January
Raspberry Pi joins RISC-V Foundation
Mozilla “experimenting” with more ads in Firefox
Mozilla kills Test Pilot Program
Mozilla Kills Default Support for Adobe Flash in Firefox 69
Amazon launches Mongo-compatible DocumentDB
MongoDB removed from major distros
Adiantum: encryption for the low end
February
We won’t see a raspberry Pi 4 in 2019
Redis Labs raises $60 million for its NoSQL database
Redis Labs changes its open-source license — again
The battle between real open source vs. faux open source heats up
March
Microsoft open-sources Windows Calculator
Debian project leader candidates emerge
Google launches game streaming service called Stadia
Google forced into Android browser choice
Antitrust: Commission fines Google €1.49 billion for abusive practices in online advertising
Red Hat crosses $3B revenue mark
April
UBports Foundation finally created
Ubuntu 19.04 ‘Disco Dingo’ Released with New Features
Open infrastructure, developer desktop and IoT are the focus for Ubuntu 19.04
Presenting search app and browser options to Android users in Europe
Linux developer abandons VMware lawsuit
May
IBM’s Red Hat acquisition moves forward
All new Chromebooks will run Linux apps
Project Mainline is Google’s new attempt to send security updates directly to your phone
Google pulls Huawei’s Android license
June
Ubuntu announce that they’ll drop i386 but then backtrack
Ubuntu to drop i386 architecture
At least some games not working without 32-bit
Important figures in the Linux world sign petition
Test and run multiple instances of snaps
OpenMandriva also dropping 32-bit
Statement on 32-bit i386 packages for Ubuntu 19.10 and 20.04 LTS
Update on Steam, Ubuntu, and 32-bit support
July
Raspberry Pi 4 USB-C issues confirmed
Firefox addons outage post mortem
August
Enhancing our ZFS support on Ubuntu 19.10 – an introduction
exFAT in the Linux kernel? Yes!
Richard Brown steps down as openSUSE chairman
September
Richard Stallman resigns from the FSF
Richard Stallman resigns from MIT
Stallman intends to keep leading GNU
Transforming the development experience within CentOS
October
Joint statement on the GNU Project
No radical changes in GNU Project
Google Stadia will be “faster and more responsive” than local gaming hardware
Will Cooke, the Director of Engineering for the Ubuntu desktop, has left Canonical
November
Google gives most Chromebooks an extra year of software support
Microsoft Will Release Their Edge Web Browser For Linux
Google Stadia will be missing many features for Monday’s launch
December