2015 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Award Nominees
 

In previous years, while soliciting feedback for Members Choice nominees, I have posted the polls but kept voting closed. As this caused confusion on multiple levels and resulted in a high number of "why can't I vote" questions, starting a few years ago we decided to try something new. I am going to post each category as an individual post in this thread. Each post will contain the category name and all nominees. Any feedback, including additions and deletions should be posted in this thread. Please include the category name and your suggestion in each post (ideally one category per post). When it's time to vote, I'll post the polls which will be open immediately when posted. If you have any general feedback on the MCA's, this thread would be appropriate for that as well.

--jeremy

Desktop Distribution of the Year
 

antiX
Arch
BunsenLabs
Calculate
Chakra
Debian
elementary OS
Fedora
Funtoo
Gentoo
Linux Deepin
Linux Mint
Mageia
Manjaro
MX Linux
openSUSE
PClinuxOS
Peach OSI
Puppy
Rosa Desktop Fresh
Sabayon
Salix
Slackware
SliTaz
SolydXK
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop
Ubuntu
Zorin OS

Server Distribution of the Year
 

CentOS
Debian
Gentoo
Oracle Enterprise Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Scientific Linux
Slackware
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Ubuntu LTS

Mobile Distribution of the Year
 

Amazon Fire OS
Android
Chrome OS
CyanogenMod
Firefox OS
MIUI
Replicant
Sailfish OS
Tizen
Ubuntu Phone

Database of the Year
 

DB2
Firebird
MariaDB
MySQL
Oracle
Percona
PostgreSQL
sqlite

NoSQL Database of the Year
 

Cassandra
CouchDB
DynamoDB
HBase
Membase Server
MongoDB
Neo4j
Redis
Riak
Voldemort

Office Suite of the Year
 

Apache OpenOffice
Calligra
FreeOffice
Kingston WPS Office
LibreOffice

Browser of the Year
 

Chrome
Chromium
Conkeror
Dillo
dwb
Epiphany
Firefox
Iceweasel
Konqueror
links/elinks
Luakit
lynx
Midori
NetRider
Opera
Otter Browser
PaleMoon
QupZilla
rekonq
SeaMonkey
Uzbl
w3m

Desktop Environment of the Year
 

Budgie
Cinnamon
Deepin Desktop Environment
EDE
Enlightenment
Gnome Shell
KDE
LXQt
MATE
Moksha
MoonLightDE
Pantheon
rox
Trinity-DE
UDE
Unity
Xfce

Window Manager of the Year
 

awesome
bspwm
Compiz
dwm
Fluxbox
FVWM
herbstluftwm
i3
IceWM
JWM
KWin
Marco
MetaCity
Muffin
Mutter
Openbox
Ratpoison
Sawfish
spectrwm
StumpWM
twm
Window Maker
xfwm4
xmonad

Virtualization/Container Product of the Year
 

Bochs
Citrix XenServer
Docker
KVM
Linux-VServer
LXC
OpenVZ
Oracle VM
Parallels Workstation
QEMU
VirtualBox
VMware
Warden
Xen

Audio Media Player Application of the Year
 

amaroK
Aqualung
Audacious
Banshee
Clementine
cmus
DeaDBeef
Exaile
gmusicbrowser
MOC
MPD
mpg123
mpg321
Nightingale
Pragha
Quod Libet
RhythmBox
Sonata
VLC
XMMS
XMMS2

Video Media Player Application of the Year
 

Dragon Player
DVD-Player (XBMC)
FFplay
kaffeine
Miro
mplayer
mplayer2
mpv
Parole
Totem
VLC
xine

Network Security Application of the Year
 

aircrack-ng
ClamAV
fail2ban
Firestarter
fwBuilder
Guarddog
Metasploit
Nessus
Nmap Security Scanner
OpenVAS
p0f
PeerGuardian
Shorewall
snort
tcpdump
UFW/Gufw
Wireshark

Host Security Application of the Year
 

AIDE
AppArmor
Bastille
chkrootkit
grsecurity
Lynis
OSSEC
Rootkit Hunter
Samhain
SELinux
TOMOYO
Tripwire