2006 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Award Winners Announced
Monday, February 19th, 2007
The results of Linuxquestion.org’s Voting for its Members Choice Awards [here] have finally been announced [here] with Ubuntu taking the lead again on the Linux Distribution of the Year Choice by the website’s users with KDE being the dominant Desktop Environment. Knoppix still leads the show for Live Distros and Firefox continues to be the king of web browsers. Mysql continues to the bag Mr. Favorite choice while GIMP is the best Graphics App of the year. Cheers to Linuxquestion.org users, great going!
Here are the official results for the 2006 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards:
- Distribution of the Year - Ubuntu (26.44%)
- Live Distribution of the Year - Knoppix (26.22%)
- Browser of the Year - Firefox (74.61%)
- Database of the Year - MySQL (61.68%)
- Office Suite of the Year - OpenOffice.org (89.79%)
- Desktop Environment of the Year - KDE (56.58%)
- Video Media Player Application of the Year - mplayer (41.93%)
- Video Authoring Application of the Year - Kino (27.81%)
- Audio Media Player Application of the Year - amaroK (57.07%)
- Audio Authoring Application of the Year - Audacity (67.07%)
- Multimedia Utility of the Year - K3b (69.51%)
- Messaging Application of the Year - Gaim (51.52%)
- Window Manager of the Year - Fluxbox (21.44%)
- IDE of the Year - Eclipse (34.47%)
- Mail Client of the Year - Thunderbird (52.74%)
- Text Editor of the Year - vi/vim (38.42%)
- Graphics Application of the Year - GIMP (65.60%)
- Security Application of the Year - nmap (20.94%)
- Windows on Linux Application of the Year - Wine (50.10%)
- Web Development Editor of the Year - Quanta (36.34%)
- Shell of the Year - bash (89.45%)

I really have no intentions of boring my readers but this FUD (fear-uncertainty-doubt) being injected by Oracle as means for self-promotion is getting worse. Recently, I found this Gartner Report offer in my mailbox. Really, why would Gartner even do a research on the comparison of Oracle’s Unbreakable Linux Programme and Red Hat Linux when Oracle is using Red Hat’s Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the first place? My possible hunch, Oracle is paying Gartner to these FUD reports, a common attribute of the closed source/proprietary source world member corporations. Remember that Microsoft was very active in using a similar strategy trying to defame the up rise of Linux on the Server side.

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