Financial Help

Thanks to revenue from advertisements and your donations, the Linux Mint project can afford to buy dedicated servers, advertising campaigns, new hardware and equipment, and to provide an income for the development team.

Donations

You can help the Linux Mint Teamby making a financial contribution to the project.

Make a Donation

Sponsor

Sponsorships are the best way to help Linux Mint's developers and artists get to the point where they are able to work full-time on Mint-related projects.

Become a Sponsor

Partnerships

Linux Mint enjoys close ties and relationships with its partners. Our project benefits from professional backing, support and services from these companies on a daily basis.

See our Partners

Support and Promotion

Linux Mint isn't just an operating system, it's also a dynamic community of people who enjoy, gather, and interact with a free and open project.

Joining the Community

Whether it's by helping others sort through issues, by making them feel welcome, by participating in community-driven projects (repositories, podcasts, artwork...etc) or simply by meeting and talking to other Linux Mint users, we recommend you join the community and participate in making Mint better.

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Helping others

If you have some spare time and you're willing to help other users with technical problems, you should seriously consider reading the forums and/or joining the IRC channel and helping other Linux Mint users solve the problems you know how to fix.

Join the Forum

Project Contributions

We always welcome anyone happy to lend a hand and support our work.

Translations

If you can read English and if you speak another language, you can help us translate Linux Mint. Your efforts will allow Linux Mint to fully support display in your language.

Translations Guide

Bug reports

If you notice something that doesn't work properly, troubleshoot it and if you find a bug let us know. Read the Linux Mint Troubleshooting Guide to know how to troubleshoot issues and how to report bugs.

Troubleshooting guide

Code

Most of our development is done in Python and Glade. We also use Git for version control and APT/DEB for packaging. If you're comfortable with these technologies, don't hesitate to have a look at the code.

Fork/Patch or source Code

Donations

Why donate money?

Linux Mint is free of cost and doesn't generate any direct sort of income. It is funded by advertising, sponsoring and donations and although it is financially supported by its own community of users, its ambition is to compete with projects which are backed by large companies such as Microsoft, Apple, RedHat, Novell and Canonical.

How is the money used?

The money is used to finance the needs of the distribution, to pay for hosting, to advertise on other websites, to purchase equipment and to fund the work of the people behind it.

How much should you give?

The donations we receive range from a single dollar to a couple of hundreds. The important thing for people is to give something, and for us it's to generate the income that will let us work and succeed on this project, month after month. If you want to help, and if you can do so, please make a donation to the project and encourage others to do so.

What is the long-term plan regarding the funding of Linux Mint?

We believe Linux Mint can gather the momentum and the community necessary to fund itself entirely through donations, sponsoring and advertisement without the need to engage in commercial activities and without focusing our attention on anything else than improving the distribution itself.

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