Linux Journal Editors Choice Awards

An anonymous reader dropped a note in to say that the Linux Journal Editors Choice Awards have been announced. No real surprises in the list, except maybe giving RSS the award for best game.

Firefox deserved the win for best browser!

[FiReaNGeL]

Even for Windows, Firefox is awesome... I left Netscape at version 6.0 (you know, the one with a ton of AOL bloat), and now it's the first time that I feel that a browser can compete with Explorer. It's fast, customizable, cute, compatible... and the extensions thing is just a greaaaaaat idea! Tabbed browsing is also the best thing since sliced bread...

GG for the win! :)

I didn't checked the other awards, not being a Linux guy... (at least, not for now!)

One Install Away?

[Anonymous Coward]

From Article-
"Any hardware whose speed gets compared to greased rodents is at least worthy of an honorable mention, and Greg Kroah-Hartman made that comparison in his vote for the dual-processor version of the Apple Power Mac G5, which is one Linux install away from being a great system. "It's fast, quiet and pretty to look at. With full 64-bit goodness for a very cheap price, what's not to like?" he wrote. "

One linux install away? I realize this is the linux editors journal, but what about having OSX installed doesnt make it a gre
at system?

Social networking sites are nothing new

[SuperBanana]

Reuven points out that the all-in-one social network sites LinkedIn, Orkut and Ryze aren't particularly useful, but he says they're "all scratching the surface of something new and interesting."

Bull. There's nothing older; a friend invited me to join friendster, and my first comment to her was:

"Jesus Christ, it's high school, all over again."

It's an electronic popularity contest, with a little bit of recruitment thrown in. Most of us sit on the sidelines and watch as the really popular people amass a huge collection of friends.

Not surprisingly, a huge number of these young 20-somethings were from NYC, and almost all of them were exactly the type I can't stand- drunk-every-night clubbers. My personal favorite was some rich-bitch french girl who was almost completely naked in all of her shots on some beach. Her profile was truly a piece of work. Example: "Things I enjoy: Not having to work. Ever."

Friendster attracts the biggest concentration of intellectual-stuck-ups, prisses, and vanity-obsessed people I've seen in my life. Given Orkut is higher profile and more exclusive, I would imagine it's even worse.

Re:I would've liked to see MySQL win

[jadavis]

GPL instead of the BSD license

Funny how MySQL releases even the client libraries as GPL instead of LGPL.

That means you can't even ship your non-GPL product with MySQL support unless you buy a commercial license from MySQL AB. Commercial databases such as Oracle don't even have this restriction!

Re:Ardour and lack of originality?

[paulbd]

do you know why Protools looks the way it does? because they have hundreds of beta testers and serious users offering them feedback at every step of their game. there isn't one thing in PT that hasn't been driven by user feedback - that may be good or bad, but it does mean that the UI is driven by user demands.

second, there is no "MS world" here - the flagship DAWs all started life on the Mac. hell, 4 years ago, PT was only certified to run on a *single* intel-based system (from IBM).

third, DAWs have all pretty much converged on the exact same feature set. you could feel that in the air at NAMM this year - nobody knows where to go next (well, the ardour project does, but it will be a while before we do). ardour attempts to get the best ideas from all of them, so although our UI is structured roughly like PT, we include the new "editor-window-mixer-strip" that originated in SX and is now in Sonar as well.

Re:Project of the year--- How can you tell?

[xiphmont]

I will point out that many pro sound engineers are not also even more pro computer people. I help write DAW software... and couldn't figure out how to work on an existing file without you telling me. Most people who try out Ardour won't complain if they can't get it to work. The majority tends to give up and wander away; that's a problem for all of us.

[also, a disclaimer. I'm only 'semi-pro'; I take money but don't pretend to live on it as a career. That said, I do have an annoying penchant for expensive equipment]

Monty