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What 2008 May Hold In Store for FOSS

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the hoping-for-nothing-but-good-things dept.

eldavojohn writes to mention that LinuxPlanet has a brief discussion on what 2008 may hold for FOSS. The list includes thoughts on KDE 4, OOXML, DRM, and 3-D desktops. What boons for FOSS are you looking forward to in 2008?

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  1. I KNOW I KNOW! by ILuvRamen · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I wanna see Linux turn into "the platform" for AI. I read something about it already becoming that so that'd be sweet. Right now you all know the famous categories. Windows is for business and other dumb stuff. Macs are apparently the thing to get for video and graphics work though I strongly disagree. And Linux is gonna be for anything with AI! Cuz AI programmers (and their programs) are smart enough to know that paying for an OS is stupid when you don't have to and you can't change much about the OS after you install it. And you don't need your AI creation freezing up while the OS makes a system restore point or crashing randomly (OS X and Windows). And in 2009 I hope a giant pengiun robot attacks Microsoft headquarters.

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  2. Re:Clueless by Neil+Hodges · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    With features like LINQ, it makes me wonder if C# developers really qualify as programmers anymore. Besides, all of those things you listed are Windows-specific APIs.

  3. Re:More Linux games! :( by fat_mike · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Is this sarcasm, or are you 12 years old.

    Or another thread to promote ads?

    No offense but you must have been raised in some backwater county to expect us to believe that you've lived in the USA, Belgium and Israel with that shitty grammar. English, do you speak it? Those three countries do and speak it well.

    "The problem, from what I understood was more of the CEO and his wife using the companies funds as their personal bank account. Even if not, though,"

    Yes, the old I heard it was true but don't have any evidence excuse.

    Loki was a fantastic concept and I contributed to it. The problem is:

    Company programs for DirectX, which is supported, documented and supplied by a company that isn't going anywhere soon.

    Company programs for OpenGL, then Pango, then SDL, then Audacity, then Oscar and Theora and Fedora and Unbuntu and KDE and Gnome and QT and whatever.

    All of which have basically hung on by a thread. Let's go through the "Linux Desktop Revolution" distro's.

    Slackware
    Suse (openSuse now)
    RedHat (Fedora)
    Mandrake (Mandravia)
    OpenBSD (STILL RUNS THE INTERNET JERK!)
    NetBSD (RUNS THE INTERNET AND KICKS ALL OTHER BSD'S ASSES)
    FreeBSD (Huh? What's going on?)
    Debian (King of the World, but why isn't my computer running it?)