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OK, here's what I think SuSE would benefit from including. I'm leaving out glibc and gnome, but those would be #1 of course. I hope SuSE's relationship, if any, with kde doesn't keep them from backing gnome. After a month of getting the gnome mailing list I can honestly say I'm excited about the prospects. Never have I seen such an active and productive list. You can't help but feel that gnome will be important in the future of the linux desktop.: 1. StarOffice- this is free, unlike Corel and Applix, and a nice office suite to boot. Does Stardivision have an agreement with Caldera that prevents other dists from including it? 2. Automake 1.3 3. Libtool 1.2 4. Xenon- an excellent and lightweight text editor for x...think notepad for linux. Very cool. 5. Poptart- a POP mail retrieval program that is infinitely easier for linux newbies to figure out compared to the included alternatives. 6. TkMount- a neat little gui interface to mounting cd, floppy, zip. 7. Playmidi and Xplaymidi- still the best linux midi players. 8. Games Doom Xmame- the best emulator is finally as good in linux as in win95. 9. BitchX- the world's greatest irc client. Everyone uses this, but I've never seen it in a dist. Why? 10. x11amp and amp- We all use mp3s, right? 11. Netscape plugins- mpegtv.so, xanim.so and ump.so/timidity.tar. These are useful plugins, and in the case of timidity.tar would save the customer a 9 mb download. 12. pppd-2.3.3 13. Xmftp-1.0.4- The best ftp client for x. 14. egcs-1.0.3a- gcc-2.7.2.1 is more reliable than gcc-2.8.x, but I'm starting to run into apps that need a newer gcc. egcs-1.0.3a compiles everything I've tried, where gcc-2.8.x unexpectedly bails on some stuff. 15. neXtaw- because NeXT is the most elegant gui devised by man and SuSE already includes tkstep so why not? Sorry for the long post, I'm sure I forgot a bunch of stuff. misc.word.corp wrote:
I for one would love to see a wish list for 5.3 and (eventually) 6.0. There's been a lot of traffic on the major *nix download sites over the last few months, and most of the software in the principal SuSE packages have received updates of one kind or another.
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