333: Linux Wayback Machine

Open source won the last decade, but what if it hadn’t? We look back at some major milestones and reflect on a world where they never existed.

Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar and Brent Gervais.

Links:

• Introducing netboot.xyz Docker Network Boot Server Image (PXE)
• Tails - Celebrating 10 years of Tails!
• Ten Years Past GNOME’s 10x10 Goal, The Linux Desktop Is Still Far From Having A 10% Marketshare - Phoronix
• Linux Headlines
• Jupiter Extras - NOW ON YouTube
• Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram!
• Container History in an Image
• Shuttleworth’s grand vision for Ubuntu on phones, tablets, TV’s and smart screens everywhere in October 2011
• Ubuntu Touch 1.0 in October 2013
• BQ Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Edition in April 2015
• Ubuntu phone killed in April 2017
• UBports released first stable OTA in June 2017
• Librem 5 crowdfunder in August 2017
• Librem 5 starts shipping in December 2019
• PinePhone announced at FOSDEM 2019
• PinePhone Braveheart edition opens for pre-orders November 2019
• Xdg-app becomes Flatpak in May 2016
• Launched in December 2014
• Skype snapped in February 2018
• Chrome OS announced in July 2009
• First widely available Chromebooks arrive June 2011
• Chromebook Pixel in February 2013
• Android apps arrive in September 2014
• Network file share support arrives in September 2018
• Linux apps beta arrives in stable channel in October 2018
• In May 2019 it was announced that all new Chromebooks would support Linux apps
• In Q4 of 2018, Chromebooks made up 21% of all notebooks sold in the US
• Feedback: Aaarghhhhh!! (Chris’ Pronunciation)