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Your Favourite Software for 2008?

Fri, 2009-01-02 14:55 — tregeagle

Happy New Year!

Whilst recovering from mixing my drinks I found an 'article' on some annoying website (via Slashdot) listing "The 10 Coolest Open Source Products Of 2008" to save you expending your time clicking through all 11 pages here is the list:

  • OpenOffice 3.0
  • IBM Lotus Symphony
  • Firefox 3.0
  • Laconica
  • Fedora 9
  • Ubuntu 8.10
  • OpenSuSE 11
  • Novell JeOS
  • Ubuntu 8.04
  • Android

Must admit I would not have chosen most of these. Firefox and Ubuntu are , rightly, always on these lists. I'm mighty impressed by laconi.ca (see it in action over at identi.ca) and is good to see it being recognised here.

What is the Coolest Open Source Software you have used recently? - share in the comments.

Comments

Sat, 2009-01-03 11:57 — Matthew Davidson

My favourites of 2008

Nobody needs to hear again how awesome I think Drupal is, and on the desktop the software I use doesn't change much from year to year, but there were a couple of user interface tweaks that I really loved.

The Ubuntu Netbook Remix is a bunch of packages for Ubuntu that replaces much of the default GNOME user interface with an interface that makes better use of limited screen real estate (i.e. anything 1024 pixels wide or less). It's made my EeePC much easier to use.

I cannot begin to explain how awesome GNOME-Do is. You just have to try it. It does for your desktop computer and everything on it what the Firefox Awesome Bar (which made FF3 another of my favourites of 2008) does for your web history.

Also have to second the vote for Laconica, not so much for the software itself, but for the fact that it follows the OpenMicroBlogging specification, meaning that you can use it to subscribe to posts by anybody on any Laconica server, or on any service that follows the OMB spec (try subscribing to this one for starters). Twitter's days are numbered.

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Sat, 2009-01-03 13:00 — Peter Anderson

2008 Favourites

It's interesting thinking back to this time last year; I was using Vista and IE7.
It was only in March I was introduced to Linux/Ubuntu, Firefox and Drupal.

So my favourites would have to include the above, plus Firebug (couldn't live without it now) and KeePassX (a very handy password storage tool).

Sat, 2009-01-03 13:05 — Peter Anderson

Forgot one

Oh, and VirtualBox!
Sat, 2009-01-03 14:00 — Matthew Davidson

How could I forget VirtualBox!

I now hove no Windows partitions on any (working) computer, but I can still test my sites in legacy web browsers. Not sure if the XP EULA allows that, but I don't think virtualisation software would have been considered by the authors of the license in 2001, so it's probably not expressly forbidden.
Sat, 2009-01-03 14:52 — Peter Anderson

I think you can use VHD

I think you can use VHD files in VirtualBox (latest versions anyway). So using these should be fine: http://tinyurl.com/6yhpzf
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