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Linux 2019
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| What does that tell us? That the trend
| toward mobile computer devices --
| smartphones, netbooks, etc. -- is going to
| continue, and that the traditional PC
| desktop will be a niche technology by 2019.
| By 2005, computer vendors were making more
| money from laptops than desktops. In the
| last year, more laptops were being sold
| than desktops.
|
| It won't stop there though. Google, with
| its Linux-based Chrome OS, is pointing the
| way not just to making the traditional
| Windows desktop obsolete, but putting the
| whole concept of desktop-based computing in
| the junk pile. Google is taking a
| lightweight operating system, adding cloud-
| based applications and storage, and
| creating a world where any netbook or
| smartphone can do 95% of what most people
| do every day with a Windows-powered
| desktop.
|
| It's not just that this kind of Internet
| mobile computing is going to displace
| older-style desktops and bring
| entertainment to anyone, anywhere on any
| device. No -- there's a whole new set of
| services that will be taken for granted by
| 2019 that no current static computing
| device can duplicate. It will be a
| combination of LBS (Location-Based
| Services) and AR (Augmented Reality) that
| will transform how we use computers.
|
| With LBS, your applications use GPS and
| related technologies to determine where you
| are at any given moment. Armed with this
| information, applications can tell such
| things as where the nearest subway or
| closest steak house is. The next step,
| which is already being taken, is to update
| that information in real time. So, for
| example, you'll soon be able to know that
| your buddy is waiting for you at the
| coffeehouse two streets away.
|
| LBS is already changing how we get around,
| and AR will take it one step further.
| Instead of looking at a map, you'll be able
| to look at the world through your smart
| device's camera viewer to see a virtual
| golden brick road to where your friend is
| staying. You can already use it in
| applications like SPRXmobile's Layar
| Reality Browser 3.0, which can already
| serve as virtual tour guides with your
| Android, and soon your iPhone 3Gs phones.
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http://blogs.computerworld.com/15331/linux_2019
Recent:
A good year for desktop Linux
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| 2010 is going to be a good year for Linux on
| the desktop.
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http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/insideBusop.htm?f=2009/december/22/chinwong.isx&d=/2009/december/22
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