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Anybody up to writing good directory software?
Tue, 2007-02-20 11:17 — David JonathanSince the very beginning, directories (of any kind) have had a very central role in the internet. (I have recently grown fond of Free Web Directory. Even Slashdot can be considered a directory: a collection of great news and invaluable user-generated comments. As far as software is concerned, doing a quick search on Google about software directories will return the free (as in freedom) software directories like Savannah, SourceForge, Freshmeat and so on, followed by shareware and freeware sites such as FileBuzz, PCWin Download Center and All Freeware (great if you're looking for shareware and freeware, but definitely less comprehensive than their free-as-in-freedom counterparts).
Is better education the key to finding better software?
Sat, 2007-03-03 03:25 — Edward RusselI read David Jonathon's article Anybody Up To Writing Good Directory Software? the other day, which got me thinking about software directories in general. As David mentioned, many of the software directories one finds when doing a quick google search are free as in beer, not as in freedom. But what interests me is the software directories that already exist, providing a combination of both free as in beer software, and open source software. Sites such as Freeware Downloads and Shareware Download don't advertise themselves as providing free as in liberty software, but each of them have a good selection of open source software available... if you know where to look.
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lozz
2 years 25 weeks 1 day 4 hours ago
Save me the trouble
I did a fresh Ubuntu install today and the first thing I had to do was to manually remove F-Spot and Tomboy. Later,I'll have to get rid of all the nasty Mono libraries out of the install.
Please, save us all a stack of trouble, Ubuntu, and get rid of all this M$-Patented muck before you release the distro. Idiots can always buy Windows 7 if they want this sort of garbage badly enough.
Lanadapter
2 years 24 weeks 5 days 12 hours ago
Well.....
"Idiots can always buy Windows 7 if they want this sort of garbage badly enough."
The end users who purchase windows aren't buying windows specifically, but a desktop PC. They don't generally think of the OS as being separate from the computer.
It's part of why Microsoft remains dominate in the desktop market. If ubuntu had been preinstalled on most PCs from the start microsoft related news would be along the lines of 'Windows 7 released, is this the year of the NT desktop?'
lozz
2 years 24 weeks 2 days 13 hours ago
M$ encourages idiocy
Yeah, M$ still manages to get away with "bundling" their buggy OS on new computers, despite many court cases aimed at ending this anti-competitive practice.
As you say, M$ discourages its users from thinking about their computer usage to such an extent that they become virtual zombies who can't think outside the M$ envelope.
A bright young fellow asked to use my computer to make a word document, the other day I told him he'd have no trouble using Open Office because everything was pretty much the same as his M$-Word.
But he did have trouble.
"There's lots more on this than Word's got" - he must of had a bare-bones "student edition".
So, a few additional features were enough to stop a M$-created idiot from using a simple word processing application.
Pity help them, M$ won't.