Linux Mint Newsletter Issue 36
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Contents |
Introduction
Welcome to the Linux Mint Newsletter. Here is what happened last week.
News
Linux Mint
Linux and other Distributions
- A swiss canton migrates a large number of computers to Linux [3]
IT & Open Source
Statistics
Figures
| Category | Item | Last figure | Current figure | Progress or percentage of last figure |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Search Queries Last 7 days | Start Page | 49862 | 47985 | -4% |
| Firefox Search Plugin | 115429 | 130609 | +13% | |
| Website Search | 1214 | 1261 | +4% | |
| Web Last 7 Days | Website | 236882 | 231907 | -2% |
| Forum | 44656 | 43797 | -2% | |
| Blog | 3445 | 5290 | +54% | |
| Wiki | 5143 | 4950 | -4% | |
| Planet | 1835 | 1526 | -17% | |
| Distrowatch | Awstats | 1085463 (1.91%) (5th) (Linux=35.9%) | 101609 (2.02%) (5th) (Linux=38.8%) | +6% (Linux=+8%) |
| PHR | 1235 (5th) | 1254 (5th) | +2% | |
| PHR 7day-Span | 1413 (4th) | 1361 (5th) | -4% | |
| Forum | Posts per day | 126.09 | 118.76 | -6% |
| Topics per day | 20.14 | 19.26 | -4% | |
| Users per day | 12.45 | 12.55 | +1% | |
| Donations | Last month's donations | N/A | 636 | -38% |
| This month's donation so far (percentage of last month's total) | N/A | 11% | N/A | |
| Sponsors | Last month's sponsoring | N/A | 161 | -7% |
| This month's sponsoring so far (percentage of last month's total) | N/A | 2% | N/A |
We do not know the total number of downloads.
Analysis
- People are still adopting the new Firefox search plugin (+13%).
- The user base seems stable, Linux Mint is either slowly growing or not growing anymore. This can be explained by the fact that we're far from Daryna's release and that most people have either adopted LM by now or chosen another OS.
- Donations were very low last month, almost twice smaller than they were in the end of last year ($1128 in December, $1036 in January, $636 in February).
- A major release is coming up (KDE CE Stable) so we might see more interest and activity in the weeks to come.
- Overall Linux Mint is doing fine, although this is a quiet period for the distribution.
Other info
Editor's comments
It's not easy to keep track of the rapid development in the computer world.
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