What is your favourite FLOSS application?

[Mark C. Miller]

On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:21:49 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:

> Tshepang Lekhonkhobe has been running the Favourite FLOSS survery for
> several years on the Debian list. This year, with his blessing, I take
> the survey to the Ubuntu and Kubuntu lists. Below is a template where
> you can fill in your favourite applications. If an app does not fit in
> any of the categories, please put it under misc utilities and suggest a
> new category. Please do not add what you have not really used. You can
> include more than one entrant per category, but please don't bloat.
> 
> Accessibility:
> Address Book:
> Audio Editor:
> Audio Player:
> Calendar:
> CD Ripper:
> Collaboration:
> Database Management:
> Desktop Environment OR Window Manager: Development:
> Dictionary/Translation:
> Disc Burner:
> E-mail Client:
> File Compression:
> File Manager:
> Finance:
> Learning tool:
> FTP Client:
> Game:
> Image Creator/Editor:
> Image Viewer:
> Instant Messenger:
> Mapping:
> Mathematics:
> Misc Utilities:
> Note-taking:
> P2P:
> Package Manager:
> Personal Wiki:
> Phone/PDA Sync Tool:
> Photo Organizer:
> Plenetarium:
> PDF/PS Reader:
> PDF Writer:
> Security:
> Spreadsheet:
> Terminal Emulator:
> Text Editor:
> Video Player:
> Virtual Machine / Windows Emulator:
> Web Browser:
> Word Processor:
> 
> 
> SPECIAL CATEGORIES
> 
> Non-free applications that you use:
> Websites for finding new applications: Unreleased and highly anticipated
> application: Dying/dead applications (abandonware) still in use:
> Software available for Windows that you need on Linux: One outstanding
> issue with Linux/Ubuntu that needs immediate attention: Any organisation
> or community deserving great honours: Any FLOSS developer deserving
> great honours: Anything else deserving great honours:

will this list be compiled and published someplace at some time?  It's 
pretty open as stated.

I'd love to know if I need to be printing out these individual answers 
because there's a lot of stuff here I've never heard of -- which isn't 
surprising given the dearth of experience at my end.

mcm



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Mark C. Miller, Indianapolis IN, USA