This week, while the guys are away on holiday, we take a look back and see just how much Linux has progressed into new areas over the course of 2016 & also some of the spots where it may have stumbled a bit.

Get settled in with your eggnog & hot cocoa because it's gonna be a BIG SHOW!

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Gnome's new tricks, our favorite thing about the Raspberry Pi 3B+, Eric Raymond's call for an open source UPS, and the US city that banned Bitcoin mining.

Plus Let's Encrypt rolls out wildcard certs, Firefox 59's new Linux feature, and why Wil Wheaton switched to Debian.

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OpenWatch is trying  to free your wrist and empower modular smart watches, Fedora's solution to the IoT mess, and more AMP shenanigans from Google to take over the web.

Debian and Kali land on Windows 10's Linux Subsystem, and Noah joins Chris from SCaLE16x

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Developers are the new gold rush for OEMs and selling Linux is their way to get you to buy. Purism takes big steps to make their laptops more secure, the Linux kernel is ready for lockdown mode, and the new uses for Sailfish just might surprise you.

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Open Source salvation from Android and iOS gets closer this week, an update on Ubuntu's metrics collection & huge news for Signal and RISC-V Linux fans.

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A famous Solaris tool comes to Linux, Firefox is baking in ads & Google wants to take over the web with AMP.

Plus Ubuntu's plans to collect user metrics, the Linux on Galaxy survey & Plasma desktop on a Nintendo Switch.

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