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Throughout 2019, Opensource.com's team of Correspondents and community of writers have highlighted top-notch open source alternatives to proprietary software. Take a quick look at the best 10 of those articles.

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5 Best Linux Distro for Windows users as alternatives- 2020  H2S Media

This is part 9 in an ongoing series about creating video games in Python 3 using the Pygame module. Previous articles are:

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Christian Hergert of Red Hat who is known for his work on the GNOME Builder IDE has recently been hacking on a new project called Bonsai that is designed as a GNOME-focused multi-device synchronization service akin to a personal cloud...

Bonsai Is A New Effort For GNOME-Focused Multi-Device Cloud/Synchronization  Phoronix

Why 2019 was the year of Linux and open-source software - Video  ZDNet

Among the issues that game developers have been facing in bringing their games to Linux for Google's Stadia cloud gaming service apparently stem from kernel scheduler issues. We've known the Linux kernel scheduler could use some improvements and independent developers like Con Kolivas with BFS / MuQSS have pushed for such, but hopefully in 2020 we'll see some real action...

The Linux Kernel's Scheduler Apparently Causing Issues For Google Stadia Game Developers  Phoronix

Clear Linux Saw New Features, New Desktop Installer + Increased Adoption In 2019  Phoronix

Clear Linux Saw New Features, New Desktop Installer + Increased Adoption In 2019  Phoronix

In addition to Clear Linux seeing more performance optimizations in 2019 (more so than Fedora and Ubuntu during the year), it also benefited from a new desktop installer, new help forums, and more of Intel's partners talking about their current or planned usage of Clear Linux...

There hasn't been a new GNU Hurd release since the microkernel's 0.9 release back in 2016, but at least other areas of the stack continue inching further. Glibc as an important piece to the GNU toolchain saw some improvements for Hurd during December...

Glibc Sees End Of Year Improvements For GNU Hurd With The Microkernel Entering Its 30th Year  Phoronix

As of this morning in the Linux kernel Git source tree, the kernel weighs in at 27.8 million lines!..

The Linux Kernel Enters 2020 At 27.8 Million Lines In Git But With Less Developers For 2019  Phoronix

The Linux Kernel Enters 2020 At 27.8 Million Lines In Git But With Less Developers For 2019  Phoronix

For those interested in benchmarks of the $99+ PineBook ARM Linux laptop, more results continue to be uploaded on OpenBenchmarking.org...

PineBook Benchmarks For The ARM Linux Laptop Starting At $99 USD  Phoronix

Drew DeVault released Sway 1.3 RC1 on New Year's Eve as the latest test release for this increasingly popular i3-inspired Wayland compositor built off his WLROOTS library...

KDE developer Nate Graham who is well known for his weekly development summaries in the KDE space has shared his opinions on the desktop's features he expects to see materialize this year as well as some of the less likely bits...