January
Fuchsia available for the Pixelbook
UBports release OTA 3 and are working on Android app support
Changes to AMP coming but they aren’t good enough for some web devs
Ubuntu 18.04 to revert to Xorg by default
February
Mozilla announces Project Things
First RISC-V board available to pre-order
LineageOS 15.1 is finally here
Ubuntu metrics collection will be opt-in when upgrading to 18.04
Crostini – Linux VMs on ChromeOS
Microsoft and Canonical collaborate on Ubuntu VMs
Sailfish is coming to more phones
March
Debian and Kali Linux now available in Windows 10
The final nail in the Firefox OS coffin
Microsoft facilitating yet more distros on WSL
Firefox and Chromium now available as Snaps
April
Things are going well for RISC-V
Steam Machines disappear from Valve’s site
Steam Machines aren’t dead yet
Microsoft announces Linux-based OS
Chrome OS moves a step closer to proper Linux
Linux apps will look seamless in Chrome OS
Clear focus on cloud and containers
Ubuntu 18.04 even runs on a Nintendo Switch
May
The other flavours could follow suit
Lubuntu finally ready to move to LXQt
Void Linux struggling as leader goes missing
Linux apps on Chrome OS confirmed
It could be a while before Linux apps work well on Chrome OS
Google puts pressure on OEMs over Android patches
Android Things is finally ready for devices
Red Hat and Microsoft bring OpenShift to Azure
Malware found in (and removed from) the Snap Store
Huawei locks down its bootloaders
Endless lays off several employees
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June
Ubuntu Touch OTA 4 RC released
Fuchsia will support Linux apps
A first look at Ubuntu desktop metrics
RISC-V so far not as open as hoped
July
Arch Linux AUR Repository Found to Contain Malware
August
Dropbox Ending Support for non-Ext4 Filesystems
Valve’s “Steam Play” uses Vulkan to bring more Windows games to Linux
Google hands off Kubernetes to the community with $9M donation
Blow for Google in Oracle Android case
Handshake appears and dishes out cash to FOSS projects
September
Kernel Maintainer’s Summit moved continents to accommodate Linus
Give Fedora Silverblue a test drive
Jupiter Broadcasting Joins Linux Academy
Chrome OS 70 brings native network file share support
Running Ubuntu VMs on Windows made easier
First purpose-built distro available for WSL
Linus takes a break and a new CoC for kernel devs
At least half of Azure is running Linux
October
Red Hat’s Stratis storage project reaches 1.0
Microsoft’s Linux powered dev boards, Azure Sphere for sale
More Ubuntu statistics published
elementary OS 5.0 Juno released
MongoDB makes change to license
Google changes Android licensing policy in Europe
Linus back in charge of the kernel
November
Samsung announce Linux on DeX with Ubuntu
New mid-range Raspberry Pi launched
Ubuntu 18.04 will be supported for 10 years
Canonical looking for investors
Fedora 31 Will Likely Be Cancelled Or Significantly Delayed
AMP Project’s new governance model now in effect
December
Xubuntu 19.04 to drop 32-bit ISO
Steam link lives on via the Raspberry Pi
Microsoft Edge to move to a Chromium base
Mozilla not exactly thrilled about it
Chrome and Firefox to have native Arm builds on Win10
FreeBSD ZFS File-System Code To Be Re-Based Over ZFS On Linux