{"id":4558,"date":"2023-09-01T17:13:26","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T16:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/?p=4558"},"modified":"2023-09-01T17:13:26","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T16:13:26","slug":"monthly-news-august-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/?p=4558","title":{"rendered":"Monthly News \u2013 August 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi everyone,<\/p>\n

We received 474 donations in July. I’m always amazed when I see these numbers. It’s both humbling and highly motivating to picture that many people enjoying what we do and wanting to help us. I really appreciate it. Many thanks for your support and these donations!<\/p>\n

You might be wondering what’s coming next and in which order. As you know we’re planning two releases (LMDE 6 and Mint 21.2 EDGE) but we also have long-term plans. One of these is to update our ISO production framework. Among other things this fixes secureboot. This is a big task but it’s really important for us.<\/p>\n

We’ve been hesitating on how to prioritize these. What ended up happening was that we worked both on LMDE and the new ISO framework.<\/p>\n

We’ve been reducing the differences between old and new ISOs, we even made a tool to compare them. We’re now at a stage where we’re pretty confident we’ll move to the new framework and we’ll have secureboot support for upcoming images.<\/p>\n

LMDE 6 is almost ready to enter QA. It looks stable, it has all the changes featured in Mint 21.2 and it uses a Debian 12 base and a 6.1 kernel. It should use pipewire by default also.. though we haven’t tested that yet so I shouldn’t really be talking about it.<\/p>\n

Both LMDE 6 and Mint 21.2 EDGE will be released this month.<\/p>\n

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

Linux Mint is proudly sponsored by:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Gold Sponsors:
\n\"Linux<\/a>
\n\"Simple<\/a>
\nSilver Sponsors:
\n\"Sucuri\"<\/a>
\n\"ThinkPenguin:<\/a><\/td>\n		Bronze Sponsors:
\n\"Vault<\/a>
\n\"AYKsolutions<\/a>
\n\"hSo\"<\/a>
\n\"BGASoft<\/a>
\n\"DeepTide,<\/a>
\n\"Feathercoin\"<\/a>
\n\"HamoniKR\"<\/a>
\n\"Look<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Donations in July:<\/strong><\/p>\n

A total of $11,905 were raised thanks to the generous contributions of 474 donors:<\/p>\n

$539, Joshua G. aka “Periodle<\/a>”
\n $500, Dana C.
\n $212 (5th donation), Andreas S.
\n $200 (2nd donation), Michael L.
\n $108 (5th donation), J aka “look but don’t touch. Thank you”
\n $108 (4th donation), Bert-jan Wiegeraad<\/a>
\n $107 (53th donation), Michael R.
\n $100 (38th donation), Fast Junkie<\/a>
\n $100 (19th donation), Philip W.
\n $100 (2nd donation), Jack K.
\n $100 (2nd donation), sector0 networks<\/a>
\n $100, Clive Newstead<\/a>
\n $100, Edmund B.
\n $100, John A.
\n $100, Lee J.
\n $100, Marci S.
\n $100, Nancy U.
\n $83 (10th donation), Jacques P.
\n $80 (10th donation), James L.
\n $76 (6th donation), Alexander M.
\n $70, Michael H.
\n $65, Kevin T.
\n $60 (8th donation), Joe K.
\n $54 (8th donation), Volker P.
\n $54 (7th donation), Steverj aka “Somerset Scrumpy”
\n $54 (5th donation), Bernhard M.
\n $54 (5th donation), Giovanni D. S. aka “ChibiOS<\/a>”
\n $54 (4th donation),
\n $54 (4th donation), Christian G.
\n $54 (4th donation), Ezequiel O.
\n $54 (3rd donation), Dr. S. K.
\n $54 (3rd donation), Tiny H.
\n $54 (3rd donation), Tommaso P.
\n $54 (2nd donation), Alexandre H.
\n $54 (2nd donation), Bastian H.
\n $54 (2nd donation), Daniel K.
\n $54 (2nd donation), Lars E. S.
\n $54 (2nd donation), Mathias G.
\n $54, Alexis M.
\n $54, Christian S.
\n $54, Domenico M.
\n $54, J\u00e9r\u00f4me B.
\n $54, Leif J.
\n $54, Pauli R.
\n $54, Roland V.
\n $54, Saulius G.
\n $54, Sergey A.
\n $54, Stefan H.
\n $54, Steffen S.
\n $54, Thomas S.
\n $50 (74th donation), Anthony C. aka “ciak”
\n $50 (22nd donation), Hans J.
\n $50 (21st donation), George H.
\n $50 (10th donation), Mihail S.
\n $50 (7th donation), Kyle S.
\n $50 (7th donation), Marty L.
\n $50 (6th donation), Adam W.
\n $50 (6th donation), Al B.
\n $50 (6th donation), Jerry L.
\n $50 (5th donation), David T.
\n $50 (5th donation), Jack B.
\n $50 (4th donation), Far West Computer Consulting
\n $50 (4th donation), William M.
\n $50 (3rd donation), IBS Corporation
\n $50 (2nd donation), Brandon M.
\n $50 (2nd donation), Media Dynamics, Inc.
\n $50, Andrew P.
\n $50, Arunas A.
\n $50, Clay F.
\n $50, Darwin D.
\n $50, Dirk P.
\n $50, Elizabeth L.
\n $50, Gregory A.
\n $50, Jane C.
\n $50, Joshua M.
\n $50, Kevin M.
\n $50, Kevin P.
\n $50, Mitchell E.
\n $50, Nathan R.
\n $43 (4th donation), Renaud C.
\n $43, William L. aka “Hilyxx”
\n $40 (2nd donation), Christian E.<\/a>
\n $35 (7th donation), John Eady
\n $35 (3rd donation), Mathieu C.
\n $32 (5th donation), Frank B.
\n $32 (4th donation), Dominique P.
\n $32 (3rd donation), Christian S.
\n $32 (2nd donation), Gerhard K.
\n $32 (2nd donation), Matthieu B.
\n $32, Jean-claude M.
\n $32, the way home be
\n $30 (33rd donation), Wolfgang P.
\n $30 (11th donation), Murray C.
\n $30 (9th donation), jowind
\n $30 (8th donation), Daniel M.
\n $30, David M.
\n $27 (20th donation), John K. aka “jbrucek”
\n $27 (6th donation), GJ aka “oldgit”
\n $27 (3rd donation), Johann K.
\n $27, Hans Peter S.
\n $27, Oliver R.
\n $27, Wouter V.
\n $25 (29th donation), Linux Mint Sverige<\/a>
\n $25 (22nd donation), Kevin S.
\n $25 (11th donation), Andrew Currie<\/a>
\n $25 (4th donation), Chuck G.
\n $25, Aundra J.
\n $25, Mark S.
\n $25, Nicholas K.
\n $22 (38th donation), Peter E.
\n $22 (23rd donation), Denis D.
\n $22 (22nd donation), Joachim M.
\n $22 (18th donation), Bjarne K.
\n $22 (11th donation), Tomi P.
\n $22 (9th donation), Daniel Gruhn
\n $22 (9th donation), Robert W.
\n $22 (8th donation), Carsten Wehner<\/a>
\n $22 (8th donation), Chema Cort\u00e9s
\n $22 (8th donation), J\u00fcrgen B.
\n $22 (8th donation), Micha\u0142 M. aka “Zaraki”
\n $22 (8th donation), Tom S.
\n $22 (8th donation), Wolfgang N.
\n $22 (7th donation), Florian G.
\n $22 (7th donation), Geoffrey Allgood
\n $22 (7th donation), Raymond L.
\n $22 (7th donation), Stephen W.
\n $22 (6th donation), Alexander H.
\n $22 (6th donation), Cornelis V.
\n $22 (6th donation), David K.
\n $22 (6th donation), Divoto
\n $22 (5th donation), Rolf-J\u00fcrgen G.
\n $22 (5th donation), Stefan W.
\n $22 (5th donation), Vittorio F.
\n $22 (4th donation), Johnny H.
\n $22 (4th donation), Michael K.
\n $22 (4th donation), Richard W.
\n $22 (4th donation), Waldemar P. aka “valldek”
\n $22 (3rd donation), Fritz P.
\n $22 (3rd donation), Jens H.
\n $22 (3rd donation), Jonas U.
\n $22 (3rd donation), Michael B.
\n $22 (3rd donation), Thomas P.
\n $22 (3rd donation), Vittorio A.
\n $22 (2nd donation), Axel B.
\n $22 (2nd donation), Fabio Rossini S.
\n $22 (2nd donation), Francisco R.
\n $22 (2nd donation), Hartmut P.
\n $22 (2nd donation), Kari H.
\n $22 (2nd donation), Marek J.
\n $22 (2nd donation), Martin D. aka “Raqua”
\n $22 (2nd donation), Reiner Z.
\n $22 (2nd donation), Vasilis G.
\n $22, Antoine M.
\n $22, Antonio R.
\n $22, Bezelgoho
\n $22, Dario D.
\n $22, Derek W.
\n $22, Dirk E.
\n $22, Du\u0161an P.
\n $22, Hannes B.
\n $22, Hans Joachim O.
\n $22, Harri Y.
\n $22, Heiko P.
\n $22, Helmut R.
\n $22, Jean Jacques S.
\n $22, Jeanjacques G.
\n $22, Karl-heinz K.
\n $22, Klaus G.
\n $22, Leslie R.
\n $22, Martin K.
\n $22, Martino M.
\n $22, Massimiliano C.
\n $22, Pertti N.
\n $22, Peter M.
\n $22, Piotr K.
\n $22, R V.
\n $22, Richard H.
\n $22, Ronald T.
\n $22, S\u00e9l\u00e9na V.
\n $22, Spyros K.
\n $22, Thomas P.
\n $22, Yrag L.
\n $21 (21st donation), Ke C.
\n $21 (19th donation), Fran\u00e7ois P.
\n $20 (66th donation), Rick R.
\n $20 (58th donation), Bryan F.
\n $20 (43th donation), Stefan M. H.
\n $20 (19th donation), Nigel B.
\n $20 (12th donation), Joao Kodama
\n $20 (10th donation), stewy
\n $20 (9th donation), Soeren S.
\n $20 (8th donation), Mark F.
\n $20 (8th donation), Pablo L. aka “LAFO”
\n $20 (8th donation), Thomas C.
\n $20 (7th donation), Bill and Susan
\n $20 (7th donation), Dean P @ DT
\n $20 (7th donation), Michael A C.
\n $20 (4th donation), Mario M.
\n $20 (4th donation), Mark C.
\n $20 (4th donation), Stephane L.
\n $20 (3rd donation), Adrian O.
\n $20 (3rd donation), Andrew S.
\n $20 (3rd donation), Mariusz B.
\n $20 (3rd donation), Robert H.
\n $20 (3rd donation), SAVE4ENERGY
\n $20 (2nd donation), Andreas G.
\n $20 (2nd donation), Gordon W.
\n $20 (2nd donation), Ron B.
\n $20, Alvaro Zuniga
\n $20, Alvin H.
\n $20, Anthony G.
\n $20, Avri A.
\n $20, Badriya M.
\n $20, Bobby L.
\n $20, Clement D.
\n $20, David M.
\n $20, Diarmaid R.
\n $20, Don S.
\n $20, Emir D.
\n $20, Gary L.
\n $20, Gordon S.
\n $20, Harry D M.
\n $20, Hsu C.
\n $20, In honor of SMG aka “mintydave”
\n $20, Jack T.
\n $20, James F.
\n $20, James M.
\n $20, Laura H.
\n $20, Matthias B.
\n $20, Nicol\u00e1s C.
\n $20, Raymond H.
\n $20, Richard K.
\n $20, Robert A.
\n $20, Ronald S.
\n $20, Smiths – SellOurStuff
\n $20, Steven R.
\n $20, Thomas S.
\n $20, Timothy J H.
\n $20, Timothy T.
\n $20, Tom O.
\n $19 (2nd donation), J.G.
\n $18 (5th donation), ineuw
\n $16 (8th donation), Reidar S.
\n $16, Andrew R.
\n $16, Bartosz Baranowski
\n $16, Marius M.
\n $15 (4th donation), Christian Aubry aka “amicalmant<\/a>”
\n $15 (3rd donation), Michael H.
\n $15 (2nd donation), Steven W.
\n $15, Jeffery B.
\n $15, Mj J.
\n $14 (85th donation), Johann J.
\n $13 (2nd donation), Daphne P.
\n $12 (10th donation), Gary N.
\n $12 (5th donation), J M. H. C.
\n $12, William David H.
\n $11 (49th donation), Francois-R L.
\n $11 (39th donation), Daniel S.
\n $11 (37th donation), Thomas R.
\n $11 (16th donation), Tugaleres.com<\/a>
\n $11 (14th donation), Denys G.
\n $11 (14th donation), Yves R. aka “Long_Time_User”
\n $11 (13th donation), Peter R.
\n $11 (10th donation), Bernhard L.
\n $11 (10th donation), Emanuele Proietti aka “Manuermejo”
\n $11 (10th donation), Ivan Stamenov<\/a>
\n $11 (10th donation), Klaus Heckenbach<\/a>
\n $11 (9th donation), Rupert B.
\n $11 (8th donation), Florian P.
\n $11 (7th donation), Raphael G.
\n $11 (6th donation), Antoni Aloy Torrens<\/a>
\n $11 (6th donation), Ernie H.
\n $11 (6th donation), Joe S.
\n $11 (6th donation), Ralf M.
\n $11 (5th donation), John G.
\n $11 (4th donation), Erik H.
\n $11 (4th donation), Franz Z.
\n $11 (3rd donation), Maurizio Giacobbe aka “maurizioweb<\/a>”
\n $11 (3rd donation), Patrick B.
\n $11 (3rd donation), Sandu I.
\n $11 (3rd donation), Serge S.
\n $11 (3rd donation), Simon Clark<\/a>
\n $11 (3rd donation), Yvan.P. aka “Yv30Pe03<\/a>”
\n $11 (2nd donation), Francis S.
\n $11 (2nd donation), Henk V.
\n $11 (2nd donation), Iztok M.
\n $11 (2nd donation), Jean-michel A.
\n $11 (2nd donation), Jos\u00e9 P.
\n $11 (2nd donation), Jouni P.
\n $11 (2nd donation), Jro
\n $11 (2nd donation), Massimo M.
\n $11 (2nd donation), Michael J.
\n $11 (2nd donation), Pascal C.
\n $11 (2nd donation), Siegfried M.
\n $11 (2nd donation), Volker J.
\n $11, Alexander B.
\n $11, Anton Bernd S.
\n $11, Artur K.
\n $11, Bengt Falke
\n $11, Benjamin S.
\n $11, Beverly J.
\n $11, Bruno R.
\n $11, Carlo Mario D.
\n $11, Carlos P.
\n $11, Christoph Haas aka “Signum<\/a>”
\n $11, David M.
\n $11, Federico U.
\n $11, Fred V.
\n $11, Graham H.
\n $11, Jose A. P.
\n $11, Jose F.
\n $11, Julio Abel M.
\n $11, Leonardo R.
\n $11, Marc D.
\n $11, Marek S. (LMDE Supporter)
\n $11, Michael H.
\n $11, Michele D.
\n $11, Nicolas M.
\n $11, Owen R.
\n $11, Rudolf V.
\n $11, Sergey P.
\n $11, Thomas P.
\n $11, Traugott K.
\n $11, zzzzzzzz .
\n $10 (88th donation), Thomas C.
\n $10 (82th donation), Frank K.
\n $10 (35th donation), Philip Woodward
\n $10 (27th donation), Tomasz K.
\n $10 (21st donation), Solar Panels Saskatoon<\/a>
\n $10 (17th donation), Dylan B.
\n $10 (16th donation), Bruce M.
\n $10 (16th donation), Minneapolis Towing and Roadside Assistance<\/a>
\n $10 (15th donation), Jorge R.
\n $10 (13th donation), Bruno Weber
\n $10 (13th donation), Troy T.
\n $10 (12th donation), Philip E.
\n $10 (11th donation), clinica estetica bucuresti<\/a>
\n $10 (11th donation), Michael P.
\n $10 (9th donation), Don S.
\n $10 (7th donation), Organic CBD Gummies<\/a>
\n $10 (7th donation), platypus products
\n $10 (6th donation), Klaang
\n $10 (5th donation), David W.
\n $10 (5th donation), Gustavo A. B.
\n $10 (5th donation), Michael W.
\n $10 (4th donation), Anthony H.
\n $10 (4th donation), Hans aka “Hans<\/a>”
\n $10 (4th donation), Lawrence C.
\n $10 (4th donation), Rafa\u0142 K. aka “inflop<\/a>”
\n $10 (3rd donation), Eric M.
\n $10 (3rd donation), Fran\u00e7ois B.
\n $10 (3rd donation), H.V. L.
\n $10 (3rd donation), Jody M.
\n $10 (3rd donation), Peers T.
\n $10 (3rd donation), Sergey S.
\n $10 (3rd donation), Thevirtua
\n $10 (2nd donation), Alonzo J.
\n $10 (2nd donation), Andrew W.
\n $10 (2nd donation), David H.
\n $10 (2nd donation), David S.
\n $10 (2nd donation), Dorel T. aka “Dorel Tanase<\/a>”
\n $10 (2nd donation), IA
\n $10 (2nd donation), Josef E.
\n $10 (2nd donation), Micha\u0142 K. aka “PoldekPL”
\n $10 (2nd donation), Mike A.
\n $10 (2nd donation), moon musiq aka “Netlabel for Industrial, Dark Ambient, and Noise<\/a>”
\n $10 (2nd donation), P F C.
\n $10 (2nd donation), Rimon K.
\n $10 (2nd donation), Stephen W.
\n $10 (2nd donation), Tim B.
\n $10, Alex R.
\n $10, AlumiCase
\n $10, Andres G.
\n $10, Anvelope Iarna<\/a>
\n $10, Blanford B.
\n $10, Carlos Ruben Ortiz Marrero aka “Ruben”
\n $10, Charles K.
\n $10, Daniel E.
\n $10, Daniel S.
\n $10, Donald C.
\n $10, Edward F.
\n $10, Edwin M.
\n $10, Elvis T. aka “Luno”
\n $10, FABER FRANCIOLLI EIGLMEIER VIDAL aka “fabervidal”
\n $10, Felipe P.
\n $10, Gustavo N.
\n $10, Hermilo M.
\n $10, https:\/\/calicris.ro<\/a>
\n $10, https:\/\/foicucod.ro\/<\/a>
\n $10, https:\/\/noinu.ro\/<\/a>
\n $10, https:\/\/statiunea-turistica-bran.ro<\/a>
\n $10, https:\/\/www.theseo.ro\/<\/a>
\n $10, John S.
\n $10, Jose A.
\n $10, Krzysztof B.
\n $10, kSEO<\/a>
\n $10, Lars Otto N.
\n $10, Laurie M.
\n $10, Manuelita U.
\n $10, Mark K.
\n $10, Marketing aka “Advertoriale<\/a>”
\n $10, Medical<\/a>
\n $10, myindex.ro<\/a>
\n $10, Outsourcing<\/a>
\n $10, Rolland R.
\n $10, Sarfraz A.
\n $10, Simon B.
\n $10, Stiri sportive<\/a>
\n $10, Tanase D.
\n $10, Thomas C.
\n $10, Timothy B.
\n $10, Web Design<\/a>
\n $10, weberplus gmbh
\n $10, Wiakeem H.
\n $8 (4th donation), Kevin M.
\n $8, Ralph H.
\n $7, Christopher H.
\n $7, Kamran N.
\n $6 (2nd donation), Dogival L.
\n $6, Uwe K.
\n $195 from 51 smaller donations<\/p>\n

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

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

Linux Mint is proudly supported by 645 patrons, for a sum of $2,756 per month.<\/p>\n

To become a Linux Mint patron, please visit https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/linux_mint<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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