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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."
As a giant thank-you for picking Slashdot as fav discussion site, lets all go drop by their servers ;-)
Where is freshmeat?
Freshmeat has to be the most addicted, most refreshed site that I know of.
It's like crack knowing that you can go and get new, exciting, cutting-edge software... and hell, it's updated all day long.
I love slashdot... but I think freshmeat deserved a mention as well.
Davak
...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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Slashdot for favorite Linux web site
Since when has Slashdot been a Linux website?
I have over 70 freaks, do you?
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.
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All of this is so stereotypical...
VIM, C++, Coffee!?
It don't show what is good on linux, it just show what the wannabies think is good. Come on... C++!
And now, for the first time ever, Slashdot itself gets /.'ed by one of it's own stories.... shouldn't that cause a paradox that destroys the universe, like if Marty saw himself in Back to the Future 2?
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Yup, there are plenty of people using KDE and Evolution. Perhaps the upcoming release of KDE 3.2 along with Kontact will change that for some people. However, other people, like myself, will probably stick with Evolution for the following features:
1. Exchange 2000 support
2. Client side IMAP filtering
But.. I'd probably switch to using kmail/kontact partially if it had HTML editing =)
No, very few people prefer emacs, they just take up far more system resources than the vi/vim majority.
First round goes to the forces of light - the vi/vim camp!
No, I'm a Slashdot reader. The Yello Face burns us.
I ain't evil, I'm just good looking.
I find it interesting that in the application categories, GNOME/GTK+ apps won out (Mozilla (yes, it's GTK+ remember), Evolution, Gaim, GIMP, even XMMS (still! GStreamer/Rhythmbox has a long way to come yet)), while the favorite desktop was KDE...
Do a lot of people run KDE, yet mostly use GTK+/GNOME apps then?
Listening for the sound of the coming rain...
Most of time people select mysql. But postgresql is much more advance regarding to features, and not bad performance too....
Favorite editor: Emacs
Favorite email client: Emacs
Favorite web browser: Emacs
Favorite office suite: Emacs
Favorite IDE: Emacs
Favorite programming language: Emacs Lisp
Favorite IM client: Emacs
Favorite source browser: Emacs
Favorite FTP client: Emacs
Favorite filesystem browser: Emacs
Favorite shell: Emacs
Favorite psychotherapist: Emacs
Favorite HTML editor: Emacs
Favorite windowing system: Emacs
Favorite newsreader: Emacs
Favorite calendaring tool: Emacs
Favority blog tool: Emacs
Favorite graphics tool: Em...er...Gimp!
> We all know that more people prefer emacs and it would have won
.... Oh, am I
> if it's vote wasn't split between GNU emacs and Xemacs.
No, I'm afraid there are many who prefer vim. Some nonsense about
it taking less time to load (which is of course silly considering
you only ever need to load your editor after you upgrade it (or
upgrade your kernel)), or something about cursor-movement keys being
for wussies, or somesuch, or meaningless complaints about the default
key bindings being bad (well, of course the defaults are bad; that's
why you _change_ them...) -- you know how people are -- they prefer
what they're used to, and don't like to take the time to learn
something (e.g., lisp) even if it will ultimately save them lots
of time. So it doesn't surprise me that vim is more popular than
Emacs. Heck, C is more popular than Perl, too; that doesn't make
it better. Back in my day, we didn't tolerate such whining and
infighting; all we had was software we wrote with our own hands in
binary using vacuum tubes, and we _appreciated_ it, because we knew
where we came from and understood discipline and
rambling? Let me tell you about rambling, sonny, why, when I was
a young whippersnapper...
Cut that out, or I will ship you to Norilsk in a box.
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.)