Re: The future of Linux - architecture and package

[Alan Cox <alan redhat com>]

On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 04:07:04PM +0100, Joachim Frieben wrote:
>  - ddd          GUI for several command-line debuggers,

Obscure and weird

>  - tetex-xdvi   X viewer for DVI files,

Tex belongs in extras, all of it

>  - xpdf         PDF file viewer for the X Window System.

Unusuably bad with most modern pdf files

> "evince" is very slow and rendering is flaky, so even "xpdf" is not

Agreed, but kpdf is snappy and except for some nasty printing bugs with
rev 1.6 PDF works well