Monthly News – May 2014

Sponsorships:

Linux Mint is proudly sponsored by:

Gold Sponsors:
VMware Cloud Hosting

Silver Sponsors:

Bronze Sponsors:

Community Sponsors:

Alyx Biologicals B.V.
Windows VPS Hosting
Caturix
Cesar Alvarez
Charles Rivers
Craig
D M Hamilton
DRA MEDICAL
fotokasten GmbH
Johan Grip
John Bayles Pianos
Martin del Mazo
Nikolaj Petersen
Sascha Reinsch
SEER Interactive
sefcom computers
Steve Philipp
switchbit
The Survival Monkey

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 $11110 was raised thanks to the generous contributions of 418 donors:

$1000, Clive M.
$300 (2nd donation), Jennifer P.
$200, Dennis T.
$132.85, Henk B.
$100 (4th donation), Robert K. aka “usmc_bob”
$100 (4th donation), Samson S. aka “Samtastic”
$100 (2nd donation), Hugh N.
$100, Andrew W.
$100, Phil H. aka “smef“
$100, Pear D.
$100, David M.
$100, Venkat S.
$100, Christopher B.
$79.71, Miguel M.
$70 (3rd donation), Doug L.
$66.43 (2nd donation), Geoff S.
$66.43 (2nd donation), Hannu H.
$66.43, Thomas P. H.
$66.43, Heiko S.
$66.43, Jan-albert V.
$66.43, Michael G.
$66.43, Björn P.
$66.43, Giovanni M. M.
$66.43, Alfred M.
$66.43, Christian D.
$66.43, Erich T.
$66.43, F.G. Massa aka “BioMassa“
$66.43, Kresimir L.
$64.32, Liran N.
$60, Claudius E.
$53.14, Anton V. B.
$53.14, Marc M.
$50 (50th donation), Matthew M.
$50 (4th donation), Sri Gadis Ranti Junus aka “ranti“
$50 (4th donation), Roy B.
$50 (2nd donation), Matthew J.
$50, Ram Sambamurthy
$50, Jaroslaw G.
$50, Shawn P.
$50, William S.
$50, Glenn C.
$50, George N.
$50, Campos D. S. D.
$50, Chris A.
$50, Amanda H.
$50, Ronald S. J.
$50, François P.
$50, Far W. C. C.
$50, Doug G. aka “Kenosis”
$50, Leslie Y.
$50, Daniel L.
$50, William L.
$50, Morten T.
$50, Bryan H.
$50, Adam D.
$50, Sam T.
$50, Bruce P.
$50, Stanislav B. .
$50, Phillip M.
$50, Paul Moffat aka “Dablin“
$50, Kenneth W.
$45, Christian C.
$42, Goetz K.
$40 (2nd donation), Keith K.
$40, Joshua R.
$40, Filipe S.
$39.86 (51th donation), Olli K.
$39.86, Norman B.
$39.86, Matthias E.
$39.86, Ian G.
$35, Erick J.
$33.21 (3rd donation), Ole P.
$33.21 (2nd donation), Stoyan N.
$33.21, Carlo O.
$33.21, Lau
$33.21, Joannes G.
$33.21, Michael L.
$33.21, Samuel H.
$33.21, Victor V. D.
$33.21, Matthias W.
$31.88, Klaus U.
$30.56, Joe T.
$30 (3rd donation), Touko N.
$30 (2nd donation), Real F.
$30, Emeka B. E.
$30, Tom E. A.
$30, Dennis S. F.
$30, Donna B.
$30, Anne L.
$30, George W.
$30, Gary S.
$30, FJCM van Hak
$30, Michael D.
$30, Michael E.
$30, Henry N. aka “Ruler of his Domain”
$26.57 (12th donation), Orlando M. M.
$26.57 (6th donation), Hartmann Maier aka “hkmle”
$26.57 (5th donation), Niklas M.
$26.57 (2nd donation), Iiro K.
$26.57 (2nd donation), Wolfgang K.
$26.57, TOM
$26.57, Mischa L.
$26.57, Nalle R.
$26.57, Matthias S.
$26.57, Brian G.
$26.57, Bjarte O.
$26.57, Guido V.
$26.57, Michael B.
$26.57, Matthias B.
$26.57, Rochus P.
$26.57, Hans B.
$26.57, Christoph H.
$26.57, Dennis D.
$26.57, Maikel G.
$26.57, Max N.
$26.57, Uvarov F.
$26.57, Peter V.
$26.57, Robert B.
$26.57, Per J.
$26.57, Frederik M.
$26.57, Peter B.
$25.24 (9th donation), Raymond E.
$25 (32nd donation), Ronald W.
$25 (7th donation), Robert H.
$25 (4th donation), Andy N.
$25 (3rd donation), Robin H.
$25 (3rd donation), Kirill C.
$25 (3rd donation), Nicole H. in honor of jaspmatt
$25 (2nd donation), Robin H.
$25, Ross D.
$25, Dan P.
$25, Scott L.
$25, Murray C.
$25, Christopher D.
$25, John C.
$25, Michael S.
$25, Ewa K.
$25, Fred W.
$25, Patrick B.
$25, Mr J. H. T. J.
$25, James C.
$25, Vincent C.
$25, Moshe S.
$25, Brandon L.
$25, Bill R.
$25, Ivan I. aka “BAYIVAN”
$25, Tim V.
$25, Mark N.
$25, Greig S.
$25, Jordon B.
$25, Frank K.
$25, Donald H.
$25, Scott H.
$25, Daniel S.
$25, Rick W.
$25, Shander L.
$25, Tony D.
$25, Pierre S.
$24, Kathleen B.
$21.26, Ion B.
$20 (12th donation), Utah B.
$20 (5th donation), Mark R.
$20 (3rd donation), Kevin S.
$20 (2nd donation), Kulistov V. aka “Q_List”
$20 (2nd donation), Vasanth S.
$20 (2nd donation), Nicklas L.
$20 (2nd donation), Scott W.
$20 (2nd donation), Alistair G.
$20 (2nd donation), Mario Chamorro aka “MoChaMan“
$20 (2nd donation), Mauzz
$20 (2nd donation), Steve L.
$20, Kevin L.
$20, Erwin B.
$20, Jeff B.
$20, Murray P.
$20, Roy R.
$20, David H.
$20, Ian L.
$20, Jesse V.
$20, Ross M.
$20, Takashi I.
$20, Ivan R.
$20, Dayton L.
$20, Charles B.
$20, Camillo P.
$20, Alexander D.
$20, Marek L.
$20, Catherine D.
$20, Peter J. H.
$20, Renee M.
$20, Guillermo J.
$20, Frances K.
$20, François B.
$20, Lutz L.
$20, Howard S.
$20, Keshav P.
$20, Benjamin E.
$20, Ian R.
$20, Daniel A.
$20, John M.
$20, Petri L.
$20, Ed K.
$20, Tony W.
$20, Simon W.
$20, Dragan P.
$20, Antone H.
$20, Neal D.
$20, Steven S.
$19.93 (5th donation), Rüssel
$19.93 (3rd donation), Gerard C.
$19.93 (3rd donation), Jesús O. M.
$19.93 (2nd donation), Jasper S.
$19.93, Nathanaël J. aka “DraWall“
$19.93, Anthony M.
$19.93, Dea Engineering s.r.l. aka “Andrea Tozzato“
$19.93, Dirk S.
$19.93, Kevin W.
$17 (2nd donation), Istvan Sz.
$17, François P.
$15.94, Jevgeni M.
$15.94, Erwin O.
$15.94, Miguel G. G.
$15 (3rd donation), Kjell K. aka “Gemini89”
$15 (2nd donation), Alex D.
$15, Douglas H.
$15, Colin M.
$15, media services
$15, Lowell T.
$15, Ivanov D.
$15, Donald R.
$15, Mohamed S. T.
$13.37 (2nd donation), Bolko S. aka “Lokalpatriot”
$13.29 (6th donation), Nicholas S.
$13.29 (6th donation), Rene Schwietzke aka “Rene S.“
$13.29 (5th donation), Dr. R. M.
$13.29 (5th donation), Hannes G.
$13.29 (4th donation), anonymous
$13.29 (3rd donation), Dirk G. aka “Dirken”
$13.29 (3rd donation), Dani Kupak
$13.29 (2nd donation), Bernard Sluzalek
$13.29 (2nd donation), Catalin Toader aka “catatoa”
$13.29 (2nd donation), Michael B.
$13.29 (2nd donation), Nandu K.
$13.29 (2nd donation), Hans P.
$13.29 (2nd donation), Christian B.
$13.29, Hanno F.
$13.29, Esko T.
$13.29, Mario Herrmann
$13.29, Johannes
$13.29, Dimitris F.
$13.29, Manfred J.
$13.29, Veikko K.
$13.29, Luca V.
$13.29, Roland H.
$13.29, Marcel S.
$13.29, Stefan H.
$13.29, Lucia A.
$13.29, José A. C. L. aka “Mata Fary”
$13.29, Roberto C. R.
$13.29, Massimo F.
$13.29, Stefan M.
$13.29, Wolfgang S.
$13.29, Alfred H.
$13.29, Oliver und Anja R.
$13.29, Panagiotis T.
$13.29, Stefan H.
$13.29, Henrik H.
$13.29, José L. P. R.
$13.29, Arthur O.
$13.29, Til B.
$13.29, Klaas S.
$13.29, Markus J.
$13.29, Kerstin W.
$13.29, Federico C.
$13.29, François L.
$13.29, Coomans B.
$13.29, Ignacio O. G.
$13.29, Calle R.
$13.29, Mark Quinn
$13.29, Thorsten S.
$10 (38th donation), Tony C. aka “S. LaRocca”
$10 (9th donation), Pronto Admin
$10 (4th donation), James D. aka “Spearmint2”
$10 (4th donation), Ke C.
$10 (3rd donation), Serguei S.
$10 (3rd donation), Richard G.
$10 (3rd donation), Иван Ф.
$10 (3rd donation), Rockford C.
$10 (3rd donation), Mark C.
$10 (3rd donation), Trey H. aka “Ubuntaur”
$10 (3rd donation), Darlan P. C.
$10 (3rd donation), Hostandreg.co.uk .
$10 (3rd donation), Vavai
$10 (2nd donation), Mike C.
$10 (2nd donation), Paweł S.
$10 (2nd donation), Tihomir S.
$10 (2nd donation), Charles McM.
$10 (2nd donation), Carl B.
$10 (2nd donation), Christopher D.
$10 (2nd donation), Kenneth D.
$10, Gabrielyan A.
$10, Simon B.
$10, Xerxes L.
$10, Anders F. K.
$10, Anthony A.
$10, Lisikhin A.
$10, Robert A.
$10, Thomas M.
$10, Rodney M. B.
$10, Amer K.
$10, Thomas L.
$10, George N.
$10, Christian A.
$10, Matthew P.
$10, Pete E.
$10, 许翅.
$10, Ole V. N.
$10, Shustov M.
$10, Hugo G. aka “hugonz“
$10, Neil W.
$10, Ruud de Bruin
$10, Marc L.
$10, Kim T.
$10, Wm Brian MacLean
$10, Dmitry P.
$10, Advance TMS
$10, Dennis S.
$10, Mark P.
$10, Francisco G.
$10, Costel Z.
$10, Donald C.
$10, John M.
$10, Stuart M.
$10, Florent G.
$10, Nabeel A.
$10, Alexandre de Siqueira aka “alex_jaguar“
$10, John M.
$10, Niklas R
$10, Nick G.
$10, Dominik D.
$10, Oldrich B.
$10, Gladkiy P.
$10, Paulo M. P. P.
$10, Thomas M.
$10, Basri U. aka “Tigerider”
$10, David W.
$10, Tek PC Services
$10, Kevin W.
$10, Gregory M.
$10, Dylan Hart aka “Xerucide“
$10, Valery aka “brego“
$10, Mert I.
$10, Mark C.
$10, Don W.
$8 (5th donation), Nicolás Costa de la Colina aka “NCosta”
$8, Jimmy M.
$8, Mauricio M.
$8, Anton R.
$7.77, Aizuddin aka “ak47suk1“
$7, Dennis H.
$6.64 (10th donation), Javier Guijarro aka “chejofan“
$6.64 (2nd donation), Michaël B. N. P.
$6.64 (2nd donation), Markus H.
$6.64 (2nd donation), Christian L.
$6.64, Sandy W.
$6.64, Alex S.
$6.64, Abdulbaki Y.
$6.64, Daniel G.
$6.64, Mirko K.
$6.64, Nereo S. S.
$6.64, Jose M. M. G.
$6.64, Jean P. I.
$6.64, Bastian N.
$6.64, Moritz K.
$6.64, Carlo D. M.
$6.64, Nick W.
$5.01, John M.
$5 (4th donation), Radim aka “myself42”
$5 (3rd donation), Randy R.
$5 (3rd donation), Thomas F.
$5 (2nd donation), Kevin P.
$5 (2nd donation), Jimmy R. W.
$5, Colin P.
$5, Philip Tibom
$5, M. M.
$5, Tami K.
$5, Kieran E.
$5, Ernesto N.
$5, Ernesto D.
$5, Daniel Z.
$5, Thomas F.
$5, John J.
$5, Petr V.
$5, Emilio P.
$5, Elena D.
$5, Peter J.
$5, Karl B.
$5, Eric D.
$5, Jimmy R. W.
$5, R. ISLAM
$5, Gabriel B.
$5, @darkfur93
$5, Kay O. B.
$4, Christian Bock
$3.99, Tomasz K.
$3.99, Martin E.
$3.14, Malachi W.
$3, Nguyễn M.
$3, Hamad A.
$2.76, Vasil Toshkov aka “Cloxy“
$2.66, Pedro Gonzalez
$7.23 from 7 smaller donations

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

Rankings:

Distrowatch (popularity ranking): 3622 (1st)
Alexa (website ranking): 4974th

Events:

Linux Mint 17 “Qiana” MATE was released
Linux Mint 17 “Qiana” Cinnamon was released

News and summary:

Linux Mint is booming. The traffic doubled (apologies if you noticed some of the downtime while we adapted to it), Linux Mint 17 was released, donations are at an all-time high and we got brilliant feedback during the RC and stable releases. There’s a great sense of achievement here and I feel very grateful for the feedback and support we’re receiving from the community. I noticed many people recently joined us and it’s a pleasure to welcome them. I hope they enjoy the community as much as the OS itself.
I’d like to send a big thank you to all the people who reported bugs during the RC process. VPN support, WPA Enterprise, Eduroam connectivity, NVIDIA prime compatibility… so much was fixed, and it’s all thanks to you.
Many thanks also to our sponsors and to all the people who sent us donations. Since 2006, we’ve never seen so many donations in a single month. This support and the feedback we got from you is extremely motivating. Last month we introduced a new budget to fund benevolent developers. It turned out to be a real success within the development team, empowering members without altering relationships or having any noticeable negative impact. It’s also very motivating for developers to receive from the community. Of course development is fun already and it’s fuelled by the huge amount of ideas and feedback you’re sending to us, not to mention the gratification they get when interacting directly with users, but for them to receive funds and participate in the growth of the project, that adds to that as well and it’s a real pleasure for me to be able to include them in that. Again, just like you’ve always made my job very easy, you’ve made the creation of that budget easy as well. I feel very privileged and grateful and it’s real pleasure to extend that to the team.
Bug fixes for Chromium, VLC, Synaptic, cinnamon-screensaver, Wacom tablets, mintlocale, mintupdate, window borders in MATE were sent towards the repositories since the release of Linux Mint 17. If you’re experiencing issues don’t hesitate to check for level 1 updates in your Update Manager.
The OEM installation images and the “no-codecs” ISOs were released today.
Today also, Linux Mint 17 KDE Edition passed QA and was approved for an RC release (which should come out the day after after tomorrow).
The Xfce edition entered QA but did not pass it yet.
The new strategy regarding LTS was very well received and although it was expected to benefit the next set of releases in many ways, we were surprised to see it already benefited the release of Linux Mint 17 greatly. We have a greater sense of ownership when it comes to the package base and we’re engaging in deviating from upstream and fixing it much more than before.