Re: results: debian-user's favourite FLOSS (2008)

[Raj Kiran Grandhi <grajkiran@gmail.com>]

Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 12/01/08 02:36, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Following is the results of a poll that has been running for about 2
> > weeks, one which questions readers of debian-user to list their
> > favourite FLOSS -> Free (Libre) or Open Source Software.
> >
> > There's the usual stars in the form of Firefox/Iceweasel and GIMP, as
> > well as aptitude, and great growth being OpenOffice.org's word
> > processor. Interestingly there wasn't as many votes for Acroread in
> > the non-free category, perhaps because FLOSS alternatives are really
> > gaining traction. There's also the usual category killers in the form
> > of Audacity, K3b, and MPlayer.
> >
> > Listed below is entries which received at least 3 entries; for
> > anything else, please do search the archive. In brackets is the years
> > when specific entrants won (and this is since 2005). Here goes:
> >
> >
> > audio editor:
> > * Audacity x9 [2005 to 2007]
>
> What does "x9" mean?  To an American reader, it means "multiply by 9", 
> and that doesn't seem to make sense.

I guess it is the number of votes received for that application.

--

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
                                       -- Albert Einstein