People have been arguing about which Linux desktop environment is better for years. However, we need a "rational" way to decide. So, I've put together a list of things to compare the two.
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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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mattflaschen
4 years 49 weeks 5 days 20 hours ago
Excellent, well-reasoned article.
Excellent, well-reasoned article. Like the author, I obviously prefer KDE, but use OpenOffice.org as KOffice sounds too much like Coughffice.
fanen
4 years 49 weeks 5 days 9 hours ago
i can't find the link to the said
i can't find the link to the said satire. on Digg, you normally just click the news title...
[update]
at least hovering on the title doesn't make it obvious
Jimbob
4 years 49 weeks 5 days 3 hours ago
You get brought to the comments
You get brought to the comments page first and there's sometimes an expansion on the blurb (depends on who's submitting). Then you click on the title again and you get taken to the article.