On Sun, 21 Dec 2003, Meir Kriheli wrote:
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> On Friday 19 December 2003 21:10, Muli Ben-Yehuda 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...."
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> > [read more below for details]
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> > 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) andLinux
> > (the OS) be in five years. Go wild...
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Muli
>
> 1. Hope that the SCO mess will be over by then.
>
Me too.
> 2. G++ compile speed for C++ code on par with GCC (those kde cvs compiles are
> way too long).
>
First of all, I'm not sure the speed of C++ compilation can ever approach
the speed of ANSI C compilation, because C++ is a more complex language.
But you are right that the speed of g++ is lacking and probably can be
improved.
> 3. freedesktop.org will be more dominant in DE/WMs development process.
>
> 4. Keith Packard work will be merged in the main xfree86 tree (and he'll be
> back on team).
>
I second that.
> 5. e17 will be released :-P
>
> 6. Standart compliance everywhere and across OSes (web browsers/sites, file
> formats etc).
>
I second that as well.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
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Writing a BitKeeper replacement is probably easier at this point than getting
its license changed.
Matt Mackall on OFTC.net #offtopic.
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