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2016: “You’re Watching The Linux Channel.”

blogs.zdnet.com — July 24th, 2016. Josef Konsumer, a home-based employee and portfolio manager for ICBC/CiticorpChase, a Chinese-owned multinational investment bank, wakes up to hear his alarm clock go off at 8am, and gets out of bed, his 47-year old body aching from an aggressive personal trainer session from the day before.

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  • mikerad86, on 07/24/2008, -11/+4I think I'll still probably be watching the spice channel...
  • PhailQuail, on 07/24/2008, -1/+52Firefox 8, OpenOffice 6.2, FIOS 2, Ubuntu 16.04
    Still no Linux 3.0
    • diggmaddy, on 07/24/2008, -4/+4Do you really think Ubuntu 16.04 will be running Linux 2.6?
      I'd add Linux 4.46 to your first line.
      • ordago, on 07/25/2008, -0/+0Linus said there is no need for linux 3.0 for technical reasons, it only would br for marketing.
      • neko, on 07/25/2008, -0/+2Maybe they're running Ubuntu GNU/Hurd ... ahahahaha
    • mooninite, on 07/24/2008, -0/+9Linux 2.6.50?
      • porl, on 07/25/2008, -0/+0actually there has been recent debate (seen here: http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/Kernel_Release_Numberi ... ) about changing the numbering system for the kernel altogether, possibly using dates as the numbering system (more like ubuntu does). whether or not this happens is unknown, but i think it makes a lot of sense.
    • sigmaman2, on 07/24/2008, -0/+6Linux kernel 2.6.999...
    • svivian, on 07/24/2008, -0/+7Pfft, OpenOffice won't be higher than version 3 in 2016, they move so slowly...
    • SniperZero, on 07/25/2008, -0/+1well with a lot of people thinking linux = ubuntu... then maybe linux was just wiped out and now its just ubuntu.
  • cdawzrd, on 07/24/2008, -2/+26"He considers nudging his wife, Mindy, to get up and make him breakfast, but decides to leave her alone"

    lol
  • pogobouncepogo, on 07/24/2008, -3/+29Man I want that to happen. Lets get to work on this, Note the screenshot of Ubuntu 16.04 is still brown. Lol.
  • mavsman4457, on 07/24/2008, -2/+20Good, now we can record the Linux channel with MythTV.
    • Amiga501, on 07/25/2008, -2/+1ERROR: Your choice of HD Capture Card is not supported.
  • holyskeleton, on 07/24/2008, -1/+6Considering the number of Windows or Mac channels there are this is very probable.
  • leladax, on 07/24/2008, -3/+8GPL can be pro-Business but also limiting.

    i.e.
    - The q3 creators released the game in gpl
    - The game's code can't be closed and sold
    - id software profits

    if it was BSD,
    - q3 releases code
    - game code is used by multiple game development modders for the purpose to be sold.

    I know what I'm saying, I know the modding community, many of them would just work more on open source if it lets them sell it later (at least as a possibility).
    • nmnnotmyname, on 07/24/2008, -0/+8Actually, ID owns the code, so they can still sell it under another license. Who's going to sue them, themselves? Really, unless it contains GNU or someone else's code, they can swap that bastard right back into whatever they want. Of course, the already released GPL code is still legally GPL and people are free to do whatever GPL lets them...

      The point is, If all copyright owners agree that the license should be swapped then they can do that - If there is only one legal copyright owner they can just do it out of nowhere.

      Q3 was released under GPL after Q4 was released. It's not really GPL'd but the modified engine is.
      Also, If you look, Trolltech Qt4 is offered for sale under a different proprietary license but also under normal GPL. An example of what i'm talking about in action.
      • deathtoartists, on 07/24/2008, -0/+3which is why some purists wont use KDE
      • nmnnotmyname, on 07/25/2008, -0/+4Well screw the purists...

        KDE itself and the current source of Qt4 will be GPL forever - Future versions of Qt4 may not be, but then the OSS community can branch Qt4.

        I can understand their original concerns for using Qt (the whole nonfree concern thing was a much bigger deal at the time) but those concerns should be dead: Qt still hasn't gone bad, in fact they've improved vastly in their OSS version.
      • leladax, on 07/25/2008, -0/+1that doesn't disprove my point.

        little developers don't have the money to buy q3's source.

    • jamesmcm, on 07/25/2008, -2/+1If they released it under the BSD licence then other companies could profit off it too and make their own non-open versions.

      Personally, I think the GPL is the best because it allows the code to live on meanwhile restricting people exploiting it. Look at Netscape, where they realised they were declining and so they released the code since then, rather than the project and code just dying, the code could go on and all the time wasn't wasted. And it eventually brought us Firefox.
      • leladax, on 07/26/2008, -0/+1easy to say when you're just an end user and you want everything ready and you haven't tried making a living from software before.
  • nmnnotmyname, on 07/24/2008, -9/+5This is really... strange.
    And in some ways wrong. Hopefully Open Office is replaced or rewritten by then too because Its GUI is really unresponsive.
  • ThePerkins, on 07/24/2008, -12/+7The linux channel will require a complex set of remote control inputs in order to access it. The aesthetics of its programming will resemble the Windows channel circa 2008.
    • nmnnotmyname, on 07/24/2008, -8/+5A new tag for you to add on the end of your posts:
      /bigotry

      ;) your welcome.
      Next time you bash something, you could try to do a better job or at least understand have of what your bashing.
    • 4NDr01D, on 07/24/2008, -2/+3not to mention it's video driver isn't compatible
    • Jeepinator, on 07/24/2008, -2/+7Linux is pretty easy to use as long as you aren't a dumbass.
  • kazersoza, on 07/24/2008, -9/+8.. now with 35 version of the same show!!
  • damian7, on 07/24/2008, -16/+4This will never happen.

    All you circle jerking idiots need to slice your wrists
    • nmnnotmyname, on 07/24/2008, -5/+3Ditto.
    • deathtoartists, on 07/24/2008, -1/+10troll, nothing to see here move along
    • virtualball, on 07/24/2008, -1/+7While it will never happen by 2016, I do hope it happens. It sounds like a nice world (minus the bank merger :P)
  • neo2049, on 07/24/2008, -13/+1yeah like that is going to happen.
  • deathtoartists, on 07/24/2008, -7/+1Brilliant!
  • Kanten, on 07/24/2008, -7/+2I'm pretty sure we'll be at Windows 8 or 9 by 2016.
    • nmnnotmyname, on 07/24/2008, -2/+15At this point, everyone will be complaining about how Windows 7/8 was the best OS and how they don't want to leave it for the bloatware that is Windows 8/9.
  • Marumekomu, on 07/24/2008, -2/+32July 24th, 2016.

    Josef Konsumer, an employee and portfolio manager for the ICBC/CiticorpChase, a Chinese-owned multinational investment bank [and only a 50 minute commute], wakes up to hear his alarm clock go off at 6am, and gets out of bed, his 47-year old body aching from lack of use. His morning double espresso with frothed skim milk and mocha from starbucks is all he has to look forward to, thanks to his wife leaving him earlier that month.

    Josef walks downstairs to the kitchen to use his laptop. “I wish my ***** laptop battery still worked” he mutters, as he notices the battery charge indicator on the Windows Vista start menu bar still reads as empty. “At least I can use my 8th generation iPhone to catch up on diggoogle on the commute, providing it doesn't blink out of service too often."

    After leaving the starbucks drive thru, Josef turns onto the highway. He’s been taking this commute for several years now, since Citigroup and JPMorganChase merged with the folks out in Shanghai and they had to downsize. To cut costs, Josef's local branch was closed down, but he doesn’t mind- even with today's ***** air quality, having only gotten worse with Bush 3 in office, it's the only time of his day he really gets to be alone with himself. Or, it was, until his wife left him. "Oh god," he thinks to himself, "she's really gone, isn't he?" Eager to distract himself, he scrambles for his iPhone.

    Josef winces as his iPhone reads as having no reception, knowing what comes next- he'll have to open his window and take a breath of that *****, ***** air. He restrains his gag reflex and rolls down the window, sticking his his iPhone out and waving it around. Finally he connects, closes the window, and retreats again to the small comfort of his filtered air.
  • lucasmaximus, on 07/24/2008, -8/+26FFS, someone gets paid to write crap like this.
  • rebotfc, on 07/24/2008, -4/+272016 will be the year of the linux desktop....




    ....maybe
  • Crath, on 07/24/2008, -1/+26Next up, penguins on trampolines!
    • DestroyFascism, on 07/25/2008, -0/+1So what's wrong.......with penguins........on trampolines.....
  • 4NDr01D, on 07/24/2008, -7/+3But I thought 2006 was the year of Linux ?
  • leamanc, on 07/24/2008, -3/+14I like how it's 2016, but he's watching TV on a monitor with 4:3 aspect ratio. What is that, 1024x768? 1280x960? We've got 16:9 monitors and TVs here in 2008, I don't imagine that we will be regressing back in the next eight years.
    And that's just my complaints from the picture...
    Buried for being lame.
    • Raptor007, on 07/24/2008, -0/+5Er, maybe in the pic, but it said 1080p in the article. Still stupid though, by then they'd at least have QuadHD (3840x2160) standard.
    • Nysul, on 07/24/2008, -1/+6In 2016 we'll be under a globalized socialist government so you can spend your one entertainment token on either a 1998 CRT 4:3 1023x768 monitor or a Packard Bell with CD-ROM technology and high speed 56k modem.
    • Archer007, on 07/25/2008, -0/+1Woosh.
  • UltraDavid, on 07/24/2008, -1/+8"Crap, Time to dump.”

    Best part of the article, in my opinion.
  • klitzbtc, on 07/24/2008, -0/+15I love Linux, but who cares. By 2016 cars better fly.
    • diggmaddy, on 07/24/2008, -0/+7At the current rate of innovation in the car industry, I highly doubt it :(.
    • mctom987, on 07/25/2008, -0/+4@diggmaddy
      I aggree, perhaps cars will be boasting 25MPG by then, running on the same oil we have been for years, and always saying higher efficiency cars are coming.
    • fani, on 07/25/2008, -0/+4***** the cars... at these gas prices, I better fly
  • tsctsc, on 07/24/2008, -3/+3sweet, fanfic about linux users in the future.
  • Kosher1947, on 07/24/2008, -1/+7I like Linux, and I LOVE.... BLENDER, but the community will have to change before things move forward. I mean I looked up an issue with Ubuntu and found people asking questions but no one giving answers. How sad is that?
    • ChayD, on 07/24/2008, -1/+4Dugg for Blender.
    • Jeepinator, on 07/24/2008, -1/+8That happens a lot with windows. It's called a bug. Someone out there is figuring out how to fix it. The fix will come along much quicker than if Microsoft were to take it on.
  • 2Bnor2B, on 07/24/2008, -0/+2Finally, I'll have a reason for that penguin on top of my television.

    Here's a link to the Monty Python - Penguin on the Television sketch.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwTqC2T6q4E&feature ...
  • scy1192, on 07/24/2008, -1/+9Everyone knows the world ended in 2012, how are we in the future now?
  • Infowarmachine, on 07/24/2008, -2/+15sudo make me a sandwich Mindy
  • mdmcgee, on 07/24/2008, -7/+0You have to wonder if Digg is capable of promoting anything other than Ron Paul, Obama, and Linux.
    Linux, it's an OS (well really a kernel) people, not a way of life. We sure as hell don't need 4-5
    stories on it every day. Linux spam is now far more annoying than the Ron Paul spam ever was.
    Heck, at least Ron Paul was worthy.
    • Kral, on 07/24/2008, -0/+7Digg was all about tech and Linux before you got here and flooded it with lolcats and fail.
      • mdmcgee, on 07/25/2008, -3/+0Wow, your towering intellect and snazzy comments must mean you are a definite winner.
  • mctom987, on 07/24/2008, -3/+4Dugg for "Gotta love that 5 second commute. “Need to buy more CSCO.”" and working for Cisco.
  • ronaldmonster, on 07/24/2008, -0/+3Yes but will it have a 10% marketshare?
  • dvsbstrd, on 07/25/2008, -3/+2It's like, Harry Potter fanfiction for basement dwellers.

    Sans the gratuitous Harry/Malfoy sodomy.
    • CrushThemTorg, on 07/25/2008, -1/+1What if the FreeBSD demon gets a handie from Tux?
  • worldnick, on 07/25/2008, -0/+3Buried for being about something uninteresting happening in the future.
  • mikemil828, on 07/25/2008, -7/+1By 2016, most of the Linux distributions will die off or become irrelevant due to lack for companies willing to make products for the tens of thousands of different distributions out there. However by that time most people would actually dual boot into Linux and a version of Windows. Of course by dual boot, I mean that most motherboard manufacturers will have a version of linux built into the motherboard like Asus does, for times when you just want to get online with having to wait for Windows to come up. For when people need to do something substantial, they will mostly boot into what would be the just previous generation of that time's Windows, because most people would avoid the actual current generation (at that time) of Windows due to overexaggerated claims of instability, lousy design, rumors of insidious computer control by Microsoft, system requirements use, etc. etc. Because of this, Microsoft will be hurting by that time (and cash guzzling projects like Xbox will be canned) but they'll probably stay afloat which probably couldn't be said about 98% of the Linux Distros out there.

    Windows+Mobo Linux systems will by that time split evenly the market with Apple, which would be become just as 'bad' and Microsoft is, but would be given a free pass by rose tinted colored glasses wearing Apple Fanboys.

    Ron Paul would be doing his 3rd attempt on the white house with even less luck than before, mostly due to the fact that the market would have recovered by that time and the supposed second great depression having never occured.
  • shoopdawoop, on 07/25/2008, -0/+1Linus Torvalds is channel surfing in his grave.
  • Awspire, on 07/25/2008, -6/+1Can this article be anymore anti-American?! God, I hope our American youth don't fall for this ***** and become totally demoralized by idiots that author such *****.

    If there's yet another reason for me to despise linux fanboyism, this one takes the cake. Why is it that anti-American sentiment and linux go hand in hand? Communism... Maybe? Fanboys, go worship your hypocritical Ubuntu founder, Shutleworth, who made a billion off his own proprietary software, and now seeks to destroy the same commercial industry that made him enough money to live a thousand lifetimes off of, while attempting to kill an industry hundreds of thousands are employed. Though, considering that were talking about the sheer amateur crapiness that is linSUX, that will never happen.
    • r3negadeX, on 08/11/2008, -1/+4I hope you're joking / trolling. If not then may god have mercy on your soul.
    • sooperspook, on 07/25/2008, -1/+4What? You best be trolling like 10Gun said.

      Anti-Americanism? Where?
  • gandhii, on 07/25/2008, -0/+7By the second sentence... I really really hate this guy.
  • dzero, on 07/25/2008, -1/+1i'm pretty sure i've read this before, i can't believe that this even made the front page.

    buried for being craptastic journalism.

  • MrTea, on 07/25/2008, -0/+4I doubt hurd will be done by then.
  • thechris353, on 07/25/2008, -0/+4Mindy is a slut.

    I did her back in 2009.
  • kahrn, on 07/25/2008, -0/+3Would we really be watching TV in 2016?
    • greenm1981, on 07/26/2008, -0/+1There's nothing worth watching now.
  • tywrenok, on 07/25/2008, -0/+5regardless of linux, mac, or whatever, does this really sound like a world you want to live in? Not to be too hippy, but i can only assume that the more things that are automatic (your coffee being auto-delivered from amazon for example) the more time you have to work. hell in 2008 it's bad enough with blackberries and never being able to unplug, do you really want to give that up entirely? i for one don't mind traveling
  • bardo77n, on 07/25/2008, -0/+52016: Hyperinflation has ruined the economy. Hoping to find someone with a can of dog food so you can eat, you decide to leave the house and fight the roving gangs of thugs. The Government's cameras are the only sign of modern technology. They line the streets to remind you that you are a safe and happy citizen. As you watch someone get stabbed to death amongst a pile of burning trash, you remember what it was like in 2008 to argue trivial matters like which computer operating system is best. You curse yourself for your former decadence and you wonder why you didn't do more to stop the ever-growing police state of America.
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