Jameson Burt wrote: > I would often like to at least narrow the software selection from a long list. > I should never have dabbled with the flexible but arcane "mh" mailer or > several > other mailers. I would like to see the choices that the experts, the Debian > developers, make. Do they mostly use exim or smail or ...? What ppp and > networking packages do they use? Do they compose html through LaTeX then > latex2html, with raw vim, ...? Do they get news with knews or netscape? > Do they most often use xfig, xpaint, xv, gimp? > Would the Debian developers be amenable to a survey of their expert opinion?
Funny you should mention a survey. Avery Pennarun has put together a package called 'popularity-contest' that measures which packages are used most. The results were posted to http://www.worldvisions.ca/~apenwarr/popcon/ -Mitch
