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- vigi, on 12/29/2008, -0/+117OpenOffice.org 3.0
IBM Lotus Symphony
Firefox 3.0
Laconica
Fedora 9
Ubuntu 8.10
OpenSuSE 11
Novell JeOS
Ubuntu 8.04
Android - JKAL, on 12/29/2008, -0/+74Buried, multipage advert fest
- Yarkz, on 12/29/2008, -0/+70Hmmm Ubuntu twice? Is that really necessary?
- TheVigilante, on 12/29/2008, -2/+44Was it necessary to have Ubuntu twice? Doesn't make any goddam sense.
- reddikilowatt, on 12/28/2008, -11/+44Dare I say it... 2009 will be the YEAR OF LINUX!
Ok, hear me out. We're going to see more Android phones (if Motorola can stay in business), netbooks, media servers and players, hand held media players, the Kindle is set to ramp up, Canonical seems to be getting a lot of mindshare in the blogsphere and MS is chasing Apple instead of putting out product.
I think the community's slogan should be "3% by 2010... Hey, stranger things have happened."
I'll get working on the T-shirts. - tomarocco, on 12/29/2008, -1/+3410 unnecessary pages to get the point across.
- abhiroop, on 12/29/2008, -2/+31Even being a die-hard Ubuntu fan I did not see the point of TWO ubuntu pages!
http://ubuntuextreme.blogspot.com - djauto23, on 12/29/2008, -0/+25Why not say it's gonna be a *good* year for Linux, instead of saying it's gonna be *the* year of Linux? I mean, we've been saying this for the last ten years, and while they've hardly been *the* year of Linux, most of them have been quite *good* years for Linux.
- mark076h, on 12/29/2008, -0/+24Wow that crn.com website is really optimized for ad revenue, they have like 6 ads on every page and its nothing but those top 10 lists you have to click all the way through.
- 6minuteabs, on 12/29/2008, -4/+25A top ten list of applications that contains 7 operating systems and only 3 actual applications.
- Lazybones, on 12/29/2008, -12/+292 Office suites that where mostly abandon
1 Browser
1 Twitter clone
4-5 Linus distros that could almost be lumped together
1 Beta grade phone OS
This list failes. - ScottyDelicious, on 12/29/2008, -0/+15Sometimes I forget how well AdBlock+ works.
I don't think I was shown a single ad. - jamesmcm, on 12/29/2008, -1/+15WINE 1.0
KDE 4
Epiphany/Telepathy
ReactOS
rTorrent
Could all be present, and everything from Novell should be removed. - jaygeeze, on 12/29/2008, -0/+14Seriously, stop with these slideshows. The screenshots aren't even enough to justify a slideshow.
- DomZy, on 12/29/2008, -0/+12Slideshow sites should be banned from digg
- kdorf, on 12/29/2008, -0/+11Wine should've easily taken one of those places.
- Vinvin, on 12/28/2008, -3/+14IIRC Symfony isn't open source...
- anubis1611, on 12/28/2008, -6/+16A pity that they didn't mention ReactOS -
- jamesmcm, on 12/29/2008, -0/+9I can't wait to be playing Duke Nukem Forever on ReactOS!
That's how long it will take for it to be working.
That said WINE 1.0 was released - actually why isn't that on the list? - inactive, on 12/29/2008, -1/+10ads? what ads?
- synfin, on 12/29/2008, -0/+8Or two office suites when the second is based on the first. Kind of like saying the blue Corvette and the red Corvette won both best and second best car of the year. With so many great open source products, this list is weak.
- daeken, on 12/29/2008, -2/+10Agreed. Total faile.
- Lith25, on 12/29/2008, -3/+10Songbird is crap.
- djclay, on 12/29/2008, -0/+7Products...not just programs!
- Schober43, on 12/29/2008, -0/+6I thought I was gonna hear about stuff I've never heard of so I could try something new and exciting...
- MWeather, on 12/29/2008, -1/+7The original Duke Nukem 3d seems to work fine on ReactOS.
- Chrysalii, on 12/29/2008, -1/+7I could have condensed this list in to 5
Linux and it's many popular distros
Google Android
Firefox
Openoffice.org and spinoffs
Twitter like things.
but hey, you get more ad revenue from the famous (or is that infamous) 11 pages for 10 things. - uberbucket1, on 12/29/2008, -0/+6***** slide shows.
- inactive, on 12/29/2008, -0/+5ditto - total *****. they're getting 6 or 7 batches of ads served per page, over 11 pages - that's about 70 ads shown to people who don't even give a damn. I'm amazed that this is still a viable money-making method.
- TheScogg, on 12/29/2008, -0/+5Ubuntu 8.04 & Ubuntu 8.10 in the same top 10 list? Seriously? At least they Googled for a few more Linux distributions so they didn't have to include all of the Ubuntu beta and release candidates...
- TheGentleman, on 12/29/2008, -1/+6There is ab-so-lute-ly no added value in this article. Non. There's also nothing "cool" about those pieces of software. And CRN confuses free (as in beer) with FOSS. Buried.
- rubbsdecvik, on 12/29/2008, -0/+5Look, I'm a Linux user too, but people need to stop with the "year of the Linux Desktop" crap. Open Source projects have rarely exploded out on the market in the same way a proprietary product has, because they release early and release often. FOSS programs build like a snowball rolling down hill. The truth is that even proprietary programs need a break before it the "year for product XXXX." While I don't think it's impossible for Linux to explode overnight. I doubt very much that any one year is going to be so significant that it should be called "the" year.
- ProfessorLX, on 12/29/2008, -0/+4you know what is forcing me to get into linux? YDL for PS3... ive always been a windows guy but seeing linux run on a ps3, and loving the fact that its gunna be an even more wicked media station, makes my balls tingle.
- inactive, on 12/29/2008, -0/+4Buried for a crap list spread over too many pages to stuff ads in.
- infection0, on 12/29/2008, -0/+4Hmmm Ubuntu twice? Is that really necessary?
- shadowfoxmi, on 12/29/2008, -0/+4i disagree
- Rantul, on 12/29/2008, -0/+4I think it's very funny that the Android is shown copy/pasting and then mentioned as the competition for the iPhone... which doesn't have the ability to copy/paste.
Talk about a slap in the face. - zwaldowski, on 12/29/2008, -0/+4And Ubuntu 9.04, Ubuntu 9.10, OS X Snow Leopard, Fedora 11, Fedora 12, openSUSE 11.*, Linux Mint 7 and 8, Arch Linux 09.**, and etc...
- loconet, on 12/29/2008, -0/+4In that case it has been "the year of Linux" for years. Linux has been a major player in those areas you mentioned since the 90s.
"The year of Linux" usually refers to the Linux on the _desktop_. - illDecree, on 12/29/2008, -0/+3why is it that someone ALWAYS mentions this?
As if we all don't already know this... - flintmecha, on 12/29/2008, -0/+3Sort of pointless to list linux distros. It's like they were having trouble actually coming up with 10 interesting open source products/innovations so they had to list linux updates. They aren't even as ground-breaking as the Firefox 3.0 update, so what's the point? Also buried for being totally redundant by putting Ubuntu on there twice.
- rklrkl, on 12/29/2008, -0/+3Yes, everyone spotted the two versions of Ubuntu in the Top 10, which is of course ridiculous. But what about the equally dubious listing of Fedora 9? Er, Fedora 10 has been since 25th November, over a month before this article was Dugg. It's especially annoying because Fedora 9 was a hasty release, shipping a beta version of the X server that didn't have any ATI 3D support (via livna) for almost 5 months! If there's one major Linux distro I would have left out of the OSS Top 10 for 2008, Fedora 9 was it.
- matt9m5, on 12/29/2008, -0/+3When I first looked at the domain, I thought it said cnn.com and I almost crapped my pants...
- dtfinch, on 12/29/2008, -0/+3meh
- infection0, on 12/29/2008, -0/+3Not just yet... but maybe next year.
- pwdrskier, on 12/29/2008, -0/+3thanks. saved me from clicking a billion times.
- randylm, on 12/29/2008, -0/+3This list sucks, here are some other open source lists that never made it to the front page. Not sure how this ***** list did.
http://digg.com/software/Best_Open_Source_Stuff_of ...
http://digg.com/tech_news/Top_10_Open_Source_Stori ...
http://digg.com/software/Open_Source_alternatives_ ...
http://digg.com/programming/10_Open_Source_Social_ ...
http://digg.com/software/Top_25_Open_Source_Projec ...
http://digg.com/linux_unix/Excellent_List_of_Open_ ... - DBeta, on 12/29/2008, -1/+4OpenOffice has been actively developed on all year, I don't know what you mean by "mostly abandon"
It's Linux, and yes, it was silly to have 4 different Linux distros when they could have been a single item, because for all their differences, they are nearly the same.
Android is hardly a beta grade phone OS. I've messed with it, and it's a solid OS, far better than any dumb phone on the market, and I feel it is better than my BlackBerry's OS. Google clearly put a lot of time and effort into making Android. It had a few issue on release, but those issues where quickly fixed.
But, in the end, this list failed to deliver on the promised 10 products, it really only gave us about 5-6, and completely ignored many things that aren't extremely popular, but very important to the Open Source world. Also, 10 different pages for one list? These companies will never learn. - tkunj, on 12/29/2008, -0/+3No Wordpress 2.7 ?
- j4rcher, on 12/29/2008, -4/+7I think Songbird could've replaced one of the Ubuntus... just maybe...
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