Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 9th Nov 2004 20:49 UTC
"Desktop Linux is almost soup. We only have a few items left on the short list. Will we do it? If history is an indicator, the answer is yes." Read this article at LXer. Read more for a short list of my personal needs before I could say "yes, I can switch to Linux or FreeBSD full time".
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1. i dont understnad why you drop a fully working ftp client on the basis of it looking ugly...
2. cant comment on quicktime but from what i understand, mplayer is able to handle windows media. it can even integrate with firrefox if you use the right plugin or extention.
3. this is in many ways the holy grail of third party im clients. cant help you there...
4. sorry, cant help there as i dont know much about that kinda stuff. but didnt mozilla ship with a palm sync? or was that only on windows?
5. sorry, dont know about that...
6. i dont have a problem with the gimp interface. atleast not the one on 2.x. yes your familiar with psp or photoshop but that does not mean that they have the ultimate interface.
7. sorry, never messed mutch with that...
8. if you stick to packages made for your distro you avoid most if not all of this...
9. well i think the big bad wolf here is 2-headed. i cant recall reading about a X version that can handle sleep cleanly yet, and there is a lot of buggy acpi implementations out there that is solved in windows by the hw makers own drivers.
10. i could swear that alsa have this. that was supposed to be one of the advances over the old OSD system...