[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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