The Keeper
August 22nd, 2008, 09:55 AM
Are there anything particularly interesting developments in the software world you expect/hope to reach the mainstream distros, such as Ubuntu within the next 12 months or so?
My picks would be;
- Grub2. Six years in development already and feature freeze planned by end of the year. About time I say.
- ext4. It's not XFS or ZFS, but still an improvement over ext3.
- QT port of Firefox. It's in active development and chances are it will be officially supported port. Good news to KDE users.
- Maybe, just maybe we'll see 100% compatible open-source flash player?
- DVD-menu support in Gstreamer and Gstreamer becoming default multimedia backend in KDE4.
Anything else you would pick? :)
My picks would be;
- Grub2. Six years in development already and feature freeze planned by end of the year. About time I say.
- ext4. It's not XFS or ZFS, but still an improvement over ext3.
- QT port of Firefox. It's in active development and chances are it will be officially supported port. Good news to KDE users.
- Maybe, just maybe we'll see 100% compatible open-source flash player?
- DVD-menu support in Gstreamer and Gstreamer becoming default multimedia backend in KDE4.
Anything else you would pick? :)