The Structure and Administration of the GNU Project Announced

CTO calls for patience after devs complain promised donations platform has stalled

Arch Linux Has a New Leader

Microsoft Previews Defender ATP for Linux

Unity 8 Renamed to Lomiri

Raspberry Pi 4 with 2GB RAM Reduced to $35

DNS Over HTTPS Default for Firefox Users in USA

Freespire 6.0 is Out

Kernel 5.6 rc3 is Out

Wayland 1.20 is Out

DXVK 1.55 is Out

Wine 5.3 is Out

IP Fire 2.25 Update 141 is Out

Latte Dock 0.9.9 is Out

Manjaro 19, Kyria, is Out

GIMP 2.10.18 is Out

Netrunner “Twenty” is Out

Android x86 9.0-r1 is Out

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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

Virtualbox 6.1.4 Is Out

Gnome 3.35.2 Is Out

Gnome 3.34.4 Is Out

i3 Window Manager 4.18 Is Out

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

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

[1] New link for downloading the Rawtherapee example image (now hosted here): https://bit.ly/2WNVfPf

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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

Kernel Updates to Fix 32-Bit Epoch Time in the Works

Project Trident Now Officially Based on Void Linux

Linux Kernel 5.6 RC2 Is Out

MATE 1.24 Is Out

Gnome 3.35.90 Is Out

OpenShot 2.5.0 Is Out

Tails 4.3 Is Out

Flatpak 1.6.2 Is Out

Guake 3.7.0 Is Out

NetBSD 9.0 Is Out

Blender 2.82 Is Out

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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

KDE’s 19.2 February Updates Released

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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

Firefox 72.0.2 Fixes Minor Regressions

Sudo Vulnerability Affecting Some Downstream Ubuntu Distributions

OpenSMTPD Vulnerability

LibreOffice 6.4 Released

MPV 0.32 Released

OPNsense 20.1 Released

Godot 3.2 Released

LightTPD 1.4.55 Released

GNU Binutils 2.34 Released

OpenMandriva Lx 4.1 Released

Kali 2020.1 Released

Mesa 19.3.3 Released

Arch Linux’s February Image Released

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This month

[1] New link for downloading the Rawtherapee example image (now hosted here): https://bit.ly/2WNVfPf

Other languages

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

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Beta Released

KDE Plasma 5.18 LTS Default Wallpaper Has Been Selected

Solus 4.1 Fortitude Released

Gparted 1.1.0 Released

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This month

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

Other languages

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

Linus Torvalds Releases Linux Kernel 5.5 rc7

GNU Guile 3.0.0 Released

Linux Lite 4.8 Released

CentOS 8.1 Released

Mir 1.7 Released

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