The most interesting thing that 2022 left for Linux and Open Source
Go that the year 2022 was quite an interesting year and that I definitely represent the return after the pandemic for many and that is that of the many events that have arisen this year, there are several of which we would love to remember.
Of the many events, news, releases, updates, events, among other things, the following are just a few that I personally believe were important at the time and possibly the basis for new events.
For the part of the operating systems that were born in the past year 2022, the following stand out: Kata OS (Google Secure Operating System), Essence, dahliaOS (Linux and Fuchsia hybrid), DentOS (for switches), Capyloon (based on Firefox OS) and DBOS (DBMS based operating system) and ChromeFlex.
On the part of BSD we can find a FreeBSD 13.1/ 12.4, OpenBSD 7.2, DragonFlyBSD 6.2, NetBSD 9. pledge/unveil, deployments NetLink and new VPN code from WireGuard for FreeBSD, MyBee a FreeBSD distribution for virtual machines.
Distribution releases from Linux: ubuntu 22.04, 22.10, Core 22, Fedora 36/37, RHEL 9.0, 9.1, 8.7, SUSE 15SP4, openSUSE Leap 15.4, Linux Mint 21, Microsoft CBL-Mariner 2.0, OpenSUSE ALP the successor to SUSE Linux Enterprise.
Happenings: openSUSE is developing a new D-Installer, CERN and Fermilab switch to AlmaLinux, Fedora is scheduled to migrate to DNF5 (MicroDNF), first stable version of WSL, a shell for running Linux applications on Windows, and the SpiralLinux distribution from the creator of GeckoLinux.
New open source projects: OpenIKED (implementation of the IKEv2 protocol for IPsec), rendering system moonray, HDDSuperClone disk recovery utility, Nintendo Wii U Cemu emulator, OnCall incident response system, note-taking platform notesnook, package manager Tea, source code management system sapling, a framework for building high load front end applications, vSMTP mail server.
Conflict: a split between the founders of the Elementary OS project, departure from norbert preening from Debian, call from SFC to stop using GitHub, a division in the Urho3D community, criticism of the SPO Foundation's policy towards firmware, transition of Apache PLC4X to the paid development model, introduction and removal of the ban on the sale of open source software in Microsoft Store.
Completion of procedures between Stockfish and ChessBase about the violation of the GPL, claim for hosting the Youtube-dl project, procedures related to the Neo4j project and the AGPL license.
Copyright: PostgreSQL trademark dispute, Debian sued the debian.community domain and Red Hat attempted to seize the WeMakeFedora.org domain, invalidation of a patent used to attack GNOME, attempt to create a patent pool for Opus.
Of the other notable news from 2022:
- User environment updates: Xfce 4.18, GNOME 43, 42, KDE 5.26, 5.25, 5.24, Cinnamon 5.6, LXQt 1.2, Sway 1.8, Budgie 10.6, Phosh 0.22, Regolith 2.0
- Developments in desktop environments: Budgie becomes a standalone project, COSMIC transition from GTK to Iced, LXQt port supporting Wayland, Clutter discontinued, and new user environments: Maui Shell, Material Shell, PaperDE, and LWQt.
- GUI and graphics: Qt 6.3, 6.4, LeanQt (a fork of Qt 5), GTK 4.6, 4.8, Libadwaita 1.0, 1.2. Intent to end X11 support in GTK5, libcamera a stack for camera support on Linux.
- Drivers: Opening part of the NVIDIA drivers. NVK Vulkan driver for NVIDIA graphics cards. Xe Driver for Intel GPUs. Mali Valhall GPU support in the Panfrost driver.
Multimedia: EnCodec , Lyra V2 and FLAC 1.4 audio codecs. - Mobile platforms: Android 13, Android Go 13, LineageOS 19, /e/OS 1.0, webOS 2.19, KDE Plasma Mobile 22.11, postmarketOS, GNOME Shell for mobile, and RISC-V support on Android.
- Games: PhysX 5, Open 3D Engine 22.10, Steam for ChromeOS.
- Forks: Angie – Nginx fork, LeanQt – Qt 5 fork, libSQL – SQLite fork, Forgejo – Gitea fork, Pulsar – Atom fork.
- Acquisitions: Forced to take over Puppet. Intel took over Linutronix (linux-rt). Mozilla bought
- Turn on Replica and Pulse.
- Litigation: Litigation by Netfilter developers, Litigation due to GitHub Copilot, Litigation with Vizio for GPL infringement. Lawsuit by Daniel Bernstein related to the standardization of cryptoalgorithms.