Bringing you the latest news from the Linux World. Here is the permanent site for this page. Leading items and editorials Another year ends , so it must be time for an LWN retrospective and look forward. Interested parties may want to review the 1998 year-end LWN for a similar summary of where we were a year ago. Things have changed a lot.
Few people ask that question anymore.
We have our first Linux billionaires. Highly commercial Linux trade shows draw ever-larger crowds. Many questions remain about the long-term viability of specific Linux companies, but nobody doubts that there is money to be made with Linux. A year ago, Linux was criticised as being unsupported. Nobody says that anymore either.