Excellent list. Every time I see one of these, I find a few more
interesting projects that I'd not seen before (this time: Kopete, Tulip,
Ferret, Sphinx). For my part, I'll recommend Privoxy (useful ad-blocking
HTTP proxy), Blosxom (minimal blogger), Amaya (W3C reference standard
browser) and AbiWord (word processor) as things worthy of at least
a moment's glance. Worth more than that is Miro (nee Democracy), which
is an amazingly good media player, doubly so given the wealth of
content available for free via its "channels" mechanism.
I also maintain a table of FOSS packages suitable for end users;
it's certainly not exhaustive, and given my utter contempt for all
things Microsoft, it's only got a few Windows-only packages. (And both
anti-spyware products are free but not open-source. Yet.) But in spite
of that, I think it's a halfway decent attempt at compiling a "short
list" for end users who are new to the concept of FOSS. I'll likely
be augmenting it as I work my through this latest list and figure out
which things would be good additions.
It's here:
http://www.firemountain.net/support/software.html
It lists Kompozer, not nvu, BTW; my (limited and possibly incorrect)
understanding is that development by Linspire on nvu has stalled, and
that Kompozer is a fork that incorporates numerous updates/bug fixes.
