2007 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice award winners

[Posted February 21, 2008 by cook]

From:		Jeremy <jeremy-AT-linuxquestions.org>
To:		lwn-AT-lwn.net
Subject:		2007 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Award Winners
Date:		Thu, 21 Feb 2008 12:40:02 -0500
Message-ID:		<2d60b1750802210940v68cc36f4sb5e4e3a8def434ea@mail.gmail.com>

The polls are closed and the results are in for the <a
href="http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-news-59/200...">2007
LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards</a>. Among the winners are
Ubuntu, Firefox, MySQL, KDE, Compiz, Nagios and OpenOffice.org. The
Members Choice Awards allow members of the Linux community to choose
their favorite products in a variety of categories including Server
Distribution of the Year, Desktop Distribution of the Year, Office
Suite of the Year and Web Browser of the Year. The total number of
categories this year was 27.

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

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%)

A full list of nominees along with detailed results can be found at <a
href="http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/2007-linuxquestio...">LinuxQuestions.org</a>.
 A record number of votes were cast in what was the seventh annual
LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards. Past winners include Red
Hat, PostgreSQL and Mozilla.

They shouldn't ask about text editors

Posted Feb 22, 2008 9:32 UTC (Fri) by coriordan (guest, #7544) [Link] (8 responses)

They shouldn't ask about text editors.  Emacs' low score just exposes how noob their
readership is :-p

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/poll.php?do=showr...

Ignore that link

Posted Feb 22, 2008 10:40 UTC (Fri) by coriordan (guest, #7544) [Link]

Ignore that link.  The website seems to try to make it difficult to look at or link to poll
results unless you register and log in.

Kinda annoying - and now I can't even find a link to how I found the link.

IIRC Emacs gets 8.9%.

They shouldn't ask about text editors

Posted Feb 22, 2008 11:34 UTC (Fri) by alextingle (guest, #20593) [Link] (6 responses)

Your favourite text editor sucks!

They shouldn't ask about text editors

Posted Feb 22, 2008 12:12 UTC (Fri) by Wummel (guest, #7591) [Link] (5 responses)

I hate both vi and emacs alike. Vi has the small advantage of being installed pretty much anywhere, so I use it from time to time when nothing else is available. Having said that, I like the eFTE editor. It has all the features a programmer needs, and it is really fast, plus it runs under Unix, Mac OSX, and Windows.

They shouldn't ask about text editors

Posted Feb 22, 2008 12:36 UTC (Fri) by tnoo (subscriber, #20427) [Link] (4 responses)

Looks very much like Emacs, what's the big advantage?

They shouldn't ask about text editors

Posted Feb 22, 2008 14:18 UTC (Fri) by aleXXX (subscriber, #2742) [Link]

eFTE... I used xfte for a long time, it seems it has been revived now ?
This is good news :-)
Really lightweight, easy-very-fast-to-use, very configurable editor.

What the difference to emacs is ?
Well, it's a completely different editor, you can do a lot without having 
to learn shortcut sequences before (but you can use them too)·

It's (of course) less programmable than emacs.

Alex

They shouldn't ask about text editors

Posted Feb 22, 2008 14:19 UTC (Fri) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458) [Link] (2 responses)

Looks somewhat like emacs (for that, if you don't like emacsen, why don't you just use joe in its jmacs personality?), plus its homepage lists almost everything that makes a "real editor" in my book (multiple screens, multiple modes, ...) a TODO?

They shouldn't ask about text editors

Posted Feb 22, 2008 15:21 UTC (Fri) by mbottrell (guest, #43008) [Link]

Every knows real programmers don't use text editors. ;-)

They shouldn't ask about text editors

Posted Mar 21, 2008 20:25 UTC (Fri) by jeremy_c (guest, #51207) [Link]

Hm, where did you see multiple screens, modes, etc... as a Todo? Those have been implemented
for a very, very long time.