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
February
March
The final nail in the Firefox OS coffin
April
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
July
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
November
December
Librem 5 dev kits finally shipping
Microsoft Edge to move to a Chromium base
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