2005 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Award Winners

2005 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Award Winners Announced

The polls are closed and the results are in for the 2005 
LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards. Among the winners are 
Ubuntu, Firefox, MySQL and OpenOffice.org. The Members Choice Awards allow 
members of the Linux community to choose their favorite products in a 
variety of categories including Linux Distribution of the Year, Office 
Suite of the Year and Web Browser of the Year.

A list of winners follows, with the percentage of the votes in 
parenthesis.

Distribution of the Year - Ubuntu (19.49%)
Database of the Year - MySQL (62.98%)
Office Suite of the Year - OpenOffice.org (84.84%)
Browser of the Year - Firefox (71.90%)
Mail Client of the Year - Thunderbird  (51.74%)
Text Editor of the Year  - vi/vim (37.96%)
Open Source Game of the Year - Frozen Bubble (23.17%)
Window Manager of the Year - Fluxbox (27.11%)
Desktop Environment of the Year - KDE (64.86%)
Audio Multimedia Application of the Year - amaroK (41.86%)
Video Multimedia Application of the Year - mplayer (46.94%)
Messaging App of the Year - Gaim (52.41%)
Security App of the Year - nmap (31.68%)
LiveCD Distribution of the Year - Knoppix (39.59%)
Windows on Linux App of the Year - Wine (53.94%)
File Manager of the Year - Konqueror (51.25%)
IDE of the Year - Eclipse (31.99%)
Graphics App of the Year - GIMP (62.02%)
Shell of the Year - bash (89.67%)
Web Development Editor of the Year - Quanta (44.31%)

A full list of nominees along with detailed results can be found at 
http://www.linuxquestions.org/awards.
This is the fourth annual LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards. Past 
winners include Red Hat, PostgreSQL and Mozilla.

--jeremy
http://jeremy.linuxquestions.org/