[$] A year-end wrap-up from LWN

2019 is coming to a close. It has been anotherbusy year with a lot going on in the Linux and free-software communities.Here at LWN, we have a longstanding tradition of looking back at the predictions made in January to see justhow badly we did; it's not good to go against tradition no matter howembarrassing the results might be, so we might as well get right into it.