More Linux Predictions for 2004

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More Linux Predictions for 2004

Posted by michael on Friday January 2, 2004 @04:35AM from the story-so-nice-we-ran-it-twice dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Experts, shmexperts - it's time for the Linux community's own predictions, felt the editors of LinuxWorld Magazine. Prognostications in their Jan 2004 round-up cover media players ('turning your phone into an iPod will be hot by the end of 2004'), IPOs ('Of course, LinuxCertified, Inc'), and MS ('Microsoft will start an intensive campaign to promote their Longhorn technology as Linux standards compliant') - that last is one from Samba's John Terpstra." The original story was back in November.

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Server by Aliencow · 2004-01-02 04:37 · Score: 1, Funny

I predict that Kernel updates will prevent me from having a 365days uptime this year :(
Torvalds will be... by EduardoFonseca · 2004-01-02 04:57 · Score: 5, Funny

... hired by Microsoft. RMS and ESR will join the SCO legal team. Bill Gates will get even fatter. Steve Ballmer will resign from MS and join some wicked monkey-dance group.

slashdot.org will be bought by Fox News. CowboyNeal will become a Fox News Anchor.

The world will collapse.
1. Re:Torvalds will be... by TeknoHog · 2004-01-02 05:59 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Tom's Hardware will go to hell.... to cool their 6.66 GHz Pentia.
  
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  Escher was the first MC and Giger invented the HR department.
Re:My predictions by Patrik_AKA_RedX · 2004-01-02 04:58 · Score: 3, Funny

5) There will be another terrorist attack, after which you will have to present an ID to enter McDonalds
And probably sign EULA in which you promise not to sue them if you become fat from eating hamburgers.
7) Jesus will come just before it hits and save us all (well, the ones who were good anyhow.)
You mean the ones with positive karma?
Re:Slackware is where it's at... by GoofyBoy · 2004-01-02 05:03 · Score: 1, Funny

I know how to change my screensaver. Is that sort of like the same thing?

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The surprise isn't how often we make bad choices; the surprise is how seldom they defeat us.
Perhaps... by Oen_Seneg · 2004-01-02 05:13 · Score: 5, Funny

...Steve Ballmer gets drunk and decides to open source all of Microsoft's products.
Re:Slackware is almost where it's at... by commodoresloat · 2004-01-02 05:37 · Score: 5, Funny

When I tried fedora I was pleasantly surprised. Nobody came to my door to rape my cat and beat my wife or anything.
Are you sure you installed it correctly?
shared memory experts? by smoon · 2004-01-02 05:38 · Score: 2, Funny

shmexperts must refer to experts of shared memory -- what exactly does that have to do with predictions of the future?

I predict that a new algorithm for thread-safe access to shared memory will be developed using either semaphores and spin-locks. But them, I'm no expert.

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"But actually trying to use m4 as a general-purpose langage would be deeply perverse" --ESR
And The MOST important change in 2004 is... by fracex · 2004-01-02 06:21 · Score: 2, Funny

In 2004 those (hard working) people over at KDE will change the K, in their name to some other letter. The letter K just comes up with images of crap in my head. ex. K-Car, K-mart (do they still exist anymore, there used to be one in my town but it went out of business) and KDE.

Just kidding, jeez, don't get all upset about it.
Re:Slackware is almost where it's at... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-02 10:34 · Score: 1, Funny

I figured out what the problem is. You need to explicitly set the -rapecat and -beatwife flags before the install process; these features are not enabled in the default install.