Last year we had looked at The Greatest Linux Innovations Of 2007, and as this year ends, we have compiled a similar list of what we believe were some of the greatest Linux innovations or achievements of 2008. Among the innovations named this year were KDE 4, NetworkManager 0.7, new hardware companies standing behind open-source support, and the Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix.

Below is our 2008 list with the highlights being listed in no particular order...

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In the migration from 3.x to 4.x, the KDE developers decided to make a rather bold move: replace KDE's file browsing function with Dolphin. Now before I get into this rant, I want to say that Dolphin isn't horrible, it's just that Konqueror was probably one of the finest file managers available - on any platform. That being said...