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Readers' Choice Awards 2008
The Readers' Choice Awards take the current pulse of the Linux Community year. Here are the tools you use every day in your work and play.
OpenOffice.org (85.1%)
OpenOffice.org garnered a whopping 85% of the votes to win Favorite Office Program, while competitors AbiWord and KOffice squeaked in a barely perceptible 3% each. Nor did EIOffice, a program that has received much praise in our pages in the past, register more than a few votes. OpenOffice.org has become the de facto default office suite for Linux.
Amarok (40.5%)
Honorable Mentions
XMMS (18.1%)
Audacity (12.3%)
Rhythmbox (11.9%)
Perhaps the most feature-rich audio player on any platform, Amarok has won most of your hearts and minds for Favorite Audio Tool. Meanwhile, the applications XMMS, Audacity and Rhythmbox each have their loyal constituencies of a bit lesser but similar size, making each worthy of an honorable mention.
MPlayer (34.6%)
Honorable Mention
VLC (27.4%)
This close race in the Favorite Media Player category may be as much a testament to MPlayer's legacy to thankful Linux users everywhere as a vote for excellence. When playing nonfree media content was still a problem for Linux users, MPlayer was there, leveling the field and making sure we could play anything our Windows-using friends were playing and then some. VLC, a close second, is growing in popularity for its friendly interface and equally adroit ability to play pretty much any format you can throw at it.
Pidgin (42%)
Honorable Mentions
Skype (17.8%)
Kopete (12.8%)
Pidgin, the messaging tool formerly known as Gaim, readily handled all of its competitors, garnering 42% of your votes. Pidgin users appreciate the ability to monitor all of their messaging accounts using one tool. Currently 15 protocols are available, including AIM, Google Talk, Novell GroupWise, ICQ, MySpaceIM, Yahoo and others. Despite Skype's popularity, it remains in Pigin's long shadow—maybe because its closed-source credentials tug at our consciences?
The GIMP (76.4%)
If anything qualifies as a legendary piece of Linux software, then The GIMP certainly has earned that mantle. Winning 76.4% of the votes, The GIMP wins for Favorite Graphics/Design Tool. As for the others? “Ouch!” is the collective cry from the other graphics applications, such as Inkscape, Scribus and Blender, each of which reached percentages only in the single digits. Notable for its absence is the increasingly impressive KDE graphics tool, Krita.
digiKam (24.9%)
Honorable Mention
Picasa (24.5%)
digiKam, at 24.9%, edged out its image-organizer rival Picasa from Google by a mere 13 votes. Picasa's excellent functionality is powerful enough to make up for its deficits—its non-FOSS status and Wine-based emulation. Like its e-mail cousin Gmail, Picasa is an interesting choice given that it is not a Linux application, per se. Gmail exists only in Google's cloud, and Picasa is—gasp!—a Windows application.
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Choice
Mozilla - Not impressed.
Pidgin - Excellent ! ---Skype should be banned :)
Gimp - Always the best
vi - best text editor, file editor , fileditor.
I'm also surprised that my
I'm also surprised that my favorite program Konqueror gets less than 5%, inasmuch as it is unique in offering very fast browsing and powerful if slow file management in the same window and also offer multiple windows, tabs, and window panes. Of course, few Gnome users will use Konqueror and you need Firefox anyway for some sites, but I'm not happy that KDE had to launch a new file manager Dolphin which will not help Konqueror's popularity any.www.eniyioteller.net/alanya-otelleri/index.php http://www.eniyioteller.net/kemer-oteller/index.php http://www.eniyioteller.net/antalya-otelleri/126.html
mozilla
Mozilla is affected me :) Pidgin is Very good,gimp like always,No other words to say :)
true list
i like firefox and open office
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I have tried ubuntu a few times before. It complicated to me. I hope this version is easier than before. It is really look useful with mozilla advices. Thanks for article.
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Thank you. im follow you :)
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I don't trust anything by Mozilla. That's why Opera all the way, baby.
I have tried ubuntu a few
I have tried ubuntu a few times before. It complicated to me. I hope this version is easier than before. It is really look useful with mozilla advices. Thanks for article.
Magma
Mozilla - Not impressed.
Pidgin - Excellent ! ---Skype should be banned :)
Gimp - Always the best
vi - best text editor, file editor , fileditor.
Wordpress is indeed the best
Wordpress is the best Content Management System I can't understand how Drupal is so close as I think Wordpress has more than 50% market share.
Jack
thanks
thats nice thanks alot
I'm surprised wordpress only
I'm surprised wordpress only got 28.8 %
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Honorable Mentions Bison
Honorable Mentions
Bison (14.7%)
javacc (12.8%)
thats nice thanks alot
thats nice thanks alot
well/.//so surprised by the
well/.//so surprised by the stastics.
Programming Languages
Programming is a very wide and deep area to cover,
unlike web-browsers or text editors, which are rather single-purpose;
perhaps you should have instead subdivided it into domains:
-scripting/programming
Where oh where has Konqueror (and Opera) gone?
I'm also surprised that my favorite program Konqueror gets less than 5%, inasmuch as it is unique in offering very fast browsing and powerful if slow file management in the same window and also offer multiple windows, tabs, and window panes. Of course, few Gnome users will use Konqueror and you need Firefox anyway for some sites, but I'm not happy that KDE had to launch a new file manager Dolphin which will not help Konqueror's popularity any.
Lighttpd
Apache is indd the most favorite webserver. But I think that webservers like lighttpd and nginx will rise this year. They have less memory footprints and are faster then apache. The proof for this is easy to find. The most popular websites like youtube and wikipedia do not run from apache but lighttpd.
The evolution in webservers that are more specific programmed for WEB2.0 and 3.0 is started.
Interesting
BLOATWARE desktops are the choice?
only for those with more money than brains.
BLOATWARE browser?
not for me.
I'll use Mozilla's Seamonkey Suite, less resource intensive and 5 times the capabilities of Mozilla's Firefox.
[ and no IE look and feel to it ]
vi/vim both not installed on my systems, with garbage documentation written for something that has not been used since the 1970s, the "META" key, it just isn't worth using.
and any distro that has meta packages enabled is out of the running, that is a guarantee of bloat.
use a minimalist distro, or go back to MS bloatware.
[ Linux From Scratch, the only way to go ]
Regarding Jacqui's comment
Regarding Jacqui's comment from May 6th, 2008, vim has extremely good documentation both from within using it and in html format. It contains informative introductory chapters and detailed reference chapters. All of this completely cross-referenced. It's a pleasure to read and sets a standard for the documentation of any complex tool.
As for META, I use Alt as META and it works fine.
Your position sure makes
Your position sure makes sense. Run 2008 software as if you had a 1970's machine, and yet shy away from 1970's software because it's poorly documented. (But hey, thick documentation is the ultimate bloat and can swallow lots of MB out of your 500GB disk!) What is your favorite, minimalist, run-me-on-0.1K editor, then, "cat >" ?
As for the vi documentation, were you able to write down where on earth it mentioned the META key before getting rid of it? Last time I checked you only needed ESC. Still, I'm sure such a resourceful guy could always look up one of the zillion web pages and tutorials available on the subject...
good list
well thats a good list and as expected FireFox is getting better all the way ....
cheers!
ghalo
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I don't trust anything by
I don't trust anything by Mozilla. That's why Opera all the way, baby.
Awards
Mozilla - Not impressed.
Pidgin - Excellent ! ---Skype should be banned :)
Gimp - Always the best
vi - best text editor, file editor , fileditor.
So finally we get to know who
So finally we get to know who the cool winners of this year's Linux Journal Readers' Choice Awards for 2008! Ubuntu is a real surprise as I've heard that it is quite complicated and needs getting used to!! All the others were more or less expected! Hope this will add more competition between them and we customers get the most out of it!! But it was wonderful work done by you guys and Linux must be appreciated for their wonderful world of web!!Internet Satellite
FTA: "Who would have
FTA:
"Who would have thought that after all these years, the vi editor would rule the roost? It beat out every other editor, including Emacs and vim."
As far as Linux is concerned vi = vim. If a user types vi at the command their running vim. I simply do not believe that vi is more popular than vim.
Vim as an easy-install vi
I voted for vi even though I'm using vim, because *only occasionally* do I use one single extra feature, namely syntax highlighting. Whenever I type vi or vim, my screen reads "Running in Vi compatible mode", and that's how I like it best.
Back to the Future?
Hm, I read "June 1st, 2008 by James Gray in Linux Journal" in the header of this article. So either you travel in time or you should check your date settings ...
Time travel
This is just like the type of posts it's worth visiting 2 years after they were written.
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John Nousis
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Truth
Jeje, you're right.