[Ilugc] Accenture survey sees open source investment rising
- From: steve@xxxxxxxxxxxx (steve)
- Date: Fri Aug 6 23:31:21 2010
On 08/06/2010 02:39 PM, Siddhu wrote:
I need a help from you, anyone knows any website, which gives list of the
stable open source applications in different category.
Fg.
for developers gEdit is a good tool to develop a program,
like this for Page layout designing InkScape is good one.
But when I search in google there are lot of tools available.
I don't know which one is a stable one to use.
could anyone help me to find it?
That's what distributions are for. Most distributions would offer you one
default choice for your task. This choice might even be different based on the
desktop manager you use. Most distributions will have a GUI package manager
which would list, group and let you search for apps, based on the task you want
to do.
One good thing about going with the distribution's choice is that stability of
the app is to an e?tent certified by the fact that it is packaged with the
distribution and you have one place to report all your bugs to.
At the end of the day though, I would recommend trying out different apps and
seeing what fits you the best.
Finally, this isn't a problem unique to Linux, it's just that the M$ monopoly
and unethical practices(*) of actively shoving 'preferred' applications down
peoples throat desensitizes one to the fact that choice is abundant on any OS.
cheers,
- steve
(*) like using unclear ^standards^, breaking compatibility between OS versions,
using proprietary undocumented API for which developers of 'preferred' apps
need
to sign NDA for and providing what they claim is better ^interoperability^
between apps, but in effect is making their own (or their partner's) products
work better on their OS as compared to 3rd party apps.
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http://lonetwin.net/
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http://lonetwin.stumbleupon.com/
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