2013 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Award Winners
 

The polls are closed and the results are in. We once again had some extremely close races and one perennial winner was unseated. Congratulations to each and every nominee. The official results:

Desktop Distribution of the Year - Ubuntu (23.59%)
Server Distribution of the Year - Slackware (31.83%)
Mobile Distribution of the Year - Android (59.15%)
Database of the Year - MariaDB (36.41%)
NoSQL Database of the Year - MongoDB (46.15%)
Office Suite of the Year - LibreOffice (85.50%)
Browser of the Year - Firefox (63.54%)
Desktop Environment of the Year - KDE (35.77%)
Window Manager of the Year - Openbox (18.88%)
Messaging Application of the Year - Pidgin (47.83%)
VoIP Application of the Year - Skype (44.95%)
Virtualization Product of the Year - VirtualBox (54.38%)
Audio Media Player Application of the Year - VLC (26.85%)
Video Media Player Application of the Year - VLC (66.79%)
Graphics Application of the Year - GIMP (70.16%)
Network Security Application of the Year - Wireshark (31.09%)
Host Security Application of the Year - SELinux (38.46%)
Network Monitoring Application of the Year - Nagios Core (40.88%)
IDE/Web Development Editor of the Year - Eclipse (21.67%)
Text Editor of the Year - vim (30.47%)
File Manager of the Year - Dolphin (28.05%)
Open Source Game of the Year - 0 A.D. (13.55%)
Programming Language of the Year - Python (28.63%)
Revision Control System of the Year - git (71.33%)
Backup Application of the Year - rsync (39.71%)
Open Source CMS/Blogging platform of the Year - Wordpress (57.06%)
Configuration Management Tool of the Year - Puppet (42.05%)
Open Source Web Framework of the Year - Django (30.07%)
X Terminal Emulator of the Year - Konsole (23.87%)
Privacy Solution of the Year - Adblock Plus (24.36%)

If you have any questions or suggestions on how we can improve the MCA's next year, do let us know. Visit http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ce-awards-109/ to view the individual polls, which contain the complete results. Visit http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/2013mca.php for a visual representation of each category on a single page.

--jeremy

Wow..great effort..

14 of the stuff that I voted is on the list..

LQ Rocks!!!


Most of the list above are purely Technical, good for System Administrators.

Would there be a pool for Linux desktop apps? (for non-technical users who loves Linux and of course LQ!!)

2013 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Award Winners on twitter tags
 

check it out https://twitter.com/search?q=%232013...nners&src=hash

So this year KDE has got top rank in desktop environment segment with its file manager and terminal.

Wonderful!

This is great, some of my best applications are there.

Cheers LQ \¬¬/

Thanks for effort!

As newbie this assessment of so many packages and applications will provide me with a roadmap of sorts.
Thanks again - heroic effort, unheralded, still deserves a toast or three.

Really, not a lot of difference from last year. vim is just that good.

I wonder what application video editing would fall into? My choice would have been, ffmpeg. But then it would depend on what type of video editing is to be done.

Great job! Glad to know so many my favorites are on this list. No surprise with VIM. It is the text editor nonpareil. I'm a trial lawyer, and I use it daily for my job and for all my side hacking efforts. I don't even need a separate IDE, like Eclipse. I built my development environment right in VIM. Of course, the rare times when I use an IDE, I like Code::Blocks.

Jeremy, how many people voted (to understand the "universe" of this statistic).
Thank you!

Each individual poll contains the total number of votes for that poll.

--jeremy

Its good to see the results of this years poll but still in India the awareness about Linux and its usage is lagging, how many Indian users voted in this?

I think this would be a better way for votes to count if some can win with <40% of the votes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Y3jE3B8HsE

Very interesting idea. Sadly, there is too much America politics for this to ever lift-off.

Very helpful, thank you LQ!

Two new categories I would be interested in are:
1) Desk Top Publishing.
2) Video Editing.

Thanks for the feedback. We've run the Video Editing poll in the past, so you can look at previous MCA results if you're interested in the results.

--jeremy

Just a quick note that we'll be archiving the 2013 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards forum in a few days. As always, the forum itself and all threads/polls will remain fully accessible forever.

--jeremy

I can't agree with microsoft and skype coming onto an open source gnu linux system, and all the spyware that's even in Android, that if you look carefully, it's clearly spyware. it wants access to information that's not even useful for it to run. Why allow that mess to come into your computer when you've switched to an open source gnu linux operating system, and that bullcrap doesn't exist. Android is a good example, maybe fun to play with, but all this technology has been proven to be a privacy issue.

Take a pi cture with your Android device, load it directly onto your linux system. Then run,

exiftool IMG00034.jpg (or whatever name was given to it)

exiftool IMG00034.jpg | grep -i gps

And where does it go? Right to facial recognition book. Just because a tablet is a fun toy, or even convenient to use should I become some part of a database of users. It's not right. Google, gtfo with Linux too.

Linus Torvalds, right on target. He said Nvidia, "Fuck you!". But really, Stallman is the Boss. He goes to extremes, but he's right on target.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYWzMvlj2RQ

Keep visibility for this awards
 

Thanks Jeremy and I kindly suggest, special visibility for this on main portal. Same for previous years so you can compare.

At the end of the day, you see if you are using tools apps you "should" according thi this poll.


Regards, Fco

When you say "ubuntu" as a desktop distribution, can I assume that we are talking about the single Unity-based distro as opposed to the family of *buntus?

how do you know it goes to a face recon book?? I can't see it, sorry if I am confused

I had no idea that Slackware was commonly used on servers. I've always thought of it more as a personal "hacker hobby" distribution -- no offense! And for servers you'd more likely prefer something else, that I assume would be more standardized, tested, and stable.

Gimp 2.9 seems great. It's trying to catch up with Krita's features ("visual-only" rotation and color depth for now, but hopefully color management/preprint-related features), but still seems somewhat lighter/faster. And I personally prefer Gimp's classic/weird UI, which seems to be more customizable. Ironically it even integrates aesthetically better even on a mostly-QT desktop with qtcurve, while Krita has to run only with the Oxygen theme.

Nice to see Dolphin as the winner on the file management category, but it makes me suspicious that most people just don't know how to properly configure Konqueror.

IMHO, slackware is standardized, tested, and stable... i've been using installpkg and removepkg to manage packages on my servers since 2003... the /etc/rc.d directory is still /etc/rc.d -- I still user useradd to create users... seems very standardized... it is slackware standards, but they are still standards; there is a slackish way to do things, like using slackbuild scripts. Sure, there are some changes, like changes made to keep up with changing technologies -- the same changes that all distros go through, like moving to udev, etc... And, being the oldest distro, seems like slackware has stood the test of time, and is still kicking strong... And the slacker community here at LQ is unrivaled. When distro-hopping, slackware is the last hop. Thanks Pat!

I knew Gimp would rate high. its an extremely powerful application to be free.

Rawtherapy is a lesser know but amazing app. it is just amazing with RAW images.