2004 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Award Winners Announced

jeremy · 02-05-2005, 06:10 PM

The polls are closed and the results are in for the 2004 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards. I'd like to congratulate each and every nominee. Winners will be receiving an email in the next 48 hours or so and will be able to pick their award up at LinuxWorld. We'll also be sending out small logo's that can be put up.

Browser of the Year - Firefox (77.12%)
Distribution of the Year - Slackware (19.36%)
LiveCD Distribution of the Year - Knoppix (57.69%)
Database of the Year - MySQL (53.51%)
Desktop Environment of the Year - KDE (58.25%)
Window Manager of the Year - Fluxbox (31.14%)
Office Suite of the Year - OpenOffice.org (84.85%)
Word Processor of the Year - oowriter (63.75%)
Spreadsheet of the Year - oocalc (57.57%)
Audio Multimedia Application of the Year - XMMS (45.83%)
Video Multimedia Application of the Year - mplayer (49.85%)
Security App of the Year - nmap (37.14%)
Hardening App of the Year - SELinux (68.65%)
Editor of the Year - vi/vim (36.37%)
Web Development Editor of the Year - Quanta (50.88%)
IDE of the Year - Kdevelop (37.77%)
Mail Client of the Year - Thunderbird (47.60%)
Open Source Game of the Year - Frozen Bubble (25.52%)
Commercial Game of the Year - UT2004 (38.86%)
Windows on Linux App of the Year - Wine (42.59%)
File Manager of the Year - Konqueror (30.59%)
Messaging App of the Year - Gaim (56.00%)
Graphics App of the Year - GIMP (72.82%)
MTA of the Year - PostFix (45.57%)

--jeremy

XavierP · 02-05-2005, 06:22 PM

No real surprises there. Congrats to the winners, commiserations to the ones who didn't win.

speel · 02-05-2005, 06:49 PM

Desktop Environment of the Year - KDE (58.25%) hmm surprising id guess gnome

trickykid · 02-05-2005, 07:33 PM

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Originally posted by speel
Desktop Environment of the Year - KDE (58.25%) hmm surprising id guess gnome

Nope, KDE has always been favored over Gnome it seems, well, ever since I started using Linux back in '99

reddazz · 02-05-2005, 07:40 PM

I'm kinda surprised XMMS is still so popular though it's so "ancient". Why didn't y'all vote for amarok

pilotgi · 02-05-2005, 08:05 PM

Amarok gives me problems. I'm running the latest 1.2 version in SUSE 9.2 and the first song is always muted with the counter going about 3 or 4 times faster than real time. The second song plays fine.

pilotgi · 02-05-2005, 08:07 PM

Fedora and Gentoo beat out SUSE? I never would've thought. I read a lot of complaints about Fedora 3.

SciYro · 02-05-2005, 09:00 PM

still cant believe metacity (of all the window managers) beat fvwm2 .....

owell... next year I'm sure there will be more options to vote for... as a few nominations (never can nominate to early), RSBAC for hardening app, and ... planeshift, vegastrike, cube, and Globulation 2 (all missed this years ballots, by next year I'm sure they will have even better gameplay) for OSS game section

reddazz · 02-05-2005, 10:45 PM

I dislike metacity so much, I replaced it on GNOME with xfwm4. So my GNOME desktop looks like xfce, pretty cool

masand · 02-05-2005, 11:55 PM

hey

were there any prizes for guessing thr correct winners??

student04 · 02-06-2005, 01:50 AM

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Originally posted by masand
hey

were there any prizes for guessing thr correct winners??

haha and who would pay for them?

vharishankar · 02-06-2005, 02:08 AM

No real surprises. What a pity!

Lobais · 02-06-2005, 04:52 AM

I thought slackware was dead?! How could it beat gentoo and fedora???

masand · 02-06-2005, 06:36 AM

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Originally posted by Lobais
I thought slackware was dead?! How could it beat gentoo and fedora???

what makes u think that

slackware is the best Distro i have tried !!

Lobais · 02-06-2005, 06:41 AM

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Originally posted by masand
what makes u think that

Just some discussions

, but what has slackware that other distros haven't?