2009 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice award winners announced

The polls are closed and the <a
href="http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-news-59/200...">results
for the 2009 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards</a> are in.
Ubuntu, Debian, MySQL, Firefox, Wordpress, VirtualBox and Gnome are
among the winners. 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 (30.13%)
Server Distribution of the Year - Debian (24.24%)
Security/Forensic/Rescue Distribution of the Year - BackTrack (43.48%)
Database of the Year - MySQL (60.81%)
Office Suite of the Year - OpenOffice.org (90.76%)
Browser of the Year - Firefox (65.21%)
Desktop Environment of the Year - Gnome (41.96%)
Window Manager of the Year - Compiz (23.10%)
Messaging App of the Year - Pidgin (48.74%)
Mail Client of the Year - Thunderbird (53.48%)
Virtualization Product of the Year - VirtualBox (67.43%)
Audio Media Player Application of the Year - Amarok (38.81%)
Audio Authoring Application of the Year - Audacity (77.26%)
Video Media Player Application of the Year - VLC (46.05%)
Video Authoring Application of the Year - FFmpeg (21.94%)
Multimedia Utility of the Year - GStreamer (32.84%)
Graphics Application of the Year - GIMP (66.48%)
Network Security Application of the Year - Nmap Security Scanner (29.85%)
Host Security Application of the Year - SELinux (39.26%)
Network Monitoring Application of the Year - Nagios (51.11%)
IDE/Web Development Editor of the Year - Eclipse (23.28%)
Text Editor of the Year - vim (35.29%)
File Manager of the Year - Nautilus (24.92%)
Open Source Game of the Year - Battle for Wesnoth (15.45%)
Programming Language of the Year - Python (27.59%)
Backup Application of the Year - rsync (48.99%)
Open Source CMS/Blogging platform of the Year - WordPress (45.20%)

A full list of nominees along with detailed results can be found at <a
href="http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/2009-linuxquestio...">LinuxQuestions.org</a>.
A record number of votes were cast in what was the ninth annual
LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards. Past winners include Red
Hat, PostgreSQL and Mozilla.

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