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LinuxPlanet's Year In Review

Posted by michael on from the year-of-the-penguin dept.

LinuxPlanet has a year-end review discussing their picks for favorite linux software in several categories, from window managers to time-wasters.

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  1. These guys need to get around more by el_chicano · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The authors' choices seemed unnecessarily limited to me. It is kind of hard to have a "best" of anything if you only sample a few of them.

    For instance, they did not mention Mandrake except when talking about the Sims. Mandrake kicks ass though IMO SUSE comes close.

    The window manager choices were also sparse. Lightweight WMs like Sawfish and IceWM weren't mentioned. Everyone knows about Gnone and KDE, how about telling people about the WMs they don't know about?

    And when it comes to text editors, no new ground was broken. What about FTE? It is the best cross-platform (Linux, Windows, OS/2 and others) editor I have come across: full-featured yet relatively small and easy to use.

    Jeez, it seems that *anyone* can start a Linux site these days!!! :->

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    A man who wants nothing is invincible
  2. Word processing / Text editor by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Interesting that they group word processing and text editing into the same category, when they are not at all the same thing...

    I mean, come on. Maybe next we can compare Mozilla to a telnet client. "I like the way that Mozilla renders the web pages with colors and images, while he seems to prefer the way he can actually see the html and perform the layout in his head..."

    Weird people.

  3. galeon, debian and antialiasing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    "I don't think anyone on the Debian project will get too upset if I point out that development on that distribution is fairly slow, and"

    "Thus far, Konqueror represents this the best, because of (here it comes again) the anti-aliased fonts. I mean, this isn't rocket science, people."

    Galeon in debian unstable has antialiased support. Same holds true with mozilla also. Does it prove both of you are wrong? Name a distribution which has antialiased binary available for galeon... Debian unstable is more stable that any of the redhat releases ...