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2011 predictions
As your editor reviewed his 2010 predictions, the thought that often came
to mind was "obvious" or "boring." Making obvious predictions may be a way
to boost your editor's sense of omniscience (said omniscience,
unfortunately, only being acknowledged by your editor's dog), but it takes
away some of the fun. So, this time around, an attempt has been made to go
just a little further afield. With luck, it will make for some fun in
December when it is time to come back and laugh at how bad these guesses
were.
The LibreOffice fork will take off, taking most of the wind out of OpenOffice's sails by the end of the year. StarOffice may continue as a commercial product, but its user base will be small. LibreOffice will improve considerably in this time but, your editor confidently predicts, it will still be too big and still really annoying to use. The Mageia and IllumOS forks will fare less well. The Mageia folks have seemingly been mostly concerned with lengthy discussions about the layout of the package repositories so far; no release is in sight. More to the point, though, it seems that the rumors of Mandriva's demise may have been a little exaggerated. IllumOS looks like it may lack a critical mass of developers, and some of the most committed people appear to not get along very well. It's not at all clear that anything derived from Solaris will have relevance in the free software world for long. MeeGo will be a surprisingly big success. Android is increasingly looking like the Windows of the handset world - a universal operating environment which turns the hardware into a boring, low-margin commodity product. Manufacturers will be keen to see a competitor which allows them to differentiate themselves and to limit Google's control. Along those same lines, it will be a make-or-break year for WebOS, which has yet to make a lot of waves under HP's management. Should the system be released on (relatively) open handsets, it may yet surprise us. Google will take its place as a major kernel contributor. Google is already a massive contributor of code to the community, of course, even if its "throw it over the wall" style does not suit everybody. Over the course of the last year, though, your editor has noticed an increase in Google engineers showing up at conferences and discussing the company's needs. Google folk are increasingly being allowed (and encouraged) to come out and play, and everybody will benefit from that. ChromeOS will struggle this year. The need for another "thin terminal" system is not entirely clear, especially once ChromeOS users discover that they can get a real Linux-based operating system on the same hardware. That "real" system may be a netbook-oriented distribution, or it may be some form of Android. Either way, it only takes one must-have application to drive users toward a distribution which is oriented toward the installation of local applications. We will see huge legal and technical battles as governments and corporations try to restrict what can be done on the net. Futile attempts to shut down sites like Wikileaks or to stop those who would demonstrate the weakness of the cellular network can only lead to an increase in repressive actions worldwide. Efforts by network providers to increase revenues will have similar effects. It will be a tumultuous year. Targeted attacks will increase; Stuxnet, said by some to have destroyed 1000 centrifuges in Iran, is only the beginning. Security will be a bigger deal, and Linux will benefit from an increased emphasis on security. That said, alas, it would not be surprising to see a successful Stuxnet-like attack against Linux-based systems this year. A free driver for an embedded graphics chipset will be released by a previously recalcitrant vendor. Embedded graphics is currently one of the most problematic areas for free support, but the commercial pressures will prove to be strong enough to motivate at least one vendor to open up. It is a pattern we have seen many times in the past. At the distribution level, the tension between providing stability and providing current software will increase. Fedora has already had significant amounts of internal strife around this issue; at the other end, users of stable "enterprise" distributions often find themselves needing something newer. In 2010, we saw Oracle basing an enterprise distribution on a newer kernel; in 2011, we'll see more attempts to provide the best of both worlds. openSUSE will change in response to the above-mentioned pressures and others; by the end of the year we may see ultra-stable and leading-edge variants of openSUSE alongside the current "just right" distribution. What will happen to Novell and SUSE under Attachmate is hard to predict, but openSUSE will continue to thrive regardless. Business models based on control of the code will fade in prominence over the course of the year. It will become clear that "open core" programs, while being free software, do not generate the sort of community that truly brings code to life. Projects requiring copyright assignment will increasingly be seen in the same light - especially those projects which are owned by for-profit corporations. Neither open core nor copyright assignment will go away in 2011, but developers - who already favor more open and diversely-owned projects - will shy away from them. Need we conclude by saying that Linux and free software will finish the year stronger than ever? That was clear in late 1997 when LWN was in the planning stages, and it hasn't changed since. This year will certainly have its ups and downs, but our community will find itself in great shape at the other end. (Log in to post comments)
2011 predictions Posted Jan 6, 2011 2:36 UTC (Thu) by Baylink (subscriber, #755) [Link]
> This will be MeeGO's big year
ESR disagrees with you, rather stridently:
http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=2835
> Big losers in this scenario start with Apple and the carrier oligopoly, for reasons Ive already covered in detail. RIM? Stick a fork in them, theyre done headed for a textbook disruptive collapse within that three-year timeframe. The minority Linux-based smartphone OSes (WebOS, MeeGo) are noble but doomed, no-hopers. Microsoft WP7 isnt going to survive the smartphone price crash, either their problem is that they need to make money from licensing fees, and thats hard to do when your hardware platform is priced in the supermarket-giveaway range.
2011 predictions Posted Jan 6, 2011 7:10 UTC (Thu) by jdub (subscriber, #27) [Link]
webOS at least has one significant thing MeeGo doesn't: Serious resources focused on consumer (and probably enterprise) adoption. MeeGo is basically just there to sell Intel gear to hardware vendors. You know, all those ones who really want to try and sell Intel hardware and software in a phone.
Oh, and that whole "save Nokia" thing. They had a bloody internal battle all through the rise of the (real) smart phone, and finally the idiots won. And then bought Trolltech just to top it all off!
I seriously hope HP open up webOS to community development (for good reasons, not dump-and-run). It has everything else to be the perfect Linux/web based mobile phone environment. Well, aside from decent hardware to run it on.
I'm sorry, mention of ESR appears to have brought out the bitch in me.
2011 predictions Posted Jan 8, 2011 15:21 UTC (Sat) by oak (guest, #2786) [Link]
> And then bought Trolltech just to top it all off!
I think that's the "Save Symbian" thing.
2011 predictions Posted Jan 6, 2011 12:56 UTC (Thu) by cesarb (subscriber, #6266) [Link]
> The minority Linux-based smartphone OSes (WebOS, MeeGo) are noble but doomed
Which conveniently ignores that MeeGo is not just a smartphone OS. Just going to the front page of http://meego.com/ is enogh to find a list with "Netbook", "Handset", "In-Vehicle", "Connected TV", "Media phone". It would not surprise me if "Tablet" is added to the list later.
This diversity increases the chance of it surviving and thriving on at least one niche.
MeeGo based TV media center already succesfull Posted Jan 7, 2011 14:42 UTC (Fri) by ber (subscriber, #2142) [Link] Amino's Freedom boxes are based on MeeGo and seems to do fine in the market already.
2011 predictions Posted Jan 7, 2011 15:33 UTC (Fri) by dneary (subscriber, #55185) [Link]
> MeeGo is not just a smartphone OS. Just going to the front page of http://meego.com/ is enogh to find a list with "Netbook", "Handset", "In-Vehicle", "Connected TV", "Media phone". It would not surprise me if "Tablet" is added to the list later.
> > This diversity increases the chance of it surviving and thriving on at least one niche.
The problem is that the core MeeGo OS is about as useful for each of those market segments as a Debian minimal install. Everything from X up will be different for each of the niches, and I don't see how they are going to manage having developers develop once for all form factors.
Dave.
2011 predictions Posted Jan 17, 2011 23:43 UTC (Mon) by achipa (guest, #72419) [Link]
Don't forget a crucial difference to Debian - the 6 month release cycle, that is something integrators like a LOT more than Debian's "when it's ready". Cross development is not really a realistic target due to physical limitations but you do get to leverage the same toolchains/libs/kits if you switch verticals. Not perfect, but still a lot smaller gap than, say, the Android/Chrome schism.
2011 predictions Posted Jan 7, 2011 17:59 UTC (Fri) by abraxis (subscriber, #34961) [Link]
Does anyone actually take any notice of what ESR says these days?
2011 predictions Posted Jan 17, 2011 11:08 UTC (Mon) by lab (subscriber, #51153) [Link] I believe that the observations he is making about Google, Android and the smartphone-scene are pretty astute.
2011 predictions Posted Jan 6, 2011 5:06 UTC (Thu) by jtc (subscriber, #6246) [Link]
"ChromeOS will struggle this year. The need for another 'thin terminal' system is not entirely clear, especially once ChromeOS users discover that they can get a real Linux-based operating system on the same hardware."
IMO, ChromeOS will appeal mostly to non-geeks who are average or below-average in their tech/computer knowledge - users who just want to get things done with a minimum (none, if possible) of hassle and administrative tasks that don't directly relate to what they are trying to do. Most current computer users who fit this description are Windows users, of course; but once it becomes apparent that a system is available that provides for them the ease of use at least as good as (probably better than) Windows without the hassles (worrying about viruses/security problems, data backups, etc.) and having the same "desktop" and data available no matter where they are connecting from, most of them will gradually ditch Windows and move to ChromeOS, as will many young children who have not yet used a computer.
This does depend on timing - this new paradigm will not start to become the default setup for non-geeks for a few years (maybe 2 to 5), but it seems, to me, inevitable. Microsoft will try to keep its user base, of course, by convincing them to use its cloud-based services instead of ChromeOS, but I don't think they will succeed - they are not as agile nor as capable as google and aren't the dominant player they used to be.
Many people may be worried about control of data, privacy, security (in the cloud); but there will be enough demand that these issues be adequately (for them) addressed that those companies that are smart and responsive enough (which probably includes google) will do so.
A good proportion of people may want to run local apps, but I suspect that a larger proportion will (again, at the appropriate point in time) be quite satisfied with the cloud-based option. "ChromeOS will struggle this year." may turn out to be true, but I think 2012 will see it start an upward trend that will reach large popularity by, say, 2017. (I could be off - it might be not until 2023 or later and it may not be ChromeOS, but I think it [i.e., most - > 50% - people in the developed world using cloud-based systems much of the time] is inevitable at some point.)
2011 predictions Posted Jan 6, 2011 10:35 UTC (Thu) by dan_b (subscriber, #22105) [Link]
I see ChromeOS going the same way as Linux-based netbooks did last time around (remember the eeepc?) - although it may in theory be a better fit for the completely non-technical user, what will happen in practice is that the non-technical user will ask their slightly more techie friend or relative for advice and the marginal techie will say "oh, that's a toy, you need something that runs Windows"
ChromeOS Posted Jan 6, 2011 15:16 UTC (Thu) by jtc (subscriber, #6246) [Link]
'the marginal techie will say "oh, that's a toy, you need something that runs Windows"'
Sure, this is a possibility - at least initially. But, from what I've seen, Microsoft is declining. It's been hammered in the smartphone market (WP7 looks, IMO, likely to not gain over 10% smartphone market share) and they're even less prepared in the tablet market. It's made a lot of foolish moves lately and does not appear to have the smarts (or flexibility) to adapt adequately to the changing environment (smartphones/tables, internet TV, cloud-based computing). I think the Windows/desktop-OS paradigm is going to be replaced eventually, as people realize how clunky it is compared to the new paradigm(s) and as more and more people start to realize that MS is not the all-accomplishing juggernaut they used to think it was.
Perhaps this change will come too late for ChromeOS, but I think it has a good chance of staying around long enough to catch the wave.
2011 predictions Posted Jan 13, 2011 15:25 UTC (Thu) by Wol (guest, #4433) [Link]
You miss the fact that linux-based netbooks disappeared from the market. I managed to get one in the bargain basement.
And from chatting to the salesgirl who sold it me, all the stuff about people having trouble, and returns, and the excuses as to why they disappeared, were absolute rubbish. They rushed off the shelves, and didn't come back ...
MS would love to make Android, and MeeGo, and that lot, disappear from the shop shelves. As soon as they lose the power to do that, they're dead in the water.
Cheers,
2011 predictions Posted Jan 6, 2011 16:19 UTC (Thu) by nye (guest, #51576) [Link]
>IMO, ChromeOS will appeal mostly to non-geeks who are average or below-average in their tech/computer knowledge - users who just want to get things done with a minimum (none, if possible) of hassle and administrative tasks that don't directly relate to what they are trying to do. Most current computer users who fit this description are Windows users, of course; but once it becomes apparent that a system is available that provides for them the ease of use at least as good as (probably better than) Windows without the hassles (worrying about viruses/security problems, data backups, etc.) and having the same "desktop" and data available no matter where they are connecting from, most of them will gradually ditch Windows and move to ChromeOS
I don't really agree with this. From my point of view non-geeks usually play games or use iTunes or Spotify or something else which ties them to Windows. Only geeks seem to use the web so exclusively that an OS like Chrome is a good fit.
Of course, if we're talking about a secondary, low-powered machine that you can take with you into the kitchen or the garden or so on, or use for a dedicated purpose, then it's a different matter. In this case though it's because it seems like a good tool for the job and I would expect take-up to be *higher* amongst the technically inclined.
In my opinion, "users who just want to get things done with a minimum (none, if possible) of hassle and administrative tasks that don't directly relate to what they are trying to do" could be more concisely expressed as "users who aren't insane" - after all, who actually wants the system to actively fight them?
When I have enough spare cash I'm planning on knocking up a small, ~20W, no-moving-parts, boots-in-10-seconds Atom machine as a secondary computer, and Chromium OS looks like the ideal choice.
2011 predictions Posted Jan 7, 2011 6:23 UTC (Fri) by jtc (subscriber, #6246) [Link]
"From my point of view non-geeks usually play games or use iTunes or Spotify or something else which ties them to Windows. Only geeks seem to use the web so exclusively that an OS like Chrome is a good fit."
Well, it seems to me that you're talking about the present and the near future. I'm talking about something beyond the near future and am, I suppose, arguing that the following assumptions cannot be taken for granted beyond the near future:
- Web/cloud-based games will not be adequate for most gamers.
- Sophisticated and powerful music (and video) services will not be available via the thin-client/cloud-based paradigm.
- All but the most specialized tasks (excluding, e.g., real-time music/audio and/or video recording/editing) cannot be adequately performed via the cloud.
In other words, I think the above will all be doable within, say, 10 years. Additionally, I think there are a lot of people who are not particularly into gaming. They use their computer for more ordinary things like email, editing documents, investing/trading, web-searching/research, etc. I think such ordinary tasks can already be, or soon will be, quite adequately accomplished via cloud-based systems.
It will take time, of course, for people to realize that they don't need Windows any more, but I think that will happen within the next 10 years.
'In my opinion, "users who just want to get things done with a minimum (none, if possible) of hassle and ..." could be more concisely expressed as "users who aren't insane"'
Well, I meant that ("users who just want ...") in a more extreme sense - i.e., the type of people who, for example, could not tolerate Ubuntu because it is too difficult to use and requires too much work not relevant to the task at hand. That's not me and I'm sure it's not you, but I think it is, say, at least 30% of today's computer users.
"When I have enough spare cash I'm planning on knocking up a small, ~20W, no-moving-parts, boots-in-10-seconds Atom machine as a secondary computer, and Chromium OS looks like the ideal choice."
Yes, I agree that this new paradigm is (for those who aren't philosophically opposed to the cloud paradigm - e.g., for reasons of data control, etc.) currently more interesting to geeks like us than to ordinary users, but I think that will dramatically change within 10 to 15 years.
2011 predictions Posted Jan 10, 2011 11:08 UTC (Mon) by nye (guest, #51576) [Link]
>Well, it seems to me that you're talking about the present and the near future. I'm talking about something beyond the near future
You're right there. I wouldn't care to speculate ten years ahead (well, I'll agree that operating systems will be commoditised and called 'browsers', which is really what you're describing), but I am - on balance - optimistic. The future of my childhood is more-or-less here (unlike the future of my parents', which seems quaintly absurd) and I'm looking forward to seeing what the next couple of decades have in store.
2011 predictions Posted Jan 10, 2011 13:00 UTC (Mon) by arafel (subscriber, #18557) [Link]
You're also effectively arguing that a massive amount of data transfer will be basically free, or at least included into a monthly plan. Not only that but that it will be the same when travelling abroad as well.
(Imagine incurring roaming charges for streaming audio/video because all your stuff is elsewhere. Urgh.)
I think you're wrong about MeeGo Posted Jan 6, 2011 10:01 UTC (Thu) by rwmj (subscriber, #5474) [Link] Manufacturers will be keen to see a competitor which allows them to differentiate themselves and to limit Google's control. The same manufacturers who've been bundling Windows on their machines for decades? I doubt they're stupid enough to avoid the two leading platforms (iOS and Android) for what will undoubtedly be a similar or slightly worse user experience to Android. Rich.
I think you're wrong about MeeGo Posted Jan 6, 2011 13:05 UTC (Thu) by sumC (subscriber, #1262) [Link]
In case of iOS they cant get it since Apple wont license it until hell has frozen to zero kelvin.
Samsung sees the danger of no differentiation with Android and is developing their own Bada OS, and they will start to push it more and more. Remember that Google has restricted what manufacturers can do with Android 3.0 so they cant do anything with the UI e.g.
HTC and the rest are too small to do something like that and will continue as is.
wrong about MeeGo Posted Jan 6, 2011 21:31 UTC (Thu) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954) [Link] This prediction really depends on what manufacturers we're talking about. Commodity hardware is not boring to the manufacturers that specialize in that. They distinguish their product by manufacturing it more efficiently and zealously adopt new manufacturing technologies to shave pennies off costs and grab market share. Of course, a manufacturer that is used to winning by marketing new ways of using the product are going to be bored, not to mention incompetent, with commodity hardware, so if one found itself in that business, it would want to design something with MeeGo or whatever to try to break out -- and, one would hope, start buying the underlying commodity parts from someone else. I wasn't aware that traditional manufacturers of pocket computers had been bundling Windows.
I think you're wrong about MeeGo Posted Jan 17, 2011 11:18 UTC (Mon) by lab (subscriber, #51153) [Link]
> Remember that Google has restricted what manufacturers can do with Android 3.0 so they cant do anything with the UI e.g.
I haven't seen any evidence to that effect. I belive what they're saying is that they hope the Android 3.0/Honeycomb UI will be so good, that it will diminish the desire of manufacturers and carriers to skin it.
2011 predictions Posted Jan 6, 2011 10:36 UTC (Thu) by xav (subscriber, #18536) [Link]
> A free driver for an embedded graphics chipset will be released by a
> previously recalcitrant vendor. Embedded graphics is currently one of the > most problematic areas for free support, but the commercial pressures will > prove to be strong enough to motivate at least one vendor to open up. It > is a pattern we have seen many times in the past.
Please please tell me who it is ! So I know what my next phone will be.
Thanks :)
patents? Posted Jan 6, 2011 11:38 UTC (Thu) by dufkaf (subscriber, #10358) [Link] I don't see any prediction about patents. True it is a hard to guess but I see the battle of giants to be quite intensive now. Google, Apple, Oracle, Nokia, Microsoft, HTC, ... basically everyone who matters is in the war with someone, it is not just trolls anymore. How far it could go?
2011 predictions Posted Jan 6, 2011 12:44 UTC (Thu) by dneary (subscriber, #55185) [Link]
> MeeGo will be a surprisingly big success.
I can't see MeeGo making a big splash outside the tech community this year. They can prime the pump, and make 2012 an annus mirabilis, but after 2010 being the year of the start, 2011 will be the year of first devices, which will make or break the project in 2012 (which will either be the year of buzz & adoption, or the first year of the end of MeeGo). Waiting with baited breath to see which...
> the tension between providing stability and providing current software will increase
On Twitter I predicted that GNOME 3 would catch a lot of flak because of poor support for 3D in free drivers. Back in 1999/2000, the drivers issue for graphics card was a hot one, and we got over that hump. At that time, Linux was blamed (and since graphics drivers weren't the only thing that people were having trouble with, we got on with it as best we could). Now, with GNOME Shell, Unity and MeeGo Netbook all requiring solid 3D drivers to work properly, we will start seeing people blaming those projects for "regressing" - systems that worked fine with 2D only will be going into fallback mode or not working at all when upgraded to a more "modern" distribution. I can see GNOME 3 and Unity both coming under a lot of fire, and suffering KDE 4 type collateral damage.
> openSUSE will change
Here's my prediction: Novell acquisition will go through, and the OpenSuse business will be pawned off to the highest bidder. Potentially the deal will complete in 2011. Potential buyers: HP, VMWare...?
And here are my predictions for 2011:
* This will be the year when the GIMP loses one or both of its maintainers. Michael Natterer is still very active, but will no doubt find more and more of his maintainer time swallowed by his job, and Sven Neumann's has been committing less frequently for theh past 2 years. Looking at https://www.ohloh.net/p/gimp/contributors it appears that only 3 or 4 developers are actively committing over the past 2 years. This will cause something of a crisis in the project, and either new maintainers (and potentially a corporate backer) will step up to the plate, or 2011 will mark the beginning of the end for the GIMP.
* Office projects will have a good year: Callibri will get off to a flying start, Libre Office will become de facto default in 2011, and IBM will jump ship from OOo.
* Ubuntu will move to Unity as planned, get a lot of criticism after the 11.04 release for stability issues, and make substantial improvements for the October release. By the end of 2011, we will have a de facto fork as Ubuntu diverges from GNOME in other parts of the platform, forcing application developers to choose between developing for GNOME or developing for Ubuntu. Developers will choose GNOME, and in 2012, peace will be made, GNOME Shell will integrate some features from Unity, and adopt some Ayatana initiatives, and Ubuntu will switch to GNOME Shell from 12.04 or 12.10.
I don't know if they're ambitious, but we can both come back and have a good laugh next year - the question will be at whose expense ;)
Dave.
2011 predictions Posted Jan 10, 2011 17:46 UTC (Mon) by n8willis (editor, #43041) [Link]
I agree with the concern about GIMP (though I'm not gonna be bold enough to predict what's going to actually happen). It's reached a saturation point among users and a level of stability that takes it out of most people's minds, even though they use it. That's a delicate point for a FOSS project because most people aren't focused on the need for its ongoing development, but it hasn't quite pushed over into the "critical infrastructure" category where the distributions & other Linux companies are willing to pony up developer salary to continue running it.
Added to that the fact is that there's not a clear way to self-raise funds (like there is for media players through MP3 store referrals or production software like Blender). Scribus and Inkscape have both found a lot of support from publishers -- GIMP might be something that game development companies could invest in, perhaps some Web photo services ... but it might take a radical new spin (GIMPonline!) for many casual users to notice it and start caring about its direction....
Nate
2011 predictions Posted Jan 6, 2011 14:52 UTC (Thu) by paulj (subscriber, #341) [Link]
To be fair to IllumOS, the squabbling seems to be confined to a certain gentleman known for his tact and knowledge of CD recording, and one or two of his fanboys...
2011 predictions Posted Jan 6, 2011 17:11 UTC (Thu) by yokem_55 (subscriber, #10498) [Link] Targeted attacks will increase;I think this needs to be slightly more specific: State-sponsored targeted attacks. Google's experience with the Chinese and the speculation about Isreal and/or the US being behind Stuxnet means that not only are these attacks highly specified against a very narrow range of targets, they are being developed and carried out by highly skilled, state funded actors. These aren't your father's script kiddies anymore....
2011 predictions Posted Jan 6, 2011 21:59 UTC (Thu) by BenHutchings (subscriber, #37955) [Link] MeeGo will be a surprisingly big success. Android is increasingly looking like the Windows of the handset world - a universal operating environment which turns the hardware into a boring, low-margin commodity product. Manufacturers will be keen to see a competitor which allows them to differentiate themselves and to limit Google's control. I think this last part is precisely backwards. To a degree, yes, Android is the Windows of the handset world. However, unlike Windows, Android has no licence fee and no restriction on customisation (so long as you don't want Google's proprietary applications). With MeeGo, the project leaders seem to be obsessive about maintaining compatibility and making this a condition of trademark licences, which I think will restrict customisation by manufacturers.
2011 predictions Posted Jan 6, 2011 23:25 UTC (Thu) by sumC (subscriber, #1262) [Link]
Google has extreme control over Android from a manufacturer point of view.
First of all, you cant even call it Android if you start to modify it whiteout Google's acceptance. Second, no Android Market app. Only those two points and no handset vendor would dream about releasing something on their own.
There are a lot more Google is doing to force manufacturers to play after their tune than this. This article covers it far better than what I could do.
2011 predictions Posted Jan 8, 2011 11:10 UTC (Sat) by brouhaha (subscriber, #1698) [Link] Actually it seems like the handset vendors don't see the benefit (to themselves) of a common Android Market, and are trying to go it alone. I expect that they'll learn fairly quickly that their customers want the real Android Market and not a vendor's walled garden.
2011 predictions Posted Jan 6, 2011 22:23 UTC (Thu) by cracauer (subscriber, #15239) [Link]
> At the distribution level, the tension between providing stability and
> providing current software will increase. Fedora has already had significant > amounts of internal strife around this issue;
Can somebody please provide a link for this? Such as to public mailing lists?
I predict that this issue will be the core issue for me during 2011, in my case on FreeBSD and Debian. It would be interesting to see what others have found, specifically.
Thanks.
2011 predictions Posted Jan 7, 2011 0:39 UTC (Fri) by jospoortvliet (subscriber, #33164) [Link]
Read http://news.opensuse.org/2011/01/03/opensuse-finished-201... to see what openSUSE is up to :D
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