DistroWatch Donations Programme

Launched in 2004, the DistroWatch donations programme is an initiative to support free and open source software projects and operating systems with cash contributions. Readers are welcome to nominate their favourite project for future donations. Those readers who wish to contribute towards these donations, please use our advertising page to make a payment (PayPal, credit cards, Yandex Money and crypto currencies are accepted). Below is the list of the projects that have received a DistroWatch donation since the launch of the programme (figures in US dollars):

Since the launch of the Donations Program in March 2004, DistroWatch has made 147 donations for a total of US$46,689 to various open-source software projects.

Year	Donations
2017	Armbian ($308)
2016	KeePass ($400) Slackware Live Edition (liveslak) ($406) Devil-Linux ($400) FFmpeg ($300) UBports ($300)
2015	AWStats ($300) Haiku ($300) Xiph.Org ($300) GIMP ($350) Kodi ($300) Devuan ($300) hdparm ($350) HardenedBSD ($400) TestDisk ($450)
2014	QupZilla ($250) Pitivi ($370) MediaGoblin ($350) TrueCrypt ($300) Krita ($340) SME Server ($350) OpenStreetMap ($350) iTALC ($350) KDE ($400) The Document Foundation ($400) Tails ($350)
2013	MariaDB ($300) Linux From Scratch ($350) GhostBSD ($340) DHCP ($300) DOSBox ($250) awesome ($300) DVDStyler ($280) Tor ($350) Tiny Tiny RSS ($350) FreeType ($300) GNU Octave ($300) Linux Voice ($510)
2012	GnuPG ($350) ImageMagick ($350) GNU ddrescue ($350) Slackware Linux ($500) MATE ($250) LibreCAD ($250) BleachBit ($350) cherrytree ($260) Zim ($335) nginx ($250) LFTP ($250) Remastersys ($300)
2011	CGSecurity ($300) OpenShot ($300) Imagination ($250) Calibre ($300) RIPLinuX ($300) Midori ($310) vsftpd ($300) OpenShot ($350) Trinity Desktop Environment ($300) LibreCAD ($300) LiVES ($300) Transmission ($250)
2010	Qimo 4 Kids ($250) Squid ($250) Libre Graphics Meeting ($300) Bacula ($250) FileZilla ($300) GCompris ($352) Xiph.org ($250) Clonezilla ($250) Debian Multimedia ($280) Geany ($300) Mageia ($470) gtkpod ($300)
2009	Openbox ($250) Wolvix GNU/Linux ($200) smxi ($200) Python ($300) SliTaz GNU/Linux ($200) LiVES ($300) Osmo ($300) LMMS ($250) KompoZer ($360) OpenSSH ($350) Parted Magic ($350) Krita ($285)
2008	VLC ($350) Frugalware Linux ($340) cURL ($300) GSPCA ($400) FileZilla ($400) MythDora ($500) Linux Mint ($400) Parsix GNU/Linux ($300) Miro ($300) GoblinX ($250) Dillo ($150) LXDE ($250)
2007	GQview ($250) Kaffeine ($250) sidux ($350) CentOS ($400) LyX ($350) VectorLinux ($350) KTorrent ($400) FreeNAS ($350) lighttpd ($400) Damn Small Linux ($350) NimbleX ($450) MEPIS Linux ($300) Zenwalk Linux ($300)
2006	Gambas ($250) Krusader ($250) FreeBSD Foundation ($450) GParted ($360) Doxygen ($260) LilyPond ($250) Lua ($250) Gentoo Linux ($500) Blender ($500) Puppy Linux ($350) Inkscape ($350) Cape Linux Users Group ($130) Mandriva Linux ($405, a Powerpack competition) Digikam ($408) Sabayon Linux ($450)
2005	Vim ($250) AbiWord ($220) BitTorrent ($300) NDISwrapper ($250) Audacity ($250) Debian GNU/Linux ($420) GNOME ($425) Enlightenment ($250) MPlayer ($400) Amarok ($300) KANOTIX ($250) Cacti ($375)
2004	GnuCash ($250) Quanta Plus ($200) PCLinuxOS ($300) The GIMP ($300) Vidalinux ($200) Fluxbox ($200) K3b ($350) Arch Linux ($300) Kile KDE LaTeX Editor ($100) UNICEF - Tsunami Relief Operation ($340)