• Linux Foundation’s Core Infrastructure Initiative Releases Census II Analysis

• Refreshed GTK Website Goes Live

• MX Linux 19.1 Now Available

• MangoHud 0.2.0 Is Out

• Wine 5.2 Is Out

• Mesa 20 Is Out

Being occupied with a family health issue, I completely forget to mention in this issue that it marks our 13th year! Happy 13th birthday everyone! This month

• Command & Conquer
• How-To : Python, Valentina, and Rawtherapee**[1]** - Graphics : Inkscape
• Graphics : Krita for Old Photos
• Linux Loopback
• Everyday Ubuntu : PIM
• Review : Stacer
• Ubuntu Games : Exapunks

Plus: News, My Story, The Daily Waddle, Q&A, and more.

• Ubuntu 18.04.4 Released with Updated Kernel 5.3

• Devs Push for Unicode 13 Support in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

• Perens Versus Open Source Security; Perens Wins in Court

• New Long Term Support KDE Plamsa 5.18 Is Out

• EOL of CoreOS Linux

• Kernel 5.4 Marked as LTS

• Ubuntu 20.04 Will Ship with the 5.4 LTS Kernel

• Godot Engine Receives Epic MegaGrant

• Wine 5.1 Development Released

• TLP 1.3 Released

• Thunderbird Ownership Transferred to MZLA

• ND2H Wi-Fi Adapter Is Now FSF Certified

• Nvidia Dropping Support for Older Graphics Drivers

• Linux Mint Focuses on LMDE 4 and Cinnamon

• Google Paid $6.5M in Vulnerability Rewards in 2019

• Kubuntu Focus Laptop to Ship in Early February

• ProtonVPN Open Sources All of Its Apps

• Wine 5.0 Released

• Kernel 5.5 Released

• FSF Wants to Upcycle Windows 7

• Gnu Make 4.3 Released

• Zorin Announces Zorin Grid

• Xfce 4.16 Getting a Major UI Change

• Mozilla Lays Off About 70 Employees

• Ubuntu Theme Development for 20.04

• Fedora CoreOS Out of Preview

• PinePhone Braveheart Edition Ships

• Kali Defaults to a Non-Root User

• VVVVVV Now Open Source

• An All New Firefox 72

• Linus Torvalds Weary of ZFS in the Kernel

• EndlessOS Will Be Available on the Raspberry Pi

This month

• Command & Conquer
• How-To : Python, Test Linux in VirtualBox, and Darktable
• Graphics : Inkscape
• Graphics : Krita for Old Photos
• Linux Loopback: Project Trident and other BSD options
• Everyday Ubuntu
• Interview : FuryBSD Developer
• Review : mtPaint
• Ubuntu Games : Stygian

Plus: News, My Opinion, The Daily Waddle, Q&A, and more.

• Arch Linux Now Using ZStandard Instead of XZ for Compression

• EA Is Permanently Banning Linux Gamers in Battlefield V

• OpenBSD’s Calm Window Manager version 6.6 is now available in a portable package

• DXVK 1.5 Released

• Calculate Linux 20 Released

• Purism Announces the Librem Server

• Linux Mint 19.3 Cinnamon, MATE and XFCE Released

• Peppermint 10 Respin Released

• Alpine Linux 3.11.0 Released

• Krita Recieves Epic MegaGrant

• Zorin OS 15.1 is Released

• Firefox 71 is Now Available for All Supported Ubuntu Releases

• KDE’s December 2019 Apps Update

• Oracle Virtualbox 6.1 Now Available

• Microsoft Teams is Now Available for Linux