Readers' Choice Awards 2008 (Linux Journal) [LWN.net]

Linux Journal has announced the results of its Readers' Choice Awards. "In this year's competition, we designated only one winner per category, with strong contenders receiving honorable mention awards. For instance, in the categories where a cluster of formidable contenders followed the outright winner, we designated up to three honorable mentions. However, if one product clearly dominated a category (for example, OpenOffice.org with 85% in Favorite Office Program or Apache with 92% in Favorite Web Server), and the contenders were barely on the radar, there were no honorable mentions."

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Readers' Choice Awards 2008 (Linux Journal)

Posted May 6, 2008 20:08 UTC (Tue) by evgeny (guest, #774) [Link]

It has always struck me that they put ssh and iptables in the same category. How is one in a
sane mind supposed to pick only one of them? I understand e.g. the choice between
Gnome/KDE/... or MySQL/PostgreSQL/..., but if you need the functionality of iptables, how can
ssh replace it? or vise versa...?!

Readers' Choice Awards 2008 (Linux Journal)

Posted May 6, 2008 22:16 UTC (Tue) by pr1268 (subscriber, #24648) [Link]

My thoughts exactly! Also, I don't understand what K3b has in common with tar and rsync. :-\

Readers' Choice Awards 2008 (Linux Journal)

Posted May 7, 2008 5:09 UTC (Wed) by eru (subscriber, #2753) [Link]

It is also silly to ask if the preference is Flex or Bison. A language implementation project often uses both, because they are tools for quite different purposes.

Readers' Choice Awards 2008 (Linux Journal)

Posted May 9, 2008 9:44 UTC (Fri) by jschrod (subscriber, #1646) [Link]

I'd even say, a project that uses Bison will use Flex in 95% of all cases. Or do you know any
yacc grammar where the lex scanner has been written by hand, not using lex?

To take your statement further, these tools have not only »quite different purposes«, they
have complementary purposes.

Frozen bubble and Emacs

Posted May 8, 2008 9:23 UTC (Thu) by coriordan (guest, #7544) [Link]

You've got to wonder about the voters when Frozen Bubble gets first prize and Emacs gets
beaten by vi and gedit.

Frozen Bubble is amusing for a day, but it's easy to get bored of.

Same comment for vi and gedit :-P

Frozen bubble and Emacs

Posted May 8, 2008 14:24 UTC (Thu) by tjc (guest, #137) [Link]

You're left it a bit late -- the vi/emacs flame wars have been over for at least 15 years. ;-)

Frozen bubble and Emacs

Posted May 8, 2008 14:58 UTC (Thu) by NigelK (guest, #42083) [Link]

And vi won.

Of course.

Frozen bubble and Emacs

Posted May 8, 2008 22:54 UTC (Thu) by coriordan (guest, #7544) [Link]

While on the topic, although I think vim is poor editor compared to Emacs, I do mourn the
general trend away from advanced editors (Emacs or vim) toward editors where the user has to
use a mouse or arrow keys to move the cursor around.

I think the inconvenience of that has made people lazy about formatting and rearranging their
text.