Late Night Linux – Episode 79

It’s almost Christmas so it’s time to look back at 2019 and talk about some of the news stories that shaped the year.     January Amazon launches Mongo-compatible DocumentDB MongoDB removed from major distros   February Redis Labs raises $60 million for its NoSQL database Redis Labs changes its open-source license — again   March Google launches game streaming service called Stadia LVFS joins Linux Foundation   April UBports Foundation finally created Ubuntu 19.04 ‘Disco Dingo’ Released with New Features   May Announcing WSL 2 Introducing Windows Terminal   June Raspberry Pi 4 released   July Fuchsia gets a website   August Xfce 4.14 released exFAT in the Linux kernel? Yes!   September Richard Stallman resigns from the FSF Richard Stallman resigns from MIT Stallman intends to keep leading GNU   October Ubuntu 19.10 released Will has left Canonical   November Google gives most Chromebooks an extra year of software support Google Stadia will be missing many features for Monday’s launch   December Canonical announces Ubuntu Pro for Amazon Web Services Microsoft Teams is now available on Linux     Digital Ocean This episode is sponsored by Digital Ocean. Go to do.co/lnl and get started with $50 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: Subscribe to the RSS feed.