Monthly Stats - June 2011
Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2011 10:16 am
Donations & Sponsorships:
Many thanks to the following donors and sponsors for financially supporting Linux Mint:
Donors:
$213, Hendrik S.
$142 (2nd donation), Rod Minty
$100 (4th donation), Anonymous
$100 (3rd donation), Andreas S.
$100 (3rd donation), Gregor M.
$100, James P.
$100, Danny L.
$100, Donald R. E.
$100, John M.
$71 (4th donation), Pasi K.
$71 (4th donation), Jan W.
$71, Gensch W. C.
$60 (2nd donation), Giuliano L.
$56.8, Henrik F.
$56.8, Anonymous
$50 (6th donation), Michael L. aka “ddavid123“
$50 (4th donation), Peter S. aka “Pierre”
$50 (4th donation), Andrew M.
$50 (2nd donation), Ryan M.
$50, Margaret W. aka “tigar55″
$50, Juan O.
$50, Aernoudt Bottemanne
$50, Ayo B.
$50, James D.
$50, Larry B.
$42.6 (6th donation), Laurent P.
$42.6, Mark A.
$42.6, Holger F.
$42 (2nd donation), Lorenz F.
$40 (21st donation), Славољуб aka “slw”
$40, Abe Freeman
$40, Christian D. aka “ceed^”
$35.5 (2nd donation), Mark Coumans aka “omtefotograferen“
$35.5, Shaun L.
$35.5, Eckhard J.
$35.5, Mathias V.
$35 (2nd donation), Jack H.
$35, Mark B.
$30 (2nd donation), Neil Barrows
$30, Steve G.
$30, Dana Olson
$30, Matej L.
$28.4 (21st donation), Manuel F.
$28.4 (16th donation), Olli K.
$28.4, Thomas M.
$28.4, Hardy G.
$28.4, Pablo S. Lage aka “Xove”
$28.4, Fabrizio T.
$25 (6th donation), Philippe W.
$25 (5th donation), Dan B.
$25 (5th donation), Anders B.
$25 (5th donation), Kamal aka “anim8″
$25 (3rd donation), A Webb aka “allen9013″
$25 (2nd donation), Hendrik G.
$25 (2nd donation), Hawk Computer
$25 (2nd donation), B Smith aka “corktowner”
$25, John H.
$25, William N.
$25, Ronald D.
$25, Mark W.
$25, Tom M.
$25, James W.
$25, Dave Murphy aka “dpmfmfl”
$25, Edward C. aka “EdTheUniqueGeek“
$25, Troy E.
$25, Chris G.
$25, Jan Q.
$25, Timothy Z.
$21.3 (2nd donation), Johan B. aka “Joe1“
$21.3, Dominik O.
$21.3, Georgios K.
$21.3, Gianluca D. L.
$21.3, Piermario R.
$21.25 (7th donation), Robert D B.
$20 (15th donation), Matthew M.
$20 (12th donation), Antonio M. aka “Rob Brill’s book-keeper”
$20 (7th donation), Michael Krusch aka “MAD”
$20 (6th donation), P. S. B. aka “fixpcpaul“
$20 (4th donation), Eugene C.
$20 (4th donation), Juergen G.
$20 (3rd donation), Jaxon L.
$20 (2nd donation), Hannes G.
$20 (2nd donation), RvdB
$20, John D.
$20, Michael F.
$20, Kashyap P.
$20, Armin K.
$20, William T.
$20, Victor G.
$20, Stephen K.
$20, Gary L.
$20, Pierre-olivier S.
$20, Trevor H.
$20, Edward W.
$20, Eduardo O.
$20, Luis F.
$16, Terry Phillips aka “Terryphi”
$15 (7th donation), Jun Q.
$15 (2nd donation), Gerrit Pannek aka “Nold“
$15 (2nd donation), Michael I.
$15, Hallgeir J.
$15, Fabio G. aka “fabietto0102″
$14.2 (3rd donation), Jörn G.
$14.2, Sam B.
$14.2, Dirk S.
$14.2, Luca M.
$14.2, Sébastien B.
$14.2, Guillaume B. aka “BeBeLiOuS“
$14.2, Max E.
$14.2, Benjamin E.
$14.2, Ruben B. H.
$14.2, Antonio E. M.
$14.04, Jeffery B.
$13.13, Kamaljit S.
$12.78 (2nd donation), Bernhard N.
$12.78, Damian K.
$12 (2nd donation), John S.
$12, Timofey E.
$11.36, Bertrand S.
$11, John A.
$10 (6th donation), Kiril Sotirov
$10 (5th donation), Colin Casey
$10 (4th donation), Tony C. aka “S. LaRocca”
$10 (3rd donation), Mark M. aka “BubbaBlues”
$10 (3rd donation), Jindrich R. aka “amino”
$10 (2nd donation), James K.
$10 (2nd donation), Debra R.
$10 (2nd donation), Andras Porga aka “GodmaNZ”
$10 (2nd donation), Robert M.
$10 (2nd donation), Jake Basile
$10 (2nd donation), Ila S.
$10 (2nd donation), LB
$10, Ryan F. aka “bender1077″
$10, Judy W. aka “solrabit”
$10, Ben K.
$10, Robert D.
$10, Theodoros K.
$10, Chris Duncan aka “celldee”
$10, Alan B.
$10, Ray aka “perezosor”
$10, Geir G.
$10, Stephen B.
$10, Saravanakumar V.
$10, Jarrett C.
$10, Masashi A.
$10, Penguenci.com
$10, Bau Treff
$10, Michael M.
$7.88 (5th donation), Ronald T.
$7.1, Paul S.
$7.1, David E. aka “obscuredavid”
$7.1, Manuel F.
$7, Alfonso G. aka “alfiogang”
$5 (5th donation), Kelley J. aka “Kelley Green”
$5 (3rd donation), Michael C.
$5 (3rd donation), Phillip H Blake aka “antiquexray”
$5 (2nd donation), Stef A.
$5, Andrey A.
$5, Manish S.
$5, Велесович
$5, Vitaliy S. aka “VDadly”
$5, Moshe B.
$5, A. C. Nguyen
$4.02, Peter D.
$4, Matheus aka “mecke“
$3.55, Backof M.
$3, Cristian Emanuel Rodriguez aka “undiaoscuro“
$3, Tatenda B.
$3, Mesut F.
$2.84, Rod G.
$2.5, Immunolytics, Inc aka “Mold Test Kits“
$2.13, Ionut A.
$2, Arno W.
$1.33 (4th donation), Rusli P. Tandiabang
$1.06 (12th donation), Inga Muste aka “TokRa“
$1.04, Ling L.
$1 (13th donation), free backlinks
$1, Haresh P.
$1, Роман Г.
$1, Sedesa S.
$1, John T.
$1, Johnny R. aka “Jraz”
Sponsors:
$231, R1Soft
$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, Kristian S.
$20, Scott P.
$15, Terry M.
$14, Investment Blog
$13, Unixmen.com
$12, Scott S.
$12, Tim W.
$11, Promotional Mouse Mats
$10, act28.com
$10, Advermedia
$10, Andre H.
$10, Angel M. D.
$10, Anthony Gallon
$10, Barry’s Tickets
$10, Dan Jackson
$10, Frank O.
$10, Jack H.
$10, Jeff R.
$10, Jeramy R.
$10, JimQ
$10, Jonathan K.
$10, Mattias S. (DynamicMan)
$10, Mugs Promotional
$10, Promotional Gifts
$10, Real Estate Centers
$10, Roland F. Arms
$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, 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, 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, Cyprus Resale
$1, Cyprus Weather
$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, 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 – Simple and Powerful music player for Linux
Money raised in June:
* Donations: $4539.29 (182 donors)
* Sponsors: $1189.03 (123 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: 36.20%
Linux Mint 10 Julia: 31.41%
Linux Mint 9 Isadora LTS: 16.26%
Linux Mint 7 Gloria: 5.46%
LMDE: 3.47%
Linux Mint 8 Helena: 3.78%
Linux Mint 4.0 Daryna: 2.02%
Linux Mint 6 Felicia: 0.87%
Linux Mint 5 Elyssa LTS: 0.54%
Web Stats:
Visits: 3,328,780
Unique views: 4,148,275
Pageviews: 5,253,065
Page impressions: 2,870,085
Search queries: 9,389,762
Forum users: 50,974
Forum posts: 425,194
Rankings:
Distrowatch (popularity ranking): 2189 (2nd)
Distrowatch (traffic share): 2.2% (2nd) (made irrelevant by Firefox 4′s decision to hard-code user agents and most distributions not setting it up anymore)
Alexa (website ranking): 11,479th
Events:
Linux Mint 11 LXDE RC was released
mintCast released 4 podcast episodes: #68, #69, #70 and #71
Summary:
All the new features and improvements released in Linux Mint 11 were made available to LMDE. Firefox 5 was also released for LMDE and Thunderbird 5 will follow. We’re currently working on a new update mechanism and a fork of mintupdate dedicated to Debian. A new 100Gbps server was recently acquired to host what will become the new LMDE repositories. Improvements are also planned on the installer and the ISOs will get a respin in July.
To face the growth of the project and the increase in our user base, we migrated both the website and the repositories at the beginning of June. The website was moved on our eUKhost server in the UK and the repositories were migrated to a new 100Mbps server with unmetered bandwidth. Both services have been running really well since and with much better performance than before.
The LXDE edition passed QA and an RC was released.
We’re currently testing the KDE edition of Linux Mint 11.
Thanks to all the people who purchased a Linux Mint T-shirt. I hope they enjoy it as much as I do (I got two polo shirts myself and as you can imagine, I really enjoy wearing them). Whether it’s the promotion or the sales, it’s nice to see it happen and this helps Linux Mint. Our partner HELLOTUX sold more than 100 black Linux Mint t-shirts. This was an excellent result and these sales brought $545 to our project. To extend the range of Linux Mint products, both the T-shirt and the Polo shirt are now also available in White: http://www.hellotux.com/Category_Linux_Mint.php
In partnership with OxyPress, Linux Mint is publishing a printed magazine in the USA called “Linux Mint 11 Identity Kit”. The magazine is available in newsagents throughout the country. You can also get more information about it online and read one of the articles featured inside it by visiting the following link http://www.linuxidentity.com/us/index.p ... e&sid=5055
There is a significant raise in our user base which is estimated at just below 10% this month.
From a financial point of view, we’re up 19% this month. This was the second biggest increase in the history of the project! I’d like to thank all the people who donated to us, our sponsors, and all the people who recently switched to Linux Mint. This gives us more empowerment and makes everything much easier. Whether it’s contracting some work to be done, paying the bills or getting this new 1Gbps server, your support helps us greatly.
Many thanks to the following donors and sponsors for financially supporting Linux Mint:
Donors:
$213, Hendrik S.
$142 (2nd donation), Rod Minty
$100 (4th donation), Anonymous
$100 (3rd donation), Andreas S.
$100 (3rd donation), Gregor M.
$100, James P.
$100, Danny L.
$100, Donald R. E.
$100, John M.
$71 (4th donation), Pasi K.
$71 (4th donation), Jan W.
$71, Gensch W. C.
$60 (2nd donation), Giuliano L.
$56.8, Henrik F.
$56.8, Anonymous
$50 (6th donation), Michael L. aka “ddavid123“
$50 (4th donation), Peter S. aka “Pierre”
$50 (4th donation), Andrew M.
$50 (2nd donation), Ryan M.
$50, Margaret W. aka “tigar55″
$50, Juan O.
$50, Aernoudt Bottemanne
$50, Ayo B.
$50, James D.
$50, Larry B.
$42.6 (6th donation), Laurent P.
$42.6, Mark A.
$42.6, Holger F.
$42 (2nd donation), Lorenz F.
$40 (21st donation), Славољуб aka “slw”
$40, Abe Freeman
$40, Christian D. aka “ceed^”
$35.5 (2nd donation), Mark Coumans aka “omtefotograferen“
$35.5, Shaun L.
$35.5, Eckhard J.
$35.5, Mathias V.
$35 (2nd donation), Jack H.
$35, Mark B.
$30 (2nd donation), Neil Barrows
$30, Steve G.
$30, Dana Olson
$30, Matej L.
$28.4 (21st donation), Manuel F.
$28.4 (16th donation), Olli K.
$28.4, Thomas M.
$28.4, Hardy G.
$28.4, Pablo S. Lage aka “Xove”
$28.4, Fabrizio T.
$25 (6th donation), Philippe W.
$25 (5th donation), Dan B.
$25 (5th donation), Anders B.
$25 (5th donation), Kamal aka “anim8″
$25 (3rd donation), A Webb aka “allen9013″
$25 (2nd donation), Hendrik G.
$25 (2nd donation), Hawk Computer
$25 (2nd donation), B Smith aka “corktowner”
$25, John H.
$25, William N.
$25, Ronald D.
$25, Mark W.
$25, Tom M.
$25, James W.
$25, Dave Murphy aka “dpmfmfl”
$25, Edward C. aka “EdTheUniqueGeek“
$25, Troy E.
$25, Chris G.
$25, Jan Q.
$25, Timothy Z.
$21.3 (2nd donation), Johan B. aka “Joe1“
$21.3, Dominik O.
$21.3, Georgios K.
$21.3, Gianluca D. L.
$21.3, Piermario R.
$21.25 (7th donation), Robert D B.
$20 (15th donation), Matthew M.
$20 (12th donation), Antonio M. aka “Rob Brill’s book-keeper”
$20 (7th donation), Michael Krusch aka “MAD”
$20 (6th donation), P. S. B. aka “fixpcpaul“
$20 (4th donation), Eugene C.
$20 (4th donation), Juergen G.
$20 (3rd donation), Jaxon L.
$20 (2nd donation), Hannes G.
$20 (2nd donation), RvdB
$20, John D.
$20, Michael F.
$20, Kashyap P.
$20, Armin K.
$20, William T.
$20, Victor G.
$20, Stephen K.
$20, Gary L.
$20, Pierre-olivier S.
$20, Trevor H.
$20, Edward W.
$20, Eduardo O.
$20, Luis F.
$16, Terry Phillips aka “Terryphi”
$15 (7th donation), Jun Q.
$15 (2nd donation), Gerrit Pannek aka “Nold“
$15 (2nd donation), Michael I.
$15, Hallgeir J.
$15, Fabio G. aka “fabietto0102″
$14.2 (3rd donation), Jörn G.
$14.2, Sam B.
$14.2, Dirk S.
$14.2, Luca M.
$14.2, Sébastien B.
$14.2, Guillaume B. aka “BeBeLiOuS“
$14.2, Max E.
$14.2, Benjamin E.
$14.2, Ruben B. H.
$14.2, Antonio E. M.
$14.04, Jeffery B.
$13.13, Kamaljit S.
$12.78 (2nd donation), Bernhard N.
$12.78, Damian K.
$12 (2nd donation), John S.
$12, Timofey E.
$11.36, Bertrand S.
$11, John A.
$10 (6th donation), Kiril Sotirov
$10 (5th donation), Colin Casey
$10 (4th donation), Tony C. aka “S. LaRocca”
$10 (3rd donation), Mark M. aka “BubbaBlues”
$10 (3rd donation), Jindrich R. aka “amino”
$10 (2nd donation), James K.
$10 (2nd donation), Debra R.
$10 (2nd donation), Andras Porga aka “GodmaNZ”
$10 (2nd donation), Robert M.
$10 (2nd donation), Jake Basile
$10 (2nd donation), Ila S.
$10 (2nd donation), LB
$10, Ryan F. aka “bender1077″
$10, Judy W. aka “solrabit”
$10, Ben K.
$10, Robert D.
$10, Theodoros K.
$10, Chris Duncan aka “celldee”
$10, Alan B.
$10, Ray aka “perezosor”
$10, Geir G.
$10, Stephen B.
$10, Saravanakumar V.
$10, Jarrett C.
$10, Masashi A.
$10, Penguenci.com
$10, Bau Treff
$10, Michael M.
$7.88 (5th donation), Ronald T.
$7.1, Paul S.
$7.1, David E. aka “obscuredavid”
$7.1, Manuel F.
$7, Alfonso G. aka “alfiogang”
$5 (5th donation), Kelley J. aka “Kelley Green”
$5 (3rd donation), Michael C.
$5 (3rd donation), Phillip H Blake aka “antiquexray”
$5 (2nd donation), Stef A.
$5, Andrey A.
$5, Manish S.
$5, Велесович
$5, Vitaliy S. aka “VDadly”
$5, Moshe B.
$5, A. C. Nguyen
$4.02, Peter D.
$4, Matheus aka “mecke“
$3.55, Backof M.
$3, Cristian Emanuel Rodriguez aka “undiaoscuro“
$3, Tatenda B.
$3, Mesut F.
$2.84, Rod G.
$2.5, Immunolytics, Inc aka “Mold Test Kits“
$2.13, Ionut A.
$2, Arno W.
$1.33 (4th donation), Rusli P. Tandiabang
$1.06 (12th donation), Inga Muste aka “TokRa“
$1.04, Ling L.
$1 (13th donation), free backlinks
$1, Haresh P.
$1, Роман Г.
$1, Sedesa S.
$1, John T.
$1, Johnny R. aka “Jraz”
Sponsors:
$231, R1Soft
$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, Kristian S.
$20, Scott P.
$15, Terry M.
$14, Investment Blog
$13, Unixmen.com
$12, Scott S.
$12, Tim W.
$11, Promotional Mouse Mats
$10, act28.com
$10, Advermedia
$10, Andre H.
$10, Angel M. D.
$10, Anthony Gallon
$10, Barry’s Tickets
$10, Dan Jackson
$10, Frank O.
$10, Jack H.
$10, Jeff R.
$10, Jeramy R.
$10, JimQ
$10, Jonathan K.
$10, Mattias S. (DynamicMan)
$10, Mugs Promotional
$10, Promotional Gifts
$10, Real Estate Centers
$10, Roland F. Arms
$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, 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, 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, Cyprus Resale
$1, Cyprus Weather
$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, 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 – Simple and Powerful music player for Linux
Money raised in June:
* Donations: $4539.29 (182 donors)
* Sponsors: $1189.03 (123 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: 36.20%
Linux Mint 10 Julia: 31.41%
Linux Mint 9 Isadora LTS: 16.26%
Linux Mint 7 Gloria: 5.46%
LMDE: 3.47%
Linux Mint 8 Helena: 3.78%
Linux Mint 4.0 Daryna: 2.02%
Linux Mint 6 Felicia: 0.87%
Linux Mint 5 Elyssa LTS: 0.54%
Web Stats:
Visits: 3,328,780
Unique views: 4,148,275
Pageviews: 5,253,065
Page impressions: 2,870,085
Search queries: 9,389,762
Forum users: 50,974
Forum posts: 425,194
Rankings:
Distrowatch (popularity ranking): 2189 (2nd)
Distrowatch (traffic share): 2.2% (2nd) (made irrelevant by Firefox 4′s decision to hard-code user agents and most distributions not setting it up anymore)
Alexa (website ranking): 11,479th
Events:
Linux Mint 11 LXDE RC was released
mintCast released 4 podcast episodes: #68, #69, #70 and #71
Summary:
All the new features and improvements released in Linux Mint 11 were made available to LMDE. Firefox 5 was also released for LMDE and Thunderbird 5 will follow. We’re currently working on a new update mechanism and a fork of mintupdate dedicated to Debian. A new 100Gbps server was recently acquired to host what will become the new LMDE repositories. Improvements are also planned on the installer and the ISOs will get a respin in July.
To face the growth of the project and the increase in our user base, we migrated both the website and the repositories at the beginning of June. The website was moved on our eUKhost server in the UK and the repositories were migrated to a new 100Mbps server with unmetered bandwidth. Both services have been running really well since and with much better performance than before.
The LXDE edition passed QA and an RC was released.
We’re currently testing the KDE edition of Linux Mint 11.
Thanks to all the people who purchased a Linux Mint T-shirt. I hope they enjoy it as much as I do (I got two polo shirts myself and as you can imagine, I really enjoy wearing them). Whether it’s the promotion or the sales, it’s nice to see it happen and this helps Linux Mint. Our partner HELLOTUX sold more than 100 black Linux Mint t-shirts. This was an excellent result and these sales brought $545 to our project. To extend the range of Linux Mint products, both the T-shirt and the Polo shirt are now also available in White: http://www.hellotux.com/Category_Linux_Mint.php
In partnership with OxyPress, Linux Mint is publishing a printed magazine in the USA called “Linux Mint 11 Identity Kit”. The magazine is available in newsagents throughout the country. You can also get more information about it online and read one of the articles featured inside it by visiting the following link http://www.linuxidentity.com/us/index.p ... e&sid=5055
There is a significant raise in our user base which is estimated at just below 10% this month.
From a financial point of view, we’re up 19% this month. This was the second biggest increase in the history of the project! I’d like to thank all the people who donated to us, our sponsors, and all the people who recently switched to Linux Mint. This gives us more empowerment and makes everything much easier. Whether it’s contracting some work to be done, paying the bills or getting this new 1Gbps server, your support helps us greatly.