Monthly Stats - July 2011

[clem]

Donations & Sponsorships:

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

Donors:

$100 (5th donation), Jordan S.
$100 (3rd donation), Bob Donnelly aka “rdonnelly”
$100, Serge G.
$75, Joseph C.
$72, Ramsey E.
$70, Vincent V.
$50 (7th donation), Michael L. aka “ddavid123“
$50 (4th donation), Andreas S.
$50 (3rd donation), James Marsh
$50 (3rd donation), Dale R. aka “MintyCAP“
$50 (2nd donation), Glenn R.
$50 (2nd donation), Ronald W.
$50, White Wind Zen Community
$40, Rebecca F.
$40, Graham Sivill aka “Siv“
$40, T L. L.
$35.5 (5th donation), Jerry Jackson aka “900i“
$35.5, Martin W.
$35 (19th donation), Pete Molina aka “pmolina”
$35, Philippe S.
$30, Gordon T.
$28.4 (17th donation), Olli K.
$28.4 (8th donation), Michael Krusch aka “MAD”
$28.4 (5th donation), Miguel Duarte
$28.4, Gerhard B.
$28 (22nd donation), Manuel F.
$28 (2nd donation), Pinna A.
$28 (2nd donation), Aurelien P. aka “nabnut”
$28, Anna K & Martin R aka “martin on #linuxmint-debian”
$27, Charles S.
$25 (9th donation), Kenny Hendrick aka “NprComputers“
$25 (8th donation), John M.
$25 (3rd donation), Bruce D. aka “travtek”
$25 (2nd donation), Eric M.
$25, Srikanth M.
$25, Øyvind S.
$25, CK
$25, Sridhar A.
$21.3, Davide M. Onofrio aka “qvantvm”
$21, Alexandre L.
$20 (22nd donation), Славољуб aka “slw”
$20 (16th donation), Matthew M.
$20 (13th donation), Antonio M. aka “Rob Brill’s book-keeper”
$20 (4th donation), Vance R. aka “helmsdeeper”
$20 (4th donation), Ian M.
$20 (3rd donation), edinblack aka “edinblack”
$20 (2nd donation), Trevor H.
$20 (2nd donation), Robert T.
$20 (2nd donation), Daniel A.
$20 (2nd donation), Eduardo O.
$20, Leonardo Frazao
$20, Major D.
$20, David G.
$20, Erwin V.
$20, GeekTech Solutions
$20, Robert C.
$20, Allan S.
$20, Paul Y.
$20, Benjamin Rochefort aka “oysterboy”
$20, E Tech Electronics LTD
$20, Kim H. aka “grhdtj”
$20, Joshua B.
$20, Colin de Klerk
$15 (7th donation), P. S. B. aka “fixpcpaul“
$15 (2nd donation), Herbs and Helpers
$15, Mats E.
$15, Security-camera-warehouse.com
$14.2 (14th donation), Paco C.C. aka “kannabix”
$14.2 (2nd donation), Slavko B.
$14.2 (2nd donation), Bruno V.
$14.2, Antonio P.
$14.2, Xavier P.
$14.2, Michael K.
$14, Sakis Koltsidas aka “sakisk“
$12, Svein K.
$11.36, Mikko Y.
$10 (7th donation), Kiril Sotirov
$10 (5th donation), Tony C. aka “S. LaRocca”
$10 (3rd donation), Sprueche & Gedichte
$10 (3rd donation), Haydn P.
$10 (2nd donation), Astap A.
$10 (2nd donation), Costas Krallis aka “sv1xv“
$10 (2nd donation), Sprueche & Gedichte
$10 (2nd donation), Bill R.
$10 (2nd donation), Richard G. aka “Trollboy”
$10, Thomas S.
$10, John S. aka “replicantx”
$10, Pat D. aka “pjd3″
$10, Johnnie D.
$10, Paweł H.
$10, Сергей Ф.
$10, Jay P.
$10, Alberto Rivera M. aka “armx”
$10, Richard G. aka “Trollboy”
$10, Mike M.
$9.94, Bastiaan M. D.
$9.8 (8th donation), Sylwia Bialczak
$7.1 (9th donation), Ulf S. aka “MonteDrago”
$7.1, Andrea D. N.
$7.1, James C.
$7.1, Martin B.
$7, Dalton R. J.
$7, Jurek W.
$5 (6th donation), Miljenko D.
$5 (6th donation), Michael K.
$5, Yuriy R. aka “Jhoop“
$5, Redsandro
$5, James H.
$5, Uwe R.
$5, Sara A. C.
$5, Phillip C.
$5, James R.
$4.26, Rodriguez C. M.
$3, Wade V.
$2.84 (2nd donation), Ke C.
$2.84, Philipp R.
$2.84, Kari K. aka “Kartsa”
$2.5 (2nd donation), Immunolytics, Inc aka “Immunolytics, Inc“
$2 (2nd donation), Johnny R. aka “Jraz”
$2, Ivan P.
$2, Guido S.
$2, Ethoseo Internet Marketing Washington
$2, Anil Kumar P. K
$1.42, Maximilian W. aka “frumble“
$1 (14th donation), free backlinks
$1, Vagas de Empregos
$1, Snoring Solutions
$1, Ernesto R. J.
$0.73, Aaaron N.
$0.5, Tanner M. aka “Tannn3r”

Sponsors:

$250, R1Soft
$240, AYKsolutions Server & Cloud Hosting
$106, SEOMoves
$75, John Ritchie aka “Aging Technogeek”
$50, Andreas Landgraf
$26, Windows VPS Hosting
$25, Blayne B.
$20, Az Van aka “newW2″
$20, CEPTOR Datentechnik oHG
$20, David S.
$20, Guillaume V. aka Larlequin
$20, Kristian S.
$20, Roland A.
$20, Scott P.
$15, Terry M.
$14, Investment Blog
$13, Unixmen.com
$12, Scott S.
$12, Tim W.
$11, Promotional Mouse Mats
$10, Advermedia
$10, Andre H.
$10, Angel M. D.
$10, Barry’s Tickets
$10, Dan Jackson
$10, Frank O.
$10, Jeff R.
$10, JimQ
$10, Jonathan K.
$10, Mattias S. (DynamicMan)
$10, Mugs Promotional
$10, Promotional Gifts
$10, Real Estate Centers
$10, Ronald B.
$10, Vladimir O. (aka Vlad The Impatient)
$10, Website Auditor
$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, Andreas G.
$5, Anthony Q.
$5, Dimitris Ch.
$5, Don Brubaker
$5, Fandangio
$5, Gregory T.
$5, Jeffrey S.
$5, Jeremy N.
$5, Joe H. aka “JoeFootball”
$5, Kelley J.
$5, Laurent P.
$5, Leandro R. Preis Beock
$5, Lee K.
$5, Martin R.
$5, Matthew N.
$5, Matthew Y.
$5, Printed Clothing
$5, Printed Mug
$5, Private Jets Charter
$5, Promotional Gifts
$5, Scott Y.
$5, Sohier C.
$5, Steve Burdine aka “Highfructose327“
$5, Thomas Howson
$5, Thomas Nehrlich
$5, Torstein Sornes aka “todda7″
$5, Turin
$4, Baby shower favors
$4, Chile travel
$4, Shannon D.
$3.42, Sylwia Bialczak
$3, CreationsByRichie – Animated Banners & Graphical Designs
$3, Josef K.
$3, Sebastian Posch
$3, Stephen Aghaulor
$2.5, Vince Marsters
$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, Bilingual jobs
$1, Can Stock Photo Inc.
$1, Cyprus Resale
$1, Cyprus Weather
$1, Ethoseo Internet Marketing – Washington
$1, Foto Search Stock Photography
$1, Frank S.
$1, Greg Flynn
$1, gsWare Italia
$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, Rakeback Deals
$1, redfoa
$1, redfoa
$1, Renelou Esperanzate
$1, Seth Forrestier
$1, surfinpeace.co.uk
$1, very-clever.com
$1, Zenworks Servizi Web
$0.9, http://www.pPage.net
$0.5, Awesome Link Directory
$0.5, Foobnix – Music Player for Linux, Android, Windows

Money raised in July:

* Donations: $2627.53 (130 donors)
* Sponsors: $1451.03 (126 sponsors)

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

User Stats:

Repartition of Linux Mint users across releases:

Linux Mint 11 Katya: 39.63%
Linux Mint 10 Julia: 28.65%
Linux Mint 9 Isadora LTS: 15.91%
Linux Mint 7 Gloria: 5.46%
Linux Mint 8 Helena: 3.69%
LMDE: 3.10%
Linux Mint 4.0 Daryna: 2.24%
Linux Mint 6 Felicia: 0.79%
Linux Mint 5 Elyssa LTS: 0.50%

Web Stats:

Visits: 3,364,668
Unique views: 4,156,997
Pageviews: 5,264,751
Page impressions: 2,814,658
Search queries: 9,681,254
Forum users: 52,851
Forum posts: 438,506

Rankings:

Distrowatch (popularity ranking): 2177 (2nd)
Distrowatch (traffic share): 1.8% (2nd) (made irrelevant by Firefox 4′s decision to hard-code user agents and most distributions not setting it up anymore)
Alexa (website ranking): 11,637th

Events:

Update packs and a new update manager were made available for Linux Mint Debian
Linux Mint signed a partnership with AYKsolutions
Linux Mint 11 LXDE RC2 was released
mintCast released 5 podcast episodes: #72, #73, #74, #75 and #76

Summary:

Linux Mint Gnome and Linux Mint Xfce (both based on Debian testing) are currently being tested.
The Update Packs and the new Update Manager were a success and allowed us to warn the community about upstream breakages (Gnome 3 regressions, MESA incompatibilities..etc) and to adapt our technology before updates were made available to the public. The next step is already in progress and it consists in developing a network of mirrors for the new Debian repositories.
A quick interview was given to “My Linux Rig“
The decision was taken to migrate our KDE and Fluxbox editions to LMDE. Going forward our project will support 2 desktops with a frozen Ubuntu base (Gnome and LXDE) and 4 desktops on top of a rolling Debian base (Gnome, KDE, Xfce and Fluxbox).
Our daily income went down 9% in July due to a smaller number of donations and the average price paid per clicks/impressions in advertising. July and August are traditionally quiet so these results are not alarming. In fact the slight increases observed in the number of impressions and search queries are extremely positive for us, especially in the middle of the summer holidays.

[bikerboi87]

Can you explain what you mean by a "frozen Ubuntu base" please?

[clem]

Frozen as opposed to rolling... in Ubuntu, packages are frozen to a particular version. Once the release is out, you only get security updates, not new versions of software. What happens is that every 6 months you see a new frozen snapshot which doesn't change over time.

[bikerboi87]

Ahhhhhh, just the same as it is now then. For some reason I thought you meant that you would be kind've slowly killing it off. Glad I won't have to find a new distro