2007 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Award Winners
February 21, 2008 1 Comment
The polls are closed and the results are in. You can view the detailed results here, but I’ll include a list of winners at the end of this post for convenience. This was the seventh annual LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards and we’ve set a record for participation each and every year. We had some extremely close races this year (in fact just .41% separated first and second in one case). We also had a couple of multi-year winners unseated this year. The biggest surprise for me was probably how well VirtualBox did, but that may just be a result of how much marketing is behind some of the other virtualization players. Recent Sun acquisitions MySQL and VirtualBox were both winners. Congratulations to all nominees. Winners should expect an email from me over the next couple days.
| 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%) |
–jeremy
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