2003 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards
 

The 2003 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards are right around the corner and I'd like some feedback on the Award categories before the contest starts this year. Here are the awards so far. If you have any suggestions let me know. Thanks.

Editor of the Year
Web Development Editor of the Year
Word Processor of the Year
Spreadsheet of the Year
Open Source Game of the Year
Commercial Game of the Year
Security App of the Year
Cryptography App of the Year
Mail Client of the Year
Office Suite of the Year
Window Manager of the Year
Desktop Environment of the Year
Web Server of the Year
FTP Server of the Year
Database of the Year
Distribution of the Year
Browser of the Year
Windows on Linux App of the Year

--jeremy

LQ Moderator of the year?

/me ducks

But seriously folks, how about mail server of the year?

Possibly multimedia player of the year. May need two sections. Video and audio.

Ooh yeah! Could be a holy war over the video player of the year.

Few quick questions. How does one vote for these? Is there going to be a link from the main page or is a community bulletin going to be sent out? Or something else? Is it completely open or is there a nominations process beforehand? If so who nominates?

How about 'new application of the year' for newcommers to the scene? This would give promising applications a bit of encouragement...

Dave

How about the best P2P sofware for linux?

Worst windows app?

With the exception of the actual OS of course....

Well considering this is aimed for OpenSource and Linux only, I don't think we really need a category to award the Worst Windows app to any given party.

Regards.

best video/media player would be a good one.

a temporary, restricted forum will be created, with one poll thread per award. Jeremy will normally pick a list of nominations, but you can request additions easily enough.

How about 'Best Concept' or 'Best Direction' of the year? Or, to put it less kindly, 'Vaporware of the Year'. :D But, seriously, I think it'd be interesting to see what people were anticipating - what they thought was a good direction to move to, in addition to what they were currently liking. Might be too vague, though.

Best shell?
Best File Manager?

Of course the most important catagory Best Kernel!

I wonder if we'll get another "greased-turkey" this Thanksgiving like last? Boy that was my favorite kernel of 2002. Sure it screwed up everyones filesystems, but at least you could laugh at the funny name after you cried your eyes out over your borked system.

Best multimedia authoring tool of the year. Multimedia authoring is still sort of a fledgling area in Linux and should be encouraged, at least on the desktop. From articles in Linux Journal I get the impression Hollywood is using it, but if you want say to do multitrack direct to hard disk audio recording yourself, say as part of a home studio, good luck. It's theoretically possible, there are those who have done it, but like I said, could use some encouragement.

Other SW to rate:
CRM/ERM... (compeire & co.)
Bookkeeping
CMS/web app development sys/community sys

Only software?

The HCL is just born...

But interesting HW coud be:

A specific box/mfgr/model
disk array controller SCSI
disk array controller ATA
videocard 2D analog
videocard 3D analogvideocard 2D DVI
videocard 3D DVI
network card
network gear like routers etc. (was already a LQ)
scanner
printer
and much more.

Suggestion: Let's wait for Jeremy's response before flooding the thread with
dozens of additional HW items of interest.

Thanks for the feedback. Only a few days left until the polls open. Here are a few thoughts:

- Best media player will be added.
- Mail server has a good possibility of being added.
- A Hardware section will not be added (at least this year), but this did give me a good idea: Best Linux support from a hardware manufacturer.

Any other ideas?

--jeremy

Best file manager!

Yes, I'd like to see how you handled a 'file manager' category. For example, can konqueror be in both the web browser *and* file manager category? Because it is both. And for me the answer is "bash" but that won't be included because it's a shell (I suppose that could be another category, give the zsh fans a chance to express themselves), same as vim not technically being an html editor.

well there is one contender, there is this one app that they often ship with windows, its called


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EXPLORER.EXE

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who agrees,
explorer.exe for the worst app.
also microsoft office, although that is quite good, how about internet exploer and internet tools,
they call it a suite of internet realted apps, well

windows messenger, a rehash of msn fuks up outlook/outlook express and you cant upgrade msn. Internet explorer, just a borswer wheres the extra feature, pop-up blockers, the content filters (i know theres one there, but im on about one that works), speed, easy customisation, speed, ohh i said that, speed again and oh something microsoft arent very good at, speed and reliability.

for total windophobes, exploere.exe is the shell, the thing that always crahses with the taskbar, the start button and my computer.