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Linux Journal Readers' Choice Awards Announced
aws4y writes "Linux Journal is reporting the results of its readers choice awards, among the winners are Slashdot for favorite Linux web site, Debian for favorite distro, Evolution for favorite email client and VIM for favorite editor."
...you'll find Outport very handy (here's a screenshot).
It works quite well; I was able to convert most of my data with it.
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Kopete has a much nicer interface than Gaim, but over the last year, it's been horribly immature compared to Gaim. Gaim, on the other hand, is extremely mature. It's been aroun d for 5 years.
Perhaps kopete will manage to win next year, once it's shipped as part of KDE 3.2 in a few months.
Yeah, KDE is an extremely mature desktop environment compared to GNOME, but it's app are extremely immature compared to their their non-kde equivalents:
Let's compare:
mozilla -> konqueror.. konqueror has gotten a lot better recently in kde 3.2-alpha, but it's still probably more immature than Mozilla.
evolution -> kmail.. again, kmail has gotten a lot more mature with kontact in kde 3.2-alpha, but it's still immature compared to kontact.
gaim -> kopete.. once again, kopete will be shipped as part of kde 3.2, but large architectural changes within the last year have caused lots of instability in kopete. it finally seems to be stabalizing now.
gimp -> krita.. the predecessor to krita, krayon (changed name due to trademark issues), was actually a quite usable app. However, krita's whole architecture was changed, and then the developer working on the architectural changes had to stop working on it for real life issues. it left krita without any usable tools and with no developers.
XMMS -> noatun.. I love KDE, but for kde4, noatun/arts has to go. It just sits there, taking 20% of my CPU by doing software mixing, even while properly configured to use ALSA. I'd rather take xmms, using 1% of my CPU, hardware mixing by my sblive drivers.
So yes, I've used KDE since GNOME 2.0 was released (I used GNOME 1.4 before that, but GNOME 2.x is pathetic), and have always used a bunch of non-kde apps. It's fine.
PICO? Please say you meant GNU nano (which is the default editor for Debian and has the same functionality as PICO without the onerous license.)