What is your favourite FLOSS application?

[Willy Hamra]

On 17/11/2009, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Tshepang Lekhonkhobe has been running the Favourite FLOSS survery for
> several years on the Debian list. This year, with his blessing, I take
> the survey to the Ubuntu and Kubuntu lists. Below is a template where
> you can fill in your favourite applications. If an app does not fit in
> any of the categories, please put it under misc utilities and suggest
> a new category. Please do not add what you have not really used. You
> can include more than one entrant per category, but please don't
> bloat.
>
Accessibility:
Address Book:
Audio Editor: Audacity
Audio Player: Amarok 2
Calendar:
CD Ripper: audiocd kio slave
Collaboration:
Database Management:
Desktop Environment OR Window Manager: KDE4
Development:
Dictionary/Translation: google translate? :P
Disc Burner: k3b
E-mail Client: Thunderbird
File Compression: tar bzip
File Manager: dolphin
Finance: gnucash
Learning tool: rutebook
FTP Client:
Game: wesnoth
Image Creator/Editor: gimp
Image Viewer: gwenview
Instant Messenger: amsn, skype
Mapping: google earth
Mathematics:
Misc Utilities:
Note-taking:
P2P: utorrent using wine
Package Manager: aptitude
Personal Wiki:
Phone/PDA Sync Tool:
Photo Organizer:
Plenetarium:
PDF/PS Reader: okular
PDF Writer: open office
Security:
Spreadsheet: open office
Terminal Emulator: konsole
Text Editor: kate, nano
Video Player: vlc
Virtual Machine / Windows Emulator: virtualbox
Web Browser: firefox 3.7preA
Word Processor: open office


SPECIAL CATEGORIES

Non-free applications that you use: skype, vlc, nvidia drivers, google
earth, utorrent (wine), winRAR (wine)
Websites for finding new applications: packages.ubuntu.com if needed.
mostly using apt-cache
Unreleased and highly anticipated application:
Dying/dead applications (abandonware) still in use: some of the games
installed from repos i have :P
Software available for Windows that you need on Linux: good torrent
client like utorrent. an archiving program feature-full like winrar.
One outstanding issue with Linux/Ubuntu that needs immediate
attention: better acpi support. it's already improved, but
hibernate/resume still has its woes. it should *just* work.
Any organisation or community deserving great honours: the KDE team,
wonderful job they're doing. the Kubuntu developers working on the new
project to improve kubuntu. we deserve to be as shiny as ubuntu. the
mozilla team, excellent work on firefox, been compiling trunk FF every
week, perfect developing.
Any FLOSS developer deserving great honours: Linus Torvalds of course.
for making this wonderful kernel.
Anything else deserving great honours: everyone in the world who wrote
added a line of code to the FLOSS community, who submitted a genuine
bug report, who triaged a report, who helped a developer write FLOSS
code, and those who whole-heartidly love and support Free software.


-- 
Willy K. Hamra
Manager of Hamra Information Systems