[Fsf-friends] Favourites from the world of FLOSS... a short-list
Frederick Noronha (FN)
fred@bytesforall.org
Sun Nov 14 00:49:08 IST 2004
Linux New Media Award 2004
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Below are the products and names short-listed for the Linux New Media Award
2004. Just thought of sharing the same so that we could see how the FLOSS
world looks from the heart of Europe:
Hardware
Favorite Notebook Vendor
Acer global.acer.com/products/notebook/
Apple www.apple.com/hardware/
Asus www.asus.com/products/notebook/
Dell
www1.us.dell.com/content/products/category.aspx/notebooks?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs
Fujitsu Siemens www.fujitsu-siemens.com/home/products/notebooks/
HP welcome.hp.com/country/us/en/prodserv/notebooks_tabletpcs.html
IBM
www-132.ibm.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CategoryDisplay?catalogId=-840&langId=-1&storeId=1&categoryId=2035724
Samsung www.samsung.com/Products/NotebookPCs/
Sony www.sonystyle.com
Best Free Project for Hardware Support
ACPI4Linux acpi.sourceforge.net
Linux on iPod ipodlinux.sourceforge.net
Ndiswrapper ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net
X.Org www.x.org
XBox Linux www.xbox-linux.org
Linuxprinting.org www.linuxprinting.org
VDR www.cadsoft.de/vdr/
growisofs/mkisofs for DVD Support fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/
Linux Friendliest Printer Vendor
Canon www.canon.com/technology/
Epson www.epson.com
HP www.hp.com/united-states/consumer/gateway/printing_multifunction.html
Lexmark www.lexmark.com
Kyocera global.kyocera.com
OKI www.oki.com/en/products/
Software
Best Newcomer Linux Distribution
gnuLinEx www.linex.org
SkoleLinux www.skolelinux.org
Ubuntu Linux www.ubuntulinux.org
UserLinux www.userlinux.com
White Box Linux www.whiteboxlinux.org
Yoper www.yoper.com
Best Distribution for Beginners
Linspire www.linspire.com
Xandros Desktop OS www.xandros.com
Fedora Core fedora.redhat.com
Suse Personal/Professional www.suse.com
Mandrake Linux www.linux-mandrake.com
Best Multimedia Framework
Arts www.arts-project.org
GStreamer gstreamer.freedesktop.org
Jack jackit.sourceforge.net
LADSPA www.ladspa.org
MAS www.mediaapplicationserver.net
NAS radscan.com/nas.html
NMM www.networkmultimedia.org
OpenML www.khronos.org/openml/
USound mattcamp.paunix.org/usound/
SDL www.libsdl.org
Best Media Player
XMMS www.xmms.org
Xine/Kaffeine xinehq.de
MPlayer www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/news.html
Amarok amarok.kde.org
JuK developer.kde.org/~wheeler/juk.html
Ogle freshmeat.net/projects/ogle/
Helix Player player.helixcommunity.org
Best Mail Client
Sylpheed/Sylpheed-Claws sylpheed.good-day.net
Kontact/KMail kmail.kde.org
Thunderbird/Mozilla Mail www.mozilla.org
Evolution www.novell.com/products/evolution/
Mutt www.mutt.org
Best Database System
MaxDB 7.5 dev.mysql.com/downloads/maxdb/7.5.00.html
Oracle 10g www.oracle.com/technology/products/database/oracle10g/
MySQL 5.0 www.mysql.com/products/mysql/
PostgreSQL 8 www.postgresql.org/news/223.html
DB2 www-306.ibm.com/software/data/db2/udb/
Apache Derby (Cloudscape) www-306.ibm.com/software/data/cloudscape/
Sybase Adaptive Server www.sybase.com/products/databaseservers/ase
Special Award for outstanding promotion of Linux and Open Source*
Institution/Organization
Creative Commons creativecommons.org
Free Software Foundation www.fsf.org
Eurolinux/FFII www.eurolinux.org
Groklaw www.groklaw.net
City of Munich www.muenchen.de
Government of Brazil www.brazil.gov.br
China Open Source Software Promotion Alliance
Junta de Extremadura (Spain) www.juntaex.es/
OSDL www.osdl.org
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