Ubuntu developers benefit from the strong use of momentum, and developers are increasingly choosing Amazon EC2 cloud platform also indicates that Ubuntu will continue to gain success on EC2. In view of this situation, IT decision-makers will need to consider or reconsider whether you want to use in the enterprise Ubuntu. In 2011, as the upstart Ubuntu is how can the momentum of rapid development remains? Or Red Hat will put more effort into the clouds go? Let us wait and see.

4, dual boot

OS in recent years there have been some elements of new technology – a dual boot. The future there will be more and more devices support dual boot, many of which often are based on dual-boot Linux.

Such as Chrome laptops (codenamed Cr-48) was that people used to install Ubuntu dual boot. We have also seen, such as Acer and Augen provides some dual-boot support options available tablet. Dual-boot itself is consistent with the purpose of open source software, giving people more choice. I believe that next year there will be more manufacturers will realize the importance of this issue.

5, more open source drivers

Broadcom wireless card known to a wide scope of application, previously always refused to provide any open source drivers, or the corresponding chip specifications. But this year, Broadcom attitude suddenly had a hundred and eighty degree turn, released for the 802.11n wireless card completely new open source driver. Also this year, AMD Ontario for the open-source driver chip integration have also been received debut. With Linux increasingly becoming mainstream, the future will have more open source drivers made public, after all, no manufacturer is willing to be pushed into the mainstream market.

6, ARM open source architecture to shine

Occupy the smart phone and the Internet in most of the market after this, ARM began to seize the Tablet PC market. Low power consumption, cheap, open source ARM architecture will be to shine. Microsoft and Intel have tried to seize a piece of that market, but now see such efforts futile.

ARM chips in the PC and even get some popular applications on the server, especially considering that Ubuntu and other popular Linux distributions, they are expensive without the required Windows configuration.

7, Oracle and dilemmas facing OpenOffice.org

Open source is from the perspective of 2010 the worst year for Oracle. In addition to Google’s Android system in the development of a direct violation of Oracle and Java-related intellectual property rights, Oracle lawsuit against Google, Oracle also cruelly abandoned OpenSolaris, the open source community also did not care. SUN acquired by Oracle in the transaction is being completed, Solaris the new owner of the relevant projects have been ignored, and we can only watch as OpenSolaris users continue to leave. Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has officially announced its withdrawal from JCP Executive Committee.

OpenOffice.org, of course is also divided distress facing difficulties. It is foreseeable that, LibreOffice past OpenOffice.org office suite separated out and become open-source office software in the world of a new force. Many claim to support Linux versions LibreOffice not OpenOffice, of course, from the OpenOffice Document Foundation in from out.