Welcome to the 2015 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards
 

Welcome to the 2015 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards. The categories have been chosen, the nominees have been posted and I'm happy to announce that the polls are now open. To vote, visit http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ce-awards-117/ and select your entry in each category. If you have any suggestions for additions or modifications to poll nominees, please post in the thread for the poll in question. Any general suggestions should be posted in this thread.

A couple comments:

* We do realize that some polls have nominees that are not directly comparable. There are 35 polls. If we got down to the granularity some members would like to see, there would be 100's if not 1000's of polls. That would be a net decline in the usefulness of the awards IMHO. We try to strike the best balance we can, and do modify the polls and nominees every year, based on feedback. If you have any suggestions on how the polls can be improved, do let us know. NOTE: We made more changes this year than any previous year, and feedback is welcome.

* There are no set in stone guidelines for voting. Our recommendation is to base your vote on which application you found most valuable to you in 2015, along with which project you feel made the largest improvements in 2015. That being said, in the end the criteria is up to you.

* Posting a comment is optional, but do be aware that for your vote to count you have to select an option and click the "Vote Now" button (regardless of whether you have left a comment or not).

* You must have at least one post to be able to vote.

* All polls will close on February 10th at 12PM LQST.

Congratulations to all nominees and good luck!

--jeremy

Looking forward to the results (as always)

No category for photo-editing?

Thanks for organizing the polls!

Why actually no poll about init system of the year??

As more and more I drift away from mainstream distros I find I can vote in less and less of these catagories.

This year I've been a bit busier and totally forgot about this. Thanks a lot to LXer.com for the reminder!

It's not that bad..
 

Well, i can still vote for portage as best package manager. Woohoo! And Terminator... and mc... and bash, haha. :rolleyes:

I'd vote for smplayer as best video player btw.

Linux filesystem of the year? Hmmmm let me guess which one's gonna win... begins with "E" and ends with "4".

Thanks Jeremy Great job......

Nah! ends with a 2 :)

I guess I would vote for the best solution to fix the Dell C1765 multifunction printer software problem, because Linux Ubuntu 14.04 OS doesn't accept it.

I would also vote for the person that has the solution that will allow Sony playmemories software to load in the same OS, because right now these programs will not load, these two problems still exist in Ubuntu 14.04.

Thank You Jeremy, these are always fun.

hehe, where is the best init of 2015?

Too late this year but what about for next year tacking an 'Other' option to the end of all the catagories so we could get get suggestions for new or little known stuff.

I'd like to submit this one, though it's not Linux per se, it's a step forward to a bigger world.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ds-4175560850/

LOL and the winner is... 'Other'! Congratulations to Other! Click here to download. :scratch:

While we have no plan to add "Other" as an option, members are highly encouraged to suggest nominees in the thread related to each poll. This both allows others members to discover new projects and has the potential to get the suggestion added to the poll.

--jeremy

Have to agree with 'init' posters - it's probably the most important category this year. Can't begin to to tell how much grief system-d has caused my various machines and systems.

I predict that this year we will have a new filesystem that does everything we could possibly want.

Hi Jeremy, always enjoy seeing the results of these.

Have you ever had/could we have an open source web server category?

We had the category in 2012. While it's possible we'd include it again in the future, I'd anticipate it being a lopsided result at this time.

--jeremy

OpenSUSE, semper fidelis

This page should be advertised on the main page. It wasn't straightforward to find it, even through search, and only because I really knew what to look for.

The LQ home page has been updated.

--jeremy

Nope, definitely ends with a 4 :p

2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 and no returns!

For the best OS of the year, I MUST go with the wonderful Korora 22 distribution.

What would this be in UTC/GMT?
Thanks.
:)

LQST === EST

--jeremy

I love voting in these Awards polls...I just hope Kenye West doesn't try to take over this year! :o)

"I love voting in these Awards polls...I just hope Kenye West doesn't try to take over this year!

I was criticized for not asking a question, how come these same people aren't criticizing this one?

Just a note that the "2015 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards" forum will be archived this week. As always, all polls/threads will remain directly accessible forever, the forum simply will not be listed on the forumhome.

--jeremy

The brave new world of software analysis
 

The continuum of independent workstations connecting and communicating has expanded to include server-workstation relationships, peer-to-peer relationships, software-as-a-service, and cloud computing. Some of these relationships are voluntary, others are required. Some of these relationships allow greater degrees of computing freedom, others allow less. Some of these relationships require financial transfers for their continuation, others do not. Some of these relationships evince growing desires for power and control of computing activities to be centralized, others toward distributed control.

Many factors, some technological, some financial, some political, are inherent in the analysis and discussion of these relationships. Software and its development are at the center of these considerations, if not the master key to their understanding.

The annual assessment could be improved with categories that recognize required operational centralization versus distributed control, participatory open source development versus effective closed source, and required financial remuneration versus optional monetary participation. While not suggesting extreme positions in any direction, it remains the case that there are strong public as well as private policy considerations among these questions. The categories and their assessments should allow and reflect these policy possibilities.