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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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.
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For anything to become unifiedd the majority of the foss community would have to do something it's so far shown itself incapable of doing. It would have to sit down, collaborate and, here's the big one, actually agree on standards. By collaborating I do not mean they sit down and begin to discuss standards, only to have some of the developers leave the discussion because they think they could do it better. I mean put aside their pride and preconceptions, sit down together (figuratively or literally), and actually come up with something that pleases the majority of both the developer and user communities. Don't take away the user's choices, but at least set down a common base.
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I don't know about KDE... but I'd dare say that Gnome folks would be in Gnome 3 FOR SURE... if they really got Gnome 3 ready by the time. Not that I'm criticizing it, and things may have changed the last six months (I've been away from oss community for a while since my new job is about Microsoft stuff), but Gnome wouldn't get on 5 that fast... They wouldn't NEED to get on 5 that fast. At least not by their standards.
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-Kernel will be realtime and have a ZFS similar FS
-X will be a user process, kernelmodesetting will enable smooth, flicker- and tearingfree graphics
-KDE4, GNOME3, OpenOffice4, Firefox4 will be even more modular and more tightly integrated
-3D will work with everything ( at least on Intel, Via and especially AMD/ATI ) thanks to Gallium3D
-Wine will play games faster on Linux than on bloatware windows7 ( thanks to the kernel and gallium3d )
-It will be so beautiful that you would be OK with dying after seeing it ( thanks to Mark Shuttleworth .. hmm .. maybe I am slithly wrong on this one .. )
-Many more great things I cannot think of right now