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.

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Stuff to look out for in 2004.

[Anonymous Coward]

There is a lot of stuff coming out for Linux in 2004, here is a list of the most antisipated stuff. Distros

• Mandrake 10
• SuSE 10
• Slackware 10
• Fedora Core 2
• Lindows 5
• Gentoo 2004
• Knoppix 4
• Debian 3.1. Ooops, thats delayed until 2010 :)

Desktops

• Xfree86 4.4
• Xouvert
• KDE 3.2
• Gnome 2.6
• XFCE 4.1
• More Boxes

Applications

• Mozilla 1.6
• Mozilla bird collection
• OpenOffice 1.2 or 2.0
• Nvu
• Evoloution 2
• Gimp 2
• KDevelop 3
• Mplayer 1.0

Look forward to these, I know I am waiting for Mandrake 10, I am currently trying out the new snapshot :).

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[morcheeba]

It looks normal now, but I assume you mean the 2004 new year's image that has now been archived with the other holiday logos.

Where's Mandrake?

[tickleboy2]

Which distributions will show the greatest growth in 2004?

I was surprised that Mandrake didn't make the list. Mandrake in my experience is one of the easiest distributions to install and use and has made some impressive contributions over the last year (9.2, MandrakeMove). Still I have to admit I haven't tried SUSE so maybe I'm missing out on something...