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It’s almost Christmas so it’s time to look back at 2019 and talk about some of the news stories that shaped the year.

 

 

January

Amazon launches Mongo-compatible DocumentDB

MongoDB removed from major distros

 

February

Redis Labs raises $60 million for its NoSQL database

Redis Labs changes its open-source license — again

 

March

Google launches game streaming service called Stadia

LVFS joins Linux Foundation

 

April

UBports Foundation finally created

Ubuntu 19.04 ‘Disco Dingo’ Released with New Features

 

May

Announcing WSL 2

Introducing Windows Terminal

 

June

Raspberry Pi 4 released

 

July

Fuchsia gets a website

 

August

Xfce 4.14 released

exFAT in the Linux kernel? Yes!

 

September

Richard Stallman resigns from the FSF

Richard Stallman resigns from MIT

Stallman intends to keep leading GNU

 

October

Ubuntu 19.10 released

Will has left Canonical

 

November

Google gives most Chromebooks an extra year of software support

Google Stadia will be missing many features for Monday’s launch

 

December

Canonical announces Ubuntu Pro for Amazon Web Services

Microsoft Teams is now available on Linux

 

 

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