We look back at some of the biggest stories and trends of 2021 including Linux on Mars, gaming, Arm, drama, and NFTs.
2021 Linux year in review
Mars
Linux has made it to Mars [feb]
NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter achieves historic powered flight on Mars [apr]
NASA’s Mars helicopter makes second flight [apr]
Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Flies Faster, Farther on Third Flight [apr]
“Huge leap” for NASA’s Mars helicopter ushers new mission support role [jul]
Mars helicopter has Log4j bug, breaks records all the same [dec]
Gaming
Google closes Stadia’s dedicated game studios after less than 2 years [feb]
Google Stadia is celebrating its second birthday with hardware for free or cheap [nov]
Amazon Luna runs on Windows — and yet it’s hiring Linux gaming engineers [dec]
Steam Link now available on Linux [mar]
Valve is making a Switch-like portable gaming PC [jun]
Steam Deck [jul]
EAC has come to Linux and BattlEye is inbound [sep]
Valve delays Steam Deck, now starts shipping February 2022 [nov]
Drama
FSF Adopts New Governance Framework for Board Members [dec]
Audacity 3.0.0 Released [mar]
Audacity & MuseScore Announcement! [may]
Audacity finds new and exciting ways to annoy contributors with a Contributor License Agreement [jun]
Audacity privacy notice [jul]
Clarification of Privacy Policy [jul]
Freenode IRC staff resign en masse, unhappy about new management [may]
Welcome to Libera Chat [may]
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