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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

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