Re: 20 most popular non-debian pacages in Skolelinux
2009/12/7 Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>:
> Most of these are obsolete packages, but some are user applications
> where we probably should try to provide a free software alternative
> for within Debian:
>
> 4 acroread-debian-files 61 40 17 4 0 (Not in sid)
> 5 acroread 61 39 18 4 0 (Not in sid)
> 13 acroread-data 59 10 6 3 40 (Not in sid)
> 16 acroread-escript 58 8 5 3 42 (Not in sid)
> 18 mozilla-acroread 52 8 3 1 40 (Not in sid)
>
> Adobes PDF reader. The free alternatives have been lacking when it
> come to form support and encryption. Hope this can be solved soon.
> Would be nice to have a good enough PDF viewer as free software in
> Squeeze.
encryption support is there in evince (I get many bank statements as
encrypted PDF and those work).
> 8 flashplayer-mozilla 43 17 1 0 25 (Not in sid)
>
> Adobe Flash player. Gnash is still not good enough, but it handle
> most web ads and some of the video sites.
gnash for most online flash content, but some may not work.
> 11 opera 20 14 2 4 0 (Not in sid)
>
> Web server. I guess Firefox/Iceweasel is a good enough alternative,
> but would be good to know why people still use Opera. Personally I
> use it because I lack the time to migrate to Iceweasel while keeping
> my browser history, bookmarks, certificates etc.
I would go for iceweasel. I think it can import those details from opera
> 12 freenx 31 12 11 0 8 (Not in sid)
>
> Remote desktop. There are alternatives, but I am not sure they have
> the same feature set.
google recently release a freenx client called neatx, but no one has
packaged it yet. VNC should work.
> 20 realplayer 16 8 7 1 0 (Not in sid)
>
> Media player. Can vlc/xine/gmplayer play the same files?
yes, much more than realplayer.
- Praveen
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