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What Will Linux Be Capable Of, 3 Years Down the Road?
An anonymous reader writes "In a prediction of the open-source future, InfoWeek speculates on What Linux Will Look Like In 2012. The most outlandish scenario foresees Linux forsaking its free usage model to embrace more paid distros where you get free Linux along with (much-needed) licenses to use patent-restricted codecs. Also predicted is an advance for the desktop based on — surprise — good acceptance for KDE 4. Finally, Linux is seen as making its biggest imprint not on the PC, but on mobile devices, eventually powering 40 million smartphones and netbooks. Do you agree? And what do you see for Linux in 4 years?"
Something like this: 1010111010000010 1010111101011010 0101101010110100 1101111001010101 0001101111010101 1010110101001001
Three more claims of "This is, for certainest, posiluteley, once and for all, the year of desktop linux."
All I'll need to do is modify my /etc/caller/bootcall.m file and add "mom" to the 'obpctfnum' section, then make sure the "mom" file exists in the /etc/caller/list directory and that I have the proper sytax for her number, then reboot the phone. Oh no, the file "mom" wasn't chmod'd to 666 so now my phone is won't work!
Of course, some linux guy will walk up behind and ask why I didn't just run "perl *4*6 (oo( !## -c -q/tvg bootcall ^_^ -@last _wonderbutt_" to make it magically work.
Oh don't be so silly!
It's *infinitely* easier to remember "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/System/Microsoft/Hosts/Microsoft/Servers/Microsoft/Rocks/Microsoft/Hosts/NetBeui/Sorry/UpOne/IP/Address/Class/Subnet/Host = 192.168.1.1" than just putting a "192.168.1.1 Server" in /etc/hosts!
What are you? Man or mouse?
Gentoo Linux - another day, another USE flag.
Remind me how well that's going for you again? Oh yeah, that's right - Vista has 4 times the desktop market share even though it's only been out a ninth of the time Linux has.
As long as mom and pop can go do their online banking, get their email and the kids can use iTunes, they don't give a flying fuck about anything you're on about.
Wrong. Vista is the latest iteration of MicroCrud. I can't think of any M$ product from inception in '70s that was anything but below sub-par, frought with bugs, hard to use and way overpriced. Initially I had great hopes for M$, but in the '90s I weaned myself off. I thought Borland would be better. Not so. Same old same old. Fortunately FOSS/LINUX saved the day. Does anyone seriously believe M$ (and apple) would even exist today if IBM had adopted a FOSS o/s for the PC? I think not. Yes mom and pop/joe sixpack dont give a FF about which OS is on their computers. MicroCrud will disappear from the world o' desktop because they've pissed everybody off on this planet. The sooner they're gone the better.
A man spends the first half of his life accumulating stuff, the second trying to get rid of it all.