Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2009-11-17 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 13:59, Allen wrote: > On Tuesday 17 November 2009 06:31:33 am Avi Greenbury wrote: >> Allen wrote: >> > And YAST2 is probably the best system tool ever done. >> >> Hmm, Yast made me want to hurt small things the last (and first) time I >> used it. I'm increasingly wondering

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2009-11-17 Thread Allen
On Tuesday 17 November 2009 06:31:33 am Avi Greenbury wrote: > Allen wrote: > > And YAST2 is probably the best system tool ever done. > > Hmm, Yast made me want to hurt small things the last (and first) time I > used it. I'm increasingly wondering that this might have been a > fault at my end, sin

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2009-11-17 Thread Avi Greenbury
Allen wrote: > And YAST2 is probably the best system tool ever done. > Hmm, Yast made me want to hurt small things the last (and first) time I used it. I'm increasingly wondering that this might have been a fault at my end, since a lot of people seem to like it now. Has it improved drastically

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2009-11-17 Thread Allen
On Tuesday 17 November 2009 05:51:08 am Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 12:17, Allen wrote: > > desktop environment OR window manager: KDE, Gnome, LXDE, Window Maker, > > Enlightenment, FVWM, FVWM2, FVWM Crystal (Yes, I do in fact use every one > > of those, all the time. I li

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2009-11-17 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 12:17, Allen wrote: > > desktop environment OR window manager: KDE, Gnome, LXDE, Window Maker, > Enlightenment, FVWM, FVWM2, FVWM Crystal (Yes, I do in fact use every one of > those, all the time. I like having options on how my desktop will behave at > any given time, and s

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2009-11-17 Thread Allen
desktop environment OR window manager: KDE, Gnome, LXDE, Window Maker, Enlightenment, FVWM, FVWM2, FVWM Crystal (Yes, I do in fact use every one of those, all the time. I like having options on how my desktop will behave at any given time, and sometimes I want one that looks different like FVWM

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2009-11-17 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
hi, thanks for ur votes; unfortunately I had already posted the results since the weren't votes for about 4 days On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 11:16, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 05 Nov 2009, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: >> Here's a template where you can fill in your favourites If something >> doesn't f

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2009-11-17 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 05 Nov 2009, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > Here's a template where you can fill in your favourites If something > doesn't fit in any of the categories, put it under misc utilities. > Please don't add what you haven't really used. You can include more > than one entrant per category. > desktop e

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2009-11-13 Thread Dotan Cohen
> Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote at 2009-11-13 08:29 -0600: >> anything unreleased and highly anticipated: >> * HURD, APT2 > > How could I forget?! > +1 Hurd > Duke Nuke 'em Forever! I hear that the Hurd port is in the works. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il -- To U

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2009-11-13 Thread green
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote at 2009-11-13 08:29 -0600: > anything unreleased and highly anticipated: > * HURD, APT2 How could I forget?! +1 Hurd signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2009-11-13 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
desktop OR window manager: * GNOME development: * Geany, Python misc utilities: * grep, Sudo, debmirror, Lsof, less, Meld, Uptimed, wc, top, Tracker, Ex Falso, wajig, GNOME system monitor applet spreadsheet: * gnumeric terminal emulator: * GNOME Terminal text editor: * Geany non-free: * GMa

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2009-11-11 Thread Dotan Cohen
> Surprising to find that there's no FLOSS competitor. I thought Skype > was big on popularity, not features. What's missing in what you've > tried? What comes close? > Interoperability with other Skype users. Nothing else provides that. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.c

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2009-11-10 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
John Hasler wrote: > Eduardo M KALINOWSKI writes: > >> Also, iceweasel stores its settings in ~/.mozilla/firefox. And I guess >> there are many other places where "firefox" appears in the Iceweasel >> bundle, and this is not a copyright infringement, just like setting >> the User-Agent to the sa

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2009-11-10 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 9 Nov 2009 22:20:50 +0200 Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mon,09.Nov.09, 11:04:36, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > > > Surprising to find that there's no FLOSS competitor. I thought Skype > > > was big on popularity, not features. What's missing in what you've > > > tried? What comes close?

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2009-11-10 Thread John Hasler
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI writes: > Also, iceweasel stores its settings in ~/.mozilla/firefox. And I guess > there are many other places where "firefox" appears in the Iceweasel > bundle, and this is not a copyright infringement, just like setting > the User-Agent to the same that Firefox does it not a

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2009-11-10 Thread Brian Nelson
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Tuesday 10 November 2009 10:46:50 Wolodja Wentland wrote: On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 17:29 +0100, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: comply with recommendations, you can use the User Agent plugin https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59 to have Iceweasel report a dif

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2009-11-10 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
John Hasler wrote: >> The first is a non-option. Iceweasel does not follow Mozilla's trademark >> usage guidelines. If it uses the Firefox trademark and Debian distributes >> it, >> Debian could be sued into non-existence. >> > > Nonsense. There is no conceivable way that embedding the s

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2009-11-10 Thread John Hasler
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. writes: > Debian has two choices: 1. Use the same user-agent as Firefox. 2. Use a > different user-agent from Firefox. 3. Use a Debian user-agent string that includes the string "Firefox". See, for example, the user-agent strings used by every other browser on the planet

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2009-11-10 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 10 November 2009 10:46:50 Wolodja Wentland wrote: > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 17:29 +0100, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > > comply with recommendations, you can use the User Agent plugin > > https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59 > > to have Iceweasel report a different User-Agent st

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2009-11-10 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 17:29 +0100, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > comply with recommendations, you can use the User Agent plugin > https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59 > to have Iceweasel report a different User-Agent string. Which is a solution for some people, but a a lot of users don

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2009-11-10 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:26 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Tuesday 10 November 2009 10:00:11 Brian Nelson wrote: > > Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > > > On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 18:42, Chris wrote: > > >> web browser: Firefox (Not IceWeasel) > > > am curious: what's wrong with Iceweasel?

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2009-11-10 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,09.Nov.09, 11:04:36, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > Surprising to find that there's no FLOSS competitor. I thought Skype > > was big on popularity, not features. What's missing in what you've > > tried? What comes close? > > There are a number of FLOSS software phone applications. Cou

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2009-11-10 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. schreef: On Tuesday 10 November 2009 10:00:11 Brian Nelson wrote: Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 18:42, Chris wrote: web browser: Firefox (Not IceWeasel) am curious: what's wrong with Iceweasel? It fails to work in some cases where Firefox does work

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2009-11-10 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 10 November 2009 10:00:11 Brian Nelson wrote: > Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 18:42, Chris wrote: > >> web browser: Firefox (Not IceWeasel) > > > > am curious: what's wrong with Iceweasel? > > It fails to work in some cases where Firefox does work, due to it > re

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2009-11-10 Thread Brian Nelson
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 18:42, Chris wrote: web browser: Firefox (Not IceWeasel) am curious: what's wrong with Iceweasel? It fails to work in some cases where Firefox does work, due to it reporting a different User-Agent string. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debi

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2009-11-09 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 01:05:52PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 13:48, Dotan Cohen wrote: > >> instant messenger: skype (not floss? so make something this good in floss!) > > Surprising to find that there's no FLOSS competitor. I thought Skype > was big on popularity

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2009-11-09 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Mon, 2009-11-09 at 14:10 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 13:46, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > > - Anonymous contributors > > can I liken this to one-time patch senders? I was thinking of people who "silently" contribute to open-source softwares, and whose names don't appe

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2009-11-09 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 09 November 2009 05:05:52 Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 13:48, Dotan Cohen wrote: > >> instant messenger: skype (not floss? so make something this good in > >> floss!) > > Surprising to find that there's no FLOSS competitor. I thought Skype > was big on popularity,

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2009-11-09 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 13:46, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > - Anonymous contributors can I liken this to one-time patch senders? -- my place on the web: floss-and-misc.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2009-11-09 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 18:42, Chris wrote: > web browser: Firefox (Not IceWeasel) am curious: what's wrong with Iceweasel? -- my place on the web: floss-and-misc.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact l

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2009-11-09 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 15:04, Aioanei Rares wrote: >> non-free:flash :( Are you referring to the browser-plugin? -- my place on the web: floss-and-misc.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2009-11-09 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 13:48, Dotan Cohen wrote: >> instant messenger: skype (not floss? so make something this good in floss!) Surprising to find that there's no FLOSS competitor. I thought Skype was big on popularity, not features. What's missing in what you've tried? What comes close? -- my

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2009-11-08 Thread green
Frank Lin PIAT wrote at 2009-11-08 05:46 -0600: > On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 15:56 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > > anything unreleased and highly anticipated: > - Squeeze, what else? (especially Debian GNU/kFreeBSD) Of course, how did I forget that? +1 signature.asc Description: Digital signa

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2009-11-08 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 15:56 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > Here's a template where you can fill in your favourites If something > doesn't fit in any of the categories, put it under misc utilities. > Please don't add what you haven't really used. You can include more > than one entrant per cat

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2009-11-07 Thread Memnon Anon
Oh well, why not ;) > audio editor: audacity > audio player: mplayer > desktop environment OR window manager: stumpwm > disc burner: wodim > e-mail client: emacs gnus > file manager: emacs dired > finance: emacs orgmode (will try ledger someday) > ftp client: wget > image viewer: gqview > instant

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2009-11-07 Thread Chris
Greetings, audio editor: Audicity audio player: Rythmbox, Amarok (up to 1.4 - 2.x just blows) cd-ripper: SoundJuicer DBMS: desktop environment OR window manager: Gnome development: disc burner: Brasero e-mail client: Claws-Mail file manager: Nautilus finance: ftp client: Gftp, Filezilla games: ima

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2009-11-07 Thread Klistvud
> audio player: rhythmbox > desktop environment OR window manager: Gnome > disc burner: K3B > e-mail client: Kmail, Balsa > file manager: Krusader, Gnome-Commander > ftp client: wget > games: UrbanTerror & the Wine and Zsnes emulators > misc utilities: fdupes > p2p: mldonkey (mlnet) > pac

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2009-11-07 Thread Teemu Likonen
On 2009-11-05 20:53 (+0200), Teemu Likonen wrote: >> word-processor: > > OpenOffice.org Writer Hmm, I wonder why did I write that. In practice I use Emacs + LaTeX. I use OOo Writer only for viewing documents made by others. -- Feel free to Cc me your replies if you want to make sure I'll notic

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2009-11-07 Thread Dotan Cohen
> audio editor: audicity > audio player: amarok > cd-ripper: > DBMS: > desktop environment OR window manager: KDE 4 > development: Kate > disc burner: K3B > e-mail client: Thunderbird > file manager: Dolphin > finance: > ftp client: Konqueror > games: > image creator/editor: gimp > image viewer: di

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2009-11-06 Thread Rakotomandimby Mihamina
11/05/2009 04:56 PM, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe:: Here's a template where you can fill in your favourites If something doesn't fit in any of the categories, put it under misc utilities. Please don't add what you haven't really used. You can include more than one entrant per category. I am not going t

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2009-11-06 Thread Pedro Insua
On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 03:56:48PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > Here's a template where you can fill in your favourites If something > doesn't fit in any of the categories, put it under misc utilities. > Please don't add what you haven't really used. You can include more > than one entrant

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2009-11-05 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 5 Nov 2009 15:56:48 +0200 Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: ... > audio editor: > audio player: [g]mplayer > cd-ripper: > DBMS: > desktop environment OR window manager: xfce[4] > development: perl > disc burner: > e-mail client: sylpheed > file manager: mc > finance: > ftp client: ncftp > game

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2009-11-05 Thread green
Andrew Sackville-West wrote at 2009-11-05 15:33 -0600: > On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 03:56:48PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > > any FLOSS developer deserving great honours (max 5 at most, unless > > you insist): > > the uncelebrated random user that sends in the one-line > patch to fix their

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2009-11-05 Thread Charlie
On Thu, 5 Nov 2009 15:56:48 +0200 Tshepang Lekhonkhobe shared this with us all: >Here's a template where you can fill in your favourites If something >doesn't fit in any of the categories, put it under misc utilities. >Please don't add what you haven't really used. You can include more >than one

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2009-11-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 03:56:48PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > Here's a template where you can fill in your favourites If something > doesn't fit in any of the categories, put it under misc utilities. > Please don't add what you haven't really used. You can include more > than one entrant

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2009-11-05 Thread John L Fjellstad
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe writes: > audio player: amarok > cd-ripper: abcde > desktop environment OR window manager: KDE4 > development: emacs > disc burner: k3b > e-mail client: Kontact > finance: kmymoney > image viewer: gwenview > instant messenger: kopete > misc utilities: grep > p2p: kt

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2009-11-05 Thread Teemu Likonen
On 2009-11-05 15:56 (+0200), Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > audio player: Amarok > cd-ripper: abcde > desktop environment OR window manager: KDE > development: Emacs > disc burner: k3b > e-mail client: Emacs (Gnus) > file manager: Konqueror > ftp client: lftp > mathematics: Emacs (

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2008-11-28 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
I see the poll has cooled and in that case I'll post my own favourites. It's still open if you there's any late entries, and I will post the results early next week. Here goes: desktop OR window manager: * GNOME development: * Geany, Python, GTK2 misc utilities: * grep, Sudo, debmirror, Lsof, le

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2008-11-25 Thread Mitja Podreka
audio editor: Audacity audio player: amarok cd-ripper: Konqueror desktop OR window manager: KDE DBMS: MySQL development: quanta disc burner: k3b e-mail client: icedove file manager: Konqueror, mc, Krusader finance: ftp client: Konqueror games: KTeaTime image editor:GIMP image viewer:G

Re: gmplayer - no good (was Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?)

2008-11-24 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:22:33 +1300 Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 02:45:39AM -0500, Celejar wrote: > > On Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:20:02 +1300 > > Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 12:25:43AM -0500, Celejar wrote: > > > >

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2008-11-21 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
2008/11/13 Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > audio editor: ffmpeg/audacity > audio player: rhythmbox > cd-ripper: Gnome's default (sound juicer, I think) > desktop OR window manager: Gnome with Compiz > DBMS: None > development: Emacs and GNU tools > disc burner: Gnome's defa

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2008-11-21 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat,22.Nov.08, 02:47:49, Chris Bannister wrote: > > What are your settings? My father plays chess using eboard with the > > crafty engine (which is non-free BTW) and does win sometimes. > > Is he a grandmaster? What are his settings? The smallest I could get (something like 1 s/move), but f

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2008-11-21 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 01:10:10AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mon,17.Nov.08, 09:14:17, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > The only computer game I ever play. I just wish I could win against > > Crafty one day. Have a look a dreamchess -- a lot easier to beat. > What are your settings? My fath

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2008-11-19 Thread thveillon.debian
On Thu, 2008-11-13 at 14:18 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: Here's a template where you can fill in your favourites; feel free to add missing categories. Please don't add what you haven't really used (like I used to). More than piece can be given per category. Oh, and there's a couple of nice

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2008-11-19 Thread ReikoShea
On Thu, 2008-11-13 at 14:18 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > Here's a template where you can fill in your favourites; feel free to > add missing categories. Please don't add what you haven't really used > (like I used to). More than piece can be given per category. Oh, and > there's a couple o

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2008-11-19 Thread Andrei Popescu
> audio editor: > > audio player: moc, mplayer, audacious > cd-ripper: jack > desktop OR window manager: Xfce4 > DBMS: > > development: > > disc burner: k3b > e-mail client: mutt > file manager: mc > finance: > > ftp client: > > games: > > image editor: > > image viewer: gpic

Re: gmplayer - no good (was Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?)

2008-11-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 02:45:39AM -0500, Celejar wrote: > On Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:20:02 +1300 > Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 12:25:43AM -0500, Celejar wrote: > > > On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:18:26 +0200 > > > "Tshepang Lekhonkhobe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2008-11-18 Thread ajm
> On 11/13/08 06:18, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > Here's a template where you can fill in your favourites; feel free to > add missing categories. Please don't add what you haven't really used > (like I used to). More than piece can be given per category. Oh, and > there's a couple of nice editions

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2008-11-17 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,17.Nov.08, 09:14:17, Anthony Campbell wrote: > The only computer game I ever play. I just wish I could win against > Crafty one day. What are your settings? My father plays chess using eboard with the crafty engine (which is non-free BTW) and does win sometimes. Regards, Andrei -- If y

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2008-11-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On 11/13/08 06:18, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: Here's a template where you can fill in your favourites; feel free to add missing categories. Please don't add what you haven't really used (like I used to). More than piece can be given per category. Oh, and there's a couple of nice editions to last

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2008-11-17 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 4:18 AM, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's a template where you can fill in your favourites; feel free to > add missing categories. Please don't add what you haven't really used > (like I used to). More than piece can be given per category. Oh, and > t

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2008-11-17 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 17 Nov 2008, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 06:10:14PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > On 13 Nov 2008, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > > > Here's a template where you can fill in your favourites; feel free to > > > add missing categories. Please don't add what you haven't real

Re: gmplayer - no good (was Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?)

2008-11-17 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:20:02 +1300 Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 12:25:43AM -0500, Celejar wrote: > > On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:18:26 +0200 > > "Tshepang Lekhonkhobe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [..] > > > video player: > > > > [G]mplayer > > You know gmpla

gmplayer - no good (was Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?)

2008-11-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 12:25:43AM -0500, Celejar wrote: > On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:18:26 +0200 > "Tshepang Lekhonkhobe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [..] > > video player: > > [G]mplayer You know gmplayer is broken, right? Compare 'top' with both for the same movie. Note the CPU usage. -- Chris.

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2008-11-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 06:10:14PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 13 Nov 2008, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > > Here's a template where you can fill in your favourites; feel free to > > add missing categories. Please don't add what you haven't really used > > (like I used to). More than piece c

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2008-11-14 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 13 November 2008, "Tshepang Lekhonkhobe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'what's your favourite FLOSS?': >audio player: Amarok >cd-ripper: KAudioCreator >desktop OR window manager: KDE 3 >DBMS: PostgreSQL >development: > >disc burner: K3B >e-mail client: KMail >file manager: Konqueror

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2008-11-14 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 14 November 2008, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?': >John Hasler wrote: >> machiner writes: >>> what's your favourite FLOSS? >> >> I've been using some Johnson & Johnso

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2008-11-14 Thread Tom Low-Shang
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 02:18:26PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > > audio editor: > > audio player: moc > > cd-ripper: jack > > desktop OR window manager: fvwm > > DBMS: postgresql > > development: gcc, python > > disc burner: wodim > > e-mail client: mutt > > file mana

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2008-11-14 Thread ghe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 14:18:26 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe ([EMAIL > PROTECTED]) wrote: > >> Here's a template where you can fill in your favourites; feel free to >> add missing categories. Please don't add what you haven't really used >> (like

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2008-11-14 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
John Hasler wrote: machiner writes: what's your favourite FLOSS? I've been using some Johnson & Johnson "Reach" brand that the dentist gave me recently, but I think that the "Equate" stuff from Walmart is just as good. I guess I don't have a favorite. I was afraid to ask if it means somethi

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2008-11-14 Thread mihkel
> audio editor: > audio player: sonata+mpd > cd-ripper: sound-juicer > desktop OR window manager: GNOME > DBMS: > development: > disc burner: Brasero > e-mail client: Thunderbird/Icedove > file manager: Nautilus/bash > finance: > ftp client: wget/Nautilus > games: > image editor: Gimp

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2008-11-14 Thread Bob Cox
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 14:18:26 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Here's a template where you can fill in your favourites; feel free to > add missing categories. Please don't add what you haven't really used > (like I used to). More than piece can be given per category. O

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2008-11-14 Thread Manu Hack
> audio player: xmms2, amarok > > cd-ripper: > > desktop OR window manager: openbox, xfce4 > > DBMS: mysql > > development: g++, python > > disc burner: k3b > > e-mail client: mutt > > file manager: thunar > > finance: (there is not floss named "bailout" unfortunately AFAIK) > > ftp client: lftp >

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2008-11-14 Thread tôba
On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:18:26 +0200 "Tshepang Lekhonkhobe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's a template where you can fill in your favourites; feel free to > add missing categories. Please don't add what you haven't really used > (like I used to). More than piece can be given per category. Oh, an

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2008-11-14 Thread Juha Tuuna
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > Here's a template where you can fill in your favourites; feel free to > add missing categories. Please don't add what you haven't really used > (like I used to). More than piece can be given per category. Oh, and > there's a couple of nice editions to last year's categ

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2008-11-14 Thread Dean Sutherland
| Category | | |---+-| | audio player | mpd/sonata | | desktop OR window manager | gnome/xfce | | development | Emacs

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2008-11-13 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:18:26 +0200 "Tshepang Lekhonkhobe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > audio player: mplayer > desktop OR window manager: Xfce / Xfwm > development: Bluefish / Gvim / Vim > e-mail client: Sylpheed > file manager: mc > ftp client: ncftp > games: Wesnoth / Nethack > im

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2008-11-13 Thread Lachlan
2008/11/13 Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Here's a template where you can fill in your favourites; feel free to > add missing categories. Please don't add what you haven't really used > (like I used to). More than piece can be given per category. Oh, and > there's a couple of nice edit

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2008-11-13 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/11/13 Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Here's a template where you can fill in your favourites; feel free to > add missing categories. Please don't add what you haven't really used > (like I used to). More than piece can be given per category. Oh, and > there's a couple of nice edit

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2008-11-13 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 13 Nov 2008, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > Here's a template where you can fill in your favourites; feel free to > add missing categories. Please don't add what you haven't really used > (like I used to). More than piece can be given per category. Oh, and > there's a couple of nice editions to l

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2008-11-13 Thread John Hasler
machiner writes: > what's your favourite FLOSS? I've been using some Johnson & Johnson "Reach" brand that the dentist gave me recently, but I think that the "Equate" stuff from Walmart is just as good. I guess I don't have a favorite. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

RE: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2008-11-13 Thread Juan Carlos Avila
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Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2008-11-13 Thread Teemu Likonen
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Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2008-11-13 Thread Teemu Likonen
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Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2008-11-13 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 4:18 AM, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's a template where you can fill in your favourites; feel free to > add missing categories. Please don't add what you haven't really used > (like I used to). More than piece can be given per category. Oh, and > t

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2008-11-13 Thread Thierry Chatelet
Le Thursday 13 November 2008 13:18:26 Tshepang Lekhonkhobe, vous avez écrit : > Here's a template where you can fill in your favourites; feel free to > add missing categories. Please don't add what you haven't really used > (like I used to). More than piece can be given per category. Oh, and > ther

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2008-11-13 Thread François Cerbelle
Le Jeu 13 novembre 2008 13:18, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe a écrit : > audio editor: > audio player: rhythmbox > cd-ripper: > desktop OR window manager: LXDE > DBMS: mysql > development: gcc/g++/php/perl/bash > disc burner: mkisofs/wodim > e-mail client: mutt/icedove > file manager: PCMan / Thunar > fina

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2008-11-13 Thread machiner
Hello, audio editor: audio player: vlc cd-ripper: sound-juicer desktop OR window manager: Xfce4 DBMS: development: disc burner: Brasero e-mail client: claws-mail file manager: finance: ftp client: gftp games: Nexuiz image editor: image viewer: instant m

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2008-11-13 Thread steve
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > Here's a template where you can fill in your favourites; feel free to > add missing categories. Please don't add what you haven't really used > (like I used to). More than piece can be given per category. Oh, and > there's a couple of nice editions to last year's categ

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007-12-02 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Before releasing the results, here's out my own favourites: desktop OR window manager: * GNOME development: * Python, GTK2 finance: * Gnumeric misc utilities: * grep, Sudo, debmirror, Lsof, less, Meld, Uptimed, sort, du, wc, top, svn, mencoder, Tracker, apt-show-source, APTonCD, File-roller pa

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007-11-19 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Nov 16, 2007 11:41 PM, Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am 2007-11-14 15:28:32, schrieb Tshepang Lekhonkhobe: > > On Nov 13, 2007 1:52 PM, Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > anything unreleased and anticipated: > > > > DFSG > > > > debian free software guidelines? >

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007-11-19 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-11-14 15:28:32, schrieb Tshepang Lekhonkhobe: > On Nov 13, 2007 1:52 PM, Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > anything unreleased and anticipated: > > > DFSG > > debian free software guidelines? I like it! Thanks, Greetings and nice Day Michelle Konzack Tamay Dogan N

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007-11-19 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-11-14 15:23:09, schrieb Tshepang Lekhonkhobe: > On Nov 13, 2007 1:52 PM, Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > image editor: > > > gaim > > mistake? Grmpf! gimp! Thanks, Greetings and nice Day Michelle Konzack -- Linux-User #280138 with the Linux Counter, http://coun

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007-11-15 Thread Mihira Fernando
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: Here's a template where you can fill in your favourites; feel free to add missing categories: audio editor: Audacity audio player: Rythmbox, Juk cd-ripper: * desktop OR window manager: XFCE4, KDE DBMS: MySQL development: * disc burner: K3b e-mai

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007-11-15 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Nov 15, 2007 2:20 AM, M. Baldinelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > > > Interesting. Does this run on Debian, and if so, how? > > I tried it with gxmame frontend (I think now it's discontinued, because > it's in Obsolete and Locally Created Packages, or perhaps it was

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007-11-15 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Nov 14, 2007 10:09 PM, Martin Waller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I meant I saw it listed under mathematics. I already saw someone who > > listed Python under mathematics, and maybe it's because she uses it as > > a calculator. What about you? > > > > Numerical analysis of various kinds - less

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007-11-14 Thread M. Baldinelli
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: Interesting. Does this run on Debian, and if so, how? I tried it with gxmame frontend (I think now it's discontinued, because it's in Obsolete and Locally Created Packages, or perhaps it was from some unofficial .deb package, I don't remember). I didn't try it wit

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007-11-14 Thread Martin Marcher
2007/11/7, John Masters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Sorry but here's where I unsubscribe for a couple of months while the > same stuff is rehashed as it was a few months ago. Does this totally > unscientific poll have any real use? Apart that is from reigniting the > antediluvian arguments like mutt v e

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007-11-14 Thread Martin Waller
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: On Nov 13, 2007 10:37 PM, Martin Waller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: On Nov 11, 2007 12:22 AM, Martin Waller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: mathematics: R, g++, Octave g++? yes, g++ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ g++ -v Using built-in specs. Tar

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007-11-14 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Nov 13, 2007 1:52 PM, Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > anything unreleased and anticipated: > > DFSG debian free software guidelines? -- my place on the web: floss-and-misc.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

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