Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?
Hello,
There has been an interesting number of responses on this thread. I
like it because it helps me explore some other FLOSS (or not so FLO)
out there which I might otherwise find superior to my own favourites.
I would just like to post stats on what the respoding population likes
(in brackets we find the number of votes):
audio editor:
* audacity (7)
* audacious, gnusound, xfmedia
audio player:
* Amarok (6)
* XMMS (5)
* beep-media-player (3)
* XMMS2, mp3blaster, muine, totem, rhythmbox
cd-ripper:
* sound-juicer (6)
* abcde (4)
* KAudioCreator (2), grip (2)
* dagrab, cdparanoia
Desktop Environment:
* GNOME (2)
* Xfce4
DBMS:
* MySQL (3)
* PostgreSQL (2)
* Openoffice2.0 Base, Oracle
development:
* Eclipse (2), Qt (2), Quanta (2)
* bluefish, GTK+
disc burner:
* k3b (11)
* gnomebaker (6)
* cdrecord (2)
* xcdroast, nautilus-cd-burner, nero-linux, graveman
e-mail client:
* Thunderbird (9)
* evolution (5)
* mutt (4)
* kmail (2)
* Gmail (2)
* M2
* sylpheed-claws-gtk2
file manager:
* MC (6)
* nautilus (5)
* konqueror (3)
* rox-filer (3)
* emelfm
* xterm
* xfe
* p-desk
* krusader
finance:
* gnucash (5)
* Calc
* kMyMoney
firewall [ shorewall ]
ftp:
* gftp (4)
* ftp
* lftp
icons [ dlg-etiquette ]
image editor
* gimp (18)
* imagemagick
image viewer:
* gthumb (9)
* f-spot (3)
* GQview (2), kuickshow (2), eog (2), display? (2)
* imgSeek, mozilla-firefox, kview, gliv
instant messenger
* gaim (3)
* Kopete (2)
mathematics:
* octave (2), maxima (2)
* latex, texmacs, R
misc utilities:
* sudo (3)
* dvd9to5 (2), oggasm (2), ssh (2), grep (2), screen (2)
* lsof, sloccount, splint, uptimed, uptime, bash, awk, find
* fuser, scim, route, netstat, dpkg-www
p2p:
* aMule (2)
* azureus
package manager:
* aptitude (7)
* Synaptic (6)
* adept (2), apt (2)
* portage
* pkg_add
pdf-reader:
* acroread (2), kpdf (2)
* xpdf, gpdf, evince
process monitor:
* top (3)
* procmeter
tag editor:
* easyTag (5)
* juk, id3v2
terminal emulator:
* gnome-terminal (7)
* Konsole (6)
* Xterm (4)
* xfce4-terminal (2), RXVT (2), Yakuake (2)
* eterm
text editor:
* gedit (6)
* vi (5)
* kate (4)
* gvim (3), gxedit (3),
* nano (2), vim (2), Emacs (2)
* anjuta, FTE, mousepad, OpenOffice.org
video player:
* mplayer (7)
* VLC (4)
* Kaffeine (3)
* xine-ui (2), totem (2), totem-xine (2)
* gmplayer, gxine
web browser:
* mozilla-firefox (17)
* Epiphany (2)
* opera, wget, konqueror
(unreleased):
* GNU HURD (4)
3D animation: [ blender (5) ]
office: [ openoffice (2) ]
aggregator: [ lifearea ]
admin: [ webmin ]
bootloader: [ grub ]
cms: [ drupal ]
config: [ gkDebconf ]
dns: [ dnsmasq ]
eyecandy: [ wallpaper-tray ]
http-proxy: [ privoxy ]
image manager: [ digiKam ]
IRC client: [ XChat ]
mail server: [ cyrus21 ]
media-player: [ Kaffeine ]
PIM: [ kontact ]
spam murderer: [ spamassassin ]
window manager: [ fvwm ]
Summary:
18 votes: gimp
17 votes: mozilla-firefox
11 votes: k3b
09 votes: gthumb, Thunderbird
07 votes: aptitude, gnome-terminal, mplayer, audacity
Thanks for all the responses...
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