Monthly Stats – April 2011

Donations & Sponsorships:

Many thanks to the following donors and sponsors for financially supporting Linux Mint:

Donors:

$1000 (3rd donation), Anonymous
$282, Weiland und Shmykov GbR aka “Docjones“
$138, Mika K.
$100 (2nd donation), Edgar B. C.
$100 (2nd donation), Philip C. Freytag aka “phil”
$100, Joshua W.
$100, James S.
$100, Jerry F.
$100, Desiree G.
$82.8 (7th donation), Orlando M. M.
$70.5 (5th donation), Wolfgang P.
$69, Matthias B.
$62, Richard B.
$60, Trenton I.
$55.2 (5th donation), Laurent P.
$50 (3rd donation), David Gagne aka “davidgagne80”
$50 (2nd donation), Carlos H. G.
$50, Georgene N.
$50, Gregor M.
$50, Jan C.
$50, Martin K.
$50, Ryan M.
$50, Andreas S.
$50, Aaron C.
$50, Yuan C. L.
$50, Steven Z.
$35.25 (13th donation), Marco R.
$30 (17th donation), Pete Molina aka “pmolina”
$30 (3rd donation), Terry Gillett
$30, Fergus M.
$28.2 (19th donation), Manuel F.
$28.2 (2nd donation), Reiner K.
$28.2, Alexandros T.
$27.6 (14th donation), Olli K.
$27.6 (3rd donation), Pasi K.
$27.6, Karol M. R.
$25 (7th donation), Kenny Hendrick aka “NprComputers“
$25 (4th donation), Michael L. aka “ddavid123“
$25 (2nd donation), A Webb aka “allen9013”
$25 (2nd donation), Norman B. D.
$25, Vernon H.
$25, Rebecca S.
$25, Gregg M.
$25, Larry P.
$25, Renee M.
$25, Frank K.
$25, Douglas J. B.
$25, Gerald L.
$20.7 (2nd donation), MartinF aka “badwolf9”
$20.7 (2nd donation), Joseph R. aka “killinjoe”
$20 (13th donation), Matthew M.
$20 (10th donation), Antonio M. aka “Rob Brill’s book-keeper”
$20 (6th donation), Brian G.
$20 (5th donation), Henry W.
$20 (3rd donation), Trevor H.
$20 (2nd donation), Daniel J.
$20, Rikstation
$20, Gerald S.
$20, Bruno Eduardo Ramos aka “BeoR”
$20, Christopher C.
$20, Kevin S.
$20, Jeffery S.
$15 (3rd donation), Adriano R. aka “drr00t”
$15, Dylan R. aka “Hiro“
$15, Tomas Ciagadlak
$15, Herbs and Helpers
$14.1, Thomas S.
$14.1, Jens G.
$14.1, Mattias S. aka “DynamicMan”
$14.1, Anastasios Kontogiannis aka “tasosoulis“
$13.95, Stefan W.
$13.8 (12th donation), Paco C.C. aka “kannabix”
$13.8, Peter T.
$13.8, Ivan Bulychev aka “vanyok”
$13.8, Farid F. F.
$10.35 (4th donation), Ronald T.
$10.18, Renan L.
$10 (4th donation), Kiril Sotirov
$10 (3rd donation), George238
$10 (3rd donation), Ralf H.
$10 (3rd donation), Siniša Majstorović
$10 (3rd donation), Clemens N.
$10 (2nd donation), Haydn P.
$10 (2nd donation), Kim H. aka “grhdtj“
$10 (2nd donation), Timothy C.
$10 (2nd donation), Tony C. aka “S. LaRocca”
$10, Paul K.
$10, Nicholas M.
$10, Kenneth M.
$10, Alexey Z.
$10, Artem G. aka “shrewmus”
$10, Reilly B.
$10, Debra R.
$10, Tushar T.
$10, John H.
$10, Amir M.
$10, Jake Basile
$10, Dale B.
$10, Juan V. A.
$10, Jaroslav L.
$7.05 (2nd donation), Ralf Schmidt
$7.05, Caner Cuhac
$7.05, Salvatore S.
$7.05, Michael S.
$7, Alexander M.
$6.9, Camiel D.
$6.9, Kevin D.
$6.67 (2nd donation), Maxx Hogan
$6.67, Maxx Hogan
$5.52, Purushottam D.
$5 (6th donation), Michael Gstettenbauer
$5 (5th donation), Miljenko D.
$5 (4th donation), Jose P.
$5 (3rd donation), Kelley J. aka “Kelley Green”
$5 (2nd donation), Nebojsa R.
$5 (2nd donation), Michael C.
$5, Ashoka P.
$5, Terry W.
$5, Ihor H.
$4.14 (7th donation), Ulf S. aka “MonteDrago”
$2.07, Jere H.
$2 (3rd donation), StuzzHosting.com
$2 (2nd donation), Bhupendra Kumar Singh aka “B K Singh”
$2 (2nd donation), Javier C.
$1.92, Meine K.
$1.04 (10th donation), Inga Muste aka “TokRa“
$1 (12th donation), Cool Computer Tricks
$1, Alejandro U.
$0.25, Korbin B.

Sponsors:

$231, R1Soft
$106, SEOMoves
$75, John Ritchie aka “Aging Technogeek”
$50, Andreas Landgraf
$26, BODHost, Ltd.
$25, Blayne B.
$21, Jay P.
$20, Az Van aka “newW2”
$20, CEPTOR Datentechnik oHG
$20, David S.
$20, Kristian S.
$20, Scott P.
$15, Terry M.
$14, Investment Blog
$13, Unixmen.com
$12, Tim W.
$11, Promotional Mouse Mats
$11, Roman P.
$10, Advermedia
$10, Andre H.
$10, Angel M. D.
$10, Anthony Gallon
$10, Barry’s Tickets
$10, Dan Jackson
$10, Frank O.
$10, Jack H.
$10, Jeff R.
$10, Jeramy R.
$10, JimQ
$10, Jonathan K.
$10, Mattias S. (DynamicMan)
$10, Mugs Promotional
$10, Promotional Gifts
$10, Real Estate Centers
$10, Roland F. Arms
$10, Ronald B.
$10, Website Auditor
$10, William C. Mitchell aka “onewing”
$10, worldsrealestate.net
$9, Promotional Items
$8, Attila Vecsei
$8, Printed Clothing
$7, Jesse Burroughs aka “JpBя”
$7, Martin S.
$7, Personalised Clothing
$7, Promotional Mug
$6, Clothing Promotional
$6, deep64blue
$6, Martin Senftleben aka “DrMartinus“
$6, shop2help.dk
$5, Dimitris Ch.
$5, Don Brubaker
$5, Fandangio
$5, Flemming D. Joergensen aka “DcyMatrix“
$5, Gregory T.
$5, Jeffrey S.
$5, Jeremy N.
$5, Joe H. aka “JoeFootball”
$5, Lee K.
$5, Matthew N.
$5, Matthew Y.
$5, Printed Clothing
$5, Printed Mug
$5, Private Jets Charter
$5, Promotional Gifts
$5, Scott St.
$5, Scott Y.
$5, Sohier C.
$5, Thomas Howson
$5, Thomas Nehrlich
$5, Torstein Sornes aka “todda7”
$5, Turin
$4, Baby shower favors
$4, Chile travel
$4, Ian E. aka “EchoLynx “
$4, Shannon D.
$3, CreationsByRichie – Animated Banners & Graphical Designs
$3, Josef K.
$3, Sebastian Posch
$3, Stephen Aghaulor
$2.1, Product Reviews Community
$2, Caravan Awnings
$2, Douglas T.
$2, Joerg Dreckmann
$2, Manuel V.
$2, SPAC Information and News
$2, VeganQuébec
$1.66, Ainer.org
$1.5, Daniel A.
$1.5, Farbyte
$1.25, Justin Peterson
$1.2, Tax-Rebate
$1, Недвижимость на Кипре
$1, недвижимость в греции
$1, Cyprus Resale
$1, Cyprus Weather
$1, Ethoseo Internet Marketing Bellingham, WA
$1, Frank S.
$1, Greg Flynn
$1, Hard Drive Reviews
$1, iPad News
$1, Javier Ruiz
$1, John Michael L.
$1, Online Pokerraum aka “donegon“
$1, Poker Fieber
$1, Pokerschule
$1, Property In Greece
$1, redfoa
$1, redfoa
$1, Renelou Esperanzate
$1, Seth Forrestier
$1, surfinpeace.co.uk
$1, very-clever.com
$1, Zenworks Servizi Web
$0.9, www.pPage.net
$0.5, Awesome Link Directory
$0.5, Foobnix – Simple and Powerful music player for Linux
$0.5, Хакасия real-time

Money raised in April:

* Donations: $4409.91 (129 donors)
* Sponsors: $1180.61 (118 sponsors)

http://www.linuxmint.com/donors.php
http://www.linuxmint.com/sponsors.php

User Stats:

Repartition of Linux Mint users across releases:

Linux Mint 10 Julia: 52.19%
Linux Mint 9 Isadora LTS: 22.22%
LMDE: 8.70%
Linux Mint 7 Gloria: 7.60%
Linux Mint 8 Helena: 5.28%
Linux Mint 4.0 Daryna: 2.23%
Linux Mint 6 Felicia: 1.11%
Linux Mint 5 Elyssa LTS: 0.66%

Web Stats:

Visits: 2,796,004
Unique views: 3,511,885
Pageviews: 4,473,833
Page impressions: 2,649,639
Search queries: 7,775,406
Forum users: 36,308
Forum posts: 398,706

Rankings:

Distrowatch (popularity ranking): 1958 (2nd)
Distrowatch (traffic share): 3.9% (2nd)
Alexa (website ranking): 13,843th

Events:

Linux Mint signed a partnership with HELLOTUX
Linux Mint 5 LTS Elyssa reached end of life
Linux Mint Xfce (201104) was released
mintCast released 4 podcast episodes, including an interview with Kendall Weaver: #59, #60, #61 and #62

Summary:

The mintCast project continues on it success and is quickly becoming one of the most popular Linux podcasts available to listeners. Check it out if you haven’t already done so. The mintCast team is also often present on IRC where it’s easy for them to keep in touch with both their audience and the Linux Mint development team.
A lot of development and bug fixes were done in April for the upcoming Linux Mint 11. The Update Manager in particular was greatly improved and made its way to both the Mint 11 and LMDE repositories. The Software Manager received many improvements too, though these weren’t revealed yet.
We received a $1,000 donation this month. Although it’s his 3rd donation to Linux Mint, the Canadian donor wants to remain anonymous. This important donation had a positive impact on our monthly stats, April being the last month in our release cycle and traditionally a quiet period from a financial point of view. Our overall daily income went down by 4%.
I apologise for releasing these statistics a little late. The RC release for Linux Mint 11 should be here in a few days, 2 of its 4 ISOs already passed QA. The stable release should be available in the end of May. We’ll also be working on a special magazine edition of the Linux Identity Kit for Linux Mint 11 which will promote the release and guide users through its use and installation in the USA.