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Linux Journal Editors Choice Awards
An anonymous reader dropped a note in to say that the Linux Journal Editors Choice Awards have been announced. No real surprises in the list, except maybe giving RSS the award for best game.
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Even for Windows, Firefox is awesome... I left Netscape at version 6.0 (you know, the one with a ton of AOL bloat), and now it's the first time that I feel that a browser can compete with Explorer. It's fast, customizable, cute, compatible... and the extensions thing is just a greaaaaaat idea! Tabbed browsing is also the best thing since sliced bread...
:)
GG for the win!
I didn't checked the other awards, not being a Linux guy... (at least, not for now!)
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You might want to consider voting for Ceren on the poll attached to the first post above.
I find that RSS is inconsistent and a constant challenge.
Yum, how many different implementations of RSS can YOU deal with? It is, in fact, a game.
[If you've never implemented a client, don't bother replying.]
Thanks dude. I shall include a link to this poll in future Ceren posts.
aw cmon, mod this up!
Yesh! It's not every day we see a poll which doesn't include "sex with a mare".
Says a lot about the state of games on Linux. It'd be like IRC being named favorite word processor.
RSS isn't a game. The best Linux game is Freeciv.. Period.
I've never heard of it before. Anybody want to weigh in on how it compares to Audacity whilst I download?
I've been using ClamAV now for a while, and it does a good job.
For my mail server, I use Qmail-Scanner, which does a very good job. Older versions had some issues with funky/broken MIME messages, but they seem to have been mostly resolved.
From Article-
"Any hardware whose speed gets compared to greased rodents is at least worthy of an honorable mention, and Greg Kroah-Hartman made that comparison in his vote for the dual-processor version of the Apple Power Mac G5, which is one Linux install away from being a great system. "It's fast, quiet and pretty to look at. With full 64-bit goodness for a very cheap price, what's not to like?" he wrote. "
One linux install away? I realize this is the linux editors journal, but what about having OSX installed doesnt make it a gre
at system?
"Greg Kroah-Hartman made that comparison in his vote for the dual-processor version of the Apple Power Mac G5, which is one Linux install away from being a great system."
The G5 is already a great system, out of the box.
Uhm, actually, this should probably be moderated flamebait, allthough the poster might not be intentionally trolling.... :-)
Employee of Inrupt, Project Release Manager and Community Manager for Solid
Graphics Software: The GIMP
Is anybody else unhappy with some of the changes in GIMP2? For me, several useful things have disappeared (like ctrl-T to hide the layer's borders, now it's something else and I have to go in the menu), of the fact that the "anti" tool key modifier is now ALT and not SHIFT anymore (apart for the magnifier, go figure...) and so it creates problems with KDE, it doesn't save the tablet's device status,... the list is endless.
All in all, I wonder why they voted GIMP. It's become less good and less usable than GIMP1, and certainly less than Photoshop overall anyway.
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
The obvious choice... I mean, were there any other commercial games released this year for Linux?
Meh.
Yes! I have a Thinkpad T41, and it's what dreams are made of. I will never own another brand of laptop again.
The box runs linux great, there is a great thinkpad linux mailing list, the battery life is amazing and it's fast as hell.
Good choice linux journal...
cuban
The ThinkPad T41 is currently priced at $2,522.13 . They couldn't find another laptop that is more cost effective than that? One of the benefits of Linux is first the OS is free, but also it doesn't require the Spartan hardware of Windows. For $2,522.13 I could simple get one of these and not worry about getting sound drivers etc. to work.
Bull. There's nothing older; a friend invited me to join friendster, and my first comment to her was:
"Jesus Christ, it's high school, all over again."
It's an electronic popularity contest, with a little bit of recruitment thrown in. Most of us sit on the sidelines and watch as the really popular people amass a huge collection of friends.
Not surprisingly, a huge number of these young 20-somethings were from NYC, and almost all of them were exactly the type I can't stand- drunk-every-night clubbers. My personal favorite was some rich-bitch french girl who was almost completely naked in all of her shots on some beach. Her profile was truly a piece of work. Example: "Things I enjoy: Not having to work. Ever."
Friendster attracts the biggest concentration of intellectual-stuck-ups, prisses, and vanity-obsessed people I've seen in my life. Given Orkut is higher profile and more exclusive, I would imagine it's even worse.
Please help metamoderate.
URL?
All I know is, pictures of Ceren always make me happy that I'm married! I'll burn karma, I don't care, she's awful. /me shivers and says "UGGGGGH!!!"
CB
free ipod and free gmail!
the MySQL team is making impressive inroads, and I expect to see them close the gap with PostgreSQL in the coming years
He should take a look at the list of new features in the upcoming version of PostgreSQL which includes savepoints, point in time recovery, tablespaces and a bunch of smaller stuff. Meanwhile, MySQL folks are still struggling with some features which were supported by Postgres almost a decade ago. I'd say the gap is getting bigger, not smaller. Much bigger!
Sure, MySQL is great for what it's used for most, but I don't think it is getting anywhere near being a heavyweight database engine. It does make a nice retrieve-by-id shortcut for displaying web page content, though.
Wow. Isn't it strange how totally different peoples' tastes can be?
I think Ceren is one of the cutest girls I've ever seen.
Congratulations to GnuCash on winning the "Desktop Software" category.
Nice to see some recognition for one of the most unglamorous and underappreciated of all the major free software projects. Originally a Quicken user, I started feeling disempowered by its mandatory activation/registration (in the Australian edition) and reports from other users that the next version displayed advertising (of Quicken's services). It made me angry enough to search for alternatives, and I was sufficently motivated to create a partition for GNU/Linux specifically so that I could use GnuCash once a week. Not something I'd expect Joe User to do, but experienced Windows tinkerers like myself can certainly handle it, and the experience will also make my eventual switch to Linux easier. I've seen where Windows and proprietary software is pushing the industry (toward DRM, software patents, more products needing activation, etc.) and I don't like it one bit. But I digress...
I would like to comment that GnuCash is frequently criticised as being too difficult for personal finances because of the "double-entry" system it uses. People who don't know better see the words "double entry" and the first thing they think (incorrectly) is "WTF, I have to enter each transaction TWICE?!". Please stop scaring people away with this FUD because, in a practical sense, GnuCash's double-entry foundation is of little consequence to former users of Quicken or similar programs. All it means is that everything that Quicken calls a "category" is an "account" instead. The power of the centuries old accounting practice is there if you need it, but in day to day use there's hardly a difference. Some people believe that GnuCash is more difficult to use than Quicken, but this has more to do with others things (perhaps its interface and the fact that it's also intended to cater to business users).
Thinkpads and Powerbooks are the top-of-the-line laptops available today. Period. Which you go for is substantially a matter of taste, but my brother (who bought a powerbook) has been coveting my thinkpad T40 (third thinkpad model I've owned) more than a little lately, OSX notwithstanding.
when did we start seeing LICENSE fanboys? /must be getting old
Its just faster that PostgreSQL
Proof, please.
it's release on GPL instead of the BSD license
Ignorance. An end-user doesn't care. BSD is so much freer that you can just take the BSD code, GPL it, add your changes and require that any other changes (to your modifications) be GPL'd.
Does anyone have insight as to why Bitkeeper was chosen over Subversion? This surprised me; am I the only one?
What the hell are you talking about?
GPL instead of the BSD license
Funny how MySQL releases even the client libraries as GPL instead of LGPL.
That means you can't even ship your non-GPL product with MySQL support unless you buy a commercial license from MySQL AB. Commercial databases such as Oracle don't even have this restriction!
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Come on... I mean, who can resist these eyes?
Our editors are all business and turned up their noses at selecting favorite games. These are the kind of people you want to hire to roll out your company desktop systems.
Translation:
"We didn't want to do any research. That doesn't make us bad journalists... does it??
I'll offer this comment about Ardour; I'm the author of Postfish, Ogg and a regular contributor to Audacity. I've been hearing good thigns about Ardour for more than a year and have thus tried repeatedly to try it out.
a) No manual. No usable manual anyway. I know no one who uses it, so I have no 'live' manual to get me going either. Lots of apps don't have good manuals, but this goes along with b...
b) 'Angry fruit salad' user interface. Lots of functionality [apparently] brilliantly obfuscated by a million buttons in every imaginable color grouped randomly with no real UI intuitiveness to make up for the missing manual. I'm no newbie to pro audio; recording and mastering soundtrack CDs for local theatre groups is one of my pasttimes. But I cannot figure out how to even get started. I spend about an hour on step one every couple of months and have never succeeded in getting it to do anything with the 400G of raw digital audio sitting on my box.
The end result is that I've been unable to figure out how to find the most rudimentary starting-out functions. I already have all my audio; Ardour is too heavy to run on my portable recording boxes-- I have beaverphonic already doing my HD recording for the past several years-- so how do I do anything using Ardour with audio I already have? The manual's tutorials all begin with 'press the record button...' The FAQ says I can use it with my recordings, but the UI and manual conspire to convince me none of that functionality actually exists.
All this *is* a flame-- Ardour is supposedly good software but all it's done is waste my time and for that reason I'm annoyed-- but it's also a genuine request of the Ardour authors to help out all us poor folks that aren't Ardour hackers to get started. I'd love to see what this package can do and give it a fair shake.
Monty
Thank you Paul for your hard work on Ardour. I wish you good luck in evolving your UI into a nicer package. The low end infrastructure / architecture is always the easy part. A nice friendly UI is the hard part. It will be interesting watching your progress. Which leads me to ...
... And many of these are lesser quality clones at that.
Compare the screenshots of Ardour to Protools.
As a Linux desktop user I am concerned about the future and prosperity of the Linux desktop. It seems that free software can't create much truly original work. For example: Evolution is a clone of Outlook. Gimp is a clone of Photoshop. Octave is a clone of Matlab. Open Office is a clone of Microsoft Office. Ardour is a clone of Protools, Nuendo, and Samplitude.
This isn't a slam since I personally love using these Linux programs but it is troubling nonetheless. How can the Linux software world hope to compete with the Microsoft world when it's most popular apps are just clones?
Is originality even important anymore?
I think we can do better.
... and also note that mysql wants to charge you a fee if you use it in your business (if it ever makes a difference in your revenue) regardless of whether or not you want support.
... and you are free to make non-gpl apps with support for these databases (and even include a copy of the db installer too) even in corporate settings. I suppose the mysql-killer would be a featureless version of either of these db's -- faster, less sane, but still free ...
postgresql and firebird are both free for personal -and- corporate use, as I recall. they're both slower for the sorts of things mysql users usually want (retrieve by id, grab entire slice of the db to post-process in app code), but both enforce constraints, have stored procedures, good transaction handling (a comment above says postgres is getting savepoints, firebird already has savepoints; postgres is also from the looks of it getting nested transactions which firebird isn't), etc
I am a subscriber of the magazine and frankly found their choice of "game" abysmal since what they chose is not a game, no matter how they want to spin it.
I think Linux game developpers, that are fighting one of the most ungrateful tasks to make a Linux desktop a reality, should not be thrilled by being blantantly ignored by people that are suppossed to be knowledgable about Linux.
If the LJ editors do not use games, then the honorable choice would have been to either not to give an award or to delegate the selection on people knowledgable about this field.
Of all the possible choices they took the worst: to insult the intelligence of their readers and of Linux game developpers.
IANAL but write like a drunk one.
Amazing they didn't pick one of the "Linux Certified" models like the LC2430. I would have figured a better standing for a company that specializes in Linux Laptops instead of just one that you can install Linux on.
No todo lo que es oro brilla
The greatest Graphics Software this year, is not "The GIMP", it's KolourPaint! Alias Microsoft Paint KDE clone.
Well, even if you're dissatisfied with some new things in The GIMP, is there an alternative you'd prefer? Even if it isn't perfect, it still could be (is) the best option available.
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