2019 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
 

Antergos
antiX
Arch
Bedrock Linux
Bodhi
BunsenLabs
Debian
Devuan
elementary OS
Fedora
Gentoo
Linux Lite
Linux Mint
Linux Mint Debian Edition
Mageia
Manjaro
MX Linux
Nanolinux
NuTyX
OpenMandriva
openSUSE Leap
openSUSE Tumbleweed
PClinuxOS
Peppermint
Puppy
Slackel
Slackware
Solus
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop
Ubuntu
Void Linux
Zorin OS

Server Distribution of the Year
 

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

Live Distribution of the Year
 

antiX
Elive
Finnix
Grml
Knoppix
MX Linux
Porteus
Puppy
RescaTux
Slackware Live Edition
Slax
SliTaz
SystemRescueCd
Tails

Database of the Year
 

DB2
Firebird
MariaDB
MySQL
Oracle
Percona
PostgreSQL
sqlite
SQL Server

Browser of the Year
 

Brave
Chrome
Chromium
Dillo
Epiphany
Falkon
Firefox
Iridium
Konqueror
links/elinks
lynx
NetRider
Opera
Otter Browser
PaleMoon
qutebrowser
SeaMonkey
Uzbl
Vivaldi
w3m
Waterfox

Desktop Environment of the Year
 

Budgie
Cinnamon
Deepin Desktop Environment
Enlightenment
Gnome Shell
Lumina
LXDE
LXQt
MATE
Moksha
MoonLightDE
Pantheon
Plasma Desktop (KDE)
rox
Trinity-DE
Unity
Xfce

Window Manager of the Year
 

awesome
bspwm
cwm
dwm
Fluxbox
FVWM
herbstluftwm
i3
IceWM
JWM
MetaCity
Openbox
Ratpoison
spectrwm
twm
Window Maker
xmonad

Audio Media Player of the Year
 

amaroK
Audacious
Banshee
Clementine
cmus
DeaDBeef
MOC
MPD
mpg123
mpg321
mplayer
mpv
Pragha
Qmmp
Quod Libet
RhythmBox
Sayonara
Sonata
VLC
XMMS
XMMS2

Digital Audio Workstation of the Year
 

Ardour
Bitwig
EnergyXT
LMMS
Mixbus
Muse
Non
Qtractor
Radium
Reaper
Renoise
Rosegarden
Tracktion

Video Media Player of the Year
 

Dragon Player
DVD-Player (XBMC)
FFplay
kaffeine
mplayer
mplayer2
mpv
QMPlay2
Totem
VideoPlayer (Kodi)
VLC
xine

Video Authoring Application of the Year
 

Avidemux
Blender
Cinelerra
Flowblade
KDEnlive
Lightworks
LiVES
OpenShot
Pitivi
Shotcut

Network Security Application of the Year
 

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

Host Security Application of the Year
 

AIDE
AppArmor
Bastille
chkrootkit
Firejail
grsecurity
OSSEC
Rootkit Hunter
Samhain
SELinux
Tripwire

Network Monitoring Application of the Year
 

Big Brother
collectd
Ganglia
GroundWork Monitor
Icinga
monit
munin
Nagios Core
Nagios XI
Netdata
NetXMS
OpenNMS
Pandora FMS
Prometheus
Sensu
Shinken
Zabbix
Zenoss

IDE of the Year
 

Android Studio
Atom
Bluefish
Blue Griffon
Brackets
Code::Blocks
CodeLite
Eclipse
Emacs
Geany
GNOME Builder
IDLE
IntelliJ IDEA
Kdevelop
Komodo
Kompozer
Lazarus
Light Table
MonoDevelop
Netbeans
PyCharm
Qt Creator
Quanta Plus
RStudio IDE
SeaMonkey Composer
Spyder
Visual Studio Code
WebStorm
Zend Studio

Text Editor of the Year
 

Acme
Atom
elvis
Emacs
Geany
gedit
jEdit
joe
Kate
KKEdit
KWrite
leafpad
medit
Midnight Commander Editor
Mousepad
nano
Neovim
Notepadqq
pico
pluma
sam
Scite
Sublime Text
vi
vim
xed

File Manager of the Year
 

Caja
Dolphin
Double Commander
Gnome Commander
GNOME Files
Konqueror
Krusader
Midnight Commander
Nemo
nnn
Pantheon
PCManFM
ranger
rover
ROX-Filer
SpaceFM
Sunflower
Thunar
Worker
Xfe

Open Source Game of the Year
 

0 A.D.
Battle for Wesnoth
Crawl-Tiles
Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup
Endless Sky
FlightGear
Freeciv
FreeOrion
Frets On Fire
Frozen Bubble
GNU Chess
LBreakout2
Minetest
NetHack
Oolite
Open Arena
OpenTTD
SuperTux
SuperTuxKart
ToME2
Tux Racer
UFO: Alien Invasion
Ur Quan Masters
Warzone 2100
Xonotic

(All nominees with 0 votes last year have been removed to make room for new nominees.)

Programming Language of the Year
 

Ada
Assembly
AWK
C
C#
C++
Clojure
COBOL
Common Lisp
D
Dart
Erlang
Fortran
Go
Haskell
Java
Javascript
Julia
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Swift
Tcl

Backup Application of the Year
 

AMANDA
Back In Time
Backup Manager
BackupPC
Bacula
BorgBackup
bup
Burp
Clonezilla
Deja Dup
dump
Duplicity
FSArchiver
git-annex
luckyBackup
rdiff-backup
Redo Backup and Recovery
rsnapshot
sbackup
Snapper
tarsnap
Time Vault
Timeshift
ZBackup

rsync and tar have been removed this year.

Log Management Tool of the Year
 

collectd
Fluentd
Fluent Bit
Graylog
Logcheck
Logstash
Logster
Logwatch

X Terminal Emulator of the Year
 

Alacritty
aterm
Cool Retro Term
GNOME Terminal
Guake
Kitty
Konsole
LilyTerm
LXTerminal
MATE Terminal
Pantheon-Terminal
QTerminal
Roxterm
rxvt
Sakura
st
Terminal (Xfce)
Terminator
Terminology
urxvt
xterm
Yakuake

Browser Privacy Solution of the Year
 

Adblock Plus
Adblock Edge
Adguard AdBlocker
Bitwarden
Disconnect
DoNotTrackMe
Ghostery
HTTPS Everywhere
LastPass
NoScript
Privacy Badger
uBlock Origin
uMatrix

Privacy Solution of the Year
 

GNUnet
GnuPG
Gryptonite
KeePassX
KeePassXC
Privoxy
Tor Browser Bundle
TrueCrypt
VeraCrypt

Open Source File Sync Application of the Year
 

Cozy
FreeFileSync
Nextcloud
ownCloud
Pydio
Seafile
Syncany
Syncthing

IRC Client of the Year
 

BitchX
Chatzilla
HexChat
Irssi
Konversation
KVIrc
Quassel
weechat
XChat

Universal Packaging Format of the Year
 

Appimage
Flatpak
Snap

Single Board Computer of the Year
 

Arduino
ASUS Tinker Board S
Beagle Board
Beagle Bone
Banana Pi
DragonBoard
MinnowBoard
NanoPC-T4
Odroid-XU4
OLinuXino
Orange Pi
Panda Board
Pine64
Raspberry Pi 3 Model A+
Raspberry Pi 4 Model B
Raspberry Pi Zero
Rock64 Media Board
Udoo X86

Virtualization Application of the Year
 

Citrix XenServer
KVM
Linux-VServer
OpenVZ
Oracle VM
QEMU
VirtualBox
VMware
Xen

Container of the Year
 

containerd
Docker
Kata
LXC
runC
systemd-nspawn
Warden

Linux/Open Source Podcast of the Year
 

Bad Voltage
FLOSS Weekly
Geek News Radio
GNU World Order
Going Linux
Late Night Linux
Linux Action News
Linux Action Show
Linux For the Rest of Us
Linux Luddites
Linux Unplugged
Linux Voice
mintCast
Sunday Morning Linux Review
SystemAU
The Changelog
The LinuxLink TechShow
Ubuntu Podcast

Secure Messaging Application of the Year
 

Telegram
Tox
Signal
Wickr
Wire

Graphics Editor of the Year
 

darktable
Dia
DigiKam
GIMP
GNU Paint
Gravit
Inkscape
Karbon
Krita
LibreOffice Draw
Pencil
RawTherapee
Shotwell
Tux Paint
Vectr

(we've merged raster and vector based on participation)

Linux Desktop Vendor of the Year
 

Emperor Linux
Entroware
Penguin Computing
Pogo Linux
StationX
System76
ThinkPenguin
ZaReason

Linux Laptop Vendor of the Year
 

Emperor Linux
Entroware
Penguin Computing
Pogo Linux
Purism
System76
ThinkPenguin
ZaReason

Linux Server Vendor of the Year
 

ASL
Dell
IBM
Penguin Computing
Pogo Linux
System76
ZaReason

Email Client of the Year
 

Alpine
Claws Mail
Evolution
Geary
Gnus
Icedove
Kmail
Mailspring
mutt
SeaMonkey Mail & Newsgroups
Sylpheed
Thunderbird

Clipboard Manager of the Year
 

Clipit
Clipman
CopyQ
Diodon
Glipper
GPaste
Keepboard
Klipper
Parcellite
Pastie

PDF Viewer of the Year
 

Adobe Reader
Evince
Foxit Reader
GV
Mupdf
Okular
PDF.JS
Qpdfview
XPDF

Static Site Generator of the Year
 

Gatsby
Hexo
Hugo
Jekyll
Metalsmith
Middleman
MkDocs
Pelican
Spike
Statocles

Desktop Distribution of the Year

Bodhi Linux

IDE of the Year

Acme (if Emacs is one, so is Acme! :D)

Text Editor of the Year

ed (as every year ;))
micro

(I hate this category. I use too many of them and I always need to decide for which one to vote...)

Privacy Solution of the Year

Not really a suggestion, but: Is it really a good idea to have GnuPG, VeraCrypt and KeePassX(C) in the same category?

If so, I'd also suggest pass.

Container of the Year

Jails. Because Warden is not much more than a Jails manager. :)

Secure Messaging Application of the Year

Threema

Email Client of the Year

aerc
NeoMutt (not identical to mutt)

(Oh, and N1 has been renamed Nylas Mail a while ago - and discontinued.)

Static Site Generator of the Year

Statocles

Note that many of your suggestions were removed for getting zero votes multiple times.

--jeremy