User:Andy/Predictions for 2006
From Strugglers
Predictions for things that will happen before 2007-01-01 00:00:00 UTC.
Computing
- Mandriva will cease to exist as a vendor of their own boxed Linux distribution
- SCO will cease to exist as a vendor of their own UNIX-like operating system
- All new general purpose computer systems will be dual core or more, but no core will go above 4GHz
- Virtualisation and server consolidation will be even more the hot topic than it is now
- Nexenta will fade into nothingness before it ever becomes widely used
- OpenSolaris will make no significant progress from where it is today
- The Linux kernel will finally refuse to link closed source modules
- Nvidia and ATI will not care about that and there will cease to be any Linux support for their graphics cards except for what can be reverse engineered
- One or more prominent kernel hackers will leave the project due to disagreements over the above
- Eric Raymond will cease to see the funny side of Everybody Loves Eric Raymond and will make sure John Leach knows about it
- One or more other major cities or regional governments in Europe will follow the example of Munich and switch to Linux
- XFree86 will stagnate further and there will be no releases in 2006, except bug and security fixes
