Hello, There has been an interesting number of responses on this thread. I like it because it helps me explore some other FLOSS (or not so FLO) out there which I might otherwise find superior to my own favourites. I would just like to post stats on what the respoding population likes (in brackets we find the number of votes):
audio editor: * audacity (7) * audacious, gnusound, xfmedia audio player: * Amarok (6) * XMMS (5) * beep-media-player (3) * XMMS2, mp3blaster, muine, totem, rhythmbox cd-ripper: * sound-juicer (6) * abcde (4) * KAudioCreator (2), grip (2) * dagrab, cdparanoia Desktop Environment: * GNOME (2) * Xfce4 DBMS: * MySQL (3) * PostgreSQL (2) * Openoffice2.0 Base, Oracle development: * Eclipse (2), Qt (2), Quanta (2) * bluefish, GTK+ disc burner: * k3b (11) * gnomebaker (6) * cdrecord (2) * xcdroast, nautilus-cd-burner, nero-linux, graveman e-mail client: * Thunderbird (9) * evolution (5) * mutt (4) * kmail (2) * Gmail (2) * M2 * sylpheed-claws-gtk2 file manager: * MC (6) * nautilus (5) * konqueror (3) * rox-filer (3) * emelfm * xterm * xfe * p-desk * krusader finance: * gnucash (5) * Calc * kMyMoney firewall [ shorewall ] ftp: * gftp (4) * ftp * lftp icons [ dlg-etiquette ] image editor * gimp (18) * imagemagick image viewer: * gthumb (9) * f-spot (3) * GQview (2), kuickshow (2), eog (2), display? (2) * imgSeek, mozilla-firefox, kview, gliv instant messenger * gaim (3) * Kopete (2) mathematics: * octave (2), maxima (2) * latex, texmacs, R misc utilities: * sudo (3) * dvd9to5 (2), oggasm (2), ssh (2), grep (2), screen (2) * lsof, sloccount, splint, uptimed, uptime, bash, awk, find * fuser, scim, route, netstat, dpkg-www p2p: * aMule (2) * azureus package manager: * aptitude (7) * Synaptic (6) * adept (2), apt (2) * portage * pkg_add pdf-reader: * acroread (2), kpdf (2) * xpdf, gpdf, evince process monitor: * top (3) * procmeter tag editor: * easyTag (5) * juk, id3v2 terminal emulator: * gnome-terminal (7) * Konsole (6) * Xterm (4) * xfce4-terminal (2), RXVT (2), Yakuake (2) * eterm text editor: * gedit (6) * vi (5) * kate (4) * gvim (3), gxedit (3), * nano (2), vim (2), Emacs (2) * anjuta, FTE, mousepad, OpenOffice.org video player: * mplayer (7) * VLC (4) * Kaffeine (3) * xine-ui (2), totem (2), totem-xine (2) * gmplayer, gxine web browser: * mozilla-firefox (17) * Epiphany (2) * opera, wget, konqueror (unreleased): * GNU HURD (4) 3D animation: [ blender (5) ] office: [ openoffice (2) ] aggregator: [ lifearea ] admin: [ webmin ] bootloader: [ grub ] cms: [ drupal ] config: [ gkDebconf ] dns: [ dnsmasq ] eyecandy: [ wallpaper-tray ] http-proxy: [ privoxy ] image manager: [ digiKam ] IRC client: [ XChat ] mail server: [ cyrus21 ] media-player: [ Kaffeine ] PIM: [ kontact ] spam murderer: [ spamassassin ] window manager: [ fvwm ] Summary: 18 votes: gimp 17 votes: mozilla-firefox 11 votes: k3b 09 votes: gthumb, Thunderbird 07 votes: aptitude, gnome-terminal, mplayer, audacity Thanks for all the responses...
