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debian-user-digest Digest Volume 2007 : Issue 2936

Today's Topics: 

  Re: Debian package of Qtopia          [ Hugo Vanwoerkom  ]
  Re: changing font for xclock          [ Hugo Vanwoerkom  ]
  marking text while reading ebooks     [ Kamaraju S Kusumanchi  ]
  Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?      [ "Tshepang Lekhonkhobe" 
  results: debian-user's favourite FLO  [ "Tshepang Lekhonkhobe" <tshepang@gm ]



Date:  Sun, 02 Dec 2007 07:00:09 -0600


From:  Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org


Subject:  Re: Debian package of Qtopia

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Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Qtopia ("application framework for single-purpose devices powered by 
> embedded Linux") used to be called "qt-embedded" but now I can't find it 
> as a package.
> 
> Anyone?
> 

It really does not exist?


All I found is a note to convert the rpm:
http://www.qtopia.net/modules/xoopsfaq/index.php?cat_id=5#16

Hugo


Do you need help?X

Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2007 18:52:20 +0530


From: Raj Kiran Grandhi <grajkiran@gmail.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org


CC:  debian-user@lists.debian.org


Subject: Re: Mounting a USB Mass Storage Device

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Do you need more help?X

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Samuel B=E4chler wrote:

> # tail -f /var/log/syslog
> Dec  2 12:28:35 ataraxia kernel: SCSI device sdb: 249120 512-byte hdwr=20
> sectors (128 MB)
> Dec  2 12:28:35 ataraxia kernel: sdb: Write Protect is off
> Dec  2 12:28:35 ataraxia kernel: sdb: Mode Sense: 0b 00 00 08
> Dec  2 12:28:35 ataraxia kernel: sdb: assuming drive cache: write throu=

gh

> Dec  2 12:28:35 ataraxia kernel:  sdb: sdb1
> Dec  2 12:28:35 ataraxia kernel: sd 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable=20
> disk sdb
> Dec  2 12:28:35 ataraxia kernel: usb-storage: device scan complete
>=20


> # mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/usb
> mount: you must specify the filesystem type

Is the vfat module loaded? You might want to check the filesystem type=20
with "file -s /dev/sdb1". Also are you able to access the files on any=20
other system? If the data on the usb drive is not important, then try=20
formatting it. "mkdosfs /dev/sdb1" will create a fat16 filesystem while=20
mke2fs will create an ext2 partition.



Raj Kiran



Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2007 21:50:12 +0900


From: Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org>


To: rodolfo.medina@gmail.com


Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org


Subject: Re: Conversion of file Contacts.cdb into other format

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On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 04:08:00PM -0800, rodolfo.medina@gmail.com wrote:

> >From my Nokia mobile phone's filesystem I fetched the file
> Contacts.cdb, containing
> the addressbook.
> 
> Can anyone suggest how to convert it into a readable format, e.g.
> text?
Can we help you?X

Did you do some googling? "Contacts.cdb converter linux"


http://www.filesaveas.com/pdaconvert.html

This should be good start for you ... good luck.



Osamu



Date:  Sun, 02 Dec 2007 07:20:10 -0600


From:  Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org


Subject:  Re: changing font for xclock

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Mike Polyakov wrote:

> Hi,
> I've been trying to change the font for xclock to something smaller,
> and nothing seems to work. Did anyone ever succeed in setting a
> different font for xclock? Could anyone help me out with this if they
> know how to do it. I've tried 7x14 type fonts and fonts from xfontset
> with -font and -fn options, with no avail.
> 

What did you try for the -face option?


Can't find what you're looking for?X

Hugo



Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2007 15:17:09 +0100


From: NN_il_Confusionario <pinkof.pallus@tiscalinet.it>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org


Subject: Re: norton commander

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On Sun, Dec 02, 2007 at 08:39:54AM +0000, steef wrote:

> >On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 07:27:17PM +0000, steef wrote:
> >>  with the norton commander i could talk to a person behind 
> >>the key-board of another computer and send my workfiles 
> this all worked excellent.

Dos Navigator (a modern clone of nc, with both freeware and really free
editions) works reasonably well under dosemu. It has more functions than
the original nc and some functions that are not present in mc; on the
other hand, mc has some unix-specific functions which are clearly
missing from Dos Navigator.


-- 
Chi usa software non libero avvelena anche te. Digli di smettere.
Informatica=arsenico: minime dosi in rari casi patologici, altrimenti letale.
Informatica=bomba: intelligente solo per gli stupidi che ci credono.


Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2007 06:57:37 -0800
From: "Matt Everingham" <matt.everingham@gmail.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: volume mgmt w/o gnome
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I know the conversation has gone way beyond this at this point (really,
brilliant stuff), but I usually just "cheat" and use konqueror.  I use it
for other tasks too (remote connections, etc.), so I don't worry about the
memory usage.  I know this is a n00b answer, but thought I would throw it
out there since the original question didn't specify CLI only.

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I know the conversation has gone way beyond this at this point (really, brilliant stuff), but I usually just &quot;cheat&quot; and use konqueror.&nbsp; I use it for other tasks too (remote connections, etc.), so I don&#39;t worry about the memory usage.&nbsp; I know this is a n00b answer, but thought I would throw it out there since the original question didn&#39;t specify CLI only.
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Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2007 16:12:27 +0100
From: "Jens Peter Secher" <jps@debian.org>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: emacs22 black text on white bg from menu but white text on black bg from console
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On 01/12/2007, Tom Rauchenwald <its.sec@gmx.net> wrote:


> I have the following in my ~/.Xresources:

>

> Emacs.foreground: white
> Emacs.background: black


Alternatively do it from .emacs:

;;; Welcome to the Dark Side.
(set-background-color "black")
(set-foreground-color "oldlace")

Then it is also a good idea to have

(custom-set-variables '(frame-background-mode (quote dark)))

to make fontification look nice.
-- 
                                                    Jens Peter Secher.
_DD6A 05B0 174E BFB2 D4D9 B52E 0EE5 978A FE63 E8A1 jpsecher gmail com_.
A. Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion.
Q. Why is top posting bad?



Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2007 17:25:29 +0200
From: Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Is it exist a mailing-list for console only users ?
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On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 11:51:44PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote:

> Am 2007-11-23 19:42:32, schrieb SPKills:
> > All is in the question...
> > As i don't (almost) ever used the X server then i'm not really able to=

=20

> > help others and not really interested in their problems, i would like t=

o=20

> > know if it exists a list of this kind.
> >=20
> > Thx !
> >=20
> > (ps: i checked out debian website but couldn't find..)
> ------------------------- END OF REPLIED MESSAGE -------------------------

>=20

> I do not know of such list, but maybe, you could create your own one
> on <yahoogroups.com> (Yeah, it has changed to HTML-Crap) but I can
> not recommend <googlegroops.com> since only GMail-Users/Spamer can
> subscribe there.  --  In general, the same crap as Yahoogroups.


Anybody can subscribe, but probably only gmail users can create groups=20
(which is the same with yahoo).

Regards,
Andrei
--=20
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)

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Don't know where to look next?X

Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2007 23:24:10 +0800
From: "Yang, Sheng" <yasker@gmail.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Amarok says xine claim it can't play mp3 after recent upgrade
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Hi all

Recently, I found amarok fail to play mp3 again after I had done the annual
upgrade. I am using testing version, and amarok said that xine1 claims it
can't play mp3. I've encounter this before, and fix it by install
libxine1-ffmpeg package. But this time I have no idea.

I've installed almost every packages which begin with libxine1, and
libmodplug0c2, and everything I can think of, but still fail.

Anyone can help me? Thanks!

-- 
regards,
Yang, Sheng

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Hi all<br><br>Recently, I found amarok fail to play mp3 again after I had done the annual upgrade. I am using testing version, and amarok said that xine1 claims it can&#39;t play mp3. I&#39;ve encounter this before, and fix it by install libxine1-ffmpeg package. But this time I have no idea. 
<br><br>I&#39;ve installed almost every packages which begin with libxine1, and libmodplug0c2, and everything I can think of, but still fail.<br><br>Anyone can help me? Thanks!<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>regards, <br>Yang, Sheng

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Date:  Sun, 02 Dec 2007 10:48:55 -0500
From:  Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <kamaraju@bluebottle.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject:  marking text while reading ebooks
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This question seems very rudimentary. But since I could not find answers
anywhere else, I thought I would just ask the experts here.

While reading a hard copy of a book, people usually highlight important
points with a sharpie, so that the important concepts can be glanced
through at a later point of time. Is there any analogous facility while
reading ebooks/articles on a computer? Say for example, I have a pdf or a
long html file with me. Is there any program which can highlight parts of
text and save it in the new state?

thanks
raju

-- 
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/
http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/

Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2007 16:33:10 +0100
From: Sjoerd Hiemstra <shiems146@kpnplanet.nl>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: volume mgmt w/o gnome
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Mark Grieveson wrote:

> Also, I use kmix for a volume control, because this seems the only
> application that provides a small speaker applet on the fluxbox panel
> to control sounds.  I'd like to get rid of it, and the kde libs that
> accompany it.  So, is there a fluxbox-specific volume control that
> sits nicely on the panel?


My findings are that when I start RealPlayer, its volume control acts
as a master volume control for everything.
It has always been like this, on several distros and all versions of
Debian.  Don't know the reason why.



Date:  Sun, 02 Dec 2007 17:02:34 +0100
From:  Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject:  Re: Conversion of file Contacts.cdb into other format
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On 12/01/07 18:08, rodolfo.medina@gmail.com wrote:

>> From my Nokia mobile phone's filesystem I fetched the file
>> Contacts.cdb, containing
>> the addressbook.
>> 
>> Can anyone suggest how to convert it into a readable format, e.g.
>> text?



Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> writes:


> First thing to do is run:
> $ file Contacts.cdb

>

> "file" has a file of magic strings for thousands of different file
> types.  Hopefully it will give you your first clue.




Thanks:

 $ file Contacts.cdb
 Contacts.cdb: Psion Series 5

.  What now?
Rodolfo



Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2007 08:31:50 -0800
From: Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Debian package of Qtopia
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On Sun, Dec 02, 2007 at 06:50:32AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:

> Hi,

>

> Qtopia ("application framework for single-purpose devices powered by=20
> embedded Linux") used to be called "qt-embedded" but now I can't find it =

as=20

> a package.

>

> Anyone?


Is this it?

andrew@delappy:~$ apt-cache search qtopia
qt3-dev-tools-embedded - Tools to develop embedded Qt applications

andrew@delappy:~$ apt-cache show qt3-dev-tools-embedded
Package: qt3-dev-tools-embedded
Priority: optional
Section: devel
Installed-Size: 436
Maintainer: Debian Qt/KDE Maintainers <debian-qt-kde@lists.debian.org>
Architecture: i386
Source: qt-x11-free
Version: 3:3.3.7-9
Replaces: qt3-tools, libqt3-dev, libqt3-mt-dev
Depends: libc6 (>=3D 2.6.1-1), libfontconfig1 (>=3D 2.4.0), libfreetype6
(>=3D 2.3.5), libgcc1 (>=3D 1:4.2.1), libice6 (>=3D 1:1.0.0), libjpeg62,
libpng12-0 (>=3D 1.2.13-4), libqt3-mt (>=3D 3:3.3.7), libsm6, libstdc++6
(>=3D 4.2.1), libx11-6, libxcursor1 (>> 1.1.2), libxext6, libxft2 (>>
2.1.1), libxi6, libxinerama1, libxrandr2 (>=3D 2:1.2.0), libxrender1,
zlib1g (>=3D 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-1)
Recommends: libqt3-mt-dev
Filename:
pool/main/q/qt-x11-free/qt3-dev-tools-embedded_3.3.7-9_i386.deb
Size: 289496
MD5sum: fa014a1ab7580d2fce4f4d518cabf110
SHA1: 96f5d31f09bb857a8e09a856992963af5fb0bea4
SHA256:
26ff3464c8bb63a4d720bd4ea9b5bf59aeff577acce052140e7d5283688e13a9
Description: Tools to develop embedded Qt applications
 This package contains applications only suitable for developing
 applications with Qt Embedded and/or Qtopia. It provides the QVFB
 program for simulating an embedded device desktop as well as makeqpf
 for converting fonts to embedded fonts suitable for being utilized
 by Qt Embedded applications.
Tag: devel::lang:c++, devel::ui-builder, hardware::embedded,
role::program, scope::utility, uitoolkit::qt, works-with::font


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Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2007 11:22:08 -0500
From: Kumar Ravichandran <kumar.ravichandran@gmail.com>
To: Debian <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Amarok problem with crossfade
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Hi, 
I am running Etch on my Macbook and of late, am having a problem
wherein Amarok throws up a 'Xine could not initialize any audio
drivers' message after playing 1 track. Disabling crossfade seems to
solve it, for some reason. I tried deleting the xine-config file,
.xine folder etc, to no avail. No problems with other players, of
course.

Any ideas?
-- 

Regards,

Kumar.

--

"An eye for an eye will only make the entire world blind."

- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi



Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2007 08:49:36 -0800
From: Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: dmcrypt on an existing partition (firewire external disk)
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On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 07:21:26PM +0100, Andrew Henry wrote:

> Sorry Andrew for double post...when I hit reply it goes to you and not the
> list, so I have now resent the mail to the list... for the second time!


The proper thing to do is Reply-to-List. I read the list and don't
need a copy sent to me directly. You are using Thunderbird -- there is
a plugin/extension for Reply-to-List. Check the archives here for
mention of it, or just poke around at mozilla.

>=20

> =A0Andrew Sackville-West wrote:

>=20

>     I honestly don't know. There *has* to be some performance hit because
>     the data gets mangled before hitting the disk. I don't *notice* any
>     performance hit on my laptop.

>=20
>=20

> You just gave me an idea to try this on the laptop itself.=A0 I had used =

scp to

> copy a file from another laptop to the newly encrypted usb disk, but I ca=

n do

> the same operation to the usb disks host laptop to see if there is a prob=

lem

> with the disk somehoe or with the software.=A0 I have not had a single is=

sue with

> performance in the 2 years I have had this setup and now the only thing t=

hat

> changed is encrypting the usb disk.=A0 Note that my server laptop is also=

 fully

> encrypted and there were no issues with performance of the unencrypted us=

b disk

> before I changed it.


Yes, eliminating the scp (and any other variables) would be a good
thing to narrow down this problem.=20

>=20

>         Can the "terminal loses focus: copy
>         suspends" behaviour be fixed?  I have not tested read performance=

 yet,

>         but I expect and hope that it will be more normal.

>=20
>=20
>=20

>     I would say you've got something messed up there.

>=20
>=20

> Yeah, and another thing I noticed is that when copying if I move the mouse
> pointer then it sticks every now and again for a second or so.=A0 Whether=

 this is

> due to overloaded processor or an indication of some kind of wait event I=

 do

> not know.

>=20

> I am running Debian Etch 4.0r1 which I installed last week.=A0 before tha=

t I was

> running Ubuntu 7.10 desktop without encryption.

>=20

> I think I need to do some more testing then do some googling etc.


yup. I wouldn't be afraid of wiping the drive and trying again as
well.=20

A
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Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2007 12:17:58 -0500
From: Mark Grieveson <dg135@torfree.net>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: volume mgmt w/o gnome
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On Sun,  2 Dec 2007 03:29:52 +0000 (UTC)
debian-user-digest-request@lists.debian.org wrote:


> Auto should work, but the FS should be vfat, so -
> 
> stand alone command:
> mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /media/usb
> (-t means type; again, paths may be different)
> 
> or in fstab:
> /dev/sda1/     /media/usb   vfat   noauto,users   0   0
> 
> ...and then:
> mount /media/usb


Yes, changing "auto" to "vfat" worked.  Thanks.

Mark


Confused? Frustrated?X

Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2007 19:16:26 +0200
From: "Tshepang Lekhonkhobe" <tshepang@gmail.com>
To: debian-user <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?
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Before releasing the results, here's out my own favourites:

desktop OR window manager:
* GNOME

development:
* Python, GTK2

finance:
* Gnumeric

misc utilities:
* grep, Sudo, debmirror, Lsof, less, Meld, Uptimed, sort, du, wc, top,
svn, mencoder, Tracker, apt-show-source, APTonCD, File-roller

package manager:
* Wajig

spreadsheet:
* Gnumeric

tag editor:
* Ex Falso

terminal emulator:
* GNOME Terminal

text editor:
* Scribes

web composer:
* Iceape

anything deservinggreat honours:
* toolchain (GCC, GLibC, Binutils), Linux, Bash, coreutils, Xorg,
GTK2, GLib, Qt, Apache, Perl, Python

anything unreleased and anticipated:
* HURD, Coyotos + BitC + BitCC

-- 
my place on the web:
floss-and-misc.blogspot.com



Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2007 18:26:00 +0100
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Samuel_B=E4chler?= <linux@boeser.ch>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Mounting a USB Mass Storage Device
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>  Is the vfat module loaded? You might want to check the filesystem
>  type with "file -s /dev/sdb1". Also are you able to access the files
>  on any other system? If the data on the usb drive is not important,
>  then try formatting it. "mkdosfs /dev/sdb1" will create a fat16
>  filesystem while mke2fs will create an ext2 partition.


Thanks a lot! I learned quite a lot this weekend, :-).

Summary of mistakes:
(1) I wanted to mount a wrong device (sda1 instead of sdb1).
(2) Did not have the vfat module and the usb_storage module loaded.

Cheers

Sam



Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2007 17:43:18 +0000
From: Adam Hardy <adam.ant@cyberspaceroad.com>
To: List Debian User <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: daap url?
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I set up mt-daapd on one server at home for use on one Mac and I was using 
amorak to access it on my linux box. I'd like to use it in something like 
xfmedia but there's only the possibility of playing files, or a URL.

Does the mt-daapd server have a URL that will be accessible like that? On some 
port?


Thanks
Adam



Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2007 19:36:08 +0200
From: "Tshepang Lekhonkhobe" <tshepang@gmail.com>
To: debian-user <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: results: debian-user's favourite FLOSS
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Hi debian-user,

Here is a summary of the mini-poll that I conducted recently on Debian-user:

Firefox/Iceweasel and GIMP reign supreme for the third year running
but are now joined by aptitude, each having 21 votes. I was surprised
by Quod Libet receiving one vote but more surprising was F-Spot which
also got just one and Tomboy receiving only 2 votes. The most
surprising category is "misc utilities" because none of the 2005 and
2006 winners, sudo and grep received enough votes (three) to appear
here. Nobody but me mentioned Tracker, while Beagle also got just a
single vote. There was no mention of Banshee and only two votes for
Tomboy. The most favourite non-free piece remains Adobe Acrobat, and
one wonders when Evince and other free equivalents will catch up.

I only show results which received at least 3 votes:

audio editor:
* Audacity (11) -> 2005 and 2006 winner

audio player:
* Amarok (7) -> 2005 winner
* XMMS (5) -> 2006 winner
* Audacious (3)
* VLC (3)

cd-ripper:
* Sound Juicer (4) -> 2005 winner
* Grip (3) -> 2006 tie winner
* cdparanoia (3)

DBMS:
* MySQL (8) -> 2005 and 2006 winner
* PostgreSQL (3)

desktop environment OR window manager:
* KDE (8), GNOME (8) -> 2005 and 2006 winner
* XFCE (7)
* Fluxbox (5)

development:
* GCC (6)
* Emacs (4)
* Vim (3)
* Bash (3)
* Make (3)

disc burner:
* K3b (13) -> 2005 and 2006 winner
* cdrecord (4)

e-mail client:
* Mutt (8) -> 2006 winner
* Thunderbird (Icedove) (8) -> 2005 winner
* Evolution (3)

file manager:
* Konqueror (8)
* MC (7) -> 2005 and 2006 winner
* Nautilus (5)
* CLI (6)

finance:
* GnuCash (5)

ftp client:
* gFTP (8) -> 2005 and 2006 winner
* ftp (4)
* wget (3)
* MC (3)

image editor:
* GIMP (21) -> 2005 and 2006 winner

image viewer:
* gThumb (6) --> 2005 winner
* Kuickshow (4)
* GQView (3) -> 2006 winner

instant messenger:
* Gaim/Pidgin (12) -> 2005 and 2006 winner

mathematics:
* Octave (4) -> 2005 and 2006 tie winner
* bc (4) -> 2006 tie winner
* dc (3)

misc utilities:
* screen (5)
* ssh, svn (3)

news:
* Pan, Slrn (4)

p2p:
* Azerus (4)

package manager:
* aptitude (21) -> 2005 and 2006 winner
* apt-get (9)

pdf-reader:
* Xpdf (9) -> 2006 winner
* KPDF (6)
* Evince (6)

spreadsheet:
* OOo Calc (12) -> 2006 winner
* Gnumeric (6)

tag editor:
* Amarok (2)

terminal emulator:
* Konsole (6)
* GNOME Terminal (5) -> 2005 and 2006 winner
* xfce4-terminal (4)
* xterm (3)
* rxvt (3)

text editor:
* Vim (14) -> 2006 winner
* Emacs (7)
* nano (3)

video player:
* MPlayer (15) -> 2005 and 2006 winner
* VLC (6)
* gxine (5)
* Kaffeine (3)

web browser:
* Firefox (Iceweasel) (21) -> 2005 and 2006 winner
* Konqueror (5)
* lynx (4)
* links (3)
* w3m (3)

word-processor:
* OOo Write (11) -> 2006 winner
* AbiWord (4)
* Emacs + Latex (3)
* KWord (3)

anything deserving great honours:
* GCC (10)
* Debian (4)
* Linux (3)
* Vim (3)
* OpenSSH (3)

non-free:
* Acrobat Reader (9) -> 2006 winner
* GMail (5)

Thanks for participating...

-- 
my place on the web:
floss-and-misc.blogspot.com

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