Linux Mint Newsletter Issue 19

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Community

Maty became moderator of the Spanish forums.

http://www.linuxmint.com/blog/?p=6

Linux Mint now has a "Planet": Podcasts, articles, blogs and videos about Linux Mint are aggregated within a single website.

http://www.linuxmint.com/planet

Business

Linux Mint got a new sponsor "Philippe Lotz, MBA, international consulting & coaching". The total amount raised by sponsors is now $70/month.

http://www.linuxmint.com/sponsors.html

on-disk.com continues to do well. 65 orders have been made so far on Linux Mint products.

http://on-disk.com/index.php/cPath/28_153

on-disk.com paid for a Linux Mint banner to appear on tuxmachines.org.

http://www.linuxmint.com/blog/?p=43

We are in contact with two companies thinking of switching to Linux Mint. The total number of computers involved in the switch would be 31.

GCC, developer of mintServe, is sending us a x64 laptop. In addition we're buying a x64 desktop and we should soon be in a position to study the feasibility of a 64 bit edition.

Linuxmint.com was down for two days because of DNS problems. Apologies to everyone for the inconvenience.

http://www.linuxmint.com/blog/?p=37

According to GStats and based on its 173,000 participating websites Linux Mint is the second most popular Linux distribution with 18.9% of visitors on these websites:

http://gstat.zumbe.net/estadisticas.php

http://www.linuxmint.com/blog/?p=32

Celena

Development started on Celena (Linux Mint 3.1). The main goals for this release are:

To improve the base system (additional system tweaks and redefinition of the software selection, new tools/packages to be included)
To introduce mintAssistant which will let the user fine-tune the system
To introduce mintServe which will let the user "serve" files (similar to file-sending in IRC/DCC or MSN Messenger)
To introduce mintUpload which will let the user seemlessly upload files on the internet and send links to them by email.
To introduce a new theme in addition to the Cassandra/Bianca Blue/Green themes.

MintUpload and mintAssistant are nearly ready and were released in Romeo. MintServe is being developed at the moment.

Cassandra KDE Community Edition

The KDE Community Edition of Cassandra was finally released by Jamie "Boo" Birse. Upgrade instructions were included within the release notes and CDs were made available from on-disk.com:

http://www.linuxmint.com/cassandra-kde.html

http://on-disk.com/product_info.php/cPath/28_153/products_id/329

Note: A bug was found in the installer which prevents the user from manually partition his drive. Make sure to read the release notes about this.