Monthly News – July 2013

Sponsorships:

Linux Mint is proudly sponsored by:

Platinum Sponsors:

Gold Sponsors:
Opera

Silver Sponsors:
Idera (formerly R1Soft)

Bronze Sponsors:

Community Sponsors:

Alyx Biologicals B.V.
Windows VPS Hosting
Mark Cohen
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Caturix
Anonymous
Craig
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David Salvo
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John Bayles Pianos
Kristian S.
Libre-Assistance
Magician Matthew James
Mahen
Mahendra Tallur
Out of Hours IT Help Ltd
Plain ICT
Sascha Reinsch
SEER Interactive
The Survival Monkey
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To become a sponsor or to see the full list of Linux Mint sponsors, please visit: http://www.linuxmint.com/sponsors.php

Donations:

A total of $4285 was raised thanks to the generous contributions of 191 donors:

$150 (13th donation), Andreas aka “TheHowling67“
$136.6, Jürgen H.
$126.47 (6th donation), Hendrik S.
$100 (2nd donation), Samson S.
$100, Simon L.
$100, Matthew P.
$100, Josef P.
$63.24 (2nd donation), Heinz B.
$63.24, Laurent C. aka “lawwon“
$63.24, Maris D.
$50 (46th donation), Slavoljub aka “slw”
$50 (40th donation), Matthew M.
$50 (7th donation), Peter S. aka “Pierre”
$50, Thai D.
$50, Steven S.
$50, Jeff K.
$50, Nicholas N.
$50, Roy B.
$50, Samuele D.
$50, Mike J.
$50, Ernie J.
$50, Stephen C.
$50, Patrick C.
$50, Rich H.
$42 (2nd donation), Nikolaj P. aka “nbpetersen“
$40 (5th donation), Engadine Cycles & Scooters aka “ECS“
$40, Lorraine P.
$40, James C.
$40, James A.
$37.94 (41th donation), Olli K.
$37.94 (2nd donation), Massimiliano M.
$37.94, Roland B.
$37.94, Ernst V. N.
$35, Vaibhav G.
$34, AGL summer course
$31.62, Stefan K.
$31.62, Davor R.
$31.62, Tim R.
$30, Clemente L.
$30, Jürgen D.
$30, Torgny P.
$30, Jason S.
$25.3, Salvatore R.
$25.3, Francisco L. D. A.
$25.3, Thomas P.
$25.3, Karl-heinz B.
$25.3, Fabio B.
$25.3, Bernhard G.
$25 (22nd donation), Ronald W.
$25 (6th donation), Peter T.
$25 (4th donation), Daniel A.
$25 (2nd donation), Unlock codes from Green Republic Ltd
$25, John S.
$25, John G.
$25, Keith F.
$25, Andy McBride
$25, Nelson M.
$25, Martijn E.
$25, Kenneth S.
$25, Richard S.
$25, Ludwig R.
$25, Anthony R.
$25, Frank L.
$23.55, Praveen K.
$20 (28th donation), Tsuguo S.
$20 (5th donation), Utah B.
$20 (4th donation), David Kelly aka “Daveinuk”
$20 (2nd donation), Manuel Gonzalez.
$20 (2nd donation), Feroz E.
$20, C Ebrey
$20, Thomas J. K.
$20, Jean T. M.
$20, Dominic C.
$20, Sharon P.
$20, Demintha A.
$20, John K.
$20, Tristan M.
$20, Sergei Polischuk
$20, Joseph C.
$20, Bengt J.
$20, Mehmet A. H.
$20, Drew M
$20, Philip F. S.
$20, Clayton M.
$20, Novica aka “Novica”
$20, Christopher D.
$20, Peter S.
$20, Steve S.
$20, Michael S.
$20, Zubin P.
$20, Norv M. aka “norvman“
$18.97, Hans H. B.
$15.18 (20th donation), Jarkko K.
$15 (6th donation), Robert E.
$15 (3rd donation), GVG
$15 (2nd donation), Shaun I.
$15, Simon W.
$13, Piotr Ł.
$13, Martin J.
$12.65 (6th donation), Dan Jackson
$12.65 (5th donation), Maarten E.
$12.65 (4th donation), Nicolas B.
$12.65 (4th donation), Hannes G.
$12.65 (3rd donation), Chris W.
$12.65 (2nd donation), Isak S.
$12.65 (2nd donation), Marco A.
$12.65, Erik G.
$12.65, Enrico N.
$12.65, Gerard M. Cormick aka “gmacor2”
$12.65, Jens-uwe R.
$12.65, Nikola Y.
$12.65, Dino M.
$12.65, Etienne D.
$12.65, Marcel S.
$12.65, Alberto B.
$12.65, Harm R.
$12.65, Daan V. E.
$12.65, Gabriele I.
$12.65, Juan C. S. A.
$12.65, P J. D.
$12.65, aka “dogbite”
$12.65, Salvador Coin aka “Johnny”
$12.65, Todor S.
$12, John McKinney
$10 (29th donation), Tony C. aka “S. LaRocca”
$10 (5th donation), Charles P.
$10 (2nd donation), John B.
$10 (2nd donation), Javier Guijarro aka “chejofan“
$10 (2nd donation), Larry I.
$10 (2nd donation), Andrew K.
$10, Timoteo T. R.
$10, Tyler Y
$10, William I.
$10, Kristian O.
$10, Douglas C.
$10, Kyle T.
$10, James Human aka “Uncle Jim”
$10, Ravi P. P.
$10, Carsten A.
$10, Allan D.
$10, Habershon H.
$10, Garrick S.
$10, Tristan B.
$10, Gerald S.
$9.65 (3rd donation), Randolph K.
$9.2 (10th donation), Matt R. aka “kiswa”
$9 (2nd donation), Kevin M.
$7.5, Simon W.
$7.02, Peter H.
$6.5 (2nd donation), Francesco Galgani
$6.32 (5th donation), Jean-michel A.
$6.32 (4th donation), Jean-michel A.
$6.32 (2nd donation), Dirk S.
$6.32, Etienne N.
$6.32, Saraplv aka “Sara”
$6.32, Rasmus B.
$6, Michael H.
$5.06, Antti A.
$5 (22nd donation), Antonio M. M. aka “zantaz“
$5 (21st donation), Antonio M. M. aka “zantaz“
$5 (20th donation), Antonio M. M. aka “zantaz“
$5 (19th donation), Antonio M. M. aka “zantaz“
$5 (18th donation), Antonio M. M. aka “zantaz“
$5 (6th donation), Jose M. D. A.
$5 (4th donation), Özgür ILGIN
$5 (3rd donation), Jose A. Ruiz
$5, Anton O.
$5, James F.
$5, Steven S.
$5, GXJ
$5, Dominique P.
$5, iNETH :: 24HORASONLINE :: NETH
$5, Stuart A.
$5, Fabrizio O.
$5, Jarad S.
$5, Toni P.
$3.9, Clive T.
$3.79, Christoph D.
$3.79, anonymous
$3 (4th donation), Marc D.
$3 (3rd donation), Marc D.
$3, Hostuner Web Hosting aka “Faisal Sani“
$3, Stacey D.
$7.56 from 8 smaller donations

If you want to help Linux Mint with a donation, please visit http://www.linuxmint.com/donors.php

Rankings:

Distrowatch (popularity ranking): 3563 (1st)
Alexa (website ranking): 7992

Events:

Linux Mint 15 “Olivia” KDE was released
Linux Mint 15 “Olivia” Xfce was released
The development team posted 2 articles on Segfault
mintCast produced 3 podcast episodes

News and summary:

Many thanks to all the people who donated during the summer and all our sponsors. This is helping us a lot.
On the business side of things, our sponsorship agreement with Blue Systems is coming to and end. That’s not to say cooperation will stop between Mint KDE and Netrunner, but we’ll soon be looking for a new Platinum sponsor to step in.
We’ve been relatively quiet here on the blog and also on Segfault during June and July but a lot of exciting things happened. Our partnership with CompuLab continued with the upcoming release of the MintBox 2. The Xfce and KDE editions of Linux Mint 15 were released and some really exciting new features landed in Cinnamon 2.0 (in preparation for Linux Mint 16 “Petra”): Window snapping and brand new user management applets and configuration modules.
As planned, Cinnamon 2.0 will use its own backend and act as an independent desktop environment. The work on the new cinnamon-session and cinnamon-settings-daemon modules is almost complete.
The team is focused on Linux Mint 16, planned for November 2013. August, September and October should bring a lot of exciting improvements.