Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 30th May 2003 02:18 UTC
Thursday here, a slow evening. Time for a new poll. This poll might require you to think a bit extra: it asks you to vote not for your favorite application, but which OSS application, in your opinion, has achieved high standards, performance, features and ease of use when compared to the best of breed of the closed source world. Read more for more explanation and voting.
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Weird question.
I voted Evolution for now because that's just flawless (interface, features, everything). I don't have much experience with Outlook though, only Outlook Express.
Apache and gcc are clearly topnotch but I could just as well have said fetchmail... Boring choices.
The Mozilla rendering engine is definately on par or succeeds the IE engine in terms of features and platform independence, somewhat heavier but not too much. The interface is not that great (yet) but there are enough alternative interfaces.
Gaim compares really well against Trillian in it's latest version, only more filetransfer support and a bit of polishing would be required to beat it. Version 1.0 might do it.
And The Gimp beats many expensive image manipulation programs, though probably not photoshop (yet).
Another one that just came to my mind is XChat. I always found its interface horrible and confusing (beeing an IRC newbie) but the latest Gtk2 version is awesome. Easy to understand and works a lot better than mIRC for me. There might be better proprietary IRC clients but mIRC is the "de factor standard".
Hmm XMMS? Can't get much closer to WinAmp.