Comments on: 10 Greatest Open Source Software Of 2009

By: test

test — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:25:49 +0000

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By: Lie

Lie — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 17:15:02 +0000

Because it will be boring if the list of software is something that you already used everyday. One of the reason people looks for “List of X” is for software discovery, and people want to discover new software they never heard of.

By: Carlos

Carlos — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 12:11:54 +0000

Hi, I use TrueCrypt too, but does anybody have noticed that when you mount an encrypted volume, it suddenly increase the internet traffic?? !!! Does this program transmit something somewhere ????? your privacy??
Check it out, any comment is welcome…

Have a good day !

By: Raver

Raver — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 00:08:47 +0000

Always interesting to see peoples opinions on software. You can guess based on their list what area of interest they have. web designers, programmers, etc.. We I have been looking at Ubuntu for a long time. I have used it on and off, playing with it from the Live Cd. I’d been playing with the latest version when my wife’s and daughters laptops died (hard drives). I likes what I saw with the new version of Ubuntu and so decided to load the newly installed hard drives with it. Installation and configuration went great. Wireless setup was a snap. They were already using both Open Office and MS Office from their previous systems with ran Vista so no learning curve there. The real treat was me no learning how to do things in Ubuntu. Sudo and all the little things you have to learn. Thanks to various how to’s that too was no problem. Installed ESET Nod 32 and had a hitch. Went to there site and found the cure. Cure also had a hitch but at close observation I saw they had a error in their post. Changed it and boom, Nod 32 was up and running. Very happy so far. Wife’s and daughter’s requirements are small: Spreadsheet, word processor, database program, browser, email client, music player, graphics editor, etc.. Use a number of the software listed here :) . Loaded VirtualBox and loaded Windows$ for the software that they needed but that was not available for Ubuntu (to my knowledge) They are happy …….. so am I.

By: Philippe Petrinko

Philippe Petrinko — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 12:58:39 +0000

Dear Living,

I am afraid I disagree, gCr is fine under Linux/Gnome (Debian).
I have been using gCr for months.

Furthermore, under Linux/Gnome, user can use mouse rolling button to switch forth and back between tabs, which cannot be done under Windows CMIIAW.
I really need this feature.

– Philippe

By: Livin4Jesus

Livin4Jesus — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 03:42:57 +0000

Honestly, Google Chrome looks SO much better in Windows… :/

By: Georgine

Georgine — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 19:11:56 +0000

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By: Katie Cuti

Katie Cuti — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 14:35:57 +0000

Great post, I found you site when I was on my phone. I’ll check back later when I am on my desktop

By: Philippe Petrinko

Philippe Petrinko — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 13:40:11 +0000

Vivek,
we are half of 2011,
may be time to close this topic
and switch to a new one.
For instance, LibreOffice is born, OpenOffice may be dead soon.

IMNSHO, such topic may require sub-sections such as “Best File Explorer” ” Best Browser”, “Best professional Linux distrib”, “Best CD-DVD burning SW” and so on…

What’s your point?

– Philippe

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By: Tuerdi

Tuerdi — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 09:52:21 +0000

Interesting. All do respect, it is only your choice not majority. You should think about why many others uses different than you?

By: Tuerdi

Tuerdi — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 09:46:32 +0000

“Firefox browser – greates browser ever” it was.

By: Tuerdi

Tuerdi — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 09:44:44 +0000

Agree with most of them, but not with Firefox. I don’t now about Opera but I am using Firefox, IE9 and Chrome on several different computers. My feeling is Chrome is much faster, easy and friendly to use; IE9 was improved quite a lot than it is predecessor on all aspects, it is not the worst anymore; when it comes to Firefox I can’t see much change on it, I mark it as same with IE. Some time, I am also getting touch with Safari and I am feeling that was the worst browser ever. Of course, it is just my personal opinion.

By: Tuerdi

Tuerdi — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 09:08:42 +0000

Agree. After use it quite some time I felt my other browser is like a rubbish.

By: cypherb0g

cypherb0g — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 18:28:58 +0000

i think i add a lot but for star will be pdfcreator, peazip, eclipse,….

By: papin1

papin1 — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 18:17:21 +0000

Hi everybody,

Stumbled upon this page, quite interesting. The software list seems OK to me, given the preamble some people forgot to read thoroughly (“cross-platform FOSS”).

Like me, you’ve noticed how short the list is. I don’t believe you’ll find more than 20 cross-platform FOSS, but the job is well done and software quality is here. Not all people may like/use them (I tried many times to use TheGimp but failed miserabily) though.

My machine has a genuine XP Pro SP3 nlited because I absolutely need to run MS Office 2000 Premium and other software not available elsewhere (they might be FOSS but not cross-platform).

I will stick to MSO 2000 for a while because :

1. OOO or LibreOffice cannot simply do the job. My Excel sheets are way too complicated for OOO Calc and I’m only using 45 basic functions plus MSQUERY for *.rqy scripts. Besides, Excel loads in a blink of an eye, creating VBA macros and forms is easy while OOO macros lack documentation *and* are way too complicated for me.

2. Support for laptop’s touchpad is still lacking… support! For instance, touchpad is clearly stated as “no supported” in the OOO Calc documentation as well as the unabiliy to handle names. Alas, bad support for laptop touchpads is widely generalized in the Linux world.

3. OOO Writer is not better than Word, excepted for the style/object panels. On the other hand, I’m tired of Word, so I use OOO Writer instead, but only because I exchange files with other people.

4. MSO 2007 is a no-no (that ribbon!). Newer versions could oblige me to buy newer hardware because they tend to be hungrier on resources.

5. Last, OOO and the like are too heavy, too bloated, too slow and too often provide features unusuable or do not provide useful features. These software need a serious rewriting from scratch. They’ve done their job, which was showing the world that Microsoft is not the only one that can make professional office software. In their current state, they will never drain the masses to FOSS (and Linux for what it matters).

For the record, I used to promote OOO (or LibreOffice) everytime I could. I installed LibreOffice but removed it as quickly because I felt it would be less usable than OOO. Now I let people do what they want unless they try to send me MS Works files, in such case they’ll have to get OOO or else.

Now, for the FOSS point. IMHO, I have to admit I prefer usabilty and work quickly and efficiently done with the less effort over having a pure FOSS computer that is useless.

Purity is like water purity: nobody will ever drink pure H2O liquid. Just take the damn Flash necessary to watch youtube videos, for example. And how my ATI video card would do without proprietary software? And why should I have java, which is not FOSS? What about the PDF file format (it has become an ISO standard but is still proprietary software –remember the GIF turnmoil)?

By: SamHoratio

SamHoratio — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 03:30:25 +0000

LibreOffice may trump OpenOffice now. It also seems to have a greater potential for growth and change after the split and the creation of the Open Document Foundation.
Regarding it being better than Microsoft Office however, let’s be honest our patriotism and loyalty to the Unix/Linux world and open source aside, there never is an office production suite that comes even close to Microsoft Office. It is simply the best there is.
I love Ubuntu and Debian, and Microsoft would give anything to make an operating system half as great. But in my opinion, Microsoft is still the best in making three things;
1. Microsoft Office (currently MS Office 2010)
2. Microsoft Visual Studio (DE)
3. Microsoft Encarta (an Encyclopaedia with some student essentials later shipped as Microsoft Student and discontinued in 2009) Wikipedia took its toll.

As for my favorite open source apps, I’d add
XBMS
Movie Player (totem) — Very stable and quite simple.
Cheese (webcam handler)
XSane (image scanner) — Feature-rich

By: TC

TC — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 19:28:02 +0000

no one really mentioned:

Perl – deep, wide, and rich, off the scale good
PDFCreator – handy, probably cuts into Adobe’s revenue

By: mutuelle handicapé

mutuelle handicapé — Wed, 18 May 2011 12:36:48 +0000

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By: smlier

smlier — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 11:00:24 +0000

I Agree VLC is the best media player. No codecs, no load time, no bulk. perfect =)