What Linux Will Look Like In 2012 (InformationWeek)

What Linux Will Look Like In 2012 (InformationWeek)

Posted Aug 29, 2008 13:42 UTC (Fri) by forthy (guest, #1525)
Parent article: What Linux Will Look Like In 2012 (InformationWeek)

I find it a bit funny that "by 2012, we'll be able to configure Linux without command line stuff". I've done that for years now with SuSE; the normal configuration doesn't need a command line. If you do something more special and complicated, you'll still need the command line in 2012, but not for a normal desktop user.

My prediction for the next four years is that Linux will be mostly on not-quite-computers, i.e. netbooks, smartphones, multimedia stuff like PVRs and BluRay players, where it already is today, but a lot more of the same (and hopefully a lot more which respects the GPL). This is a real danger to Microsoft, since the not-quite computers by then will be good enough for most people.

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