[$] A 2018 retrospective

The December 20 LWN.net Weekly Edition is the final one for the year; asusual, we will be taking the last week of the year off for a brief rest.LWN, which is about to conclude its 21st year of publication, has had thetime to build up some traditions, one of which is a year-end retrospectivethat evaluates the predictions we made backin January. As usual, some of those predictions aged rather better thanothers; read on for our report card.