From all of us here at OSNews, Happy New Year! 2005 promises to be an exciting year in technology – what surprises do you think this year will hold? What news do you think will top the technology news sites in 2005 – Linux? SCO? Microsoft? Firefox? Security? Wireless networking? A destructive new worm? Share your thoughts here.
Happy New Year all!
Haiku will reach some major milestones, but I doubt we’ll see R1 this year. I think we’ll be seeing PCI IDE and major progress in the area of self-sufficiency, but I have my doubts whether the kernel will mature as much as it needs to this coming year to bring us close to R1.
We will see SkyOS5 final, which will be awesome, but YellowTab won’t have Zeta ready for us by year’s end, and if they do it’s not going to sell well.
Firefox 2.0 and Opera 8.x will continue to rock. IE won’t change, more security fixes and (slight) loss of marketshare.
Apple will finally release a G5 Powerbook and a headless $500 Mac. The $500 machine will entice many geeks and regular joes to switch, but I’m not expecting it to be amazing.
VoIP services will become more popular with the non-business types.
NASA rovers will still be roving by next December
First of all, I hope this year will be the year of Gentoo and Slackware, I hope Pat Volkerding will be healthy in all his life, and I hope internet connection will be cheaper and will have better quality, more bandwidth and less lame ISP’s as Astral Telecom!
Have a happy new year, and be that everything what 2004 could not bring to you, 2005 to bring!
Bort, búzát, békességet, Boldog Újévet, és hozzon el mindent 2005, amit 2004 nem hozott el!
Va doresc un an nou fericit, La Multi Ani, sa aduca 2005 tot ce 2004 n-a putut aduce!
– gcc new optimizer get superior quality in real cases ( BTW, recently benchmarks has been removed from gcc.gnu.org, why osnews not reimplement it ?)
– reiser4 vs other war with reiser4 win ( even RedHat will force reiser4 as default )
– x.org new features, cairo, glitz, text rendering improuvements (suppixel aa, kerning) make beta Longhorn users to cry
– Solaris vs Linux war, result – massive Linux kernel “from scratch” rewriting with
– developers moving from dumb “if it work do not touch” to good old “get every cpu clock tick to work”. J/k, unfortunately it seem to be never happened.
(pronounced Kalee Hroneea)
Happy new year from Boston USA – and in several hours off to Greece
Vi havos bona novjaro de Ameriko!
Happy new year from the Netherlands!
Well fun aside, i predict Microsoft will continue to be the leader in software industry and will move ahead of its competitors with the launch of Longhorn. Linux fans will again say its the year of Linux desktop but that won’t happen.
My new year’s resolution is to get as many people as possible to try Linux. I showed it to my sister, a teacher, and she’s ready to install it (ok, it will be a dual boot on her system but it’s a start)
Happy New Year from Detroit!!
Happy New Year to all, from Belgrade, Serbia.
Srecna Nova Godina.
I’m just installing Linux on my new Amd64 home computer, and considering giving Solaris 10 a try. I predict that a LOT of people will do the same this year, at least on their servers.
Happy new year from Pakistan too….!
Happy New Year from São Paulo, Brazil.
Don’t Feed the Trolls!
All OSes will improve so we can keep flamin^Wdiscussing them here.
<<GNOME 3.0 >>
<<Gnome 3 will be released>>
More like 2007. According to HP, Gnome 3 will take atleast 2 years to finish[0]. So if Gnome 2.12 (Sept 05) is the last release for Gnome2 (which no one knows for sure), you can’t really expect Gnome3 until 2007/08.
[0] http://live.gnome.org/ThreePointZero
Happy New Year 2005 for all osnews readers!!!
2005 will be a good tech year
On a side note there is a pretty good cd burner for gnome called Optimystic. It’s from the makers of Dropline Gnome (http://www.dropline.net)
My predictions:
– The new headless mac is a hit for Windows converts and Apple’s market share soars
– Some PC maker makes inroads into the Linux desktop market and distributes a Linux distro with their PC.
– More ‘swiss cheese’ software from Microsoft
– ATI gives more support for Linux (more drivers)
> Vi havos bona novjaro de Ameriko!
Bona novjaro en Esperantujo!
Happy New Year from Brazil!
I Think Solaris will become more and more popular and might get more popular than Linux.
I hope FreeBSD gets more popular, because the 5.4 version is really a good product for productive purpose.
Microsoft is building Longhorn on top of a BSD kernel (actually it’s a BSD OS with a Win32 compatibility layer) pretty much the way OS X was designed. Longhorn will be more secure than Windows.
Mac won’t release OS X for i686. Opera will gain a significant market share this year with the very good Internet Suite now available with the 7.54u1 version.
MSN Messenger and other IM systems will loose greatly popularity. E-Mail will still be hit by spam because no system has risen to block spam senders in real-time in a P2P relationship between e-mail users.
Unix desktops will still have to wait for mass-consumption. Businesses and Individuals will still stick with WinXP. Improvements will be made this year in Unix-based desktop OS: Installation, Drivers, Ease of use, Compatibility with other OS. It will be slow though. Don’t give up.
Since no one seems to have said it yet,
A Happy New Year to all, from Japan.
Hope the new year will bring joy to you.
As a Mac user, I wish for…
I’m sure someone has said it already
Some die hard KDE users/developers will become die hard GNOME users/developers. Cairo/GTK will show what to expect from the future user interfaces. The Web will take over the internal developments in the enterprises. VB/Delphi will die this year. What else?
Oh Yeah, PostgreSQL will double its userbase with the native support on Windows. 🙂
SGI – dumps linux – and reintroduces IRIX 7.0 – updated in all respects – and all the apple weenies buy second hand Octane 2’s – and realise what a real media OS is about…
Happy new year – Montréal – Quebec
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Happy New Year from Syria
Thank OSnews very much , osnews.com is my Home Page website in 2004 and 2005.
Thank again , and good wishes to every one
Yes I know is late, but the party was goood
Thanks OSNews for a very good 2004! Thanks Eugenia!
For this year we will see more growth for Linux and Apple (even our government has adopted Open Source Software as a standard for 2005)…
I bought a beatifull Ipod in 2004, and I will buy a Mac this year…
Happy New Year 2005 from Caracas, Venezuela!!! (North of Southamerica)
1) Microsoft will enter the UNIX market by buying up SCO and adding native Windows api to MS UNIX
2) Sun will be successful with Solaris/AMD
3) Apple will introduce a handheld unit – iPalm and knock RIM/Nokia/Microsoft off their seats
4) IBM will buy Infosys or Wipro
5) Novell will buy Redhat
6) Intel will publicly let the Itanic sink and focus on battling AMD64
7) HP will buy up SGI’s UNIX business (more bone headed moves)
8) Oracle will have indigestion swallowing Peoplesoft
9) Linux and BSD on the servers will continue to do well.
10) New virus will shutter the Internet for 10hours.
I hope the best for this new year!! All OS improving in good competition!
Happy new year from Basque Country, Spain!!!
Face it guys if Linux OSs want to gain more users, they need to have a all linux platform packege manger, that will compile & build source code in whatever GUI you ar using. MS software will still have major sec urity holes discovered every 2 weeks, the patches will skrew up what is working & open up more holes.
HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM GREECE
Amiga clones/variations will die;
BeOS clones/variations will die;
Mac news will carry tons of zealots;
Linux coders are finally going to write documentations;
Microsoft will ship another service pack;
Another Linux distribution will be created and finally…
People will stop submitting pointless articles to OSNews.
Feliz ano novo para todos!!
Oh Yeah, PostgreSQL will double its userbase with the native support on Windows. 🙂
That’s damn right! Since 2004 we only use PostgreSQL. All our projects have been developped in PHP & PostgreSQL. It works great. We don’t use Windows servers but FreeBSD 5.4 servers. Installing and configuring PostgreSQL and PHP is quick and painless.
2005 will be the year of… Duke Nukem Forever 😉
Happy New Year everyone
Lets hope it’s a better year than last year.
Keep up the good work OSNEWS.
This would be funny, Microsoft making UNIX…. wow
if 2004 was the year of the firefox, then 2005 will be the year of ubuntu. it’s just a matter of time until someone will start a sfx-like site for a linux ditro, and i think it will be ubuntu.
why?
-it is thmost major distro to be a community distro as well as a “user friendly” one
-people already put time into it and it has it’s own fans, just search gnome-look.org for ‘ubuntu’ and you’ll see what i mean.
Happy new year,
Best wishes to all!!!
> This would be funny, Microsoft making UNIX…. wow
Woo hoo Longhorn and Xenix who’d of thunk it!
I’d to see some news about Opera internet browser – now introducing voice browsing and other interesting features in new version coming soon. When I read OSNews articles it seems like there is no alternative to Gecko and Firefox. I wonder if people in America really can’t notice any good software from Europe.
Besides, you’re doing good work, keep on!
I wonder if people in America really can’t notice any good software from Europe.
I agree. Opera is the best Internet Suite and it’s from Europe (Norway) !
I really hope Opera Browser gets more and more popular this year.
I also believe Longhorn is taking time to be released because it’s gonna be a hybrid OS: It’ll be a 4.4BSD kernel with a Longhorn nice desktop environment pretty much like Windows XP. It will also have a Win32 compatibility layer for Windows applications. Security will be enhanced a lot. Making a system like it takes time to succeed it flawlessly.
>>>I agree. Opera is the best Internet Suite and it’s from Europe (Norway) !
opera has too much toolbars and not enough space for the webpage.
firefox/konqueror are much better
firefox is so small thats why ppl like it. i see MS takin desperate steps because of Linux. BSD slips more and more. Tiger surprises us beyond belief [ to the ppl that respect a good os ] Sarge will make debian easy to install. Novell will make SuSe more home based. Red Hat will build Fedora Core to an exellent level. ubuntu will only advance with debian advances. gnoppix and knoppix will appeal to n00bs. FreeBSD will be the only known *BSD by December. Amigo Beos Irix HP UX will die away.
HyBriD
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opera has too much toolbars and not enough space for the webpage.
You can hide all of them! (Only interesting if you use a small screen of 15′ or 17′)
Go to “View > Toolbars” and deselect the ones that you don’t need. For search fields on top, ou can right-click them and click “Remove from toolbar”. For the left-hand toolbar, click the left-most thick border to toggle the toolbar. It’s easy to customize Opera with the contextual menu. Then Opera looks pretty much like IE or Firefox. But still remains the lightest and fastest browser with all its powerful features.
“But still remains the lightest and fastest browser with all its powerful features.”
And, like Qualcomm they want you to pay for it. Imagine paying for a browser or an email client in this day and age. Both companies have to be kidding.
And, like Qualcomm they want you to pay for it. Imagine paying for a browser or an email client in this day and age. Both companies have to be kidding.
It’s just your opinion. Someone could say it’s funny that software companies want money for they products – it’s his right, but I won’t take him serious. Many poeple in Europe buy Opera – will you call them naive? Firefox fans dont even bother to check out Opera’s features – they are simply biassed. ‘They want money for a browser’ – it’s a good excuse for them when, in fact, you don’t have to pay a single cent as Opera is adware.
I consider relative success of Firefox much driven by marketing and promoting rather than real advantages. If you look backwards to the browsers history, you’ll see Opera brought most of innovations to the people. I am disappointed OSNews didn’t mention such interesting feature as voice browsing in new beta.
Watch out for the most secure distro out there –
sunrise linux.
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