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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Taras:
Mysql is a weak excuse for a database that gets marketed exceptionally well...Pg on the other hand is a kickass db that has crap marketting..
..then..
Hey Eugenia, Sorry
Damn.. I was all ready to rip you a new one, then you had to go and apologise. Anyways, I feel it incumbent to point out that MySQL has superior performance to PG in many instances, which is why it's a popular component of LAMP (as opposed to LAPP
Spark:
"Anyone who hasn't tried gnumeric yet should give it a try."
I wish I would have an idea what I could use Gnumeric for.
It's a spreadsheet app. I don't know if you were being facetious or serious, but Linux apps can be pretty obscurely-named sometimes. If I may wander off-topic, I should mention that I like the approach Lindows and ELX and the like are taking towards desktop Linux. Once Linux is the standard, THEN we can reintroduce unintuitive-yet-fun app names like "Visio" and "Excel" and "Gnomba".
Bobthearch:
Not too many folks voting GIMP, but I'm suprised anyone thinks it's as ready-to-use as Photoshop.
Didn't we have the GIMP vs PP discussion a few articles ago? Anyways, I shall hereby introduce my patented One-Word-Rebuttal(tm):
Cinepaint.
With love and cynicism,
GG