Monthly Stats – October 2012

Sponsorships:

Linux Mint is proudly sponsored by:

Platinum Sponsors:
Blue Systems - Netrunner

Gold Sponsors:
Opera

Dedicated Hosting Server *

Silver Sponsors:
R1Soft

Bronze Sponsors:
ThinkPenguin.com

Vault Networks *

AYKsolutions Server & Cloud Hosting

7L Networks Toronto Colocation *

Brucey99

Community Sponsors:

Kinescope Inc.
Alyx Biologicals B.V.
Coupon Hubs
CouponCodeSwap.com
Windows VPS Hosting
Kamal G
Mark Cohen
BearElk Technologies, LLC
Caturix
Convenient PDF Reader for Android
Craig
D M Hamilton
David S.
Helmut Kleinhans
Kristian S.
levitra
Poobies – Weihnachtskarten
Sascha Reinsch
Sascha Reinsch
SEER Interactive
The Survival Monkey
Unixmen- Linux News & Howtos

To become a sponsor or see the full list of Linux Mint sponsors, please visit: http://www.linuxmint.com/sponsors.php

Donations:

$5870 were raised thanks to the generous contributions of 228 donors: http://www.linuxmint.com/donors.php

$500 (6th donation), Mohammed A.
$373.57, Norbert C.
$100 (6th donation), Ronald S.
$100 (2nd donation), Gerhard W.
$100 (2nd donation), About Canada
$100, Timur Evdokimov
$100, Christopher P.
$100, Don C.
$100, Slava Vishnyakov
$100, Nick J.
$80, Davydov D.
$75 (9th donation), Ralph Siegler aka “ziggy“
$62.26 (3rd donation), Josue M.
$62.26 (2nd donation), Wolfgang B.
$62.26, Stefan K.
$62.26, Dominique P.
$62.26, Damon L.
$62.26, Stefan H.
$62.26, HHW
$62.26, Bernhard P.
$60 (3rd donation), Alex Dolhescu
$60, Benjamin S.
$50 (31st donation), Matthew M.
$50, Dimitar K.
$50, Dixon C.
$50, Glenn Meyer
$50, Northern Mike
$50, Paul G.
$50, Jeremy G.
$50, Roody A.
$50, James H.
$50, Brian P.
$50, Paul S.
$50, Christophe W.
$50, Marcus M.
$49.81, Klaus-Peter F.
$43.58, David B.
$40, Slava A.
$40, Brucey99
$40, Guillaume P.
$37.36 (5th donation), Frans Van O.
$37.35 (32nd donation), Olli K.
$35 (2nd donation), Houston Estate Attorney
$35, Houston Estate Attorney
$31.13 (2nd donation), Walter S.
$31.13, Jonathan M.-G. aka “Jmgr“
$31.13, Michael U.
$30 (37th donation), Slavoljub aka “slw”
$30 (3rd donation), Bill E.
$30 (2nd donation), Quinten C.
$30 (2nd donation), Clovis F.
$30, Harold G.
$30, Donald K.
$30, Gilles S.
$30, Brendan C.
$30, Srdjan I.
$30, Rudnevskiy A.
$27.99 (2nd donation), hempforest.net aka “rufong“
$25 (13th donation), Ronald W.
$25 (10th donation), Adam D.
$25 (2nd donation), Geoff_P.
$25 (2nd donation), David van Geest
$25, Oskar L.
$25, Charles R.
$25, Andrew M.
$25, C.L
$25, Martin Vieira
$25, Gareth C.
$25, Jon R.
$24.9 (2nd donation), Ostap M.
$24.9, Timo L.
$24.9, Mathias D.
$24.9, Wolfgang H.
$24.9, Pnevmatikos D.
$24.9, Oliver Anhuth
$24.9, E F.
$20 (20th donation), Tsuguo S.
$20 (4th donation), Earl Dukerschein aka “Bitflogger“
$20 (3rd donation), Thomas M.
$20 (2nd donation), George M.
$20, William S.
$20, Nicholas T.
$20, Gerard D.
$20, David B.
$20, N1X3L
$20, Gabor K.
$20, alexander taylor
$20, Bezantnet, L.
$20, Gustavo Molina
$20, Raphael S.
$20, Jason Graun
$20, Jay B.
$20, Ghost7
$20, Devanandan J.
$20, Maxime G.
$20, joshg253 aka “Josh Gunderson“
$20, Will Elliott aka “rstrcogburn“
$20, Austin K.
$20, netzpartner.ch – Dachzelte und mehr… aka “Direktimport von Autodachzelten“
$20, iMarketing-Solutions, LLC
$20, Peter F.
$20, Calvin L.
$20, Peter B.
$20, Anthony C.
$20, Craig P.
$20, Marcus K.
$18, Brian T.
$15, Lloyd A.
$15, Voropaev P.
$15, John K.
$15, Andrew L.
$15, Jesse D.
$15, Andrea K.
$13, Leopold H. Birkholm
$12.74, Richard D. B.
$12.45 (17th donation), Marco R.
$12.45 (13th donation), Jarkko K.
$12.45 (6th donation), zerozero
$12.45 (4th donation), Werner G.
$12.45 (2nd donation), Rene T.
$12.45, James Q.
$12.45, Thomas B.
$12.45, Ennio T.
$12.45, James K.
$12.45, Emma D.
$12.45, Thomas F.
$12.45, Petri P.
$12.45, Roberto S.
$12.45, Kostrab A.
$12.45, Alpo T.
$12.45, Harald T.
$12.45, Kortingscode Omoda
$12.45, Werner O.
$12.45, Eros F.
$12.45, Michael P.
$11.11, Bernhard B. aka “Xethron”
$10 (20th donation), Tony C. aka “S. LaRocca”
$10 (12th donation), Kiril Sotirov
$10 (6th donation), Charlie Robinson
$10 (5th donation), Geoff Perry
$10 (4th donation), Alcides Salinas
$10 (2nd donation), Mathias B. aka “Sorglos”
$10 (2nd donation), Andre T.
$10, Julio J.
$10, Stefan K. aka “radi1962”
$10, Bruce M.
$10, Harsh V. D.
$10, wes342
$10, Johan L.
$10, Edilbert N.
$10, Tahir C. B.
$10, Todd P.
$10, Adrian D.
$10, Ben Creasy
$10, Brandon K.
$10, Michael F.
$10, Marek F.
$10, Keith W.
$10, T. Lennon
$10, Derek F.
$10, Yoonkai W.
$10, Hubert P.
$9, Rich F. H.
$8.72, Janne P.
$7.77, Robert K.
$7.6 (2nd donation), Librestickers.com
$7, Alexander Galkin
$6.23 (8th donation), Marco aka “Dictionary-Maker“
$6.23 (3rd donation), Kjell O. B. aka “kob”
$6.23 (3rd donation), Christelle aka “voyance par telephone“
$6.23 (2nd donation), Genet W.
$6.23 (2nd donation), Paulo N. aka “uLusu”
$6.23 (2nd donation), Mark W.
$6.23, M. T.
$6.23, Stefan Infanger aka “noob_fl“
$6.23, Ellis D.
$6.23, Manuel aka “voyance gratuite“
$6.23, Dimitar D. aka “dimitrovden“
$6.23, Mauro A.
$6.23, Bernhard L.
$6.2262, Juergen aka “bitblokes“
$5 (15th donation), Antonina K. aka “Tonya”
$5 (3rd donation), CouponCodeSwap.com
$5 (2nd donation), Hostandreg.co.uk .
$5 (2nd donation), Marko Kovic
$5 (2nd donation), Greg aka “Gho.st Community Web Services“
$5, Asher C.
$5, David C.
$5, A. D.
$5, James S.
$5, Hugo P.
$5, Justin H.
$5, Bobby K.
$5, Andrew C.
$5, Joseph B.
$5, Georgios B.
$5, Josh R. aka “bigj231“
$5, Michael Q. J.
$5, aka “Jokeerek”
$5, Theodore C.
$5, Carlos H. M. M.
$5, Misyurkeev A.
$5, Ronald K. I.
$5, Vladyslav T.
$4, Mushtuk S.
$4, Dino B.
$3.74, Stephan M.
$3 (5th donation), Web Design Company
$3 (2nd donation), Joe C.
$3, Grigore R.
$3, cheap halloween costumes
$2.88, Travis W. R. I.
$22.17 from 16 smaller donations

Rankings:

Distrowatch (popularity ranking): 3349 (1st)
Alexa (website ranking): 7,307th

Events:

The Linux Mint Store was opened
Linux Mint signed a partnership with ThinkPenguin
Linux Mint 11 Katya reached end of life

Developer of the month:

Each month we feature one developer and explain his contributions to the community. Development is a lot of fun and it doesn’t take much to get started. If you’re tempted to join the team, don’t hesitate to follow our development on http://github.com/linuxmint and come and chat with the developers at #linuxmint-dev (irc.spotchat.org).

This month’s “developer of the month” is: Michael Webster (mtwebster)!

In terms of commits, Michael is the 4th biggest contributor to the Cinnamon project. Many of the late fixes going in the Cinnamon 1.6 series came from him. This month, he focused on Nemo, the Cinnamon file manager and gave it numerous fixes and a lot of new features:

View buttons
GTK Bookmarks support in MoveTo/CopyTo
Support for Thunderbird, Balsa and Evolution
Proper Open as Root support
Set as Wallpaper

Nemo in Linux Mint 14

The result is a fantastic application which complements the improvements and refinements of Cinnamon 1.6 and makes the desktop even more comfortable to use.

The improved file browser will be featured in Linux Mint 14 and backported to Linux Mint 13 and LMDE.

News and summary:

Many thanks to our sponsors, partners and donors. The amount of support we got this month was amazing and it really helps us focus on the development. We’re ahead of schedule, we achieved all our goals, I’m not sure what to say, we’re really grateful!
Linux Mint 14 MATE Edition and Linux Mint 14 Cinnamon Edition passed QA and were approved for an RC release yesterday. They should be announced in the coming days.
Both MATE 1.4 and Cinnamon 1.6 bring significant improvements to their previous releases. They will be backported to Linux Mint 13 and LMDE.
The stable release of Linux Mint 14 will be available at the end of this month for MATE and Cinnamon.
The following releases are planned for December 2012: Linux Mint 14 Xfce, Linux Mint 14 KDE, LMDE UP6.
Improvements in live-installer and a new tool called DDM which simplifies the installation of 3rd party drivers are also planned for LMDE. Depending on how fast they progress, new LMDE ISOs based on UP6 might be released in December or in January.