2006 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Award Winners Announced [LWN.net]

From:		Jeremy <jeremy-AT-linuxquestions.org>
To:		lwn-AT-lwn.net
Subject:		[PR] - 2006 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Award Winners Announced
Date:		Mon, 19 Feb 2007 00:24:18 -0500 (EST)

The polls are closed and the results 
are in for the 2006 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.  The 
total number of categories this year was 21.

The complete list of the winners is as follows (percentage of votes 
received in parentheses):

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%)

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


--jremy

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Two words: Internet Poll

Posted Feb 20, 2007 4:17 UTC (Tue) by aseigo (guest, #18394) [Link]

i actually find this one is actually a bit better than most: it's limited
to members of the site and shows trends over the years it's been held that
reflect the state of the f/oss world pretty well. it's certainly not much
more than a demonstration of what their members think, but that's a useful
datapoint given the number of people who participate and the multiple
years of data they've collected.

Two words: Internet Poll

Posted Feb 20, 2007 14:12 UTC (Tue) by danieldk (subscriber, #27876) [Link]

Still, some results are heavily skewed. E.g. in the distribution poll, Slackware is the second most popular distribtution. But LinuxQuesions is more or less the official support forum for Slackware Linux. So, naturally, it is not strange that there is a large Slackware user base on LQ. There are probably such factors in other categories too.

Yes, it is somewhat nice to see trends. But Google Trends does a good job there too.

Two words: Internet Poll

Posted Feb 20, 2007 20:42 UTC (Tue) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]

Google Trends does fine job, but when you look at the graph it's not clear: are the Slackware, Suse and RedHat really becoming less popular or is it just relative thing ? Yes, all three are becoming less and less known among the netizens, but what about absolute numbers ? There are more netizens every year and less and less geeks who care about Linux in first place among them... Of course it's still way more objective measure than any website/magazine polls...

Two words: Internet Poll

Posted Feb 20, 2007 21:31 UTC (Tue) by Arker (guest, #14205) [Link]

I'm a member and a poster there, yet never saw anything about these polls until just now, obviously after they closed.