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onearm

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From: Anywhere but here

Registered: 2006-07-06

Posts: 359

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

Btrfs
Firefox 3.7
Nouveau with stable 3d support
Death of Flash in any form, adobe-air included (more a wish than a probable thing)
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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.

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.

Err, post more info (in another thread)

rwd

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Registered: 2009-02-08

Posts: 664

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

I hope for more ARM cpu based devices. Especially a on motherboard that can play HD video.

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.

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.

It works (more than) fine already

whacath

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Registered: 2009-05-26

Posts: 283

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

Death of Flash in any form, adobe-air included (more a wish than a probable thing)

If its a wish, why not wish that adobe cease to exist alltogether and why not wish the same for microsoft or proprietary software while you at it.

Rasi

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From: Germany

Registered: 2007-08-14

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

after trying the new opera alpha, this is definately one piece of software i am looking forward to. snappy...
nouveau with tv-out support for my card is also something i want for quite a while.
koffice becoming a proper alternative for OOo

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Allan

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From: Brisbane, AU

Registered: 2007-06-09

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

Hovercars.  I definitely think this is the year for those.

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lswest

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From: Munich, Germany

Registered: 2008-06-14

Posts: 456

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

I'm looking forward to GPU-accelerated Flash (may or may not come out for Linux in 2010, or it may already be out...if so...I hope it works a bit better ).  I'm tired of stuttery flash videos on my netbook when it doesn't stutter at all in Ubuntu or Windows (and I've tried everything possible to reduce stutter as much as possible).  Besides that, I'd also like to see a FOSS Flash plugin (GNASH, for example) be actively developed and possibly reaching a point where it's on-par with the official Flash.

Non-Linux related: I'm interested in the new ULV laptops and netbooks that will be introduced at CES, and I'm curious what the Nexus One will be like when it comes out (the "Google Phone").

@allan: The car manufacturers won't do that...they like being the only ones with hover cars

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skyfire

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Registered: 2009-12-27

Posts: 6

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

Before saying that we need to remove flash, there must be user friendly and industry promoted tool for flash alternative.

I wish for more game development for linux platform. Games are the dominating in market and decide lot of desktop shares.

dcc24

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Registered: 2009-10-31

Posts: 732

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

Not all Linux related, but:

* Multiprocess firefox (see Chromium)
* Removal of HAL (replaced by *Kit)
* Stable Nouveau w/ 3D support
* Stable KMS
* Starcraft 2 (if it doesn't get delayed again)
* A new ThinkPad T series laptop with SSD, i7, FlexView (one can hope)
* IBM rescuing ThinkPad from Lenovo (wishful thinking)

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whacath

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Registered: 2009-05-26

Posts: 283

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

Hovercars.  I definitely think this is the year for those.

Yeah and they better be running archlinux!

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.

HTML5 replacing flash video. Even my Pentium D machine with 2 gigs of RAM struggles with YouTube HD sometimes.

ijanos

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From: Budapest, Hungary

Registered: 2008-03-30

Posts: 443

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

Powersave support for ati cards.

some-guy94

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Registered: 2009-08-15

Posts: 360

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

Another batch of 'Will 2010 be the year of the Linux Desktop?' articles flooding everywhere.

whacath

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Registered: 2009-05-26

Posts: 283

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

Another batch of 'Will 2010 be the year of the Linux Desktop?' articles flooding everywhere.

Well, will it?

mythus

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From: MS Gulf Coast

Registered: 2008-05-15

Posts: 509

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

Another batch of 'Will 2010 be the year of the Linux Desktop?' articles flooding everywhere.

Well, will it?

No.

Simply put, there will never be a "Year of the Linux Desktop" simply because the majority of desktop users a.) do not know what an os is, b.) do not know of different os c.) do not know how to install /get different os d.)do not care as long as their computer works "out of the box".

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tlvb

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2008-10-06

Posts: 297

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

2010 has always been projected as the year of the linux desktop.
We've always been at war with Eastasia.

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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.

2010 has always been projected as the year of the linux desktop.
We've always been at war with Eastasia.

Very nice.

filoktetes

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From: Skien, Norway

Registered: 2003-12-29

Posts: 287

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

Arch on my nokia n900
Mass movement to Linux
Making it illegal to sell hardware without full documentation on how it works
Projector on my n900

I'm sorry, that was 2011...

schubs

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Registered: 2010-01-02

Posts: 16

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

windows 8
IE 9

(I am joking)

MP2E

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Registered: 2009-09-05

Posts: 115

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

Stali
Intel i9
Intel's new graphics card
Nvidia's new cards

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na12

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From: /home/serbia

Registered: 2008-12-23

Posts: 752

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

Btrfs
ArchServer
Gnome 3 (i think it will be polished)
Opera 10.50
Google Chrome OS

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softtower

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From: NYC

Registered: 2010-01-03

Posts: 32

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

1. YouTube disables Flash support, forcing IE users to upgrade to FF/Chrome

2. FF/Chrome disable NSplugin APIs (binary plug-ins) completely

3. Updated XFCE, especially tabbed Thunar and adding just a few little things into xfwm4 composer, like "Expose" effect - can't live without one.

4. Someone at Ubuntu needs to bitch-slap lazy/impotent programmers for including system daemons written in Python into official distribution. Having 12-20MB daemons just sit in RAM and do nothing 99.99999% of the time is RETARDED.

5. I have no idea what HAL is, but since everybody wishes its death, the hell with it - deprecation of HAL!!! :-)

6. I want Mono to integrate much better into Linux desktop, i.e. having pre-compiled binaries for core libraries and providing a solid support for optimized, AOT-compiled, RAM-efficient applications. GTK/Gnome/XFCE's dependency on C is holding us back.

7. I want either D or OCaml or Go to become hugely successful with open source *systems* programmers.

8. BIOS needs to go away. Seriously, there is no reason why we didn't have INSTANT ON computers in 2009, lets have them in 2010!

P.S. Seriously, what's HAL and what's wrong with it?

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Allan

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From: Brisbane, AU

Registered: 2007-06-09

Posts: 11,493

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

Hovercars.  I definitely think this is the year for those.

My years is becoming awesome: http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/01/04 … ar-Program

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pw_f100_220

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Registered: 2009-12-03

Posts: 107

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

-Flash being fixed/replaced(?)/Intel card working better
-Hal works for me...but if it means one less daemon, might as well nix it!
-a new Thinkpad T with WSXGA, and maybe a GPU for...$400!
-UZBL improvements! (tabs, sessions, bookmark nicks)
-a motorcycle! (least likely)
-any upgrades to Fluxbox coming?  can't think of what I would change since I get to change everything.  as long as it doesn't get slower.

-Learning more about ARCH!!! User for less than a month and I am hooked! 
(using only 6 gigs of my SSD because the OS gives me enough to do)

Arch + Fluxbox = TOTAL CONTROL AS FAR AS I KNOW!!!

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