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I wish you all a very happy New Year!

2016 is going to be an exciting year for us.

Of course, in January we’ll announce stable releases for Linux Mint 17.3 KDE and Xfce editions (and upgrade paths for 17.x users).

But then after that, we’ll start working on Linux Mint 18.x. A brand new series, with a new package base, using a new init system, a new version of GTK…

Our biggest challenge for the first release will be to make sure everything works fine. We’ll focus primarily on stability.

We’ve also heard your feedback on the fact that you want an upgrade path between 17 and 18. That will be another one of our challenges 🙂

We’ll also try to update the look and feel of the OS. The Mint-X theme and icons looked great initially and we’ve been improving them with every new release, but time has passed and they do look a bit old now. They’ll probably still be an option, but we’ll definitely try to give Mint 18 a fresh look.

Many thanks for using Linux Mint. Many thanks to all the people who support us and help our project.

See you next year 😉

Sponsorships:

Linux Mint is proudly sponsored by:

Donations in November:

A total of $7439 were raised thanks to the generous contributions of 431 donors:

$224, Thomas S.

$168, FARA Personaldienstleistungen

$112, Alan E.

$100 (2nd donation), William P.

$100, Robert M.

$100, Rafael V.

$80, Peter L.

$75 (10th donation), Jon Espenschied aka “xeno”

$70 (6th donation), Doug L.

$60 (2nd donation), Alan H.

$56 (7th donation), Dr. R. M.

$56 (3rd donation), Thomas K.

$56 (2nd donation), Federico R.

$56, Maurus D. L. R.

$56, Ronald H.

$56, P R. B.

$56, P B.

$56, Bernd M.

$50 (11th donation), Richard H.

$50 (7th donation), Anthony C. aka “ciak”

$50 (4th donation), Alfred H. aka “Varmint Al”

$50 (3rd donation), Jeremy B.

$50 (2nd donation), Efran G.

$50, Thomas T.

$50, Douglas G.

$50, Allan G.

$50, Scott C.

$50, Charles W.

$50, Mitch L.

$50, Graham T.

$50, Peter A.

$50, Jay S.

$50, Stephen C.

$50, Susan A.

$47, Manfred H.

$45, Romain C.

$45, Abigail M.

$45, Michael H.

$40, Alberto P.

$35 (8th donation), Geoff_P

$35, Jason C.

$34 (69th donation), Olli K.

$34 (2nd donation), Holger B.

$34, Calummurdo

$34, Yvonne S. B.

$34, T. Ng.

$34, Günther H.

$30 (13th donation), Robert H.

$30 (4th donation), Greg R.

$30 (2nd donation), James P.

$30, Stephen H.

$30, Berthold E.

$30, Encryptomatic LLC aka “Encryptomatic.com”

$30, John L. H.

$30, Edwin H.

$28 (6th donation), Lars H.

$28 (3rd donation), Alfredo T.

$28, James T.

$28, Erik B. aka “Build ICT”

$28, Florian D.

$28, Udu

$28, Manuel C.

$28, M.J.M. Erwteman Erwteman

$25 (50th donation), Ronald W.

$25 (8th donation), Scott L.

$25 (7th donation), Bill

$25 (4th donation), Jaan S.

$25 (4th donation), Nelson M.

$25 (4th donation), Jaan S.

$25 (3rd donation), Florin F. aka “~FLOW~”

$25 (2nd donation), Michael M.

$25 (2nd donation), Lonnie H.

$25 (2nd donation), Natashe F. K.

$25, Andreas V.

$25, Brian G.

$25, Michael W.

$25, John I.

$25, David N.

$25, Barry F.

$25, Benjamin N.

$25, Charles S.

$25, Robert K.

$22 (24th donation), Raymond E.

$22 (2nd donation), Johannes R.

$22 (2nd donation), Apostol B.

$22, Carsten R.

$22, Philippe F.

$22, José R. A. P.

$22, Veit P.

$22, Markus A.

$22, Jérôme P.

$22, Bastian B.

$22, Dirk S.

$22, Andreas H.

$22, Henk S.

$22, Stefan aka “Jaeger”

$22, Julio P.

$22, Osama A.

$22, Dimitri G.

$22, Leonardo G.

$22, Dirk L.

$22, Morgan J.

$22, Jose G. aka “Jose”

$22, Stefania V.

$22, Jose M. C. A.

$22, Ralph B.

$22, JWR

$22, Maximilian L.

$22, Frank G.

$22, Alexander F.

$20 (9th donation), Curt Vaughan aka “curtvaughan ”

$20 (5th donation), Carl K.

$20 (4th donation), Dean P.

$20 (3rd donation), Arthur K.

$20 (3rd donation), Dave I.

$20 (3rd donation), Julie H. aka “Kjokkenutstyr”

$20 (2nd donation), David C.

$20 (2nd donation), Jacob Y.

$20 (2nd donation), Mark D.

$20 (2nd donation), James N.

$20 (2nd donation), Greg E.

$20 (2nd donation), Thomas E.

$20 (2nd donation), Erling D. aka “Bitflogger”

$20 (2nd donation), John G. aka “newlinuxuser”

$20 (2nd donation), Kevin H.

$20, William B.

$20, Ray P.

$20, Alexander B.

$20, Kevin B.

$20, Philip W.

$20, Max S.

$20, Фиданян К.

$20, Charles W.

$20, Russell G.

$20, Derek T.

$20, Adam Z.

$20, Richard B.

$20, HistoSoft Corporation

$20, Jan V. D.

$20, Tobias J.

$20, Avis H.

$20, Chris L.

$20, Renate M.

$20, Clodoilson Ferreira Lemos aka “Mu”

$20, Fred W.

$17 (23rd donation), Mark W.

$17 (4th donation), Laurent M. aka “lolomeis”

$17 (3rd donation), Люблев Н.

$17 (2nd donation), Aleksejs B.

$17, Sjef D. K.

$17, Ignacio C.

$17, Patrick V. B.

$17, Salatiel E. G.

$17, Luis R. J.

$17, Stéphane W.

$17, Herbert K.

$17, Marco G.

$17, André M.

$17, Martin S.

$17, Pierre B.

$17, Günther W.

$16.5 (3rd donation), C Ebrey

$15.44 (2nd donation), qwaqwa68

$15 (3rd donation), Derek R.

$15 (2nd donation), Steven W.

$15 (2nd donation), Jorge M.

$15 (2nd donation), Jobs Hiring aka “Jobs Near Me”

$15, Thiago Fonseca

$15, Moe P.

$15, Ian K.

$15, Graham J.

$15, Marek G.

$15, Alex K.

$15, Martin J. D.

$15, Steven W.

$15, Liam S.

$13 (3rd donation), Martin C.

$13, Richard B.

$13, Mason B.

$12.5 (2nd donation), Piotr K.

$12 (56th donation), Tony C. aka “S. LaRocca”

$12, Peter H.

$12, Lauren M.

$12, Gifts from Maine

$11 (7th donation), Ke C.

$11 (6th donation), Gerard C.

$11 (6th donation), Jaime C. aka “Stop TTIP”

$11 (3rd donation), Michael S.

$11 (3rd donation), Michael P.

$11 (3rd donation), Dmytro K.

$11 (2nd donation), Jens E.

$11 (2nd donation), Ronny Hiess

$11 (2nd donation), Jose M. G. D.

$11 (2nd donation), Andreas S.

$11 (2nd donation), Marc V. K.

$11 (2nd donation), Belocon S.

$11 (2nd donation), Petri K.

$11 (2nd donation), Stephan U.

$11 (2nd donation), Jan G.

$11 (2nd donation), Serge Z.

$11, Ronny Hiess

$11, Jose M. G. D.

$11, A. B. E.

$11, Bogdan B.

$11, Łukasz S.

$11, Arend V. O.

$11, Ronald F.

$11, Armin W.

$11, Kuzin V.

$11, Carola H.

$11, Nikolay G.

$11, Mario B.

$11, Peter-paul H.

$11, Paolo B.

$11, Stefano M.

$11, Jens S.

$11, Mikel Ansorena (Euskadi) aka “Basque Country, not Spain!”

$11, Wolf-rüdiger B.

$11, Jörg L.

$11, Branislav N.

$11, Mohamed S.

$11, Paulo C. L.

$11, M G.

$11, Héctor T. C.

$11, Andrea I.

$11, Adrian O.

$11, Tomislav K.

$11, Tomas S.

$11, J W. Zenker

$11, James E.

$11, Luigi B.

$11, Ole-andre J.

$11, Jan F.

$11, Michael P. aka “www.perron.de”

$11, Iris W.

$11, Gabi F.

$11, Dawid W.

$11, Sebastian W.

$11, Colin O.

$11, Lucian V.

$11, Karl-heinz M.

$11, Johannes B.

$11, Matthias E.

$10 (21st donation), Thomas F.

$10 (13th donation), Kouji K.

$10 (12th donation), Dan J

$10 (10th donation), Libertad Tecnologica

$10 (8th donation), Michael H. aka “hikiboi1969”

$10 (7th donation), Radim aka “myself42”

$10 (6th donation), Mike C.

$10 (6th donation), Roger B.

$10 (4th donation), Garry Cartwright aka “Hoss”

$10 (3rd donation), David W.

$10 (3rd donation), Paul C.

$10 (3rd donation), François B.

$10 (3rd donation), Dave Szpara aka “Boffin”

$10 (3rd donation), Aleksey Eletsky aka “promise”

$10 (2nd donation), Cathi I.

$10 (2nd donation), Aidon M.

$10 (2nd donation), Alfred L.

$10 (2nd donation), Charles G.

$10 (2nd donation), Brian T.

$10 (2nd donation), Sean M.

$10 (2nd donation), John B.

$10 (2nd donation), Andrew Y.

$10 (2nd donation), Paul Evans

$10 (2nd donation), Roger K.

$10 (2nd donation), Gyurics Lacek aka “GyLgames”

$10, Alper U.

$10, Lawrence L.

$10, Mark Y.

$10, Daniel H.

$10, Roger N.

$10, Anonymous

$10, A. K.

$10, Thomas E.

$10, Cassio B. C. aka “Yerba Mate”

$10, Byron C.

$10, Adam S. B.

$10, Roger H.

$10, Karson A.

$10, Sam A.

$10, Aaron G.

$10, John D.

$10, Ronald C.

$10, Stefan L.

$10, Peter N.

$10, Jeremy G.

$10, Jaron F.

$10, Daniel H.

$10, Steve F. aka “@Cairn4”

$10, Etienne B.

$10, Gheorghe K.

$10, Cody X.

$10, Ben K.

$10, Andres S. R.

$10, Robert J. H. III

$10, Vizantin I.

$10, Manuel E. N. C.

$10, Nasser H.

$10, Thomas T.

$10, Ash T.

$10, Kien Y. T.

$10, Joseph J.

$10, Karsten L.

$10, Christopher S.

$8 (2nd donation), Stefan M. H.

$8, Etipou K.

$6 (7th donation), Kevin O. aka “Kev”

$6 (4th donation), Tung-Yi Chen aka “Tic”

$6 (4th donation), Patrick R.

$6 (3rd donation), Arvis Lācis aka “arvislacis”

$6 (3rd donation), Nick G.

$6 (3rd donation), Peter J. H.

$6 (2nd donation), Christian O.

$6 (2nd donation), Adam P.

$6 (2nd donation), Daniel L. D.

$6 (2nd donation), Alexander K.

$6, Alen V.

$6, Markus V.

$6, Murat E.

$6, Janis S.

$6, Paavo P.

$6, Ahmad A.

$6, blogger tips

$6, Jürgen Z.

$6, Dejan S.

$6, Ignacio U. N.

$6, Sergio P.

$6, Chris W.

$6, Ralf W.

$6, Laurent L.

$6, Saravanan S.

$6, Rico S.

$6, Christian W.

$5 (19th donation), LM aka “LinuxMint”

$5 (12th donation), Miljenko D. aka “ljacmi”

$5 (7th donation), Jacqueem S. aka “Go Live Lively”

$5 (4th donation), Eric H.

$5 (3rd donation), Thiago Ponte

$5 (2nd donation), Kevin H.

$5 (2nd donation), Tscheliesnigg

$5 (2nd donation), William G.

$5 (2nd donation), Jack H.

$5 (2nd donation), Michel B.

$5, Mark G.

$5, Khoa L.

$5, Nick A.

$5, Julio J. S.

$5, Dominik D. aka “DL6ER”

$5, Merchant Hubs

$5, Scott C.

$5, Vitali K.

$5, Sudhanshu T.

$5, Tamara W.

$5, Houston Independent Consulting

$5, Leandro C.

$5, Joshua D.

$5, Splendid Apple Limited

$5, Gavin G.

$5, Mandy N.

$5, Carlos C.

$5, Thomas M.

$5, James P.

$5, Roch L.

$5, Cristiano D. S. S.

$5, Greenville SC Business Listings

$5, Ryan Gertz

$5, Sean S.

$5, ZPN

$5, István P.

$5, Hardware Compare

$4 (20th donation), Thomas F.

$4 (2nd donation), Elad Hen aka “eladhen”

$4, Редькин С.

$3.75, Pierre-alexandre R.

$3 (11th donation), RoDi – správca siete

$3 (3rd donation), Hakim

$3 (2nd donation), Alexanrda H.

$3, All American Peptides Review

$3, Dave D.

$3, safe-scripts

$3, Gábor N.

$3, Cyril W.

$3, Wolfgang C.

$3, Wojciech L. aka “https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/110821796961189250197”

$3, Man and a van

$3, Chaofan L.

$3, George M. J.

$2 (5th donation), sprintcowboy

$2 (3rd donation), Arjen Steijl aka “Adriano”

$2, Thomas W.

$2, Fitness Advices

$2, Kulturystyka.sklep.pl Sp. z o.o. aka “MD”

$2, Muhammad A.

$2, Macnetized

$2, Ludmila V. E.

$2, Dawid Z.

$2, Emre G.

$2, VISHAN

$2, Dung V.

$2, Richard L.

$2, 季 先生

$2, Berken T.

$1.95 (3rd donation), Saiful H. aka “s4if”

$1.8, Lucie M.

$23.01 from 25 smaller donations

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