{"id":2834,"date":"2015-05-28T10:06:44","date_gmt":"2015-05-28T09:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/?p=2834"},"modified":"2015-05-28T10:07:31","modified_gmt":"2015-05-28T09:07:31","slug":"monthly-news-may-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/?p=2834","title":{"rendered":"Monthly News – May 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to all the people who donated to Linux Mint. Donations are lower than last year but they’re still pretty high. We also have more developers than before (which is great) so we adjusted our budget accordingly to ensure they wouldn’t see a drop. This budget is there thanks to your efforts to support our distribution, so a big big thank you to all the people involved in funding us, donors, sponsors and also to our partners.<\/p>\n

A preview of the MintBox Mini was posted on Segfault at http:\/\/segfault.linuxmint.com\/2015\/05\/mintbox-mini-preview\/<\/a>. The mini-computer is very cute and surprisingly small in size \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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MintBox Mini<\/p><\/div><\/center><\/p>\n

Beta-access to Cinnamon 2.6 was given last week to Rebecca and Betsy users via the Romeo repositories. Many of you took the initiative to help us test the new desktop environment and thanks to your feedback many bugs were fixed early. If you want to join them, please visit http:\/\/segfault.linuxmint.com\/2015\/05\/early-access-cinnamon-2-6-in-romeo\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the next couple of days Cinnamon 2.6 will be released officially and it will then reach the Betsy and Rafaela repositories. Its list of new features will also be announced. I know some people were excited by the new look and feel of the settings when testing it, but there’s much more than initially catches the eye, so we’ll detail all of that \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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An example of the new Cinnamon settings<\/p><\/div><\/center><\/p>\n

MATE 1.10 is almost completely labeled upstream but still not officially released. Packaging started and we’re planning to add a couple of things in time for it to join Betsy and Rafaela as well.<\/p>\n

Work continues on MDM. The display manager is now able to unlock sessions via both consolekit and logind (and does it more smoothly than before), to display avatars on systems using encrypted home directories and to work with infinality fonts.<\/p>\n

Work is also planned on the Mint tools. We gathered a lot of bug reports and great ideas from you on many of them, so we’ll try to make as many improvements as we can there as well.<\/p>\n

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

Linux Mint is proudly sponsored by:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Platinum Sponsors:<\/span>
\n\"Private<\/a>
\nGold 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\"David<\/a>
\n\"Michael<\/a>
\n\"Milton<\/a>
\n\"Sysnova<\/a><\/td>\n		Community Sponsors:<\/p>\n