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Sep 2024
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Late Night Linux – Episode 300

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We look back at the biggest news stories and trends from the last 7+ years and 300 episodes of LNL. With guest host popey from Linux Matters. Check out his newsletter.

 

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Seven and a bit years of news

Google launches game streaming service called Stadia

A message about Stadia and our long term streaming strategy

Introducing a new version of Steam Play

Steam Deck Launching February 25th 2022

Introducing Ubuntu 12.04 ESM (Extended Security Maintenance)

Ubuntu is abandoning Unity

Canonical starts IPO path

Canonical expands Long Term Support to 12 years starting with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

IBM to Acquire Red Hat

CentOS Project shifts focus to CentOS Stream

Red Hat’s new source code policy and the intense pushback, explained

Mozilla acquires Pocket

Mozilla to shut down their Mastodon instance

Mozilla recently flipped the switch to enable-by-default sponsored weather results from AccuWeather in every new Firefox tab

Microsoft to buy Github

Announcing WSL 2

GitHub and OpenAI launch an AI Copilot tool that generates its own code

Linux has made it to Mars

Mars Helicopter Ingenuity will fly no more

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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