<\/a>
\nSilver Sponsors:
\n\"ThinkPenguin.com\"<\/a>
\nBronze Sponsors:
\n\"Vault<\/a>
\n\"AYKsolutions<\/a>
\n\"7L<\/a>
\n\"BayLibre\"<\/a>
\n\"BGASoft<\/a>
\n\"compute.ch<\/a>
\n\"David<\/a>
\n\"Michael<\/a>
\n\"Milton<\/a>
\n\"Sysnova<\/a><\/td>\n		Community Sponsors:<\/p>\n