Midnight Commander (type mc to start it) is definitely the best non graphical interface. It's the only one that I know of in Linux where you can use the mouse (with gpm running) in the console under Linux to make selections (i.e. click on options) rather than just select text.
When I started with Linux in 1995 I was really impressed with its interface and nothing on the console has bettered it.
As for Emacs, you have to be joking. I like Emacs as an editor but the interface has a lot to be desired, you can't call it intuitive.
Pine's interface is easy to use but not as good as the Midnight Commander. --
DBI has to be the one to vote for as without it life would be difficult for many websites that rely on a database to generate content or to store data (Slashdot is among them and so are most e commerce sites). Without DBI the Internet would not be the same. --
I'm voting for XFree86 because I believe this project to be vital to the mainstream acceptance of Linux and other intel based UNIXes in general. Most applications run in a GUI, whatever desktop environments/window managers are used have to run on top of X and then the applications run on top of the window managers. Therefore we need a firm foundation and XFree86 4.0 looks like it will offer that. If this money can assist the development of 4.0 can be enhanced by a financial contribution then that's great. --
To answer who's the best advocate is an impossible question, all these advocates have very strong views on the subject and therefore RMS may encourage certain types of people to use free software (people concerned with freedom and liberty) but will put off other types of people (who consider him communist). Some of Eric Raymonds views and Bruce Perens views are very different as well. I suppose it's a matter of the right advocate for the job! I think I'd better abstain from this one. --
I think having first class USB support in the kernel is particularly important particularly since many peripherals are now USB since the launch of Win98, this trend will continue with Win2K.
So thanks must go to the developers on the USB kernel modules. --
Midnight Commander (type mc to start it) is definitely the best non graphical interface. It's the only one that I know of in Linux where you can use the mouse (with gpm running) in the console under Linux to make selections (i.e. click on options) rather than just select text.
When I started with Linux in 1995 I was really impressed with its interface and nothing on the console has bettered it.
As for Emacs, you have to be joking. I like Emacs as an editor but the interface has a lot to be desired, you can't call it intuitive.
Pine's interface is easy to use but not as good as the Midnight Commander. --
At the beginning of 1999 the Mozilla project decided to take a bold move and ditch most of the old Netscape Communicator code and rewrite the rendering engine from scratch making standards compliance number one priority.
The project suffered some setbacks, including the leaving of a key employee Jamie Zawinski. The press often made the Mozilla project sound like it was going nowhere but despite the negative press AOL/Netscape continues to fund the development and we're nearly approaching beta.
The project is the only one in the list that works on Multiple platforms. This is an open source product many Windows users will use as well as Linux, Mac, FreeBSD, etc. Writing a cross platform program can be difficul but Mozilla has done well
Mozilla is often the project that companies look to judge the success of open source. We have to show these companies that Mozilla is a success by raising the profile of the project
Yet another open source game release and hopefully there'll be more to follow. It's good to see companies doing this as they're not making money off the code anymore and it provides interesting projects for people to work on. --
If RMS doesn't seem worried then why should any of us?
Richard Stallman is one of the biggest advocates of Free Software and if there was any problem with the licence then you can be sure that he'd be going to get the problem fixed straight away. However as you've seen by his posts on the mailing list he doesn't see this as a threat and has explained his view on the subject.
Open source software will always be the quickest for bugfixes assuming that the software is currently being actively maintained. As the source is there it just means that anyone with the ability is able to provide patches to fix the bugs so even if the original writers of the software are to give up on the project some one else can come along and fix the bugs. With closed source software you don't have that option and you are therefore reliant on the vendor fixing the bugs, if they don't fix them they never get fixed. --
I've been using Mozilla all the time lately. I downloaded the M12 release and started using that. I became so impressed that I now use the nightly builds. The more people using and testing the better. If you're running on of the less peopular platforms certainly consider running mozilla as there's less people to report bugs for your platform. If you're running on a platform where mozilla doesn't run consider helping get the program to run on your platform often this won't involve too much effort as a lot of the code is cross platform. Help whatever way you can and we'll be rewarded with an excellent browser. --
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The last Mozilla build on BeOS was M8 which is a fairly old build now. I don't know what the current state of BeOS development is.
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Midnight Commander (type mc to start it) is definitely the best non graphical
interface. It's the only one that I know of in Linux where you can use the mouse
(with gpm running) in the console under Linux to make selections (i.e. click on
options) rather than just select text.
When I started with Linux in 1995 I was really impressed with its interface and
nothing on the console has bettered it.
As for Emacs, you have to be joking. I like Emacs as an editor but the interface has
a lot to be desired, you can't call it intuitive.
Pine's interface is easy to use but not as good as the Midnight Commander.
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DBI has to be the one to vote for as without it life would be difficult for many websites that rely on a database to generate content or to store data (Slashdot is among them and so are most e commerce sites). Without DBI the Internet would not be the same.
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I'm voting for XFree86 because I believe this project to be vital to the mainstream acceptance of Linux and other intel based UNIXes in general. Most applications run in a GUI, whatever desktop environments/window managers are used have to run on top of X and then the applications run on top of the window managers. Therefore we need a firm foundation and XFree86 4.0 looks like it will offer that. If this money can assist the development of 4.0 can be enhanced by a financial contribution then that's great.
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To answer who's the best advocate is an impossible question, all these advocates have very strong views on the subject and therefore RMS may encourage certain types of people to use free software (people concerned with freedom and liberty) but will put off other types of people (who consider him communist). Some of Eric Raymonds views and Bruce Perens views are very different as well. I suppose it's a matter of the right advocate for the job! I think I'd better abstain from this one.
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So thanks must go to the developers on the USB kernel modules.
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When I started with Linux in 1995 I was really impressed with its interface and nothing on the console has bettered it.
As for Emacs, you have to be joking. I like Emacs as an editor but the interface has a lot to be desired, you can't call it intuitive.
Pine's interface is easy to use but not as good as the Midnight Commander.
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Yet another open source game release and hopefully there'll be more to follow. It's good to see companies doing this as they're not making money off the code anymore and it provides interesting projects for people to work on.
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If RMS doesn't seem worried then why should any of us?
Richard Stallman is one of the biggest advocates of Free Software and if there was any problem with the licence then you can be sure that he'd be going to get the problem fixed straight away. However as you've seen by his posts on the mailing list he doesn't see this as a threat and has explained his view on the subject.
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Open source software will always be the quickest for bugfixes assuming that the software is currently being actively maintained. As the source is there it just means that anyone with the ability is able to provide patches to fix the bugs so even if the original writers of the software are to give up on the project some one else can come along and fix the bugs. With closed source software you don't have that option and you are therefore reliant on the vendor fixing the bugs, if they don't fix them they never get fixed.
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I've been using Mozilla all the time lately. I downloaded the M12 release and started using that. I became so impressed that I now use the nightly builds. The more people using and testing the better. If you're running on of the less peopular platforms certainly consider running mozilla as there's less people to report bugs for your platform. If you're running on a platform where mozilla doesn't run consider helping get the program to run on your platform often this won't involve too much effort as a lot of the code is cross platform. Help whatever way you can and we'll be rewarded with an excellent browser.
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