Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Fri 15th Aug 2008 05:18 UTC
InformationWeek is speculating on how Linux will change in the next four years. "By 2012 the OS will have matured into three basic usage models. Web-based apps rule, virtualization is a breeze, and command-line hacking for basic system configuration is a thing of the past."
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2006-02-06
I truly wish I could be as optimistic as you guys. I'll keep on wishing you guys luck with your projections for 2012 Linux.
I just wish we had a great set of common base software activities API that could be used (although slightly differently to integrate with the possibilities) with most common languages and toolkits.
Things like configuration files API using a single config framework (no, it doesn't need to be registry like, or even to have unified config format, just unified config abstract concepts that we could map to different file formats as each project sees fit);
Common package naming conventions with versioning information sane between all distributions, flags for packages that inform which features or pieces of it are included in some binary package, so that package writers could make packages portable across systems and only re-do the work on those who are incompatible due to distribution choices on different configurations / versions of libraries;
Hmmm I can't think of anything else right now, but I'm sure I could come up with lots of other infrastructure stuff I'd love to have on Linux and that I just can't remember now being almost 4AM.
Getting back to work... I hate freaky deadlines.