Many thanks for your donations and for your support and special thanks to all the people who helped us test the BETA.
Now let’s see what’s in our Christmas bag to kick off the holiday season 
Linux Mint 18.1
The Cinnamon and MATE editions of Linux Mint 18.1 are coming out this week. I hope you’ll enjoy the release and have a wonderful time with it.
We’ll also make announcements as soon as paths are ready for people who want to upgrade to it.
New PIA Manager
We’ve been working with PIA on a new application to set up your PIA VPN connection.
Once configured, PIA and Mint work great together… it can be a little tricky to find all the information and to configure your connection at first, so we tried to tackle that.
With PIA Manager all you need is your username and password. You choose your gateway, press the Save button and your VPN is ready to go.
It’s not in the repositories yet, we still have ideas on how to make it better, but it works already so if you want to give it a try:
- Debian package: https://github.com/linuxmint/pia-manager/releases/download/1.0.1/pia-manager_1.0.1_all.deb
- Project on Github: https://github.com/linuxmint/pia-manager
KDE upgrades for Kubuntu and Linux Mint KDE
Kubuntu and Linux Mint 18 KDE users should soon receive an upgrade to KDE Plasma 5.8 via the Kubuntu Backports PPA.
This upgrade will include:
- KDE Plasma 5.8.4
- KDE Frameworks 5.28
- KDE Applications 16.04.3
You can help test this upgrade before it goes live. For more information please visit:
- http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=3175
- http://kubuntu.org/news/kubuntu-and-linux-mint-doing-plasma-5-8-testing/
Linux mint 18.1 KDE will come with Plasma 5.8 out of the box.
If it gets delayed too much, the Xfce edition could be released on its own.
Mintbox Mini Pro
We get an email every time somebody buys a unit and we can see CompuLab has been selling many.
The Mini Pro should be available in the US, on Amazon.com in about 2 weeks and it should reach European Amazon stores early next year.
We’ve received the Mini Pro and we’re quite impressed. It goes hot but doesn’t run slow and it’s still as tiny and cute as the original.
CompuLab also sent us an Airtop with an NVIDIA GTX 1060 and accessories for the Mintbox Mini such as the fit-Uptime UPS, a large heat sink and a mounting bracket.
We’re hoping to review it all very soon.
Hoodies and T-Shirts
Last but not least, Hellotux recently added hoodies and girl t-shirts to their collection, so if you’re interested in Mint clothing, please visit https://www.hellotux.com/linux_mint.
Sponsorships:
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Donations in November:
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$200 (2nd donation), Daniel V.
$200, Andy S. aka “troozers”
$200, Paul F.
$150, Peng Y. H.
$108 (7th donation), Frederic L. aka “”nofrog””
$108 (4th donation), Sten L.
$100 (2nd donation), Pasi K.
$100, Ken H.
$100, Eric B.
$100, Ty A.
$100, David B.
$100, Roderick P.
$100, J5C Marketing, LLC.
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$100, Nicolas R.
$100, Hahn S.
$75 (3rd donation), JimM
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$65, Timothy E.
$65, Detlef F.
$60, Dave W.
$55, Jeff N.
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$54 (2nd donation), Christian K.
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$54, Anon aka “Betty UK”
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$54, Heribert S.
$54, Miguel V.
$54, Jesus J. L. M.
$54, Johannes A. W.
$54, Timo P.
$54, Peter G. aka “The MINT teacher”
$54, Johannes K.
$54, Tim S.
$54, Jeroen T.
$50 (15th donation), Anthony C. aka “ciak”
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$32, Christian V.
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$30, David K.
$27 (4th donation), Peter Fitzsimons aka “Peter4933”
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$27, Paolo P.
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$25 (64th donation), Ronald W.
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$10, Gabriel Tardif aka “Vulgarisateur Informatique”
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