138: Linux Action News
29 December 2019
We review the major moments of the year's news, and discuss how they impacted our world.
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- Amazon takes aim at MongoDB with launch of Mongo-compatible DocumentDB
 - [MongoDB “open-source” Server Side Public License rejected](https://www.zdnet.com/article/mongodb-open-source-server-side-public-license-rejected/ “MongoDB “open-source” Server Side Public License rejected”)
 - Redis Labs raises $60 million for its NoSQL database
 - Redis Labs changes its open-source license — again
 - Keeping Open Source Open – Open Distro for Elasticsearch
 - Chef goes 100% open source
 - Google jumps into gaming with Google Stadia streaming service
 - Google Stadia will be missing many features for Monday’s launch
 - Supporting choice and competition in Europe
 - Presenting search app and browser options to Android users in Europe
 - Android Developers Blog: Welcoming Android 10!
 - Project Mainline is Google’s new way to speed up security updates in Android Q
 - Adiantum: encryption for the low end
 - All Chromebooks will also be Linux laptops going forward
 - Google gives most Chromebooks an extra year of software support
 - Google and fwupd sitting in a tree
 - Phoenix joins the LVFS
 - Please welcome HP to the LVFS
 - LVFS Project Announcement
 - Announcing the Open Sourcing of Windows Calculator
 - Introducing Windows Terminal
 - Microsoft Will Release Their Edge Web Browser For Linux
 - Microsoft Teams is now available on Linux
 - Announcing WSL 2
 - Ubuntu 19.04 ‘Disco Dingo’ Released with New Features
 - Intel 32bit packages on Ubuntu from 19.10 onwards
 - Statement on 32-bit i386 packages for Ubuntu 19.10 and 20.04 LTS
 - Enhancing our ZFS support on Ubuntu 19.10
 - Ubuntu 19.10 Released
 - Will Cooke, the Director of Engineering for the Ubuntu desktop, has left Canonical
 - Canonical announces Ubuntu Pro for Amazon Web Services
 - Red Hat Opens the Linux Experience to Every Enterprise, Every Cloud and Every Workload with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
 - Red Hat crosses US$3b annual revenue for first time
 - Announcing the release of Fedora 30
 - IBM Closes Landmark Acquisition of Red Hat for $34 Billion; Defines Open, Hybrid Cloud Future
 - Introducing Fedora CoreOS
 - Presenting CentOS Stream
 - Fedora 31 is officially here!