Small world :) Bill Kendrick mentioned below is the author of TuxPaint (among others) and was very cooperative in adding Hebrew support to his great app despite the challanges faced by the use of SDL libraries.
Anyway, to the point, what I'd like to see more than anything else for Microsoft to do is joining industry and community standards, not fighting them. I think they might find out that doing so will not undermine their position but strenghten it and help in increasing the overall software business so they can peacfully co-exist with the other companies in the neighborhood. Since you asked specifically about the Linux kernel, I think that would be a much tougher question. Support for emerging technologies and standards, as well as growing up to large scale enterprise systems and down to embedded devices is a trivial expectation and will be happening anyway. I also doubt that going to the theoretical front would mean any difference to the end users considering what Linux was able to show so far (though I assume prof. Tenenbaum would still argue that a microkernel is better - lol) So what I would like to see along the way? - true suspend/resume capability - I am not sure how much of a kernel feature that migh be, but I would like to have it work in a similar way to my palm, i.e. zero delay hibernation and resume - regardless of the hardware being used (e.g. laptop or desktop) - for Windows to do so would not be possible (these days I have to reboot my w2k at work daily or it won't function correctly) but for Linux with hundreds of uptime days that might be a really desired feature. - Something crazy I was thinking about - allowing me to move from one place to another with only my 2.5" external hard disk - just plug it to the nearest computer and start working from where I stopped last time. I assume that would be similar to the first item but is a bit more complicated, since it involves resume + automatic hardware recognition and configuration of the new system. - Real time responsivness - I have to admit I didn't try 2.6 yet so I don't know how much it improves on that (though 2.4 with preemptive enabled does wonders) - but have you ever tried BeOS? I don't mind how hard the cpu works, but when I want attention I want it NOW, and when I need real smooth power (e.g. multimedia) this is really critical. - True plug and play - this technology is improving all the time, but I want it to work flawlessly - no longer plug and pray as it is today with either Linux or Windows. I want a system that is so much hardware aware - that even if I will take out a memory bank while it's working it would not freeze, crash or whatever - just recover from it, do damage control and go on. I think that's about it for now, if you can get some of these into the kernel five years from now I'll be very happy :) --- Muli Ben-Yehuda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "A Microsoft networking division manager has been > contacting LUGs > (including LUGoD) regarding what appear to be focus > groups concerning > "where you'd like to see Microsoft in five years". > -6' comes to > mind...." > > [read more below for details] > > This being a slow friday evening, this strikes me as > an excellent time > to ask y'all where would you like to see Linux (the > kernel) and Linux > (the OS) be in five years. Go wild... > > Cheers, > Muli > > ----- Forwarded message from "Karsten M. Self" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- > > Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 13:04:38 -0800 > From: "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i > To: Linux Elitists <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [linux-elitists] Fwd: [vox] Microsoft > interested in our feelings > > A Microsoft networking division manager has been > contacting LUGs > (including LUGoD) regarding what appear to be focus > groups concerning > "where you'd like to see Microsoft in five years". > -6' comes to > mind.... > > > Google tells you a bit. > > Surkan has posted similar appeals to a number of > LUGs. He's previously > written for a number of MSFT rags, perhaps most > notoriously "I come not > to praise Linux": > > http://linuxtoday.com/news/1998111802110PS > Nov 18, 1998 > > "As long as GNU/Linux remains a religion of > freeware fanatics, > Microsoft (and other NOS vendors) have nothing > to worry about." > > > See also: > > > http://lists.gslug.org/pipermail/gslug-general/2003-November/000086.html > > P.S. This report is a skunkworks project of > mine, and really doesn't > have anything to do with my "day" job. I just > feel very strongly > that Microsoft needs to listen better to what > users need and want to > try and change attitudes. > > > > http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/50/347546/2003-12-08/2003-12-14/0 > > I am a program manager in the Microsoft > networking group, doing some > research around network security needs. My goal > is to help us > identify the network security technologies > Microsoft should be > focusing on to help our customers over the next > 5 years or so. > > > > > > ----- Forwarded message from Bill Kendrick > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- > > From: Bill Kendrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 07:32:33 -0800 > To: LUGOD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Mail-Followup-To: LUGOD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > List-Id: lugod's free for all mailing list > <vox.lists.lugod.org> > Subject: [vox] Microsoft interested in our feelings > X-BeenThere: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 > > I received an email last night from one Michael > Surkan from Microsoft > (based on the mail headers, it looks legit; not some > prankster ;^) ) > > He wanted to know if it would be appropriate to post > a note to our 'vox' > list asking if folks here would be willing to talk > about where they'd > like to see MS go down the road... kind of a > 5-year-plan, to paraphrase. > > Anyway, I told him 'go for it,' so he'll no doubt be > posting soon. > I wanted to give a head's-up to the list before > people start arguing over > whether it's a hoax or prank or not. The e-mail I > got did, in fact, > originate from *.microsoft.com. Also, a Google for > his name found a quote > from him at CBS News' website, and posts on LUG > mailing list archives. > > > I'm quite curious as to what they're up to, and how > much MS would actually > listen to us techie geeks. :^) > > -bill! > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Got kids? Get Tux Paint! > http://newbreedsoftware.com/bill/ > http://newbreedsoftware.com/tuxpaint/ > > _______________________________________________ > vox mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox > > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > > -- > Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ > What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? > I could give you my word as a Spaniard? > No good. I've known too many Spaniards. > - Princess Bride > > > > _______________________________________________ > linux-elitists > http://zgp.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-elitists > > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > > -- > Muli Ben-Yehuda > http://www.mulix.org | http://mulix.livejournal.com/ > > "the nucleus of linux oscillates my world" - > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > ATTACHMENT part 2 application/pgp-signature name=signature.asc __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing. http://photos.yahoo.com/ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
