Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?
On Oct 31 2005, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> I am really passionate about my choice of text editor. I love FTE and
> it's my default. I cannot stand vi/vim and Emacs drives me nuts. FTE
> operates the way I am used to.
I have never used anything other than Emacs. In fact, when I do, I feel
like I'm half-naked in a snowy winter. :-)
I know only the very, very basics of using vi and the thing of switching
back and forth between command mode and edition mode drives me nuts. :-)
It is a respectable editor, OTOH.
> For DVD playing I found VLC Player to work perfectly while mplayer
> couldn't get the sound and video synced.
This is funny, as I have never had this problem with mplayer.
> Plus VLC Player supports the DVD menus.
I don't care for the menus, but having them usable is a nice addition,
of course.
> I've never found Xine to be usable (maybe I'm just to old to cope with
> "cool" skins).
I have the *exact* same feeling regarding the skins, as I already
mentioned.
> BTW, the Popularity Contest package tracks your usage of various apps
> and is intended (I believe) to give the release team an idea of what
> is most used.
Indeed, the results of the popularity-contest package (which tells
weekly the Debian servers your most used packages) are used to select
which programs/packages are put into the first, second, third etc CDs of
the distribution.
I would highly recommend that others give the popularity-contest package
a try, as you will help the distribution be more suited to our needs.
Regards, Rogério.
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