Hughes: fwupd 1.8.0 and 50 million updates

Richard Hughes announcesthe fwupd 1.8.0 release and notes that the associated Linux Vendor Firmware Service has now shippeda minimum of 50 million firmware updates.

Just 7 years ago Christian asked me to make firmware updates workon Linux" and now we have a thriving client project that respectsboth your freedom and your privacy, and a thriving ecosystem ofhardware vendors who consider Linux users first class citizens. Ofcourse, there are vendors who are not shipping updates for popularhardware, but they're now in the minority - and every month we havetwo or three new vendor account requests.