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[#]: subject: "8 Defining Moments in the Open Source and Linux World: 2023 Edition"
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[#]: via: "https://news.itsfoss.com/best-open-source-linux-stories-2023/"
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[#]: author: "Ankush Das https://news.itsfoss.com/author/ankush/"
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[#]: collector: "lujun9972/lctt-scripts-1700446145"
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8 Defining Moments in the Open Source and Linux World: 2023 Edition
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A recap of the rollercoaster ride in 2023.
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With Linux and open-source, every year brings some good surprises, and shockers.
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There could be a Linux distribution that changes its base, an independent project taken over by a big tech giant, and various other things. And, throughout 2023, we tried our best to get you a dose of the rollercoaster ride.
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Now that the year has come to an end. It is time to look back at some of the biggest stories that happened in 2023.
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### 1\. Ubuntu Debuts the "Flutter" Store ⭐
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Ubuntu's software center is always the talk of the hour for its changes, and improvements.
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This year around, Ubuntu stepped up their game by introducing a new "Ubuntu Store" with Ubuntu 23.10 based on Flutter, providing a modern and sleek user experience.
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It will eventually replace the software center Ubuntu's had for years now, which is a good thing in my opinion.
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### 2\. Indian Defense Services Switch to Linux
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The Defense Ministry of India has decided to replace Windows with an in-house developed Linux distro dubbed " **Maya** ".
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Of course, this is not the first time a government body has decided to use Linux to improve security and privacy.
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However, in a country like India, a simple choice to use Linux in one part of the government body could have a massive influence over other systems. And, that would be a really nice thing for Linux in general.
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### 3\. Red Hat's Source Code Locking 🔒
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Red Hat, the biggest open-source company, decided to lock the source code for Red Hat Enterprise Linux behind a paywall.
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While they still allowed individual developers to access the source code with a free subscription, but it is no longer publicly accessible to all, as it was earlier.
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This change sent waves to all the RHEL-based distributions, and forks:
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From competitors like SUSE, Oracle, and others teaming up to work on an RHEL-fork, to various other changes to projects like Rocky Linux, and AlmaLinux.
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For me, it was the biggest story of 2023, which will continue to have after-effects in 2024.
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### 4\. A Change to Linux Kernel LTS Support Cycle
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To reduce the burden of Linux maintainers, the support cycle for an LTS kernel was dropped down to **two years** instead of six.
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It was evaluated that not many people use the older Linux Kernel versions, and with many LTS versions of the kernel being maintained for years, it becomes a difficult and tiresome task for the maintainers.
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As a user, you should not have to worry about it, unless you rely on specific hardware support that no longer exists on newer Linux kernels.
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### 5\. Ubuntu Drops Flatpak Support for all its Flavours 🔨
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It is no surprise that Canonical's Ubuntu favors Snap packages over anything else.
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However, Ubuntu flavours did have the freedom to offer Flatpak support, like Ubuntu MATE.
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Unfortunately, [Ubuntu axed the default Flatpak support][5] for the flavors, citing a consistent user experience as the reason.
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Of course, you can add Flatpak support manually, but it's not an out-of-the-box convenience anymore.
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Would this change affect you? Well, if you know your pick between [Flatpak vs Snap][6], you already know the answer.
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### 6\. A Rolling-Release Ubuntu Distro Appears 🎲
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Among all the other interesting disto releases, Rhino Linux hit the stable release. It aims to offer a rolling-release experience on top of Ubuntu.
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You can explore more about the release in our coverage:
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### 7\. Vim Creator Passed Away🥺
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This year, we lost a notable creator in the Linux space, **Bram Moolenar** , the legend behind [Vim][8] text editor.
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He aimed to improve upon the existing [vi][9] text editor, initially created for Unix.
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Bram then built upon the source code of vi and its clones, improving them by adding new features, and finally releasing the first version as “ **Vi IMitation** ”, where it got the “ **Vim** ” acronym.
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### 8\. Linux Rising Above macOS Gaming Stats
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As Linux users, we take our statistics seriously and celebrate when there's a milestone. Like, monitoring the [Linux desktop market share][10] every month.
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This year, Linux usage stats stood higher than macOS in Steam's stat report. You can get the details here:
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### Wrapping Up
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Plenty of things happened in 2023 😲
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For instance, there were various exciting applications that we uncovered:
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Not to forget, some new names in the distro space made it to the spotlight:
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_💬 For you, what was the biggest shocker (happy/sad) in 2023? Let us know in the comments below._
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via: https://news.itsfoss.com/best-open-source-linux-stories-2023/
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作者：[Ankush Das][a]
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选题：[lujun9972][b]
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[a]: https://news.itsfoss.com/author/ankush/
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[b]: https://github.com/lujun9972
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[1]: https://news.itsfoss.com/content/images/2023/08/2.jpg
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[2]: https://news.itsfoss.com/content/images/size/w1304/2023/08/indian-govt-switched-to-linux.png
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[3]: https://news.itsfoss.com/content/images/size/w256h256/2022/08/android-chrome-192x192.png
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[4]: https://news.itsfoss.com/content/images/size/w1304/2023/09/big-change-lts-kernel.png
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[5]: https://news.itsfoss.com/ubuntu-flavor-drops-flatpak/
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[6]: https://itsfoss.com/flatpak-vs-snap/
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[7]: https://news.itsfoss.com/content/images/2023/08/Bram_Moolenar.jpg
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[8]: https://www.vim.org/
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[9]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi
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[10]: https://itsfoss.com/linux-market-share/
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