Monthly News – October 2024 – The Linux Mint Blog

Many thanks on your donations and on your help.

Evening Mild in Cinnamon

The workforce is engaged on including Evening Mild help in Cinnamon.

Evening Mild consists in decreasing the quantity of blue mild emitted by the display. It makes the colour of your monitor hotter as you get nearer to mattress time to assist cut back eyestrain and enhance sleep high quality.

Up to now Linux Mint shipped with Redshift to offer this performance. Redshift wasn’t built-in within the settings although, it solely labored in Xorg and it was auto-configured by one thing known as geoclue which is now not useful.

The workforce is hoping to have this function absolutely built-in into the Cinnamon desktop and figuring out of the field, each in Wayland and Xorg.

Litter Dialogs

Work continues on migrating key Cinnamon dialogs to Litter.

Right here is the dialog which pops up when a keyring must be unlocked:

And right here is the one to substantiate show modifications:

Donations by way of Stripe

Stripe was added as an alternative choice to PayPal on the donors web page.

This was performed to make it simpler for individuals who couldn’t or didn’t wish to donate by way of PayPal. Extra international locations and extra financial institution playing cards are supported by Stripe and no account registration is critical.

Framework Laptops

We began working with Framework. We’re hoping this can lead in the direction of an amazing partnership.

Framework promotes an idea which is sort of admirable. They make high-performance laptops that are straightforward to improve, restore and customise.

They wish to obtain full compatibility with Linux Mint and the Cinnamon desktop. That’s additionally essential to us as a result of it means we will advocate this model inside our neighborhood with out having to fret about compatibility points.

Their laptops are full of elements we don’t have or applied sciences which we hadn’t actually targeted on but. This can enhance new areas of improvement for us.

The Laptop computer 13 they despatched me simply arrived right this moment so I gained’t have the ability to evaluation it till the subsequent weblog submit. Spoiler alert: I prefer it 🙂

With regards to {hardware} I find it irresistible when a product feels particular and/or of top of the range. I’ve had many various computer systems previously. Those I loved essentially the most weren’t essentially the most fashionable or essentially the most highly effective, they have been those I grew hooked up to, both as a result of they have been very effectively constructed or as a result of I liked one thing distinctive about them. I nonetheless work totally on a Mintbox 3 and an outdated Macbook Professional Retina. I’ll be evaluating this Laptop computer 13 to those two subsequent month.

Hellotux Clothes

A few of our branded garments will quickly be discontinued.

Hellotux can’t supply the inexperienced Mint shirts anymore.

Some sizes are lacking, some are diminished. We’ll additionally most likely take away the outdated Mint logos ultimately.

For those who just like the inexperienced shirts or the outdated logos don’t wait till they’re gone.

Sponsorships:

Linux Mint is proudly sponsored by:

Donations in September:

A complete of $11,006 have been raised due to the beneficiant contributions of 396 donors:

$250 (thirtieth donation), Ralph Siegler aka “ziggy” $216 (third donation), Ralph J. $216, Affiliation pour l’Informatique Participative $200, Steven S. $162 (2nd donation), Dirk S. $120, Aaron P. $108 (eighth donation), Karl H. $108 (4th donation), Enric Pastor $108 (4th donation), Franky W. $108, Ivaylo I. $100 (thirteenth donation), Mihail S. $100 (tenth donation), Plamen Atanasov $100 (ninth donation), Carl J. $100 (2nd donation), Emily L. $100, Bryan N. $100, James F. $100, Mark M. $100, Richard B. $100, Timothy B. $95, Simon L. $86 (sixth donation), Rhydwen V. $80 (2nd donation), Peter F. $70 (seventh donation), Joel M. $65 (thirty sixth donation), Wolfgang P. $55, Jay Norris $54 (66th donation), Michael R. $54 (twelfth donation), Hermann W. $54 (ninth donation), Devendra Rai. $54 (sixth donation), Ike $54 (sixth donation), Jesse C. $54 (fifth donation), Gildas M. $54 (fifth donation), Manuel F. $54 (4th donation), Philipp Okay. $54 (third donation), Marion $54 (third donation), Siegfried S. $54 (2nd donation), Bernard P. $54 (2nd donation), Lucas D. $54 (2nd donation), Michel B. $54, Adrian W. $54, Christian G. $54, Christoph T. $54, Erich M. $54, Francois A. $54, Franz Okay. $54, Henri W. $54, Laobhan $54, Martin P. $54, Michael D. $54, Nagy I. $54, Olav H. $54, Paul G. $54, Phillip H. $54, Siegbert P. $54, Thomas S. $54, Udo W. $54, Uwe S. $54, Wolfgang A. $52 (thirteenth donation), John Mc $51, Neil P. $50 (87th donation), Anthony C. aka “ciak” $50 (tenth donation), Nate P. aka “cog_nate” $50 (eighth donation), Michael C. $50 (sixth donation), David W. $50 (fifth donation), Harrison W. $50 (4th donation), Chris C. $50 (third donation), Vance West $50 (2nd donation), Benjamin L. $50 (2nd donation), Daniel A. $50 (2nd donation), Graeme D. $50 (2nd donation), Jeffrey J. $50 (2nd donation), Nick Gausling | Fractional COO | Retail and Shopper Sector Marketing consultant $50, Adib H. $50, Alejandro S. $50, Alfred C. $50, Andri A. $50, Anthony D. $50, Christopher C. $50, James L. $50, Jesse T L. $50, John L. $50, Joseph M. $50, Julian D. $50, Leela A. $50, Michael B. $50, Michael M. $50, Michael T. $50, Mike P. $50, Thomas C. $50, Warren S. $40 (eighth donation), John S. $40 (2nd donation), John W. $38, Martin Skouboe P. $35 (sixteenth donation), B. 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