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More Linux Predictions for 2004
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.
GNU/HURD makes Linux obsolete.
I predict that Kernel updates will prevent me from having a 365days uptime this year :(
1) FreeBSD will become more popular than Linux because people will be increasingly more aware of the fact that Linux is turning out to be a corporate tool.
2) The linux 2.6 kernel will kill most commercial-grade real-time operating systems
3) NetBSD will finally get decent USB support
4) Slashdot will switch to XHTML/CSS (... just kidding!)
5) There will be another terrorist attack, after which you will have to present an ID to enter McDonalds
6) An asteroid will be discovered and a collision course with earth confirmed
7) Jesus will come just before it hits and save us all (well, the ones who were good anyhow.)
Does that mean that there will be multiple distributions of Longhorn of which are incompatible with each other?
You can kinda do that. Just do a 'make modules' again and manually copy the new files over to the old directory. You gotta do like "modprobe -f --force --yes-i-really-mean-it --what-the-fuck-is-this-GNU-tainted-bullshit" and then Linux still acts like a whiny little bitch so you smack her upside the head and say DAMMIT WOMAN GET BACK IN THE KITCHEN AND BAKE ME SOME PIE and now you've got domestic abuse charges and she has a nice black eye and OH FUCK THE COPS ARE ON THE WAY and the nickel of MJ you just bought from Marco the Mexican drug dealer down the street is still sitting on the coffee table so you run out the front door of the trailer with no shirt on and your half-empty can of Pabst Blue Ribbon in your hand and BANG OH JESUS FUCK WHAT WAS THAT you just ran your dumb nuts into the camera man you sorry fuck now look you're featured ON THE NEXT EPISODE OF COPS, TONIGHT AT 8 EASTERN 7 CENTRAL ONLY ON FOX and I sit back and laugh while I install NetBSD
... 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.
I know how to change my screensaver. Is that sort of like the same thing?
The surprise isn't how often we make bad choices; the surprise is how seldom they defeat us.
...Steve Ballmer gets drunk and decides to open source all of Microsoft's products.
Are you sure you installed it correctly?
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.
"But actually trying to use m4 as a general-purpose langage would be deeply perverse" --ESR
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.
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.