Linux Action News 142

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The real reason Rocket League is dropping support for Linux, Wine has a massive release, and the potential for Canonical's new Android in the cloud service. Plus, our take on the FSF's Upcycle Windows 7 campaign, and the clever Chrome OS strategy upgrade for education in 2020. Support Linux Action News Links: Rocket League will drop support for Mac, Linux versions in March | Ars Technica — Change comes eight months after Epic Games acquired the game's creators. Update on Refunds for macOS and Linux Players Support for macOS and Linux (SteamOS) – Psyonix Support Psyonix are ending support for Rocket League on both Linux and macOS (updated) Thanks to Psyonix dropping Linux support, we're getting anti-Linux statements like this from game devs again Wine 5.0 Released — This release represents a year of development effort and over 7,400 individual changes. Wine Is Approaching Six Million Lines Canonical introduces Anbox Cloud — The service is designed to offload workloads from x86 or Arm-based devices to containers in the cloud. The latest Chrome OS education devices will get updates for eight years — Previously, most Chrome OS devices recieved six years of software support. Chromebooks will now get up to eight years of Chrome OS updates Improving 40 million Chromebooks for education Upcycle Windows 7 — We call on them to release it as free software, and give it to the community to study and improve. Open Source Licenses in 2020: Trends and Predictions

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