Rockbox is NOT Linux
Rockbox is NOT Linux
Rockbox is NOT Linux
There. Now please read this post again. It really isn’t. It never was, it never will be. It’s an entirely separate thing, an operating system written entirely from scratch with its own kernel and OS primitives.
Rockbox is NOT Linux
I am a stats junkie so I like my stats in large amounts. But I like the stats to be right and as accurate as possible, and when I look at what ohloh produces I like the concepts and ideas in general, I just think their implementation is lacking in a few vital areas that need improvement:
1. There are no dependencies or hierarchies between packages, so “I use this” counters get worthless since people mark end-user packages they use. Low-level support packages and libraries that are used indirectly don’t get many “use counts”
2. Doing very few commits in a very well used project with few authors gives you way way more points than doing a bus-load of commits in something less used with many fellow contributors. This makes the top-list of people very skewed as some of the top-64 people only did a few hundred commits ever. I doubt many mortals would consider someone who only ever did 300 commits to be a top community person. At the very moment I write this, the #1 ranked person has done 20 commits during 5 months…!
3. Too few versioning systems are supported, leaving out huge chunks of the open source world. Bazaar, mercurial and a few more are a bit too popular to be ignored without the results getting skewed.
4. I’d like to see the “number of users” of products as a percentage, as the total number of users they show include all contributors to all projects. Out of the 140,000 users (which undoubtedly include a lot of duplicates), it would surprise me if more than 10,000 have actually registered what products they use. I’ve tried to find the exact number but I failed. So 3,000 users don’t mean 3,000 out of 140,000 but 3,000 out of 10,000…
I simply need to have this list somewhere so that I can find out my own add-ons again when I’m running Firefox away from home!
Adblock Plus – since ads are too annoying these days
DownThemAll – because I like to be able to get whole batches of images or similar at times
Fission – just a silly eye-candy thing
Forecastfox – I like weather forecasts!
FoxClocks – helps me keep track of the time my friends around the world have at different moments.
It’s All Text – makes web based editing/posting a more pleasurable experience by allowing me to edit such contents with emacs!
Live HTTP Headers is a must when you want to figure out how to repeat your browser’s actions with a set of curl commands.
Open in Browser allows me to open more stuff within the browser itself, even when the Content-Type is bad.
Right-Click-Link is great when you quickly want to browse to links you find in plain text sections.
Torbutton lets me quickly switch to anonymous browsing.
User Agent Switcher lets me trick stupid server-side scripts into beleiving I use a different browser or even operating system.
What great add-ons did I miss?
(Some nitpickers would say that I don’t run Firefox since I use Debian and then it is called Iceweasel, but while that is entirely true, Iceweasel is still the Firefox source code and the Add-ons are in fact still Firefox Add-ons even if they also run perfectly fine on Iceweasel.)