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It’s Season Ten Episode Forty-Two of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson and Martin Wimpress are connected and speaking to your brain.
In this week’s show:
- We discuss what we’ve been up to recently:
We review our 2017 predictions:
Alan
- Multiple devices from Tier one vendors will ship with snappy by default (like Dell, HP, Cisco) “top line big name vendors will ship hardware with Ubuntu snappy as a default OS”
- GitHub will downsize their 600 workforce to a much smaller number and may also do something controversial to raise funds
- No – 723 according to wikipedia
- Microsoft will provide a Linux build of a significant application – possibly exchange or sharepoint
- Donald Trump will not last a year as president
Mark
- There will be no new Ubuntu phone on sale in 2017
- The UK government will lose a court case related to the Investigatory Powers Act
- This time next year, one of the top 5 distros on Distrowatch will be a distro that isn’t currently in the top 20.
Martin
- Ubuntu 17.10 will be able to run Mir using the proprietary nvidia drivers and Steam will work reliably via XMir. It will also be possible to run Mir in Virtualbox.
- A high profile individual (or individuals) will fall victim to one of the many privacy threats introduced as a result of the Investigatory Powers Bill. Intimate details of their online life will be exposed to the world, compiled from one of more databases storing Internet Connection Records. The disclosure will possibly have serious consequences for the individuals concerned, such as losing their job or being professionally discredited.
- The hype surrounding VR will build during 2017 but Virtual Reality will continue to lack adoption. Sales figures will be well below market projections.
We make our prediction for 2018:
Alan
- A large gaming hardware vendor from the past will produce new hardware. Someone of the size/significance of Sega. Original hardware, not just re-using the brand-name, but official product.
- Valve will rev the steamlink, perhaps making it more powerful for 4K gaming, and maybe a minor bump to the steam controller too
- A large government UK body will accidentally leak a significant body of data. Could be laptop/USB stick on a train or website hack.
Mark
- Either the UK or US government will collapse
- A major hardware manufacturer (not a crowd funder) will release a device in the form factor of a GPD pocket
- I will specifically buy (i.e. not in a Humble Bundle) and play through a native Linux game that is initially released in 2018.
- Canonical will go public and suffer a hostile takeover by the shuffling corpse of SCO. (bonus prediction)
Martin
- Give or take a couple of thousand dollars, BitCoin will have the same US dollar value in December 2018 as it does today.
- 17205.63 US Dollar per btc at the time of recording.
- A well established PC OEM, not currently supporting Linux, will offer a pre-installed Linux distro option for their flagship products.
- Four smart phones will launch in 2018 that cost $1000 or more, thanks to Apple normalising this ludicrous price tag in 2017.
Ubuntu Podcast listenrs share their predictions for 2018:
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