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- buzzedlightyear, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12missing amaroK and grep, but still good for the new person to linux.
- r00tus3r, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12No mention of gaim, frostwire, ethereal or even bluefish. This list SUCKS! I was gonna post it on my forum, but the damn thing is useless. NO DIGG!
- tech42er, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8No LyX, Lynx, or alien? At any rate, a great list!
- vbsurfer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8if only the guy knew what divs and cascading style sheets were.
- arachnist, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10Lacks amaroK, K3B, Kate and Ruby.
- wstryder, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6The next 200 comments for this story are all gonna be "Application X is missing, it's the best, really!". Well none of my favorite apps appear on the list. But that's OK, because it's simply impossible to make a list of "Major Linux Apps" this short. Linux is a diverse system designed from the beginning to attract a wide range of users, so there's a plethora of useful apps out there to suit everyone.
- kunalthakar, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8GNU emacs is present in the list but VI is not!
Yes, amarok should have been there - timf, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4This is one crazy list.
First I thought the creator was just biased because he is a Gnome user but then there comes Xpdf and Kaffeine which are both just awful if you are used to the Gnome style.
And what about Xfig? It's a cool program for it's age but there is Inkscape now.
So long story short: most of these programs are (very) good, but I couldn't survive a day without many others.
Oh, and to people who complain about missing vi, grep, whatever... the foot notes state that the list doesn't include CLI apps. (It includes emacs, though) - DontSayFanboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3No, brundlefly is right. If anything, these are major OPEN SOURCE apps, and most have nothing at all to do with Linux. DosEmu is the only one I see offhand that requires Linux.
The great thing about these programs is that they are free, open and multiplatform. Calling them linux programs is just ignorant. - Haplo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+31 - copy free content on a web site
2 - get a link on digg
3 - slap adsense on it as soon as people start to link to it
4 - profit
Yeah, the glass is always half empty here. - jdawg19, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5There are some nice apps there that I use a lot! Nice website!
- DanTheManPR, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Uh-oh, flame war warning
- bustergonad, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Yeah, no digg! what about k3b, mplayer, Scribus, Openoffice, Audacity, pac, the list goes on,...(plus my favorite game "scavenger" )
- eelco, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Where's Evolution?
- digitaldeath, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The list is lacking certain essential tools (grep isn't even there) and it also contains one or two items that are hardly the best and most popular (some medical application, while I'm sure is useful, is hardly going to be something everyone will want, therefore it being most popular). I didn't see Squid, Dansguardian...I could go on. The list should be properly organised - split maybe into multimedia apps, server app sections etc.
- gsmolders, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Bottom line: for a _real_ list of useful apps, just visit www.sf.net
- requiem18th, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Because we have a dream...
- almighty, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1No digg from me as well. A lot of the apps listed come in many distros by default.
- Revolt25, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1good list, great apps.
- tgone, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1they need to add gThumb to the list.
- brownspank, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2"so why choose the desktop whose major apps are subsets of other OS's massive desktop libraries (Like Windows or MacOS) - ?"
Two words: choice (&) ability. - rincebrain, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5They recommended Kaffeine over usable media players (like xine or mplayer).
Fail. - justinjacobs, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Kaffeine uses the xine engine and has a nice interface that blends smoothly with the rest of KDE.
Win. - kaytrio, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Major Linux"? Isn't that an oxymoron?
Haha, before you digg me into oblivion, know I'm jk. I actually use Ubuntu :P - snuffulupagus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Yeah, LyX should def. be included.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1surely you missed out the ??? step!
- noksagt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I have my own list of favorite Free/Open Source apps (most of them for Linux. It has some apps that this list lacks, but has other omissions (they are _my_ favorite apps). One difference is that I have put my money where my mouth is & donated to all of these projects:
http://arc.nucapt.northwestern.edu/F/OSS - karolisl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Lacks too much... Xsane, Vim (or at least gVim), LaTeX and mutt should be in this list instead of gedit, FreeMED and Kaffeine...
This is more of a random list, but i guess that it makes some people more aware of vast variety of FOSS software - Sp1k3d, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1What about Nano? What about Grep? Vi? Evince? XFCE? Alacarte? Evolution? VLC? Mplayer? Mono? Gparted? F-Spot? This list is incomplete!
- jerrro, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Major Linux apps? Says who? It's all about preference and too subjective to be posted on digg.
- CharlesDarwin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1No kismet?
- infiniphunk, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0For a random list of apps its ok I guess. I have to agree that there's lot of stuff there I use myself, but honestly? No Vi? jeez.
Love the Gimp, GQview, and Xsane, xmms, mplayer, uh, uh!
hahaha
Kinda makes you realize just HOW MUCH good programs there are out there for free, that as soon as someone posts a list of their faves we all start arguing about more that should have been included. Seriously, does ANYONE buy software on a CD that comes in a box anymore????? - lightcycler, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0http://almien.co.uk/Software/A-Z/
- sfty, on 10/12/2007, -6/+5These are not "Linux apps". These are apps that *also* run on Linux. -> lame
- brundlefly76, on 10/12/2007, -6/+3FYI Most of these apps run natively on all *nix and Windows as well, many on MacOS (except the window manager-specific ones are *nix only, and the ones which seek to implement other OS features (dosemu, samba).
Which is why as a Linux server developer I have never understood running Linux on *the desktop*, because most of the top Linux Desktop apps are crossplatform anyway, so why choose the desktop whose major apps are subsets of other OS's massive desktop libraries (Like Windows or MacOS) - ? - ericmoritz, on 10/12/2007, -9/+6emacs is better anyway :b
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