10 Linux Predictions For 2002

Weedstock writes: "In an article on LinuxWorld, Joe Barr is once again making 10 predictions about the success of Linux for the new year." The first of many sets of predictions for 2002, no doubt. And some guy named "Robin" or "Roblimo" or something like that wrote about Linux in 2003 for Newsforge.

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Predictions

[sydb]

1. Tux will fly
To this day flightless like other penguins, Linux mascot Tux will shake the world by flying into the Eiffel Tower, prompting a renewal of the 'war on terrorism'.

2. Slashdot will be free of trolls
CmdrTaco will utter the regexp to end all regexps, and the lameness filter will finally work. Forever.

3. RMS installs Windows
RMS, leader of the Free World, will renounce GNU purity and follow the temptations of Microsoft by installing Windows 2.0. From the horses mouth: "Freeware like GNU just doesn't cut it when stacked up against real software made by real programmers with fat wallets. It's a moral choice really - the corporations deserve our dollars. Freedom shmeedom."

4. There is no prediction 4.

Re:Predictions

[Bastian]

5) Steve Ballmer will be chased out of Redmond and forced to become a male stripper after he is accused of "penguin lust."

(Sorry, Berke, couldn't resist)

Hmm... I love these prediction lists

[glwtta]

Computers will become faster!

And will have more RAM!

Linux will continue to develop!

etc... What would we do without this sage guidance?

Da Mods

[Snowfox]

"YEAH! Go Linux! Windows sucks!!! eat my r3d hat, M1CR0$OFT!!!"
SlashPh3ar +1 Insightful! bojoH4X0R +1 Funny! eliteboss +1 Informative!

"Though it's hard to beat Visual Studio for rapid application development."
l33t0r -1 Troll! bsdnut -1 Flamebait! bojoH4X0R_2 -1 Overrated!

"Except that it constrains you with heavy licensing for the end user."
h4ckerrocket +1 baaaaah! linuxd3wd +1 InMyLittleWorld!

"Which probably doesn't matter, since 90%+ of your customers already have Windows installed."
supercod-R -1 NotMyBag! CmdrTac0 -1 Heretic! superHaK -1 Blasphemy! C0deG0d -1 KarmaTorch!

Sorry about that. Sit on my hands, no more rum before posting.

Re:here's a better prediction:

[Anonymous Coward]

I feel comfortable cumming in your mother-in-law.

Under the covers

[SomeOtherGuy]

1. More samba shares on the local networks at work as Comm Tech managers get bigger bonuses for saving oodles of Microsoft license dollars.

2. More IIS web servers replaced with Linux and apache as Web Group managers get bigger bonuses for saving oodles of Microsoft license dollars.

3. More Tomcat implementations as said managers save money on the Weblogic license dollars.

4. More failed companies who think they can "cash in" on this Linux thing....

5. The people that started in the garages and basements....(went to work for a few months at various linux startups and got bitter when the stock dipped below a dollar...and they got layed off...) --> will return to the garages and basements...God bless them.

6, VA decides that the only way to pay the /. bandwidth bills is to replace all content with one great big banner add on /. .... and when that does not work they will be bought out by x10.com -- and www.slashdot.org will resolve to 10 popup windows for mini cams.

7. The end of world peace.

Re:Yeah, right

[Darth Paul]

A major three-letter intelligence agency will suffer a public and catastrophic breach of classified data because of exploits in Windows XP and ban its use completely ...

MSN?

Oh, wait. Intelligence, you said ... :)

My Predictions for next year

[Cardhore]

• Debian will become harder to install.
  
• Rock Linux will become popular for Slackware fans.
  
• Mandrake and RedHat will need to use 4 or more CD's for their next editions of their distributions.
  
• Marcelo will release many Linuxes. He will call them 2.4.18, 2.4.19, 2.4.20, 2.4.21, 2.4.22, and perhaps even 2.4.23.
  
• Windows XP will get 3 service packs.
  
• Gnome will release gnome 2.0 in the second week on June.
  
• OpenOffice will be released 3rd week of March, after StarOffice. They will become extremely popular.
  
• Ogg Vorbis will see its 1.0 release in the first half of September.
  
• Mozilla 1.0 comes out April 5th, exactly as listed in their timetable.

Re:My Predictions for next year

[MAXOMENOS]

What the hell, I'll throw these in:

• KOffice and Gnome Office will agree on a standard XML-based file format for documents, spreadsheets
• Mono and dotGNU will start to make serious and obvious progress towards a fully-functioning system.
• Python gets serious mainstream attention as a Java-killer. PHP practically replaces Javascript. Nothing ever replaces HTML.
• IBM buys a large chunk of VA; staff cuts hit Slashdot, Newsforge.
• By the end of 2002, Linux either reaches or is building up anticipation towards a 3.0 release
• The Glade and Glimmer projects will merge
• Ximian either starts or takes leadership of a project to build an Access-like and/or FoxPro-like front end for any relational database that has an ODBC API
• Amazon and Yahoo! report strong 4Q and 1Q earnings. Venture capital returns for dot-com business ventures.
• Unemployment rates for computer professionals drop back down to 4% by mid-2002, from a high of 8% in late 2001.
• FBI scores major busts of warez and terrorist rings based on IRC, MUDs, and on-line game networks.
• Ashcroft starts major cryptography crackdown; privacy activists are bitterly disappointed.