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This issue we asked our experts: If the FLOSS spreading Santa Stallman was to bring you anything this Christmas, what would it be? Happy Christmas everyone! Ho ho ho.

Jonni Bidwell

Fallout4 on Linux would be nice, likewise a new-fangled Steam Machine. But those are lacking in open-sauciness, so I’ll settle instead for more projects adopting arcane naming and numbering conventions so that people get confused and I get to tell them that they are wrong. That’s the festive spirit, right?

Matt Hanson

I’ve been reminiscing a lot about my good old Amiga A500+, which I got on Christmas Day 1991, so I would love to find a new Amiga 1200 case that I can put a Raspberry Pi into under the tree this year, along with a distro based on AmigaOS (AEROS, an open source implementation of AmigaOS would certainly do).

Nick Peers

I’d really like to see an Emby media server implementation that provides a suitable scraper (such as MusicBrainz.org, the open music encyclopedia that supplies music metadata) for music videos in the same way that it does for movies and TV shows.

Kodi does it (as does Plex, in a fashion), so why not Emby?

Les Pounder

I’d like Santa to bring me a Steam Machine and the shiny, new Steam Controller. It’s great that there are so many great games making their way to Linux… I was getting really good at TuxRacer and fancied a challenge! Perhaps I can be ready for Half

Life3 when it releases in a decade or so?

Mayank Sharma

The best Christmas gift I can ask for is the end of all the negative Linux stereotypes. We’re closer to year 2030 than 2000 and it’s about time people dropped all their misconceived notions about free and open source software and acknowledge the clear benefits of the collaborative way of developing software.