Gnu/Linux New Year's Wishlists!!!

[Sepero]

In the spirit of hardcandy's post last year, I am starting a new wish thread for this year.

My wish list includes:
1. Everyone on this forum introducing GNU/Linux to at least new 3 people(perhaps the gift of a LiveCD?)
2. Better integration between GUI's
3. As always, hardware manufacturer's releasing their specs(I can dream...)



What would you like to see for GNU/Linux this coming year?

[psi42]

1) People actually _try_ the live CD I give them
2) Major reduction in GUI application bloat and KDE's menu/toolbar disorganization
3) gconf MUST DIE! :D
4) Actually working ATI drivers, I'm tired of telling people why I hate ATI so much.


:)

~psi42

[Parcival]

Just one wish:

1) When customers go shopping for a new PC at any average store, they can choose wether they wanna have Windows or Linux with it.

That would solve a lot.

[Hellion]

hmm
how bout for Pat Volkerding to have a speedy recovery.
And a Just Linux t-shirt in my christmas stocking :D

[nko]

1) Reasonably stable damage and composite X extensions, as well as wider adoption.

2) Reliable hibernate functionality.

3) Sub-$500 ARM or PPC-based OSS computers start being sold.

[raz0rblade]

1. Reiser4 in the stable kernel tree
2. XFCE 4.2 final

That's about all I want. And I have pretty good chances of getting them before xmas. :D

[DrLZRDMN]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=4598&item=5143304499&rd=1
it does come with a propietary os but Linux can be installed easily.

[janet loves bill]

Originally posted by Sepero




What would you like to see for GNU/Linux this coming year?

My wish is for the Richard Stallman Groupies to QUIT trying to steal all the glory of LINUX from Linus Torvalds..............

[leonpmu]

1) Proper 3DFX support for SIS chipsets
2) Better hardware vendor support in general


Dunno, can't think right now... too busy....

[Sepero]

Originally posted by janet loves bill
My wish is for the Richard Stallman Groupies to QUIT trying to steal all the glory of GNU/Linux from Linus Torvalds.....I'd be willing to bet that Linus would not approve of you saying these things. Anyways, do you realize that trolling the board like this makes people want to find out more about Richard Stallman?

Here's a link to the Open Source Book, Free as in Freedom (http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/freedom/). It tells about why Richard created the GNU licenses, the start of Emacs, how he convinced Linus to use the GPL, and how the GNU developers provided Linus with an entire system to use with his new kernel.

[deathadder]

My New Years Wishlist:

A monitor that's detected properly by X
More of a standard filesystem layout
Hardware companies to start producing *nix drivers along side its Windows driver


Careful Sepero, you don't want to feed trolls.

[Sgood1971]

Originally posted by deathadder
My New Years Wishlist:

A monitor that's detected properly by X
More of a standard filesystem layout
Hardware companies to start producing *nix drivers along side its Windows driver


Careful Sepero, you don't want to feed trolls.

deathadder summed it up nicely, especially wishes 1, 2, & 3.:D

[blackbelt_jones]

I wish that they'd come up with a version of WINE that worked for all Windows application, especially my favorite, Read Please

I wish that my ISP, Verizon, would stop acting as if Linux doesn't exist. Twice they tolld me I wouldn't be able to get their DSL to work with Linux, and it isn't true. You'd think that they'd make it their business to know this.

I wish that someone would drop a house on Darl McBride. Or better yet, a thirty story office building.

(Interesting to note that, if somebody had asked me the same question last year, it would be that I could do practically everything I wanted to do with Debian-- and that has come to pass, partly because of what I've learned, and partly because of the nifty new Debian installer.)

What's all this about Richard Stallman groupies and Linus Torvalds groupies and "the glory" of gnu/Linux? Is this some controversy brewing that I never heard of? Are we really going to get into a conflict over "the glory"? It all seems kind of silly to me.

[bdigit]

1. Better power management support for laptops (stability)

2. Sarge to be released ;)

3. Beagle/Dashboard to be easier to install

[DSwain]

One to be honest, and that's a few more nicer Linux communities.

No, not here. People here are great to be honest, but some places are just insane. Ever go over to OSNews? The comments there are asinine! I also went to go ask for some help on Arch Linux .7 on there IRC Channel and nobody happened to listen to me at all, not even enough to zealot me out. Kind of annoying, but oh well.

At any rate, that's all I'd ask for really. When you have strong community you can make as much progress as you need.

[bwkaz]

Originally posted by deathadder
A monitor that's detected properly by X You can't really do that totally reliably. You can try to use EDID, but not all monitors support it. (Granted, most newer ones do, but you don't want to announce that the new version of X can autodetect monitor settings, and then have some user with an ancient monitor that (1) doesn't support EDID, and (2) is the type that fries when it receives an invalid signal, go and get his monitor fried...) But maybe this is just because I don't think looking in a monitor manual to find the refresh rate ranges is all that hard.

Hardware companies to start producing *nix drivers along side its Windows driver Well, I don't really want hardware companies making Linux drivers. VERY few of them actually understand what "Linux drivers" should mean -- their drivers are almost always closed source pieces of junk that barely work. Whereas if they'd open the sources, or at least release hardware specs so we can write a driver, the drivers would get free bugfixes and other such work, and they'd quickly improve. Plus when major kernel changes happened, they'd be fixed along with the rest of the kernel.

And no doubt these companies think they're doing a service to Linux users by giving them these shoddy pieces of binary only crap...

(Yes, I know, many drivers can't be open sourced because they contain IP from sources other than the company making the hardware -- for example, S3's S3TC routines in nVidia's driver, plus some other stuff in there. But those seem to be the exception, not the rule.)

[pinter]

I think LiveCD's suck I dunno why but I hate them :(

[deathadder]

Originally posted by bwkaz
You can't really do that totally reliably. You can try to use EDID, but not all monitors support it. (Granted, most newer ones do, but you don't want to announce that the new version of X can autodetect monitor settings, and then have some user with an ancient monitor that (1) doesn't support EDID, and (2) is the type that fries when it receives an invalid signal, go and get his monitor fried...) But maybe this is just because I don't think looking in a monitor manual to find the refresh rate ranges is all that hard.

I agree with you one that I have no problem look at the monitor manual to find the refresh rates, but when you've got a monitor like mine, which you didn't buy, but was given to you, with no manual. Finding the refresh rates can be annoying, especially since all I can find on google, are German sites, when I dont speak German. Also I found one site that had refresh rates on it, but they didn't get the 85Hz at 1024*768 I know the monitor can do, so I had to guess them :D

[Sepero]

Originally posted by pinter
I think LiveCD's suck I dunno why but I hate them :( Which ones have you tried?