2008 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Award Winners

Posted by linuxquestions on Feb 12, 2009 4:40 PM EDT
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The polls are closed and the results for the 2008 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards are in. Ubuntu, Debian, MySQL, Firefox and KDE 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 (35.36%)
Server Distribution of the Year - Debian (25.55%)
Live Distribution of the Year - Ubuntu Live (23.43%)
Database of the Year - MySQL (58.10%)
Office Suite of the Year - OpenOffice.org (93.03%)
Browser of the Year - Firefox (75.89%)
Desktop Environment of the Year - KDE (43.57%)
Window Manager of the Year - Compiz (31.56%)
Messaging App of the Year - Pidgin (53.40%)
Mail Client of the Year - Thunderbird (51.43%)
Virtualization Product of the Year - VirtualBox (61.10%)
Audio Media Player Application of the Year - Amarok (48.80%)
Audio Authoring Application of the Year - Audacity (70.45%)
Video Media Player Application of the Year - mplayer (38.31%)
Video Authoring Application of the Year - Avidemux (19.59%)
Multimedia Utility of the Year - K3b (46.77%)
Graphics Application of the Year - GIMP (70.41%)
Network Security Application of the Year - nmap (28.96%)
Host Security Application of the Year - SELinux (42.86%)
Monitoring Application of the Year - Nagios (39.74%)
Windows on Linux App of the Year - Wine (85.21%)
IDE/Web Development Editor of the Year - Eclipse (24.25%)
Text Editor of the Year - vi/vim (39.76%)
File Manager of the Year - Nautilus (25.54%)
Open Source Game of the Year - Battle for Wesnoth (17.31%)
Programming Language of the Year - Python (26.25%)
Backup Application of the Year - rsync (40.10%)


A full list of nominees along with detailed results can be found at LinuxQuestions.org. A record number of votes were cast in what was the eighth annual LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards. Past winners include Red Hat, PostgreSQL and Mozilla.

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