Re: [PLUG] Linux Journal Readers' choice awards 2013

2014-01-17 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 3:01 PM, Amarendra Godbole wrote: > There may not be security updates, but there may not be security > issues in the first place. The only way to ensure this is to lookup > the quality of developers' on that tool - actively maintained, but too > many cooks may not be

Re: [PLUG] Linux Journal Readers' choice awards 2013

2014-01-15 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 8:00 AM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay < sankarshan.mukhopadh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 5:20 PM, Mandar Vaze / मंदार वझे > wrote: > > When choosing a tool, I typically check when was the last "active" > > development. > > If my requirement is low enough - som

Re: [PLUG] Linux Journal Readers' choice awards 2013

2014-01-15 Thread Amarendra Godbole
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 3:50 AM, Mandar Vaze / मंदार वझे wrote: >> Can you elaborate what "moving with times means"? Tools of the newer times >> make me no more productive than those of yesteryear, so I don't see much a >> point. >> > > It was a generic remark - may or may not apply in the context

Re: [PLUG] Linux Journal Readers' choice awards 2013

2014-01-14 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 5:20 PM, Mandar Vaze / मंदार वझे wrote: > When choosing a tool, I typically check when was the last "active" > development. > If my requirement is low enough - something that isn't updated in few years > might also work for me "now" > but when I need a security update, and n

Re: [PLUG] Linux Journal Readers' choice awards 2013

2014-01-14 Thread Mayuresh
On Tue, Jan 07, 2014 at 05:20:51PM +0530, Mandar Vaze / ? ??? wrote: > If "you" feel productive with your current set of tools, then "you" > shouldn't feel ancient/part of museum/endangered specie. > What am I missing ? No "I" was not feeling ancient/museum/endangered. If you read my mail it w

Re: [PLUG] Linux Journal Readers' choice awards 2013

2014-01-14 Thread Mandar Vaze / मंदार वझे
> Can you elaborate what "moving with times means"? Tools of the newer times > make me no more productive than those of yesteryear, so I don't see much a > point. > It was a generic remark - may or may not apply in the context of "mutt" - hence the "Disclaimer" at the end of my original email Anyw

Re: [PLUG] Linux Journal Readers' choice awards 2013

2014-01-06 Thread ag@gmail
> On Jan 3, 2014, at 10:54 AM, Mandar Vaze / मंदार वझे > wrote: > > Fir > >> appears a yesteryears' favorite now with mere 4.8% share. (I use mutt and >> feel like an endangered species... danger of being driven away to some >> corner of an archaeological museum, with no idea about my wrongdoi

Re: [PLUG] Linux Journal Readers' choice awards 2013

2014-01-03 Thread Mayuresh
On Sat, Jan 04, 2014 at 12:24:36AM +0530, Mandar Vaze / ? ??? wrote: > > appears a yesteryears' favorite now with mere 4.8% share. (I use mutt and > > feel like an endangered species... danger of being driven away to some > > corner of an archaeological museum, with no idea about my wrongdoing.

Re: [PLUG] Linux Journal Readers' choice awards 2013

2014-01-03 Thread Mandar Vaze / मंदार वझे
Fir > appears a yesteryears' favorite now with mere 4.8% share. (I use mutt and > feel like an endangered species... danger of being driven away to some > corner of an archaeological museum, with no idea about my wrongdoing.) > species doesn't become extinct (archaeological museum reference) due

[PLUG] Linux Journal Readers' choice awards 2013

2014-01-03 Thread Mayuresh
http://www.linuxjournal.com/rc2013 It's lengthy, you'll have to flip through pages to see all categories. (Usual disclaimers of a survey apply, though it's not bad to have a look at them.) If you are a long term follower of such surveys, some results might surprise you. Ubuntu tops in most of t