I don't want to get all high and mighty about my beliefs. I think everyone has a right to their own opinions and the right to not be accosted because of them.
Here are a few of my positions:
Politics:
Licensing Preferences
- Simplified BSD and/or MIT
- Apache License
- GPL (not really a fan)
- LGPL (not really a fan)
Religion:
Editors
- ed, sed, ex and/or vi
- VIM (is't not 'real' vi but it is nice to have)
- Emacs (meh. I am forcing myself to use it (more))
- TextMate (meh.. although I am waiting for 2.0 to come out)
- nano/pico (no.. I never use these)
Scripting Languages (system)
- Shell
- Posix/OpenGroup multi-shell compatible scripting
- ksh93 (best speed, great features)
- ksh88 (it's mature)
- zsh (great features)
- mksh (nice mix of size, speed and features)
- bash (not really a fan)
- AWK
- mawk (it's fast but has some peculiarities)
- nawk/bwk (the one true awk)
- gawk
- Python (2.6.2 and up)
- Lua (5.14 and up)
- JavaScript
- V8
- Rhino
- SpiderMonkey
- Ruby (not really a fan)
- Perl (not really a fan.... (sorry Randal) )
Desktop Environments/Window Managers (for *nix)
- KDE (for higher end machines) / XFCE (for others)
- Awesome (yay lua!!!)
- RatPoison/Stump, Ion and wmii
- FVWM2 (back when I had the time to hack configs for weeks at a time)
- AfterStep (back when I had the time to hack configs for weeks at a time)
- GNOME (really NOT a fan)
Operating Systems (Servers)
- FreeBSD
- OpenBSD or DragonFly BSD (depending on purpose)
- OpenSolaris (I hope it survives)
- Minix3 (it's nice and tight)
- GNU/Linux
- Debian (the most tolerable of the linux server OSs IMNSHO)
- Ubuntu LTS (meh..I'll deal with it if I have to)
- Gentoo (not too stable but much more tolerable than others)
- Slackware (my first linux 'distro' back in 1995 thanks to the copy i borrowed from Julian Koh)
- CentOS/RHEL (extreme dislike)
Operating Systems (Desktop)
- OS X (BSD tool chain AND a great UI)
- PC-BSD (it'd be higher if I could get DropBox working with it)
- Linux (most Linux Distros annoy me (not a fan of the GNU user-land)
- Haiku and Syllable (expiremental ... I miss BeOS)
- ReactOS (meh...expiremental)
- MS Windows (If I can get cygwin installed it's almost bearable in small doses)
MUAs
- Mutt (yes it's that good)
- Elm
- KMail
- ThunderBird
- AlPine
- Evolution (don't really use it much)
- Mail.app (OSX and IOS) (annoys me to no end)
- Outlook (don't make me laugh)
Browsers
- Chrome
- w3m
- Firefox
- Safari
- links
- lynx
Terminal Emulators
- xterm
- iTerm (on OSX)
- rxvt
- Konsole
- PuTTY (not really a fan)
