Open source this year

Certainly in applications I believe there will be a greater takeup of Open Source software. I do not see Linux becoming mainstream in the foreseeable future.

As a NON technical professional person with a strong IT interest, I have been running Ubuntu 9.1 as well as Mint in Virtual Box as well as on separate drives to see for myself. My kit is pretty up to date. IMHO is that until some hardware compatability issues are resolved and application installations are as simple as Windows, Linux will continue to play second fiddle.

BTW, I think Linux Mint8 is a lot easier to use than straight Ubunt 9.1.
 
Johnfpro said:
Certainly in applications I believe there will be a greater takeup of Open Source software. I do not see Linux becoming mainstream in the foreseeable future.

As a NON technical professional person with a strong IT interest, I have been running Ubuntu 9.1 as well as Mint in Virtual Box as well as on separate drives to see for myself. My kit is pretty up to date. IMHO is that until some hardware compatability issues are resolved and application installations are as simple as Windows, Linux will continue to play second fiddle.

BTW, I think Linux Mint8 is a lot easier to use than straight Ubunt 9.1.
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funny that you say that- im also running 9.1, and this time I was so impressed with the hardware support. the only driver I had to install manually was the latest ATI graphics driver and that was just to get the latest ones. Everything else was detected and installed automatically, even my canon printer, and canon is notorious for their poor linux support.

what im trying to say is that compared to 8.10, 9.10 was streets ahead, and I personally found in the same area it even beat windows xp hands down.
 
The board I am using has Intel Graphics on board and this is a problem for Linux in identifying the chipset. Acknowledged by Intel & Ubuntu.
 
No, it's the year of online marketing...
Oh, no wait it's the year of mobile
Oh, wait it's the year of cloud computing

How about it's just another year in tech.
 
lol @kolakidd.

as netbook and mobile operating systems converge with desktop, i'm afraid there's a huge gap between xp and winmo that android and chrome have shown up.

*nix style mobile operating systems are going to flourish in this gap because they can do more on leaner hardware without the bloatware issues that ms has. this is important, because it is the area which will show the most market growth and profitability.

consumers are starting to finally get technology and understand their choices. the old generation of loyalists will be replaced by one which is savvy and wants options. they know that putting all your eggs in one technology basket leads to exploitation.

in my book, linux will grow massively in the mobile market, spurred on mainly by google's investment in it and their saas integration into their os. this will then spill over into the desktop market where the divide between mobile and desktop ui will start to close.

if i was to pick a future dev platform, it would be linux with python/java.

one mobile os to watch in my books (other than android) would be nokia's maemo - it's debian with a mobile optimised gnome-based window manager. it's a true desktop os on a mobile phone.

the most valuable thing we learned from 2009 was that the 3rd party developer can no longer be ignored. the apple appstore proved this. i'm hoping that in 2010 developers will realise that proprietary isn't better and that it can be easier, cheaper and faster to build on another, more open platform.
 
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