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tomd123

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Registered: 2008-08-12

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Things I'm looking forward to in 2010.

Keep it computer related XD

A few things I'm looking forward to is the removal of hal and html5 replacing my need for flash videos.

jolinfire

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From: France

Registered: 2007-12-21

Posts: 176

Re: Things I'm looking forward to in 2010.

a good free flash version, I mean a good gnash one as swfdec seems kinda dead ?

And also firefox 3.6 / 3.7

drcouzelis

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From: Connecticut, USA

Registered: 2009-11-09

Posts: 4,092

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Re: Things I'm looking forward to in 2010.

See here for a similar thread: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=86084

+1 for HTML5.

I was excited for Intel's Larrabee GPU, but that has been canceled. To me, GNOME 3 now looks like a mess, so I'm not too excited about that anymore either.

I'm excited to see if I can go a whole year without changing Linux distributions. I have used Slackware and Debian each for over a year, with a whole lot of other distros used a little bit in between. I'm really enjoying Arch, so it looks hopeful.

Although I don't use Apple products, I'm excited to see what they come out with, especially in regards to the tablet-whatever-thingy.

I'm excited about the new Ubuntu LTS release. We'll probably install it on my wife's computer to replace Hardy.

wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

Posts: 5,941

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Re: Things I'm looking forward to in 2010.

i'm looking forward to see if gnome 3 is a fail or no .

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pogeymanz

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Registered: 2008-03-11

Posts: 1,020

Re: Things I'm looking forward to in 2010.

Firefox 3.7
XFCE 4.8
Compiz .9
Nouveau drivers becoming usable

That's pretty much it.

anonymous_user

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Registered: 2009-08-28

Posts: 3,059

Re: Things I'm looking forward to in 2010.

*USB 3.0; especially new flash drives

*NVIDIA's GT300

*Depreciation of HAL

*Firefox 3.6

*Opera 10.5

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flamelab

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From: Athens, Hellas (Greece)

Registered: 2007-12-26

Posts: 2,160

Re: Things I'm looking forward to in 2010.

KDE 4.4 and 4.5.

JohannesSM64

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From: Norway

Registered: 2009-10-11

Posts: 623

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Re: Things I'm looking forward to in 2010.

Deprecation of HAL.

jasonwryan

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From: .nz

Registered: 2009-05-09

Posts: 30,426

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Re: Things I'm looking forward to in 2010.

Duke Nukem Forever (same as 1998,1999,2000...)

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Gigamo

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Registered: 2008-01-19

Posts: 394

Re: Things I'm looking forward to in 2010.

Rails 3
The evolution of MongoDB
Starcraft 2

That's pretty much it I think..

crazycal00

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Registered: 2009-04-02

Posts: 18

Re: Things I'm looking forward to in 2010.

the deprecation of Hal.

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mikesd

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From: Australia

Registered: 2008-02-01

Posts: 788

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Re: Things I'm looking forward to in 2010.

- HTML5.
- Nouveau improvements. (Will probably stick with nvidia unless they make massive progress.)
- BTRFS. (Should trial it on my home partition.)
- id's Rage. (A Linux client would be nice???)

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doorknob60

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Registered: 2008-09-29

Posts: 404

Re: Things I'm looking forward to in 2010.

Better open ATI drivers (already pretty good, but will get even better)
Later versions of Firefox
More sites start using HTML5 (not just the video tags, all of HTML5)
Later versions of KDE
See what Gnome 3 is like and how people react on release

toad

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From: if only I knew

Registered: 2008-12-22

Posts: 1,775

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Re: Things I'm looking forward to in 2010.

- cheap external hard drives with esata connection
- an easy to configure mediacentre

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Devastator

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From: Poland

Registered: 2008-05-27

Posts: 179

Re: Things I'm looking forward to in 2010.

More snow.

Aaaand something computer related: reliable SSD drives

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weakhead

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From: Poland

Registered: 2008-08-21

Posts: 341

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Re: Things I'm looking forward to in 2010.

1. GNOME 3.0.
2. GTK 3.0 (I really don't know when it will be released).
3. KMS for Radeon goes stable.
4. New release of PekWM.
5. Opera 10.50.

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Roline

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From: Netherlands

Registered: 2009-12-05

Posts: 207

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Re: Things I'm looking forward to in 2010.

I'd like to see how fast G4 is and, of course, html5.

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goran'agar

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From: Nothern Italy

Registered: 2009-05-19

Posts: 171

Re: Things I'm looking forward to in 2010.

I'd like an Xorg Intel driver that doesn't suck

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Primoz

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From: Ljubljana-Slovena-EU

Registered: 2009-03-04

Posts: 689

Re: Things I'm looking forward to in 2010.

Wait hal is getting depreciated?
What will take it's place? (sorry I couldn't find anything about this)

Also I look forward to KDE4.4 and 4.5

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jordi

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Registered: 2006-12-16

Posts: 103

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Re: Things I'm looking forward to in 2010.

* HTML 5
* btrfs & nilfs2
* SSDs becoming cheap
* Gallium3D
* KMS becoming more stable

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jpt

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From: Rochester, NY

Registered: 2008-04-28

Posts: 31

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Re: Things I'm looking forward to in 2010.

Cheaper SSD drives!

Moreover, a new computer... my current box is getting up there in age.
And I'd love to try out btrfs

whacath

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Registered: 2009-05-26

Posts: 283

Re: Things I'm looking forward to in 2010.

A working poulsbo-driver and grey goo maybe?

Zariel

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Registered: 2008-10-07

Posts: 446

Re: Things I'm looking forward to in 2010.

* Multiprocess firefox
* Geforce GTX300
* HL2: EP3 (one can but hope)
* Removal of HAL
* BTRFS
* Nouveau Stabilising
* Reiser 4 Mainline (hope again!)

Urm, cant think of more off the top of my head

pixellany

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From: Annapolis, MD

Registered: 2006-05-12

Posts: 59

Re: Things I'm looking forward to in 2010.

Revival of government action against monopolies and for open standards.  (Requires first solving a few other issues....;))

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nawitus

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Registered: 2009-05-11

Posts: 112

Re: Things I'm looking forward to in 2010.

Working vdpau for a single video player that I can use. I tried mplayer-svn but that kept crashing.. Maybe in 10 years I can watch HD videos on a PC.