30 Jan 2006

LinuxQuestions.org members' choice awards

Filed under: Software and Technology by Hari
Posted at 10:14:07 IST (last updated: 16 Jul 2008 @ 21:04:24 IST)
The 2005 edition of the LinuxQuestions.org members' choice awards is here! It's always interesting to find out what the most popular Linux and Open Source applications and distros are.

Here are some of my votes this year: Obvious choices, eh? I thought so too. ;)

Anyway, one of the biggest issues I have with the LQ members' choice awards is that the categorization sometimes leaves unrelated apps inside the same poll. Take for instance, Audio Multimedia application of the year. K3b has been included in this category with other miscellaneous audio players as well as authoring tools and miscellaneous media utilities. To me, this definitely makes some of the polls skewed. I will be casting my votes in the other categories after careful consideration.

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  1. No, no, you've got it all wrong! Gentoo's the best distro, not Debian!;)I agree with the categorization - Gimp and ImageMagick was my bugbear. How can you compare a CLI graphics package to a GUI one??

    Comment by Dominic (visitor) on 30 Jan 2006 @ 15:52:34 IST #
  2. Gentoo is right up there! In fact, if it wasn't for the long compile times, I would prefer it to Debian. You do spend too much time upgrading on Gentoo thanks to the long compiles, especially with KDE and stuff. :)

    Comment by hari (blog owner) on 30 Jan 2006 @ 16:06:38 IST #
  3. By the way, Dominic, you have posted the link to your older blog with your name.

    Comment by hari (blog owner) on 30 Jan 2006 @ 16:17:33 IST #
  4. Whoops! :)

    Comment by Dominic (visitor) on 30 Jan 2006 @ 18:19:05 IST #
  5. Force of habit, I guess! ;)

    Comment by hari (blog owner) on 30 Jan 2006 @ 18:20:38 IST #
  6. The perils of having your browser remember things for you...Interesting to see we're both wavering between versions of FF in this little thread, isn't it? :)

    Comment by Dominic (visitor) on 30 Jan 2006 @ 19:21:54 IST #
  7. I was within BeOS when posting that first reply ;) Yes, interesting bits of info!

    Comment by hari (blog owner) on 30 Jan 2006 @ 20:18:09 IST #
  8. Pah! Slackware is the bestest. No arguments.

    Comment by ray (visitor) on 1 Feb 2006 @ 02:46:18 IST #
  9. To be frank, I've given Slackware a fair trial some time back and I always felt that it lacked something. I'm not into the "manually manage all software package and their dependencies" thing, especially since I use a lot of software and the dependency list can run into hundreds of libraries.Maybe there is a specific target group of audience for Slackware and maybe that's why it's so popular because it has a niche and is very good at what it does. And also that may be the reason why Slackware is also not for everybody who wants to use Linux.Debian, especially since "Sarge" is a much more all-purpose distro than Slackware, I believe.

    Comment by hari (blog owner) on 1 Feb 2006 @ 07:55:19 IST #

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