FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

January 29th, 2006 -- LinuxQuestions.org is proud to announce that voting for the 2005 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards is now open. The Members Choice Awards allow the Linux community to select their favorite products in a variety of categories. Awards will be given out in 20 categories, including Distribution of the Year, Browser of the Year, Office Suite of the Year, Desktop Environment of the Year and Database of the Year. The polls will close on March 6th and winners will have the option of receiving their award at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in Boston. Last years winners include Firefox, OpenOffice.org and MySQL.

"The 2004 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards were extremely well received by both the Linux community and the award winners, with a record number of votes being received. It's great to be able to recognize well deserving Open Source projects for the hard work and effort they put in all year. We anticipate turnout this year to once again be outstanding" said Jeremy Garcia, founder and admin of LinuxQuestions.org.

About LinuxQuestions.org:
LinuxQuestions.org is a free, friendly and active Linux Community with over 220,000 members and over 2,000,000 posts. Founded in 2000 LQ offers forums, reviews, a Linux hardware compatibility list, a Linux knowledge base in wiki format, Linux tutorials, a free Linux download site, a Linux podcast, a Linux Radio show, a social bookmarking site and more. LQ has forums for everything from Linux Newbies to Linux in the Enterprise and has 25 officially recognized Linux distribution forums.

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