Linux Journal Readers' Choice Awards Announced 257
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."
Now that they love us... (Score:4, Funny)
Here go the browser wars...! (Score:1, Offtopic)
I just switched from Mozilla mail to KMail after Mozilla lost my entire configuration and insisted on creating a new profile every time I launched it.
Didn't try Evolution...
Re:Here go the browser wars...! (Score:2)
finally (Score:1)
Re:finally (Score:2)
Yep. emerge kde and go to bed.
You don't have to watch it actually compile, you know.
You also don't have to upgrade it every time a new ebuild comes out.
Freshmeat! (Score:3, Interesting)
Freshmeat [freshmeat.net] 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
Re:Freshmeat! (Score:2)
This is why I avoid freshmeat. (Score:2)
Because this project [freshmeat.net] is painfully insightful [unpythonic.net].
Freshmeat is 3rd. (Score:2)
For that matter, out of 6,588 votes, Slashdot beat LinuxFR (whatever that is) by only 343 votes -- a virtual tie.
--Richard
If you're converting from Outlook to Evolution.... (Score:5, Informative)
It works quite well; I was able to convert most of my data with it.
Re:If you're converting from Outlook to Evolution. (Score:2)
Invalid Results (Score:2)
Oh, and I demand a recount - they were using an inferior plurality tallying method. We all know that more people prefer emacs and it would have won if it's vote wasn't split between GNU emacs and Xemacs.
Re:Invalid Results (Score:3, Funny)
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!
Vile (Score:2)
And what about lemmy? (Score:2)
Re:Invalid Results (Score:2, Funny)
> 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
Re:Invalid Results (Score:3, Funny)
No, I'm a Slashdot reader. The Yello Face burns us.
Uhh what (Score:3, Funny)
Since when has Slashdot been a Linux website?
Re:Uhh what (Score:2)
Re:Uhh what (Score:2)
Re:Uhh what (Score:2)
You're new here, aren't you?
Re:Uhh what (Score:2)
Sir Haxalot's Latest 24 of 261 Comments
Yes.
Re:Uhh what (Score:2)
No suprises really.. (Score:2)
The "big three", OpenOffice, Mozilla, and KDE will probably continute to the most liked office suite, web browser, and desktop environment, respectively.
OpenOffice has won it since it's maturation, Mozilla since it's maturation (and the death of NS 4.7), and KDE has won it's category since 1999 (when the desktop environment category was introduced)
Audio player XMMS (Score:1)
I want the power and ease of use of RealOne, simple.
Re:Audio player XMMS (Score:2)
Anyone else moderately-to-extremely annoyed at how in the track info listing in "View File Info", the "Comment" field is rendered useless because (at least in ogg) xmms looks for a "=" to start the comment field, instead of the proper "COMMENT="? So I have to go someplace else just to load up the track and see who the fuck the violinist is on Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto. Is this an oversight that's never been fixed, or some bizarre "feature"?
It would also be nice if the play
Re:Audio player XMMS (Score:2)
Alright, that's one niggle gone.
Re:Audio player XMMS (Score:2)
xmms 1.2.7-r25, Gentoo (as new as it gets)
Re:Audio player XMMS (Score:2)
(iirc you want to NOT mount the cd, but still go to
Re:Audio player XMMS (Score:2)
You could also try Zinf. It also unlike XMMS at least makes an attempt to try to make navigating and organizing your music collection possible.
Re:Audio player XMMS (Score:2)
The development and maturation of xmms2 will hopefully fix that.
The good thing about winamp-style players is that they stay out of the way, without being too out of the way. Juk, for example, can sit in the systray as one icon. For me, this is too out of the way. If you bring up the real juk wi
Re:Audio player XMMS (Score:2)
I have looked at so many skins that I'm sick. You know what? They suck. Every one.
Oh, they're kewl and all, but there's not one that's pleasant to use.
In fact, the skins are so bad that they actually make XMMS suck a bit too, which is a pity.
BTW, I'm not going to make a skin myself. If making a functional skin is possible, don't you think it would have been done by now?
XMMS is an examp
Let the drink wars begin! (Score:2)
I see Mt. Dew as the drink of the programming generation...
I enjoy coffee. Mt. Dew improves the code.
(until you've had way too much... and at that time all code goes to sh!t. But, hey, that's life)
Davak
What? Vim? (Score:2)
Oh wait... I already use vim all the time. Ahem. Never mind me, carry on...
(Said firmly tongue-in-cheek, of course! Feel free to mod me down, now)
VIM? (Score:2)
Elvis (Score:2)
Re:Elvis (Score:2)
Re:VIM? (Score:2)
Re:VIM? (Score:2)
Dunno about that, but I'm probably the only person here who regularly uses Windows Notepad.
Does that run under Crossover?
Re:VIM? (Score:3, Informative)
Sweet. (Score:2)
Re:VIM? (Score:2)
I like PICO!
Alright so it's semi lame and I use vi 99% of the time, still I'd rather use pico. Why not? It works.
By the way...I'm hating going to the same school as an AC.
PS - How's the Drexel Shaft handling you? They lost my insurance registrationg for the 3rd time so far..
link (Score:2)
I've mirrored SlashDot before it gets Slashdotted (Score:5, Funny)
Odd mix. (Score:2)
Re:Odd mix. (Score:3, Insightful)
1. Exchange 2000 support
2. Client side IMAP filtering
But.. I'd probably switch to using kmail/kontact partially if it had HTML editing =)
what's the appeal of client-side IMAP filtering? (Score:2)
Re:what's the appeal of client-side IMAP filtering (Score:2)
Not that I'm speaking from experience. At all.
Re:what's the appeal of client-side IMAP filtering (Score:2)
If the client has a whole bunch of filtering built in, then, you have to synchronize across all the clients, which cancels out the original point.
The better solution would be to make a friendly GUI for procmail that any client can launch. Am I right?
Re:what's the appeal of client-side IMAP filtering (Score:2)
Completely. However since I don't have the understanding of procmail to do a good job of it, and don't have inclination to get one, client side filtering will have to do for now.
Re:Odd mix. (Score:2)
I could not find any references on the home page.
Re:Odd mix. (Score:2)
The next closest is probably GNOME 1.4.
It's a joke or what? (Score:2, Insightful)
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++!
Re:It's a joke or what? (Score:2)
C++ on UNIX-like systems has been on an uptake, and it's usage on large projects shows that it is good for maintainability and production of such projects.
Re:It's a joke or what? (Score:2)
However, gimp is nowhere near as large in terms of LOC as Mozilla or OOo is. If you want to compare something, use the Linux Kernel. It is pretty large in terms of LOC.
> that are prone to hard to find errors and dangerous errors
At least with C++, many people use smart pointers (like in boost) or smart/automatic memory management. Both Mozilla and KDE (not familiar with OOo, but I'm sure it does too) make extensive use of both of them.
Re:It's a joke or what? (Score:2)
Slashdot now gets /.'ed (Score:3, Funny)
Smooth move, Linux Journal.. (Score:2)
SCO had never heard of Debian before. Now that Debian is everyone's favourite distro, SCO will sue them too!
What about Favorite Linux Geek? (Score:2)
Here are some choices:
Re:What about Favorite Linux Geek? (Score:2)
Mozilla and Evolution (Score:2)
Other than Outlook integration, has anyone an opinion on Thunderbird's future compared to Evolution?
Re:Mozilla and Evolution (Score:2)
As for the Moz mail client, my biggest rave is it's junk mail filter. Other than that it's a very basic email client, certainly not as feature full as Evolution but it's well organized, easy to use, and it just works. If you're looking for calendaring functionality, you're not going to find it in Moz mail. There's another app that adds that called Calendar [mozilla.org] but I've never used it. Mind you, I've been usi
Re:Mozilla and Evolution (Score:2)
Oh, yeah, like Mozilla doesn't tell me what the temperature is. And every email app needs a calander or it just isn't an email app worth using.
I like 'em both (and use them both) but let's NOT encourage feature bloat any more than we have to.
--Richard
PS: That goes for Microsoft, too.
interesting "paradox" (Score:2, Interesting)
Do a lot of people run KDE, yet mostly use GTK+/GNOME apps then?
Why not postgresql? (Score:2, Insightful)
Emacs! (Score:5, Funny)
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!
Re:Emacs! (Score:2)
Emacs could actually win this one too (although still facetiously, but that fits in with the theme of your post, I gather :P). I only know this because i was browsing through O'Reilly's Learning GNU Emacs when I saw a picture of an ASCII-art "house", and looked on the previous page to find the section heading "Emacs Graphics Mode". Now I love emacs as much as the next man, but I think I speak for most of us when I say, "*shudder*"
Re:Emacs! (Score:2)
OK, so I don't... but you could if you wanted to and were insane enough to try.
Re:Emacs! (Score:2)
Re:Emacs! (Score:2)
Dude! -Bill
Re:you forgot... (Score:2)
they don't call it Eighteen Megabytes And Continually Swapping for nothing dude!
This List Is Horribly Incomplete! (Score:2)
Re:This List Is Horribly Incomplete! (Score:2)
Re:This List Is Horribly Incomplete! (Score:2)
And I still don't get why they dropped that poll option - just because Chris DiBona quit doesn't mean the new guy can't add in that one random option just for fun.
Favorite Portable Workstation ?? (Score:2)
Favorite Portable Workstation: QLI 15" AMD NOTEBOOKS
Since AMD laptops seem few and far between, I looked for some more info. It seems that QLI doesn't offer a 15" AMD option among the laptops they offer [qlilinuxpc.com]. The only AMD laptop they offer is 14.1" [qlilinuxpc.com], and if this is the one they meant, I have no idea why it would win. Other than the linux preinstall, it's totally undistinguished. The screen is 1024x768, has shared graphics memory, and the main memory runs at only 133MHz -- hardly a "workstation"
blah, KDE (Score:2)
Uh oh. (Score:2)
Looks like there's a bug in M-x stuff-ballot.
Actual Votes? (Score:2)
I'm not necessarily interested in what is most popular, but how popular it was and what it's runners-up were.
Eh... Rackspace? (Score:2)
Rackspace.com? Aren't they the ones that can't seem to keep spammers off their network? Or have they cleaned up their act?
Re:Eh... Rackspace? (Score:2)
Re:Favorite Instant-Messaging Client (Score:3, Informative)
Perhaps kopete will manage to win next year, once it's shipped as part of KDE 3.2 in a few months.
Re:Favorite Instant-Messaging Client (Score:2)
Re:Favorite Instant-Messaging Client (Score:2)
I rememeber old versions of MacICQ used to do what Kopete does now, and it was annoying as fuck. It should at least be an option.
Re:Favorite Instant-Messaging Client (Score:2)
Ah, wow.. I didn't even think about that. I doubt many other people will either, and assume that kopete doesn't support this.
Re:VIM best editor? (Score:2)
What do you use? SPF?
Come back when you've used EVE or pmate.
Re:VIM best editor? (Score:2)
That's exactly what I told my piano teacher.
Re:VIM best editor? (Score:2)
I don't care about the mainstream, ease of use or intuitiveness. Emacs is powerful, Vim is powerful, and that's why I use both.
Re:VIM best editor? (Score:2)
Re:VIM best editor? (Score:2)
I agree, but everyone else seems to want a touchpad on their laptop, or even carry around a mouse.
Re:VIM best editor? (Score:2)
The only "intuitive interface" is the nipple - everything else is learned.
Not true.
Even the nipple has to be learned. Ever watched a newborn trying to figure it out? Although the rooting and sucking reflexes are instinctive, it usually takes them two or three days to figure out how to set their mouth right and get a good grip.
Re:VIM best editor? (Score:2)
Re:VIM best editor? (Score:2)
Have we had this conversation before?
Not that I recall.
The fact that a newborn baby, a creatrure with no apparent intelligence
No apparent intelligence? You obviously haven't spent much time with infants; or else you haven't spent much time thinking about the massive complexity of the things they have to learn and understand. Recognizing faces, for example.
survival skills
The rooting and sucking reflexes, as well as a number of other instinctive abilities are survival skills.
or other self-de
Re:VIM best editor? (Score:2)
I haven't spent a ton of time with infants, but I used to be one. Anyway, we're talking about newborns, not infants in general. Neborns don't recognize faces or anything else for much longer than 3 days. But they figure out the nipple. There is really nothing else a ne
Re:VIM best editor? (Score:2)
It wouldn't take you (hopefully) 3 days to learn, It takes [someone] with virtually no skills for interfacing with the outside world (less than) 3 days to learn.
Which reinforces the point of the quote. "Intuition" is built from experience. The best definition of the word I've ever heard is "subconsciously applied experience". According to that, the nipple is non-intuitive by definition, because the infant *has* no relevant experience. (Note that it's not true that the newborn has no experience; they
Re:VIM best editor? (Score:2)
So? The benefit of an interface being intuitive only lasts till you need to do something non-intuitive in the first place. If, after that point, all you have is the ability to do intuitive things, you're screwed. WYSIAYG (What You See Is All You Get) syndrome.
If, on the other hand, you want to start getting useful and complex things done quickly, memorizing cryptic commands is your best bet. (Hello, Unix/Linux users?)
Case in poin
Re:VIM best editor? (Score:2)
There are *hundreds* of free text editors for GNU/Linux though, some of which are incredibly easy to use. Gedit, Scintilla, Glimmer, Anjuta, Pico, Nano, Jed are a few I can think of off the top of my head. The free Java editors work well too (Jedit, etc.).
The term you're looking for is... (Score:2)
TNG/Farscape slash
The FanFic part is implied by the "Slash" designation.
The ST: is implied if you only meant Star Trek, The Next Generation.
If you meant Classic Trek and Next Generation then you wanted to type:
TOS/TNG/Farscape slash
If you meant all Star Trek Shows:
ST(all)/Farscape Slash
or
ST(all)/FS slash
And of course if it was all about male on male dom on sub action:
ST(all)/FS slash Mm
Or all lesbian action with three subs and a dom:
ST(all)/FS slash Ffff
and if one of t
Re:Not A Linux Site (Score:2)
Anyway, being a "Linux site" doesn't have anything to do with being biased or not, it just means it covers Linux news.
Re:WARNING!!! ORIGINAL ARTICLE HACKED!!! (Score:2)
Favorite Office Program: CLIPPY
Re:kde and debian (Score:2)
It's still better than Gnome, though. By 'better', I mean 'doesn't crash when I click on things' and 'has more than a couple of customization options'.
Sid (Testing) has KDE 3
It's included on the Knoppix CD and it seems pretty stable from what little I've used it.