Late Night Linux – Episode 53

It’s almost Christmas so it’s time to look back at 2018 and talk about some of the news stories that shaped the year.   January Meltdown and Spectre   February Nintendo Switch runs Linux Plasma running on a Switch   March New Raspberry Pi 3B+ The final nail in the Firefox OS coffin   April Ubuntu 18.04 released 18.04 flavours also released Clear focus on cloud and containers Ubuntu 18.04 even runs on a Nintendo Switch   May Lots of of Ubuntu flavours decided to drop 32-bit images The other flavours could follow suit Linux apps on Chrome OS confirmed Huawei locks down its bootloaders   June Microsoft to buy Github   July SUSE acquired   August Valve’s “Steam Play” uses Vulkan to bring more Windows games to Linux   September Kernel Maintainer’s Summit moved continents to accommodate Linus Linus takes a break and a new CoC for kernel devs   October Linus back in charge of the kernel IBM to Acquire Red Hat   November Librem 5 slips again   December Librem 5 dev kits finally shipping Microsoft Edge to move to a Chromium base MIPS to be open sourced   Admin FOSS Talk Live 2019 8th June   Digital Ocean This episode is sponsored by Digital Ocean. Go to do.co/lnl and get started with $100 of credit. Digital Ocean provides virtual private servers all over the world with full root access starting at $5 per month, and other great features like block storage and load balancers.   CDN77 This episode is sponsored by CDN77. Trusted by the European Space Agency, CDN77 supports the latest tech innovations and provides fast, secure and reliable content delivery solutions all around the world.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: See the feeds page for the various options.