Linux Journal Announces Winners of 8th Annual Readers' Choice Awards
October 15th, 2002 by Rebecca Cassity in
Linux Journal has announced the winners of the 2002 Readers' Choice Awards. Almost 6,000 Linux Journal readers visited the Linux Journal web site and voted on their top choices in 25 categories. For more information on the winners, please see the feature article in the November issue of Linux Journal (#103), now on newsstands.
Favorite Distribution | Mandrake Linux |
Favorite Graphics Program | The GIMP |
Favorite Word Processor | OpenOffice |
Favorite Text Editor | Vim |
Favorite Desktop Environment | KDE |
Favorite Office Suite | OpenOffice |
Favorite Programming Language | C |
Favorite Development Tool | GCC |
Favorite Shell | bash |
Favorite Linux Journal Column | Cooking with Linux |
Favorite Processor Architecture | AMD Athlon |
Favorite Communication Board | Cyclades |
Favorite Database | MySQL |
Favorite Backup Utility | tar |
Favorite Programming Beverage | Coffee |
Favorite Linux Game | Quake III |
Favorite Web Browser | Mozilla |
Favorite Linux Web Site | Slashdot |
Favorite E-mail Client | KMail |
Favorite Instant-Messaging Client | gaim |
Favorite Distributed File Sharing System | Gnutella |
Most Indispensable Linux Book | Linux in a Nutshell, by Ellen Siever |
Favorite Ad Filtering Tool | Junkbuster |
Favorite Embedded Distribution | MontaVista Linux |
Favorite Audio Tool | xmms |
Linux Journal's annual Readers' Choice Awards allow members of the Linux community to pick their favorites from a variety of options in a number of categories. Write-in votes also are accepted in every category. Voting in the 2002 Readers' Choice Awards took place between July 15 and August 12, 2002, and was open to everyone.
Rebecca Cassity is the GM of Linux Journal
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Re: Linux Journal Announces Winners of 8th Annual Readers' Choic
On October 21st, 2002 Anonymous says:
Why I don't find the category "Media Player"?!
I suggest MPlayer
http://mplayer.hu
Re: Linux Journal Announces Winners of 8th Annual Readers' Choic
On October 21st, 2002 Anonymous says:
I just don't know why MPlayer isn't here. MPlayer is the most versatile program of the GNU/Linux world! Plays almost every video format, has support to most of the codecs of the market. Actually, MPlayer doesn't even have another program to compare, be it in the free or the closed market!
MPlayer r0x!!!
Bernardo Silveira
bernardojts@ig.com.br
Re: Linux Journal Announces Winners of 8th Annual Readers' Choic
On October 21st, 2002 Anonymous says:
Favorite Word Processor OpenOffice
Methought that writer was a wordprocessor and OpenOffice was a Suite consisting of a Word processor,a spreadsheet, a presentation creator, etc.
Re: Linux Journal Announces Winners of 8th Annual Readers' Choic
On October 21st, 2002 Anonymous says:
Hey! You forgot one: favourite distributed filesystem: AFS
(NB there is a subtle difference between gnutella-type filesharing and
distributed filesystem)
AFS
On October 30th, 2002 Anonymous says:
Do you mean AFS over intranet (private nets) or internet
(insecure net)?
Did you considered SFS?
Re: Linux Journal Announces Winners of 8th Annual Readers' Choic
On October 18th, 2002 Anonymous says:
Best Text Editor: Vi
Because you have not used Emacs!
Re: Linux Journal Announces Winners of 8th Annual Readers' Choic
On October 19th, 2002 Anonymous says:
Not Vi, but Vim. Not the same. And I tried Emacs, but ran back to the good Vim! Vim forever!
Re: Linux Journal Announces Winners of 8th Annual Readers' Choic
On October 23rd, 2002 Anonymous says:
Emacs is a decent OS, but it lacks a good text editor.
Vim, on the other hand, is a good text editor.
_lean_and_mean
Re: Linux Journal Announces Winners of 8th Annual Readers' Choic
On January 2nd, 2003 Anonymous says:
Great! I am considering using it as my signature ;-)
Re: Linux Journal Announces Winners of 8th Annual Readers' Choic
On November 13th, 2002 Anonymous says:
That's just awesome. I'm still laughing.
Re: Linux Journal Announces Winners of 8th Annual Readers' Choic
On October 18th, 2002 Anonymous says:
U are so right
VI IS GAY
and what is with KDE and KMAIL, they are horrible!!!!!! blackbox and pine for me
Re: Linux Journal Announces Winners of 8th Annual Readers' Choic
On October 18th, 2002 Anonymous says:
vi rules, and ICEWM is betther than blackbox
Re: Linux Journal Announces Winners of 8th Annual Readers' Choic
On October 18th, 2002 Anonymous says:
Better:
Beacause you are afraid of Emacs >-]
Re: Linux Journal Announces Winners of 8th Annual Readers' Choic
On October 17th, 2002 Anonymous says:
Wow! I couldn't have written a worse line up. Mandrake? Slashdot? Kmail? Sheesh. Probably explains why I don't read linux journal. Couldn't agree less.
Re: Linux Journal Announces Winners of 8th Annual Readers' Choic
On October 17th, 2002 Anonymous says:
nah... the only problem is that mandrake is #1. gentoo should be #1 and mandrake should be #2. other than that, this line up would make a most excellent system :)
Re: Linux Journal Announces Winners of 8th Annual Readers' Choic
On October 18th, 2002 nDiScReEt (not verified) says:
Depends on if you compute in ease of use. Show me a newbie that can follow the directions from beginning to end and I will consider your argument valid. A system with the ability to totally optimize every program is without question, a great asset to any distribution, but without ease of use from installation to playing with the various applications subtracts from it's overall value. I too love gentoo but I don't think many newbies can successfully install gentoo their first time. I can't get any of the ones I know to even look at it they were so "frightened" by the console and terminal interface. Poor M$ user drones.
Re: Linux Journal Announces Winners of 8th Annual Readers' Choic
On October 23rd, 2002 Anonymous says:
I reeeeally want the features Gentoo has, but I'm simply put off by even looking at the installation-guide. But it looks like it's really rockin' !
If only the Gentoo people could create some kind of image that had a friendly GUI installer, so us Linux-newbies could try it out too, without all the hassle.
It IS possible to have a technologically advanced and still user-friendly distro :)
Re: Linux Journal Announces Winners of 8th Annual Readers' Choic
On October 17th, 2002 Anonymous says:
nah vim instead of emacs outrageous!
Re: Linux Journal Announces Winners of 8th Annual Readers' Choic
On October 19th, 2002 Anonymous says:
GNU Emacs is clearly the product of a deranged mind, designed primarily to induce RSI in those unfortunate enough to fall into its trap. It is also a massively bloated monstrosity that is the antithesis of the UNIX philosophy.
In contrast to Emacs, vi is a simple and elegant editor that perfectly fits the UNIX philosophy of specific tools for particular tasks. It moreover can be used without contorting the hands into unnatural positions.
Vim is essentially a better (if larger) vi, which keeps with the spirit of the UNIX philosophy. It is easy to learn, but the power of its regular expressions is very deep, allowing virtually any text-editing task to be easily done.
Re: Linux Journal Announces Winners of 8th Annual Readers' Choic
On October 17th, 2002 Anonymous says:
Does this mean that we'll see Mandrake finally mentioned more often in Linux Journals, or is it going to be the usual RedHat and SuSe story in the future?
For example, I just LOVE this story:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6361
The article discusses two Linux distributions, Red Hat, the best known, and SuSE, the most technologically advanced.
Wonder how come so many people use Mandrake then? Must be because of all these nice words they found about it in Linux Journal *cough*...
Re: Linux Journal Announces Winners of 8th Annual Readers' Choic
On October 23rd, 2002 Anonymous says:
s/Mandrake/Mandrake and KDE/
They are so pathetically biased you'd think RMS review each and every article...
Re: Linux Journal Announces Winners of 8th Annual Readers' Choic
On October 17th, 2002 Anonymous says:
I was taking it all very seriously until I read "Favorite Linux Web Site - Slashdot".
Re: Linux Journal Announces Winners of 8th Annual Readers' Choic
On October 17th, 2002 Anonymous says:
That shouldn't put you off. Even programmers need comedy once in a while :)
Why so short and dry ?
On October 16th, 2002 Anonymous says:
Dear Rebecca
Last year the results were announced with much more detail,
the winner, second and third in each category were mentioned,
and comments were made where appropriate. What happened
this year ?.
Cheers
:-)
Re: Why so short and dry ?
On October 17th, 2002 Anonymous says:
The full article with all the winners and reasons appears in the November 2002 issue.
Heather Mead
Senior Editor
Linux Journal
Re: Why so short and dry ?
On October 28th, 2002 Anonymous says:
SO, buy the mag to see the article? NOT!
Re: Why so short and dry ?
On October 17th, 2002 Anonymous says:
Dear Heather
Thanks a lot for the answer, looking forward for
the article !!!
Re: Linux Journal Announces Winners of 8th Annual Readers' Choic
On October 16th, 2002 Anonymous says:
Favorite Linux GameQuake III ... hmmmmmm
and frozen-bubble !!!
http://www.frozen-bubble.org
DaCorse.
Re: Linux Journal Announces Winners of 8th Annual Readers' Choic
On November 6th, 2002 Anonymous says:
Frozen-bubble & mandrake - vive the french way of linux!
Re: Linux Journal Announces Winners of 8th Annual Readers' Choic
On October 18th, 2002 Anonymous says:
no, it sucks!
it doesn't have a Network mode yet!
Re: Linux Journal Announces Winners of 8th Annual Readers' Choic
On October 16th, 2002 Anonymous says:
Favorite CD-Burn program? I nominate K3B....
Re: Linux Journal Announces Winners of 8th Annual Readers' Choic
On October 22nd, 2002 Anonymous says:
Well, while I think it's a pretty piece of software, I think thed nominations should be desktop-independent.
I nominate xcdroast.
Re: Linux Journal Announces Winners of 8th Annual Readers' Choic
On February 22nd, 2003 Anonymous says:
Eroast. You will be amazed. :)
Re: Linux Journal Announces Winners of 8th Annual Readers' Choic
On October 17th, 2002 Anonymous says:
YUp I do agree that K3B is really excellent
after trying almost all of them
k3b is really the easiest and the one I use now on a daily basis
I use to use xcdroast, then gcombust then kreatecd but moved to k3b ( Istill have kreatecd and cdbakeoven just in case)
C.
Re: Linux Journal Announces Winners of 8th Annual Readers' Choic
On October 16th, 2002 Anonymous says:
"Favorite Desktop Environment KDE
...
Favorite Programming Language C"
So KDE is programmed in C, right?
:))
On October 17th, 2002 Anonymous says:
I am laughing so hard I can barely type this! :)
Re: :))
On December 6th, 2002 Anonymous says:
glad to see you are happy :-p
Re: Linux Journal Announces Winners of 8th Annual Readers' Choic
On October 16th, 2002 Anonymous says:
Well, since KDE is built on the QT library, which is a C++ library, and KDE is programmed in C++, and C is a subset of C++, then I suppose that some of KDE is programmed in C. Why the question?
Re: Linux Journal Announces Winners of 8th Annual Readers' Choic
On October 28th, 2002 Anonymous says:
C has been around a lot longer than C++. C is not a subset of C++.
Re: Linux Journal Announces Winners of 8th Annual Readers' Choic
On November 2nd, 2002 Anonymous says:
With functionality in mind, C is a subset of C++, because C++ lets you do anything C does, but not vice versa.
Re: Linux Journal Announces Winners of 8th Annual Readers' Choic
On November 7th, 2002 Anonymous says:
For those not familiar with the inner workings of compilers,
C is NOT a subset of C++.
Even worse, C++ is nothing more than a programmer friendly extension to C. Most people don't know this, but when you compile a C++ program, one of the compilation phases translates C++ into plain C, and then compiles the plain C into assembly code and then into executable code.
So, basically, C++ is more like a mere extension of C
Re: Linux Journal Announces Winners of 8th Annual Readers' Choic
On November 8th, 2002 Anonymous says:
Wrong. I'm not sure which compilers you are referring too, but MS Visual Studio, GCC, Borland, and Metrowerks compilers all compile directly.
Also, saying that C++ is just an extension to C is similar to very similar to saying that C is just "a programmer friendly extension' to assembler
Re: Linux Journal Announces Winners of 8th Annual Readers' Choic
On July 14th, 2003 Anonymous says:
He's actually kind of right. Uptill GCC 3.0 it was turned into a blob of C code. 3.0 Made got ride of the nasty hack which is why it broke some things and fixed alot of problems all at at once
Re: Linux Journal Announces Winners of 8th Annual Readers' Choic
On March 23rd, 2003 Anonymous says:
Hahaha all languages are just programmer friendly ways of writing machine code ;o)
Re: Linux Journal Announces Winners of 8th Annual Readers' Choic
On November 13th, 2002 Anonymous says:
Ditto.
AND
If you've ever worked on/maintained a large project in C++, you thank Bjarne for the fact that it's object oriented (or object based or whatever), and not procedural C, instead of getting all snotty about which one was made first.
Didn't this start as a joke? Favourite language C. favourite environment NOT written in C: KDE.
Re: Linux Journal Announces Winners of 8th Annual Readers' Choic
On October 17th, 2002 Anonymous says:
Cough... ballot stuffing... cough.
The KDE project is famous for whipping up its zealots into frenzy of web voting (see dot.kde.org). I wouldn't trust these results any more than I'd trust, say, the Florida presidential election results.
Re: Linux Journal Announces Winners of 8th Annual Readers' Choic
On November 7th, 2002 Anonymous says:
This guy obviously works on the gnome project or is associated with it in some way. KDE is the way to go...
Re: Linux Journal Announces Winners of 8th Annual Readers' Choic
On November 5th, 2002 Ludootje (not verified) says:
That's the dumbest comment I ever read. KDE isn't 'famous for whipping up its zealots into frenzy of web voting'. Just because you prefer Gnome or whatever doesn't mean KDE asks its users to vote for it!
Ludootje
ludootje@linux.be
Re: Linux Journal Announces Winners of 8th Annual Readers' Choic
On October 25th, 2002 Anonymous says:
Man, what a troll. It was never in the topic of any KDE IRC channel, I didn't see it on kde-devel or kde-core-devel, and it wasn't on the Dot. Sigh.
Re: Linux Journal Announces Winners of 8th Annual Readers' Choic
On October 17th, 2002 Anonymous says:
It's more like, Cough ... Every commercial distro on the planet except Red Hat either defaults to KDE or some custom version of it.... Cough.