privsecfoss@feddit.dk to Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org · edit-22 years agoIn your opinion, which FOSS software is by many considered "old" or "obsolete", but are in fact, in your opinion, in many ways better than the newer alternatives?message-squaremessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareIn your opinion, which FOSS software is by many considered "old" or "obsolete", but are in fact, in your opinion, in many ways better than the newer alternatives?privsecfoss@feddit.dk to Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org · edit-22 years agomessage-square10fedilinkfile-text
I’ll start: RSS and blogs, news vs. social media XMPP vs. WhatsApp/FB messenger/Snapchat IRC vs. Matrix, Teams, Discord etc. Forums vs. Social media, Reddit, Lemmy(?)
minus-squarenavDend0@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 years agovi, lynx, mutt, and of course X11 > wayland though also controversially, I’ll take systemD over sysVinit
minus-squarelaird_dave@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 years agourxvt is also relevant for this combo.
vi, lynx, mutt, and of course X11 > wayland
though also controversially, I’ll take systemD over sysVinit
urxvt is also relevant for this combo.