The Vote Is In!

[denise gant]

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2008 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Award Winners

The polls are closed and the results are in. We had a record number of votes cast for the eighth straight year. Congratulations should go to each and every nominee. We once again had some extremely close races and a couple multi-year winners were unseated. The official results:

Desktop Distribution of the Year - Ubuntu (35.36%)
Server Distribution of the Year - Debian (25.55%)
Live Distribution of the Year - Ubuntu Live (23.43%)
Database of the Year - MySQL (58.10%)
Office Suite of the Year - OpenOffice.org (93.03%)
Browser of the Year - Firefox (75.89%)
Desktop Environment of the Year - KDE (43.57%)
Window Manager of the Year - Compiz (31.56%)
Messaging App of the Year - Pidgin (53.40%)
Mail Client of the Year - Thunderbird (51.43%)
Virtualization Product of the Year - VirtualBox (61.10%)
Audio Media Player Application of the Year - Amarok (48.80%)
Audio Authoring Application of the Year - Audacity (70.45%)
Video Media Player Application of the Year - mplayer (38.31%)
Video Authoring Application of the Year - Avidemux (19.59%)
Multimedia Utility of the Year - K3b (46.77%)
Graphics Application of the Year - GIMP (70.41%)
Network Security Application of the Year - nmap (28.96%)
Host Security Application of the Year - SELinux (42.86%)
Monitoring Application of the Year - Nagios (39.74%)
Windows on Linux App of the Year - Wine (85.21%)
IDE/Web Development Editor of the Year - Eclipse (24.25%)
Text Editor of the Year - vi/vim (39.76%)
File Manager of the Year - Nautilus (25.54%)
Open Source Game of the Year - Battle for Wesnoth (17.31%)
Programming Language of the Year - Python (26.25%)
Backup Application of the Year - rsync (40.10%)

Winners should expect an email, including a nice winners badge ASAP. If you have any questions or suggestions on how we can improve the MCA's next year, do let me know. Visit http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ice-awards-83/ for the full poll results.