The internet, and much of the real world as well, is currently in list mode. Just about any possible list that can be made up regarding 2008 will be made up somewhere, so we decided not to reinvent the wheel and look forward instead of backward. Since we like to leave the guessing predicting to the analysts, we just limited ourselves to what tech-related matters we would like to see in 2009. Read on for our lists, and of course, post your own in the comments. And lest we forget: a very happy 2009 from the OSNews crew!
Kroc
- 3G prices to fall
- In 2009, I’d like to see more netbooks come with 3G built in (but without carrier tie-ins), 3G mobile broadband prices fall, as well as the removal of the obscene transfer limits (1GB/mo. is quite common, with up to £15 per GB overdraft)
- iPhone to shape-up
- MMS. Bluetooth/WiFi Sync. Sane data-contract prices in the UK. In short, everything every other phone in the UK has had for the last five years.
- Windows 7 to finally be a viable upgrade to XP
- All I’m asking for is min. 1GHz/1GB-RAM, one version, no activation crap, £90.
- Snow Leopard
- Just how awesome can maintenance be? I’m more excited about Snow Leopard than anything else any other OS is planning atm.
- The Year of Webstandards
- In 2009 I hope all those crappy web developers finally get standards rammed through their permanently softened minds when IE8 comes out and drags their sorry butts through learning how to do it properly for once. I want to see more than just two notable HTML5-only websites in 2009.
- Haiku Beta
- That is all.
Thom Holwerda
- Windows 7
- In 2009, I hope to see a Windows 7 that doesn’t get frakked up by bad design decisions based on nothing but economic profit. Playing with Windows 7 in its current state is a blessing compared to Windows Vista’s early days – although rough edges are still visible, this being beta stage an all. Anyway, what I mean is that I hope Microsoft keeps the number of versions down to two (Normal and Business), prices them acceptably, and offers a decent family package like Apple does with Mac OS X.
- Netbooks
- I’m hoping to see more diversity in the netbook market. Right now, you can choose between dozens of brands that all produce effectively the same machine because they’re all just Intel machines with a differently-coloured casing. I hope that VIA’s and AMD’s offerings prove competitive to Intel’s Atom platform.
- AmigaOS 4.1
- A review machine for AmigaOS 4.1 has been coming my way for a while now, and I’m hoping that in 2009, I’ll finally be able to properly (as in, from a non-incrowd perspective) review this elusive operating system.
Adam
- Apple, Linux, Windows
- From Apple, I’m looking for serious performance gains from Snow Leopard. I’m expecting further UI improvements in Linux, from Fedora and Ubuntu especially. I’m really looking forward to Windows 7 and hoping to see a smooth and stable transition for business users.
- Mobile
- On the mobile front, I’m hoping to see improvements to the iPhone, delivering many, if not most, of the most often requested features. On a related note, I want to see Android make a larger impact on the mobile market, and I’m really hoping to see someone add ActiveSync capabilities to it to provide a potential competitor the iPhone.
- Web Development
- From a web development standpoint, I’m very excited about WordPress 2.7 and the subsequent polish and improvements we’ll see with 2.8 in March. I’m aiming to migrate the OSNews javascript framework to jQuery in the first half of 2009 as well.
Amjith
- ZFS/DTrace, Touch
- I’d personally like to see ZFS and DTrace ported to Linux. In addition, I want touch sensitive support in monitors, and operating systems/kernels that have built-in support for those monitors.
David
- Snow Leopard
- I’d like to see the “Enterprise” functionality in Snow Leopard work as advertised. Someone whose using an iPhone and a Mac in a company that uses Exchange should be able to sync up their contacts, Email, and Calendar, with no workarounds and no compromises.
- iPhone
- And while we’re on the subject of the iPhone, I’ll second Kroc’s request for wireless sync, and let’s go wild and see if they can get their heads out of their asses and give us cut and paste and an email search capability while we’re at it. And non-crippled Bluetooth.
- WiFi
- Now that WiFi is so prevalent in homes and businesses, I’d like to see more everyday items made WiFi-capable. Alarm clocks should be able to re-set themselves. Inexpensive “photo frames” could be set to display all sorts of content from local fileservers or the web. WiFi light switches could be used for lighting automation. Wireless phones that use WiFi instead of competing radio bandwidth. Don’t make me think up all the ideas, people! Get on it!
Happy new year to everyone from Germany =) Best wishes for the new year.
OLED monitors Decently priced ones finally starting to hit the market.
Larrabee vs GPGPUs Impending collision. This one will be a very interesting match with GPGPUs having a head start.
Resolution independence Other than WPF, we’ll have to see what Apple will show (CoreUI?). Didn’t see anything about it in Windows 7.
XBox Live for Windows With the release Games for Windows Live app, we can assume that Microsoft is working on expanding XBL for PC gamers. Lots of potential to bridge both worlds.
For a funny…
World of Warcraft Becomes multiuser aware and stores it’s files into proper folders like other Windows progs. :rolleyes:
Happy holidays!
Edited 2008-12-31 19:08 UTC
* Windows 7 will be a good OS. But the MS haters will still spread FUD about it.
* NetBooks to be relegated.
* Multitouch monitors to take off.
* A year of bad economy.
my take on 2009
Windows 7 will flop. Not because of its software but because no one will be able to afford a new PC espcially companies.
The same will apply to large touch/surface devices.
Netbooks will be the one part that will continue to Flourish.
Apple WILL bring out a low priced MacBook to counter the rise of the Netbooks.
At least one major PC box shifer will go bust.
Linux…. Will be stonger than ever despite what the Head of Microsoft Research thinks. ‘It should remain in Academia’.
IE’s share of the Browser Market will fall below 50% despite IE8 being fully w3c compliant.
SCI will finally go into Chapter 7.
2008 will really, truly, finally be…the Year of Linux on the Desktop! 😀
2008? I think you might be a little too late to call that one; unless Santa Claus goes around installing Linux on everybody’s computer in one night!
And indeed, it’s already late for that, unless Santa Clause comes on New Year’s in your country.
http://blogs.computerworld.com/we_already_had_the_year_of_the_linux…
Unless Kroc is really the grinch teh Kroc who stole the GNU/Linux desktop for all the FOSS …
Last year was not the year of the WII !!! Why ?because it’s not installed on everyone computer …
Last year was not the year of the Iphone !!! Why ? because it’s not installed on everyone computer …
( for the illogical , it’s meant as an example to show how stupid and illogical asking that every computer had GNU/Linux installed on it before you accepted it as the year of GNU/Linux desktop. )
Edited 2009-01-01 09:29 UTC
Duke Nukem Forever gets released and takes the gaming world by storm.
I can’t believe people are wasting time and imagination on all these wimpy OLED predictions and stuff. 😉
The really sad thing about Duke Nukem Forever is if it is actually released (yeah right) it had better be a truly good game, otherwise it will be ripped to shreds by the media and gaming community.
It is really too bad that the Duke Nukem license is held by the most incompetent game company in the world (how do they keep their jobs?). But, I will not even hold my breath for .00000000000000000000000001 of a second expecting this to be released at all this year.
Of *course* it will be good. Because 3dRealms isn’t rushing it. It’s ready when it’s ready. To wit:
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/06/14/164250
ZFS is already ported to Linux via FUSE. There’s ZERO chance it’ll be integrated into the kernel as long as the CDDL and the GPL are incompatible. Same goes for Dtrace.. However, I’m not 100% sure, but I’m sure DTrace will need hooks compiled into the kernel (unless modules will do), which will allow for Dtrace to function.
I’ve used DTrace minimally. It’s a beast to get to learn, but from what I’ve heard, it’s quite impressive. Bring it on in Snow Leopard and FreeBSD 8!!
I tried the fuse-zfs to mount my PC-BSD zfs partition without luck. I’d like the ability to create zpools for my linux /home and use the snapshots feature for my backups. PC-BSD comes with DTrace but I’ve been procrastinating in learning it. You are right DTrace is a beast, but the demos looks so damn cool, it is very enticing.
Put your /home on a ZFS filesystem exported via NFS.
Or use rsync to backup to a ZFS filesystem.
Both will allow you to use snapshots.
DTrace is available in 7.1, no need to wait for 8 or to run -CURRENT.
What I would like is:
a methode to eliminate SPAM once and for all and for everyone.
elimination of criminal websites
a little more decency on the web
The rest is not that important.
So you’re just a collection of bits ? How about the rest of the OFF LINE world?
Firstly, I’d like to wish everyone a warm, fuzzy Happy New Year and hope everyone spares a thought for the less fortunate on this dump we’ve created called Earth.
Forgive me if my own list of personal wishes for 2009 seem a bit selfish.
1)Factory Calibrated LCD’s to drop in price.
Dodgy/difficult color management (particularly monitor calibration) is the main thing holding me back from fully migrating to Linux for my art-work, so I’m hoping for lower prices for these trick monitors.
2)Performance gains for all the top Linux Distros
I use Ubuntu Studio personally, but hope all the major distributions introduce some nice performance gains… gotta keep up with Snow Leopard.
3)Death of Broadcom
No explanation needed.
4)Better hardware compatibility for Linux
It’s great already, but still could be better… like better dual monitor settings, sound card drivers and tablet support.
5)Inkscape must shape up.
It’s an awesome program, but still way unstable and crash-prone.
That said…
Netbooks – yup, they’re all basically the same. Nothing to choose from for somebody who wants clit, for example (yup, I’d like to see something like X-series Thinkpads, with X-series itself beeing total overkill…).
Also, could some manufacturer notice, please, that if you put loads of RAM in a netbook there’s no reason to get to the mobo. Which runs relatively cool. And is small.
So…why not put it behind the screen, with the backside relying on good old convection for cooling?… (bonus: place for much better keyboard and HUUUGE battery)
miniature projectors – they’re coming, it seems. Hopefully people will notice them/prices will drop significantly in the next half a year or so.
Linux – it’s…actually pretty good for me already. What’s missing, of all things, is a IM client with all the features (yes, there’s quite a bit of very usefull ones hidden behind simplistic interface) of Google Talk, and fully compatible with it.
Thom Holwerda – Microsoft is a marketing company that tailors itself like car companies that think if you have to have tons of models that aren’t basically the same from one to the next but just different enough.
Although I won’t be using them I hope the following happens:
Windows 7 security is as good as Linux and Mac OS X. Meaning that it is more than a little difficult to get viruses onto Windows as long as you say “no” to everything you don’t know about.
Outlook has scripting revamped so that Windows 7 doesn’t become a spam bot.
MS Office – see Outlook.
IE – See Outlook and Windows 7
Linux people need to figure out what John and Jane want and that is making Linux so that you never have to go to a command prompt to do something they would need to do. What do I mean? Look at forums and anytime a non geek posts questions about how to X and they are told to go to a command prompt, make a GUI utility to do it.
I’ve tried turning people on to Linux. Average people. There is still too much geek stuff even in Ubuntu for average people. It’s a ton better than two years ago but it still has a way to go to get average people to love it. It can’t be just as good as Windows. It has to be easier, LOTS less frustrating, and plain much better. Close is not good enough.
Edited 2008-12-31 21:12 UTC
$100 price drop for PS3 and then I’ll finally buy one to go along side my Wii and my two TiVos and big screen TV. (no Microsoft in my house)
Snow Leopard – We won’t be seeing anything dramatic for about six months until programmers start to really get the hang of the new APIs where programs on Macs use all available processors including the GPU to run faster.
Mac Mini update. Preferably sliced to about half the current height along with rumors of a build to order option to replace optical drive with second hard drive.
MacBook with FireWire port. Fat chance.
Apple TV that is a lot more compelling. I’m not sure what Apple might come up with to make it that way, but I like good surprises.
Haiku with VM version that will run on my iMac with VMWare or Parallels.
eComStation a.k.a. OS/2 – See Haiku
Last, I would like to see the organization support VPN with Macs. There have been over 120 requests (according to our call database) with unique (different people) requesting this. This is on a big upsurge as more and more people are asking for this. Maybe 2009 with be the year they accept us.
I don’t think apple TV is going anywhere. Apple has a lot of ideas so it’s ok if some don’t work out as well as others.
Apple has realized that iPhone is the way to go, the true successor of the Newton.
* I’d like to see Windows 7 emerge with a very limited number of variants (e.g., Personal, Professional period!)
* Further, I’d like to see Microsoft loosen its stranglehold on consumers by making Windows 7 a truly affordable upgrade (and standalone) and come with a family license similar to Apple’s. Everyone knows MS Office is the cash cow over in Redmond.
* I’d like to see personal BSD variants (i.e., PC-BSD, DesktopBSD) come into their own and rival Linux on the desktop
* I’d like to see cheap OLED displays become mainstream and cheap for the masses
* I’d like to see the U.S. economy turn around
* I’d like KDE 4.3 to be the best ever KDE release in the history of KDE blowing the doors off Gnome and becoming the defacto standard in *NIX desktops!
* As always, better and better hardware support in the Linux kernel (especially for netbooks and touch tablets.)
* A happy and blessed New Year for all!!
See my post above about Duke Nukem. And here I was thinking that *I* would win the “Most Outlandish Wish” award. I hereby concede. 😉
What!?!? KDE 4.3 WILL be the best KDE desktop the world has ever seen! Won’t it? Anyone? X-(
Edited 2008-12-31 22:30 UTC
Well, this conversation has certainly gotten off to a good start. 😉
To be honest, I wasn’t sure. You might very well have been serious. There are folks around here who would post that in all seriousness.
Indeed. The post I referred you to was also facetious… as I suspected was yours. I was, jokingly, fishing for clarification and you have provided it.
Happy New Years.
-Steve
I don’t know. While everyone else was looking away disgustedly, KDE 4.x was slowly inching towards usability. 4.2 was already close, though it was missing a number of key features and applications (and *cough* a decent web browser *cough*), but if KDE 4.3 will improve on 4.2 as much as 4.2 improved on 4.1, KDE is in good shape.
That being said, I’m sticking with gnome for now.
living to see 2010
also OpenSolaris as a viable desktop platform (and then solaris 11 as the one backed by Sun).
QNX 6.4.1 or higher
WinCE 7.0
PC-BSD pre-installed on more PC’s
winning lottery numbers.
….theres a long list of other things but those would make me the happiest.
>In 2009, I hope to see a Windows 7 that doesn’t get
>frakked up by bad design decisions based on nothing
>but economic profit.
Soooooo sooooo naive.
The only thing I really disagree with on that list are the ‘web standards’. The web standards themselves are for lack of a better word…crap and thus… will never be.
The only good ‘standards’ are the ones that do the things people want to do well. I have faith in the ‘web standards’ of silverlight and adobe flex. They’re at least sane web application platforms instead of the HTML, Ajax hack together junk we have today.
The standards are crap, but it’s better to have everybody following them, than Microsoft flaunting them.
Microsoft is not only flaunting them, but is trying to kill them off.
Just a note. To flaunt is to “show off”. I think the word you guys are looking for is probably “flout”:
To treat with contemptuous disregard, as in “flout the rules”. (Paraphrased from WordNet)
silverfish is garbage
I’d like to see IPv6 get massively accepted/adapted and production of IPv6 devices.
Hmmm… let me see,
Less flaming and more fruitful discussion here on OSNews
Haiku 1.0
Blender 2.5
Reactos 0.4.0
More competition in the desktop os and web browser market.
A new core i7 powered machine on my desk.
A versioning filesystem.
Better than LCD/Plasma screens.
64-bit SASOS with support and usability.
No love for Syllable? Well poo.
Happy new year everyone
Well Happy New Year from beautiful Australia! My technology wishes for 2009:
1. Find a cure for my addiction to MS Windows
2. Haiku developers to release a live bootable ISO with JMicron support
3. Serenety Systems to update their live CD to the latest 2.0x
4. SkyOS goes live
In relation for my first wish – I have been using Ubuntu for two days now trying hard to see its advantage over Windows and from the bottom of my heart I love it!! I fell in love in the GTK desktop, I love the Deskbar! I love when you click on a file in the file manager how it asks you what you want to do! I really like the way software and updates are managed, everything just works!! I realise what I have been missing out all this time! Looks like my first wish will be coming true. I still fire up Windows occasionally out of habit but I quickly get back to Ubuntu. So far so good! I just need to find a really professional looking theme something like this: http://www.cimitan.com/blog/wp-content/rgba-murrine-170208.png – see how good it looks but I can’t find a download link and I think it is experimental. The menu bar and the toolbars look really nice. Most of themes I have seen so far are somewhat dull except for the Aero looking one. I love the way the menus look with that one but I hate the menu bar. With a bit of time I hope I will combine two themes into one. The menu bar from one theme and all the rest will be from Aero, I am now somewhat curious to see how you develop apps in GTK and want to compare it with the Win32 API (which can be quite complex).
P.S. I also played with gconf-editor — that thing is awesome! All the settings into one place! I was playing around with it and found some settings I wanted to change.
Edited 2009-01-01 02:54 UTC
Welcome to the party and have a nice year running Ubuntu! You know it will only get better from here on.
> Haiku 1.0 released
> Reactos stable enough to use
> Ubuntu it continue its progress as a desktop OS
> Windows 7 to replace my Vista at work at it be good enough not to make me angry every time I turn on my PC
>A fatal (or at least debilitating) virus to evolve that only effects spammers, virus writers, and malware producers in general
>The really angry fan boys to get laid and chill
To not have to pay a premium to buy an Apple computer….seriously.
Edited 2009-01-01 06:41 UTC
0. Peace, love, respect and unity among the humankind
1. MIPS64 spreading netbook market
2. Bill Buck finishing his product (PPC mobo)
3. A Haiku beta
4. Syllable on top of L4/Genode
5. Reverse engineering of SiS graphics cards
6. Debian kFreebsd release
7. PureDarwin running standalone on Intel systems
8. Bluetooth on Opensolaris
9. More Via C7/Nano netbooks
10. Integration of GNU/Hurd + Coyotos (or L4)
11. 3G support under linux to be improved
12. BeagleBoard netbooks (or better)
“0. Peace, love, respect and unity among the humankind”
at least, on OSNews
First, happy new year to everybody and peace in the earth for all people.
I would like to see a big “boom” of FreeBSD, when FreeBSD 8.0 will see the light.
Also I would like to see a FreeBSD-Gnome system, like PC-BSD but with a Gnome desktop system.
Have a nice day 😉
TooManySecrets
* CAcert.org (http://www.cacert.org) certificates in mozilla.
* SHA-2 support in the browsers and weak CAs out.
* MIPS64 netbooks starting to gain market ouside China. (e.g. the still unreleased Gdium, http://www.gdium.com)
* Symbian OS made open source
* and a more naive, MIPS64 mother boards available to normal people.
Edited 2009-01-01 12:49 UTC
Either an alternative to Flash or Flash opened so that we may ALL use it, no matter what OS we prefer.
Hardware manufactures HAVE to release documentation with their products.
* Multiple pointers, KMS, DRI2, Wayland and Free accelerated HD-video playback all find their ways into Linux and possibly other Free OSes to trigger a new phase for GUI interaction and capabilities in computers and devices running these systems
* Nvidia releases GPU specs w/o NDAs along with a basic open source driver to be able to compete with Intel and AMD/ATI on all increasingly popular Free platforms
* OS-“independent” gaming. Someone realizes that virtual machines, live-CDs or Splashtop-like solutions are viable and profitable computer gaming platforms when cross-platform programming is not yet possible.
* Huh? Mom sends you an email telling you to re-send that funny Powerpoint slideshow as an ODF since she and most of her friends run OpenOffice on Ubuntu.
* Perl 6 has a first release and programming is more fun than ever.
1. OSNews staff wishing more than Windows 7 / iPhone / Snow Leopard hype-candy and *real* innovation in the OS front like self-healing platforms or intrusion tolerance…
2. see 1.
PS – AmigaOS 4.1? seriously? how much dead can the proverbial horse be by now? …
Edited 2009-01-01 15:21 UTC
I can learn a lot from that comment, thanks
I’m not an OS-geek; I’m a designer/developer-geek, and I have much to learn about the much wider and diverse nature of OSes. I’ve used many OSes, but I’m more concerned with UX than drivers-models.
Therefore I rely on the community here at OSnews to provide correction and better perspective, and you can all help—quite easily—to helping OSnews tighten it’s focus beyond the “hype-candy†by contributing content, good comments and putting stories forward.
Linux
1. Gnome 2.26 with better support for dark themes
2. DRI2/KMS/Plymouth for a smooth graphics experience on Linux
Windows
1. Windows 7 not to suck like Vista
2. IE8 to alleviate Web Developer frustration
Other
1. Netbooks to take off even more, along with a netbook manufacturer really taking advantage of Linux and creating a must-have feature
2. WiMax to take off
In 2009 I’d like a Nano/C7 netwook running Haiku 1.0 with an OLED screen and a 10 hour battery life. With Chrome browser. Is that too much to ask?!? 🙂
– AndrewZ
All Laptop sold switching to SSD (faster SSDs) by mid 2009.
Better Battery life for portables, less of exploding batteries.
Snow Leopard is going to have Open CL, this would a great thing help for people running number crunching programs.
a 64 GB iPhone, that being the low end model, with copy/paste (even cut paste would be nice), a word processor, vlc media player or mplayer for iPhone
Last but not the least a Quad Core iMac with LED screen and a decent graphics card that does not have a problem rendering on to the 24 inch monitor.
* Source Engine – I would like to see the source engine run on natively on Linux… This has been a rumor for a long time now… With that will obviously come Steam running on Linux too (All without Wine). Of course you won’t be able to install all games, but with the source engine, that covers a lot of good ones… But there are already all of the id software games as well..
With the expectation of wanting Haiku beta, those were pretty weak incremental improvements. If you want awesomeness you need to think awesomely.
*Perl 6 on Parrot released.
*PHP 6.
*Fully functionally release candidate of Drizzle.
*React OS full compatibility with windows 2000.
*An unlocked Android phone with slide out keyboard &wifi for $200.00
1) Haiku team, please release something that works on modern hardware with DDR2 so I can finally retire my last SDRAM mobo!!!!
2) Ubuntu, continued progress, every bit counts.
3) OLEDs for sure but I don’t think they are anywhere near ready for the market from what I have read.
4) Windows 7, I no longer care since it will only have even more restrictions than Vista or XP, all I ever wanted was a modern W2K replacement with out activation, but Ubuntu64 is looking quite nice now.
And completely off topic I truly hope President Obama will start on the difficult road to rebuild the entire energy infrastructure of the US around more renewables and less damn coal.
happy new year to all
– Microsoft vanish
– Apple disappear
– Adobe drown
– SUN go under
Apart from these merry wishes I am – as alwas – happy to see open source on a good track.
Well, I don’t really want to see Microsoft vanish. I just want them to have to play fair, and not be such an 800lb gorilla of the desktop world.
However, I think that if you want to see any sort of lessening of MS’ power, you probably should not be wishing for Apple to disappear or Sun go under. I’m tempted to say that Adobe can drown… but I suspect that we need them competing with MS in addition to the others. And, of course, our FOSS community, too. Your first wish, above, necessarily makes for some strange bedfellows.
An all LLVM Linux distro, or all the packages at least.
ZFS in Linux (not likely) or BTRFS stable in Linux
Wayland
OLED everywhere
Flash replaced with <video/>
Native Netflix streaming on Linux (no VirtualBox, no Moonlight)
KDE4, although I’ll probably stick with XFce / Compiz
Decent video playback in XBMC on Linux
Access to the PS3’s GPU on Linux
A decent Android phone and a decent month to month plan for it
More GEGL in GIMP and non destructive editing.
More SVG everywhere.
Less Internet Explorer
Native Chrome in Linux
Companies publishing Linux first, then OSX / Windows a couple weeks later for games / apps / drivers.
All of this is wishful thinking.
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Since we are headed for the “Declination of the Western Civilization” what I would like to see is simply this…
1) Apple and Microsoft become scarce because not even the Middle Class can no longer afford it.
2) Linux and BSD becomes dominant in the server and desktop market and people actually took the time to learn it and love it.
3) No more of “you need windows or apple software to access this content” The net is for “ALL” no matter what flavor you are running.
In time…
1. Maybe it’s crazy,
but i want Gadet that we can change the Operating system LIke in PC.
I hope i can use ANdroid,blackberry,Symbian,windows MObile and Iphone OS can be install in one Gadget/smartphone.
I hope I can Control CCTV,TV,AC,open/close the door can be control in Gadget in single way and with AI inside.
a) Beta releases of Haiku and ReactOS
b) Much more widespread use of the BSDs
c) pf for Linux (very unlikely, but it’s what I’d like to see… )
d) Wider use of Plan9 (ok, that’s unlikely too..
)
e) Ruby version 2.0
f) More people using Haskell
+ more emphasis on software quality
+ re-establish the good old Thinkpad qualities (4:3 and Flexview)
+ affordable 80GB SSDs with PATA
+ more battery live and energy efficiency everywhere
+ smart PhysX games
I like C# so I’d like to see Vala getting stable + have a decent IDE so that I can do productive coding without having to carry around a heavy VM. C++ tends to be cluttered with ifdefs, can i use STL, etc.
What i less look forward to is nightmare debugging sessions, complicated by the two step compile.
I’d like to see FreeSWITCH taking off the market and succeeding.
They just released 1.0.2 now, it’s simply the best telephony platform I ever used.
http://digg.com/software/FreeSWITCH_New_Release_For_The_New_Year
Digg it and spread the word.