2007 Members Choice Award Winne

[screwballl]

2007 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Award Winners - LinuxQuestions.org

The polls are closed and the results are in. We had a record number of votes cast for the seventh straight year. Congratulations should go to all nominees. We had some extremely close races this year. Without further ado, here are the winners:

Desktop Distribution of the Year - Ubuntu (30.83%)
Server Distribution of the Year - Debian (30.30%)
Live Distribution of the Year - KNOPPIX (22.88%)
Database of the Year - MySQL (54.36%)
Office Suite of the Year - OpenOffice.org (89.50%)
Browser of the Year - Firefox (74.03%)
Desktop Environment of the Year - KDE (52.08%)
Window Manager of the Year - Compiz (33.65%)
Messaging App of the Year - Pidgin (53.90%)
Mail Client of the Year - Thunderbird (53.72%)
Virtualization Product of the Year - VirtualBox (41.58%)
Audio Media Player Application of the Year - Amarok (57.37%)
Audio Authoring Application of the Year - Audacity (68.24%)
Video Media Player Application of the Year - mplayer (41.78%)
Video Authoring Application of the Year - mencoder (24.21%)
Multimedia Utility of the Year - K3b (63.34%)
Graphics Application of the Year - GIMP (69.15%)
Network Security Application of the Year - nmap (24.95%)
Host Security Application of the Year - SELinux (30.69%)
Monitoring Application of the Year - Nagios (38.58%)
Windows on Linux App of the Year - Wine (84.76%)
IDE/Web Development Editor of the Year - Eclipse (22.29%)
Shell of the Year - bash (87.33%)
Text Editor of the Year - vi/vim (36.37%)
File Manager of the Year - Konqueror (38.00%)
Open Source Game of the Year - Battle for Wesnoth (21.74%)
Programming Language of the Year - Python (21.78%)

This is a linux newsletter I receive once a week and this seemed to be one of the most interesting lately. It is a combination of linux veterans and n00bies so has a wide range of opinions and views.
Ubuntu and Knoppix take top marks for their distros but the one that surprised me was KDE and Konquerer taking top marks for the desktop over Gnome and gdm.

[Tyreal]

Is this only opensource stuff?

[screwballl]

yes everything I saw on that list is open source but there are a few I have no used so I do not know for sure with them (like the programming based mentions)

[gvblake22]

Only 74% of the open source community voted for Firefox?! I can't believe it wasn't in the 80% or even 90% range, what else is out there that can really compete with FF?

[Phosphorous]

Originally Posted by gvblake22

Only 74% of the open source community voted for Firefox?! I can't believe it wasn't in the 80% or even 90% range, what else is out there that can really compete with FF?

Duh, IE7.

[screwballl]

this is linux.....
the top 3 were Firefox (placed 1st), Konquerer (placed 3rd) and Opera (placed 2nd).

the entire list is here:
Browser of the Year - LinuxQuestions.org