Re: DRAFT: End-User Application Comparisons

[rnd@sampo.karelia.ru]

>
>     - Address / Phone books
>     - Backup programs
>     - Boot selectors
>     - CD player software
>     - CD writer software
>     - Chat clients
>     - Computer Assisted Drafting programs
>     - Daily planners / Schedulers
>     - Database tools and software
>     - Desktop publishing
>     - Dialup networking
>     - Disk partitioners
>     - Fax software
>     - File managers
>     - FTP clients
>     - Graphics applications (eg. GIMP)
>     - Mail software
>     - Music editors
>     - News software (Usenet)
>     - Office suites
>     - Presentation software
>     - Radio players
>     - Screensavers
>     - Sound players
>     - Sound editors
>     - Spreadsheets
>     - Text editor programs
>     - Three-Dimensional Modelling
>     - TV apps
>     - Web administration
>     - Windows/dos Emulators (wine, wabi, dosemu, vmware etc)
>     - Window managers
>     - Word processors

- games
- instant messaging
- knowledge base/expert system tools

It could be also interesting approach not to dissolve
the feature Unix-like system are good at:
 - the ability to make a what-ever-you-want by combining single-task tools

I read somewhere (one of LinuxToday  featured  articles?)  this
even could be visualised (by boxes with in/outgoing arrow, like
in IDEF0 diagram).

Old and proven CLUI apps are not to be lost in the way...

>We are looking for interested people who are already familiar with
>software in one or more of these categories to write a short description
>of individual software packages. Our audience is the end users of linux,
>so this task is particularly suited to non-programmers. In particular,
>we want to address suitability of these applications to actually doing
>'real work' -- ideally people working on a category will have some
>experience with using the more traditional applications from that
>category in a productivity environment, as well as a good idea of what
>users expect from that application. (Yes, this means familiarity with
>other operating systems is very useful.)

Probably some examples of such descriptions + some web or email
interface to collect them into database could help.

Unfortunately, I have not seen much  'real  work'  (except  for
word processing) to help with most of categories. Also my tastes
differ very much from that of 'normal people'...


Sincerely yours, Roman Suzi
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