{"id":4976,"date":"2025-12-30T16:56:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T16:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/?p=4976"},"modified":"2025-12-30T16:56:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T16:56:00","slug":"monthly-news-december-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/?p=4976","title":{"rendered":"Monthly News \u2013 December 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to you all for your generous donations. A big thank you as well to our sponsors and to everyone who supports our project. Special thanks to all those involved in testing the BETA<\/strong> release over Christmas.<\/p>\n

We hope you\u2019re having a great time during the holiday season. Happy New Year, everyone!<\/p>\n

See you in 2026 \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

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

Linux Mint is proudly sponsored by:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Gold Sponsors:
\"Linux<\/a>
\"IPv6.rs\"<\/a>
Silver Sponsors:
\"Datadog\"<\/a>
\"Sucuri\"<\/a>
\"ThinkPenguin:<\/a><\/td>\n		Bronze Sponsors:
\"AYKsolutions<\/a>
\"Agile.Coach\"<\/a>
\"BGASoft<\/a>
\"C0MPL\u00c9X1<\/a>
\"Chargeblast\"<\/a>
\"nesevo<\/a>
\"Tinken<\/a>
\"VANT\"<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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

A total of $21,590 were raised thanks to the generous contributions of 712 donors:<\/p>\n

$1062, David C.
$250, Jeffrey N.
$222 (7th donation), Andr\u00e9 In\u00e1cio
$212, Karsten S.
$200 (18th donation), Tomasz E.
$200 (2nd donation), Stephen L.
$159, Dennis L.
$159, Giuseppe P.
$159, Oliver B.
$127 (2nd donation), Thomas S.
$116 (4th donation), T.H.
$116 (3rd donation), Gerhard Schaufelberger aka “Schaufelzwerg<\/a>“
$106 (16th donation), Christian G. aka “Chrissy”
$106 (13th donation), Ji\u0159\u00ed B.
$106 (8th donation), Michael J.
$106 (5th donation), Ruediger B.
$106 (4th donation), aka “omg_me”
$106 (3rd donation), Iris K.
$106 (2nd donation), Christian S.
$106 (2nd donation), Mikael T.
$106 (2nd donation), Wolfgang B.
$106,
$106, Dr. A. R.
$106, George Petropoulos
$106, HENTTONEN M.
$106, Jan W.
$106, Johannes R.
$106, KEMPERMAN J.
$106, Luka aka “WerIstLuka”
$106, Robert P.
$106, Web-Sky
$106, Zsolt P.
$100 (28th donation), John Mc aka “Land Research Project<\/a>“
$100 (14th donation), James F.
$100 (4th donation), Vincent P.
$100 (3rd donation), Alan H.
$100 (3rd donation), John A.
$100 (3rd donation), sector0 networks<\/a>
$100 (2nd donation), Heinrich V.
$100 (2nd donation), Peter B.
$100, Charles H.
$100, Dean A.
$100, Evan R.
$100, James W.
$100, Mark R.
$100, Noel R.
$100, Rani J.
$100, Steven M.
$100, Thomas W. B.
$84, Ingo S.
$84, Vincent H.
$75 (10th donation), Paul R.
$70, David W. G.
$70, Lutz K.
$68, Jacques S.
$63 (2nd donation), J.
$63, DIERICKX C.
$63, Nick M.
$60 (38th donation), Wolfgang P.
$57 (5th donation), GASHIGULLIN D.
$53 (21st donation), Geoff P
$53 (10th donation), Peter W.
$53 (8th donation), Mark E.
$53 (6th donation), Bobby
$53 (6th donation), Gianni O.
$53 (6th donation), Marek Stapff<\/a>
$53 (6th donation), Patrick R.
$53 (5th donation), E. V. S. .
$53 (3rd donation), Bernard S.
$53 (3rd donation), Bernhard S.
$53 (3rd donation), Kevin B.
$53 (3rd donation), RP
$53 (3rd donation), Syntega IT Schmitt
$53 (2nd donation), Christina R.
$53 (2nd donation), Hinderk S.
$53 (2nd donation), Juan E.
$53 (2nd donation), Klaus B.
$53 (2nd donation), Robert M.
$53 (2nd donation), Rolf S.
$53 (2nd donation), Ronald L.
$53 (2nd donation), Stefan L.
$53 (2nd donation), Tristan A.
$53, ALAIN H.
$53, Andr\u00e9 C.
$53, Andre R.
$53, Anthony DUBOIS aka “Big.”
$53, Bartolome M. G.
$53, Benjamin L.
$53, Bernard G.
$53, Bruno N.
$53, Carmen S.
$53, Dania B.
$53, Daniel D.
$53, Dimitrios P.
$53, Dirk H. M.
$53, F. P.
$53, Friedrich T.
$53, Frode F.
$53, GHM H.
$53, Hannes N.
$53, Hans D. R.
$53, Ignacio D. M. I.
$53, Ing W. E.
$53, Juergen B.
$53, K. S. N.
$53, Kilian A. W.
$53, Leonhard R.
$53, LESLY M. R. G.
$53, Mario C.
$53, Mark E.
$53, Mathias P.
$53, Michel B.
$53, Patrick B. aka “the climbing developer<\/a>“
$53, Peter V.
$53, Sotiris K.
$53, Stefan F.
$53, Sylvio D.
$53, Vesa L.
$50 (28th donation), Thomas T. aka “FullTimer1489”
$50 (14th donation), Intrinsic<\/a>
$50 (14th donation), Mothy
$50 (12th donation), Bruce N.
$50 (11th donation), Anthony C. aka “Ciak”
$50 (5th donation), Felipe Amaral aka “famaral42<\/a>“
$50 (4th donation), Guillermo A.
$50 (4th donation), Karl J.
$50 (4th donation), Tim A.
$50 (3rd donation), Christopher M.
$50 (3rd donation), Frank B.
$50 (2nd donation), Glenn D.
$50 (2nd donation), Jan I. L.
$50 (2nd donation), Mario L.
$50 (2nd donation), mark M.
$50 (2nd donation), Michael R.
$50 (2nd donation), Oscar H.
$50 (2nd donation), Philip B.
$50 (2nd donation), Steven D. P.
$50, Anthony M.
$50, Charles S.
$50, Colleen R.
$50, craiggunderson.com
$50, Daniel G.
$50, daniel L.
$50, David C.
$50, David J.
$50, Douglas B.
$50, DR M. H. F.
$50, Eric H.
$50, Grayson Peddie
$50, Hansruedi M.
$50, Jim O.
$50, John A. B.
$50, John C.
$50, John D.
$50, Joseph K.
$50, Kenneth T. B.
$50, Kevin B.
$50, Kevin E.
$50, Kyle L.
$50, MATTHEW S.
$50, Monte B. I.
$50, Peter Bartosik
$50, Ralph U.
$50, Ramesh K.
$50, Randy B.
$50, Rebecca P.
$50, Stephen G.
$50, Steven L.
$50, Sylvain D.
$50, Taekyun K.
$50, Tom B.
$50, Vincent N.
$50, Wayne F. R.
$50, Wayne H.
$50, Wojciech B.
$47, EDOUARD S.
$43, .– .. .-.. .-.. .. .- — \/ — \/ .-.-.-<\/a>
$42, Hans-Anton R.
$42, Josua M.
$42, Seong-Lin H.
$41, Max B.
$40 (4th donation), Carl T.
$40, jose A. S. A.
$40, Michael K.
$37 (8th donation), Niklas
$37 (3rd donation), Andreas K.
$35, Alejandra G.
$35, Cameron L. M.
$35, Mark G.
$35, Mr S. B. L.
$31 (10th donation), Peter C.
$31 (4th donation), Reinhold S.
$31, Benjamin L.
$31, COLIN D.
$31, Daniel A.
$31, Enrique M.
$31, Ingo T.
$31, Kjetil G.
$31, Martin S.
$31, Michael W.
$31, Paul P. W.
$31, Reinhard K.
$31, Richard G.
$31, Zoran S.
$30 (6th donation), Craig B.
$30, Axel B.
$30, BRUCE B. R.
$30, Karen P.
$30, Kevin S.
$30, MATTHEW R. E.
$30, Mr. C.
$29 (3rd donation), Thomas M.
$29, E A. C.
$26 (6th donation), Lionel R.
$26 (4th donation), Rudolf M.
$26 (3rd donation), Josef C.
$26 (3rd donation), Ronny W.
$26 (2nd donation), Christian K.
$26 (2nd donation), Hans Peter S.
$26 (2nd donation), Joachim F.
$26 (2nd donation), Michael R.
$26 (2nd donation), Samuel G.
$26 (2nd donation), Tim O.
$26, ALIAKSANDR L.
$26, Hans U. M.
$26, J.C. C.
$26, Miriam B.
$26, Oskar K.
$26, Zola
$25 (57th donation), Linux Mint Sverige<\/a>
$25 (16th donation), Mihnea R\u0103dulescu<\/a>
$25 (10th donation), John N.
$25 (5th donation), Richard T. aka “RichT54”
$25 (4th donation), Larry G.
$25 (2nd donation), Anonymous
$25, Daniel D.
$25, Michel G.
$25, Paul S. G.
$21 (65th donation), Peter E.
$21 (48th donation), Thomas Rehm
$21 (32nd donation), Stefan W.
$21 (27th donation), Benjamin W. aka “UncleBens”
$21 (26th donation), Marek S.
$21 (25th donation), Nigel B.
$21 (19th donation), Alain P.
$21 (11th donation), Francis N.
$21 (11th donation), Fran\u00e7ois L.
$21 (7th donation), Arvi O.
$21 (7th donation), Frank W.
$21 (7th donation), Ingo P.
$21 (7th donation), Sebastian Friedrich
$21 (6th donation), Dominique M. O.
$21 (6th donation), Riccardo C.
$21 (6th donation), Tannis E.
$21 (5th donation), Haris A.
$21 (5th donation), Manfred H.
$21 (5th donation), Santiago
$21 (5th donation), Van G. H. aka “HarryT140E”
$21 (4th donation), Florian K. aka “FK”
$21 (4th donation), Helgi J.
$21 (4th donation), Jean-pierre P.
$21 (4th donation), Konrad S.
$21 (4th donation), S\u00f6nke M.
$21 (4th donation), Uwe W.
$21 (4th donation), Wolfgang L.
$21 (3rd donation), A V.
$21 (3rd donation), Adam D.
$21 (3rd donation), Jens R.
$21 (3rd donation), M. T.
$21 (3rd donation), Matthias W.
$21 (3rd donation), Viktor W. aka “Vykynger”
$21 (2nd donation), Anne-Pierre aka “A-PP”
$21 (2nd donation), Bernhard M.
$21 (2nd donation), Erwin B.
$21 (2nd donation), Gedeon Stol
$21 (2nd donation), Gu\u00f0ni M. G.
$21 (2nd donation), Ilmo J.
$21 (2nd donation), Jose Luis F. M.
$21 (2nd donation), Klaus F.
$21 (2nd donation), Kurt B.
$21 (2nd donation), Pierre M.
$21 (2nd donation), Rainer F.
$21 (2nd donation), Reinhart S.
$21 (2nd donation), Simon R.
$21, A.W.M. V. R.
$21, Alessandro B.
$21, Alex M.
$21, Alex N.
$21, Alvaro L.
$21, Andreas S.
$21, Arturo B.
$21, Bas D.
$21, Benjamin D.
$21, Bogomil T.
$21, Bruno E.
$21, Christian P.
$21, David E
$21, Diego C.
$21, Dirk B.
$21, DOMINGO A. R.
$21, Duy D. P.
$21, Eduardo S. G.
$21, Eric B.
$21, FELIX K.
$21, francisco L.
$21, Francois M.
$21, Frank M. F.
$21, Frank N.
$21, Frank S.
$21, Frederik G.
$21, Fredrik N.
$21, Gabriele D. M.
$21, Gary F.
$21, Gerard A. B.
$21, Giovanni S.
$21, Guenter K.
$21, Harald P.
$21, Harry M.
$21, Imrich P.
$21, Ingo S.
$21, Irma G.
$21, James A.
$21, Johannes P.
$21, Johannes R.
$21, Joni H.
$21, Julian M.
$21, Kathleen D.
$21, Ljubomir V.
$21, Manfred O. aka “Diving Bull”
$21, Manuel N.
$21, Marcho aka “PlumBum”
$21, Marco B.
$21, Marcus N.
$21, Markoise
$21, Martin Wessely
$21, Mathias M.
$21, Matthias H.
$21, Matthieu aka “Madeba”
$21, Michael Wannink
$21, Michel R. aka “Ghost Raven”
$21, N. S.
$21, Nadine J.
$21, Paul B.
$21, Paul L.
$21, Peter L.
$21, Peter T.
$21, Phil C.
$21, Rainer S.
$21, Robert B.
$21, Robert T.
$21, Rolf I.
$21, Santi R. L.
$21, Sebastian M.
$21, Shaun Moorcroft
$21, Stefan R.
$21, Thomas M.
$21, Tomislav B.
$21, Uwe L.
$21, William S.
$21, yannick B.
$20 (73rd donation), Bryan F.
$20 (19th donation), Dana S.
$20 (6th donation), Daniel Greg aka “006.5”
$20 (5th donation), Brent P.
$20 (5th donation), Randall W.
$20 (5th donation), Timothy A.
$20 (5th donation), William B.
$20 (4th donation), Eugene C.
$20 (4th donation), Tulio J S.
$20 (3rd donation), Alan H.
$20 (3rd donation), Alexander B.
$20 (3rd donation), Ian D.
$20 (3rd donation), Lars K.
$20 (3rd donation), Mike W.
$20 (3rd donation), Murat K.
$20 (2nd donation), Adam Neal Design
$20 (2nd donation), Daron M.
$20 (2nd donation), Doug Z.
$20 (2nd donation), Peter W.
$20 (2nd donation), Robert B.
$20 (2nd donation), Robert M.
$20 (2nd donation), Ted S.
$20, A. S
$20, Adam S.
$20, ATSUSHI Y.
$20, Benoit L.
$20, Dakota L.
$20, Damaris S.
$20, David W.
$20, Dylan V. D. W.
$20, Gabriel R. V. D. M.
$20, Geraldo R.
$20, Gregory T.
$20, ibrahim K.
$20, James T.
$20, Jamie N.
$20, Jeffrey P.
$20, Jeromy J.
$20, Jesse A.
$20, Justin L.
$20, Ken N.
$20, Lore Forge
$20, Louis C.
$20, Marcus A.
$20, Mario Gervais
$20, Martin L.
$20, Mathew E.
$20, Michael O.
$20, Neal H.
$20, Panagiotis L.
$20, R
$20, Richard R.
$20, Richard W.
$20, Robert E.
$20, Severin M.
$20, simon C.
$20, Stefan N.
$20, Steve H.
$20, Taylor S.
$20, Thomas D.
$20, Thong N.
$20, Tor E. A.
$20, Ugurcan K.
$20, William W.
$19, Anatolii A.
$18 (6th donation), Nicholas J.
$15 (14th donation), Gabriele I.
$15 (6th donation), mitch K.
$15 (2nd donation), Rufus
$15 (2nd donation), Tyler H.
$15, Alexander R.
$15, Bruce W.
$15, Christian W.
$15, Drak aka “Silly Dreg”
$15, Maario T.
$15, Peter W.
$13, aka “dingbat7871”
$13, Leszek M.
$12, Daniel L.
$12, Gheorghe Nicusor Pop
$11 (12th donation), Alessandro S.
$11 (2nd donation), Darko H.
$11 (2nd donation), kamil P.
$10 (116th donation), Thomas C.
$10 (60th donation), Philip Woodward
$10 (43rd donation), Tugaleres.com<\/a>
$10 (40th donation), Denys G. aka “GD Next<\/a>“
$10 (26th donation), Christopher R.
$10 (23rd donation), Piotr L
$10 (17th donation), Aimless Games
$10 (13th donation), redman
$10 (11th donation), Abe Z.
$10 (11th donation), Daniel Tan
$10 (10th donation), Artem Ignatyev aka “ZaZooBred”
$10 (10th donation), Joel C.
$10 (10th donation), Peter H.
$10 (8th donation), Mirko A.
$10 (7th donation), Alexei S.
$10 (7th donation), Joe S.
$10 (7th donation), Luis D.
$10 (7th donation), Mariusz B.
$10 (6th donation), Bernd S.
$10 (6th donation), Edgar T.
$10 (6th donation), G\u00fcnter S.
$10 (6th donation), James N.
$10 (6th donation), Sebastian S.
$10 (6th donation), \u017delimir S.
$10 (5th donation), Christopher U.<\/a>
$10 (5th donation), Tristan V.
$10 (4th donation), Balazs B.
$10 (4th donation), jan W. V. D.
$10 (4th donation), Loren D.
$10 (3rd donation), Alan L.
$10 (3rd donation), Dave J.
$10 (3rd donation), Davor T.
$10 (3rd donation), Detlef D.
$10 (3rd donation), Korora Solutions<\/a>
$10 (3rd donation), Michael K.
$10 (3rd donation), Natanael Cruz
$10 (3rd donation), Noah P.
$10 (3rd donation), Ted H.
$10 (2nd donation), Brian D. O.
$10 (2nd donation), Bruno C.
$10 (2nd donation), Ilmo Y.
$10 (2nd donation), John F.
$10 (2nd donation), Kourosh S.
$10 (2nd donation), Lorenz M.
$10 (2nd donation), Lorenzo C.
$10 (2nd donation), Mark B.
$10 (2nd donation), Nejc \u0160.
$10 (2nd donation), Ola P.
$10 (2nd donation), Pasquale G.
$10 (2nd donation), Pentti S.
$10 (2nd donation), Tomasz S.
$10 (2nd donation), Urszula S.
$10, Adam M.
$10, Alexander S.
$10, Alexandre M. B.
$10, Alexandru T.
$10, Aman P.
$10, And\u00e9ol P.
$10, Andre R.
$10, Andrea B.
$10, Andreas W.
$10, Andreas W.
$10, Andres C.
$10, Anja
$10, Annarita R.
$10, Anthony C.
$10, Antonio T.
$10, Ashley S.
$10, Barnaby M.
$10, Bernd S.
$10, Bernhard B.
$10, BIANCO S.
$10, Brandon D.
$10, Brendan G.
$10, Cas F.
$10, Christian F.
$10, Dainius aka “uNseeN”
$10, Daniel A.
$10, Daniel B.
$10, Daniel E. aka “SimsonS53”
$10, daniel P.
$10, Daniel T.
$10, Dany
$10, David T.
$10, Dr H. U.
$10, E A. M.
$10, E D. M.
$10, Eduard D.
$10, Enzo P.
$10, epicjourney aka “pitfall”
$10, Fenyvesi K.
$10, Fernand V.
$10, Fernando H.
$10, FRANCESCO O.
$10, Gerhard F.
$10, Giuseppe A.
$10, Giuseppe I.
$10, Gordon O.
$10, Gr\u00e9goire D. I.
$10, Guido K. aka “In memory of Louisb\u00e4r”
$10, guido M.
$10, Guido R.
$10, Guillaume B.
$10, Gustavo F.
$10, Hans H.
$10, hansj\u00f6rg V.
$10, Ismail K.
$10, Jacek Szukalski
$10, James L.
$10, Jan V. D. B.
$10, Jan V. K.
$10, Jean B.
$10, Jean G.
$10, Jerome P.
$10, joe R.
$10, Jorge Albe\u0144o
$10, Jos\u00e9 M. V.
$10, Jose M. B. R.
$10, Julian A. G. T.
$10, J\u00fcrgen F.
$10, Justin C.
$10, Kali aka “kali”
$10, Kevin L.
$10, Kyle L.
$10, Lennard B.
$10, Lorenzo T.
$10, Lostes B.
$10, Luc\u00eda S.
$10, Lyuben Hranov
$10, Manuel W.
$10, marco A.
$10, Marcus V. R. U.
$10, Martin S.
$10, Matthew F.
$10, Max
$10, MERCIER.Phil aka “Phil911”
$10, Merlin W.
$10, Michael G. L.
$10, Michael H.
$10, Michael H.
$10, Michal B.
$10, Miguel A. M.
$10, Murari B.
$10, Nevin M.
$10, Nicholas S.
$10, NICOLAE C. D.
$10, Orlando O.
$10, Patrick B.
$10, Paul B.
$10, Philipp J.
$10, pier L. B.
$10, pino C.
$10, Ray E.
$10, Robert H.
$10, Rolf M.
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$10, Rossi R.
$10, Scott H.
$10, sergio C.
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$10, Steven W.
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$10, Thomas D.
$10, thomas L.
$10, Thomas S.
$10, Tobias Z.
$10, Torsten A.
$10, Tyler Sanders
$10, V\u00e9ronique V. D. B.
$10, Winfried B.
$10, \u041e\u043b\u0435\u043a\u0441\u0430\u043d\u0434\u0440 aka “\u0421\u0443\u0445\u043e\u0440\u0443\u0447\u043a\u0456\u043d”
$8 (2nd donation), MAISA GARCIA
$8, Andy K.
$8, SmG
$7 (2nd donation), TURBOKAN_TR
$7, Maris K.
$7, Robert D.
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