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  • Hello everybody, First things first, a big thank you to all our sponsors and donors. Many thanks to you and to all the people who support our project. I know we say it every month, but it’s important. Fastly powered repositories Earlier this month we announced a BETA test for our new Fastly repositories. This […]
  • We are looking for BETA testers. We’ve got new ultra fast repositories, powered by Fastly. We need many users to switch over to be able to test this properly. If you are interested visit https://github.com/linuxmint/linuxmint/issues/658 for information on how to participate. Thank you.
  • Hi everyone, We’ve got a lot to talk about this month, but first and foremost I’d like to thank our donors, our sponsors and all the people who support us. Many thanks to you all. Localization Improvements were made for Linux Mint 22 installations to be better localized and to use less disk space than […]
  • Many thanks to all of you for your donations and your amazing support. Advertising We’re using Google Adsense here on the blog and on the forums. It came to our attention that the advertising platform had become much more intrusive than before. We will take action to reduce the number and placement of ads on […]
  • Hi everyone, First of all, many many thanks to all of you for your donations. As I mentioned in the previous blog post, we received a huge amount of support last month. 751 people donated to us in December for a total of $24,146. It’s pretty amazing! January is strong too with 633 donors already. […]
  • This is a quick announcement to let you know an “Edge” ISO image is now available for Linux Mint 21.3. This image is made for people whose hardware is too new to boot the 5.15 LTS kernel included in Linux Mint 21.x. It ships with kernel 6.5 instead. For information on Edge ISO images visit […]
  • It is now possible to upgrade Linux Mint 21, 21.1 and 21.2 to version 21.3. If you’ve been waiting for this we’d like to thank you for your patience. 1. Create a system snapshot You can use Timeshift to make a system snapshot before the upgrade. If anything goes wrong, you can easily restore your […]