Things I'm looking forward to in 2010.

flamelab · 2010-01-05 02:57:55

Oh, something new:

- Arch Hurd project being born

gopher292 · 2010-01-05 03:27:33

Hardware:
- Affordable SSDs (with good, non-studdering controllers--no JMicron)
- SATA 3 (6 Gbps) to allow continued SSD speed progression.

Software:
- Less bloated X-server. Why does it take 3-4 seconds to start X? Modular or at least customizable so obsolete or unsupported features can be turned off.
- GNASH reaching full compatibility.
- GNU Hurd or some other alternative kernel.

...Oh, also:
- The complete and total death of Internet Explorer from every computer on the face of planet forever.[1]

leeyee · 2010-01-05 03:53:33

1, A quite stable graphics performance(KMS, 3D, etc.) for Intel and ATI R600 cards.

2, Deprecation of HAL, and integration of matured DeviceKit.

3, GNOME 3.0

ConnorBehan · 2010-01-05 16:53:00

Wait, I know HTML5 will support <video> but are major websites actually going to use it? I could see all the commercial youtube-like sites keeping flash just because it makes them easier to control who downloads the videos. If <video> completely replaces flash (and is stable on linux) I will just have to hope that "antique" videos that still use flash like "ze end of ze world" become playable in gnash.

toad · 2010-01-05 16:55:09

a joomla or something similar which is not quite as opaque

faelar · 2010-01-05 17:05:35

Review of many gadgets, phones, whateverBook and computer components that will not appear until... 2011 ?
Deprecation of Arch (Hey ! That would means we have something even better to replace it )

Ashren · 2010-01-05 17:12:23

The X1000 (the new amiga): http://www.a-eon.com/6.html

And perhaps it will even run Arch PPC.

3]) · 2010-01-10 17:58:56

Lets see...

1. Flexipaper/displays out in the market(http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/02/you-can-check-o/)

2.Touchscreens, touchkeyboards(replace the keyboard with a flexible plastic display like device, with the feedback feel ofcourse, no need to put stickers if you want to change layout anymore)

Can't think of anything else at this moment.

randomist · 2010-01-11 10:56:29

catalyst working with latest xorg... maybe

usb3 and sata3 devices to use with my new mobo... (and sata3 devices fast enough to use the extra bandwidth)

kde4 and kdemod getting more stable

gnome3 (lets hope its worth the wait and better than kde 4.1)

SSDs and blu-ray drives becoming affordable

Snakeye · 2010-01-11 16:35:07

Deprecation of mono.
de Icaza finally comes out of the closet as Balmer's love interest.
Html5.
Death of flash.
New legion of quality games for GNU/Linux that will not work on Windows but everyone will feel they must have.
2010 and beyond all years of the GNU/Linux desktop.
Everyone suddenly realizes "The Cloud" is a retarded idea.

pogeymanz · 2010-01-11 17:55:36

Snakeye wrote:

Deprecation of mono.
de Icaza finally comes out of the closet as Balmer's love interest.
Html5.
Death of flash.
New legion of quality games for GNU/Linux that will not work on Windows but everyone will feel they must have.
2010 and beyond all years of the GNU/Linux desktop.
Everyone suddenly realizes "The Cloud" is a retarded idea.

I like these.

I also want to see a stable e17.

anonymous_user · 2010-01-11 20:52:06

LXDE: maturing of LXDM and the rewrite of PCManFM

dcc24 · 2010-01-11 22:18:18

Snakeye wrote:

Deprecation of mono.

Oh, that's a sweet, sweet dream...

Snakeye wrote:

de Icaza finally comes out of the closet as Balmer's love interest.

Well, everyone already knows this. Just ask Stallman

Snakeye wrote:

Html5.
Death of flash.

These would / will be lovely too.

ilembitov · 2010-01-11 22:40:46

Current projects:
OpenBSD and NetBSD becoming more accessible to desktop users (especially mobile users). Both of them already have some efforts (OpenBSD with its hugely praised Xenocara - their custom build framework for X.org thing; NetBSD with Desktop NetBSD effort), so I wish them good luck with that. Yeah, that may sound funny (none of those projects are originally desktop-oriented), but I just want a stable, tiny, fast and suckless OS for my laptop.

Second, I want more BSD projects to get mature and useable. For instance, the PCC-revisited thing of the Net|OpenBSD people. Besides, I believe that BSD tools are often tinier, faster and better (although not always as functional) than GNU tools.

I want the rise of alternative DEs, including Etoile, XFCE and E17. I also want them to grow with better and faster native apps (especially E17).

I do want X.org to get better. Actually it should get as good as it needs for the users to actually forget that they have it. ATM it just causes to much pain.

I want HTML5 to finally bury that Flash thing. Starting with YouTube.

And my main dream is that someday someone will create a lightweight, minimalistic and suckless WYSIWYG word processor. May it be ODT-oriented, or may it use a custom format (while have an option for output to PS/PDF and xhtml). Actually, I would love it to have a simple custom format. Let it be just a zipped plain text file with MarkDown markup (with some extensions) and all the included images and other files. It will be rendered by the word processor, but it could also be edited by any text editor. May it have a clever system of keybindings (of course the user could choose between a common system, vi-like system and emacs-like system), a robust statusbar and no toolbars. Amen. I could go on endlessly about my dream word processor, but regretfully enough I am no coder.

Hide · 2010-01-11 23:05:50

I'll rehash some of the already mentioned:
The demise to Flash
Explosion in boot time improvement

Other:
Thunar with tabs (mentioned?)
Haiku progress
Consolidation of the Linux Desktop (fewer distros with conjoined efforts from their devs, standards, etc.)
Keyboard browsable web pages... *fully* browsable, that is
(this has turned into an "I wish" list)

This is far from a rounded up list. Will add to it later.

whacath · 2010-01-12 00:47:45

Deprecation of pulseaudio.

dwindle · 2010-01-12 01:16:49

I'm looking forward to seeing how stali progresses, as well as seeing where microsoft and apple go with their empires. Probably get a few laughs this year.
Hydrogen and biodiesel fuel progression are also on my wishlist. Let's just hope the masses take them seriously.

whacath · 2010-01-12 01:26:06

oh! a suckless dist! nice!

Snakeye · 2010-01-12 02:58:34

Oh, i also hope there is much more improvement on Enlightenment (dr17). I have the steampunk theme going on that, looks sweet.

On the hydrogen front, United Nuclear is supposed to be getting their hydrogen making/storage system going some time this year.

http://www.switch2hydrogen.com/

Better to generate it yourself if possible. Much cleaner too.

upsidaisium · 2010-01-12 07:07:35

i'm going to continue keeping an eye on Etoile and Haiku. (these might be better candidates for a list of "things to look forward to.. _someday_, potentially in the far away future" -- but hey, maybe something big will happen in 2010 )

jordi · 2010-01-12 18:17:21

whacath wrote:

Deprecation of pulseaudio.

Is there already something newer/better out, or do you want alsa/oss to get the pulseaudio features, like networking support?

And am I the only one who actually sees some good things in mono?

Last edited by jordi (2010-01-12 18:18:12)

dcc24 · 2010-01-12 18:23:03

Mono has licensing issues, development can stop overnight with only a word from Microsoft.

More info here: http://www.fsf.org/news/dont-depend-on-mono (It's a good read)

Last edited by dcc24 (2010-01-12 18:24:08)

weakhead · 2010-01-12 18:58:57

weakhead wrote:

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.

6. New (official) release of Murrine and Nodoka.

Misfit138 · 2010-01-12 19:44:57

ilembitov wrote:

Current projects:
OpenBSD and NetBSD becoming more accessible to desktop users (especially mobile users). Both of them already have some efforts (OpenBSD with its hugely praised Xenocara - their custom build framework for X.org thing; NetBSD with Desktop NetBSD effort), so I wish them good luck with that. Yeah, that may sound funny (none of those projects are originally desktop-oriented), but I just want a stable, tiny, fast and suckless OS for my laptop.
Second, I want more BSD projects to get mature and useable. For instance, the PCC-revisited thing of the Net|OpenBSD people. Besides, I believe that BSD tools are often tinier, faster and better (although not always as functional) than GNU tools.
I want the rise of alternative DEs, including Etoile, XFCE and E17. I also want them to grow with better and faster native apps (especially E17).
I do want X.org to get better. Actually it should get as good as it needs for the users to actually forget that they have it. ATM it just causes to much pain.
I want HTML5 to finally bury that Flash thing. Starting with YouTube.....

You took the words right out of my mouth.
I also want hal/consolekit/xorg to be remedied, period. :)

kolbycrouch · 2010-01-14 22:05:46

more wayland improvement
hopefully archhurd will spark gnu kernel developement
more people using BSD
sysvinit to be dead, replace with a daemon manager
a decent alternative to vimperator without firefox
firefox to die, memory leaks getting horrible
kde4 improvement, 4.4-rc1 already looks promising
a decent microkernel based os, that doesnt use mach.
GNU decideing to replace mach with something that doesnt absolutely suck, maybe veingoose or l4
maybe the tinycores or slitax's build of X, obviously much smaller
a more unified UNIX desktop experience, not just a bunch of exciting new things that work together but not well.
arch to be number one on distrowatch
arch to adapt for architectures, and kernels. meaning debian without the conservative BS.
no more cloud computing.
rethinking old self-deprecating technologies (BIOS and init mainly)
an opengl implementation thats on par with directX.
mac to finely die out.

sorry for such a long list, call me enthusiastic.

P.S. learning to spell.

Arch Linux

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