jeremy

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Registered: Jun 2000 Distribution: Debian, Red Hat, Slackware, Fedora, Ubuntu Posts: 13,256

Rep:

2011 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Award Winners





Desktop Distribution of the Year - Ubuntu (21.83%)

Server Distribution of the Year - Debian (31.15%)

Mobile Distribution of the Year - Android (69.43%)

Database of the Year - MySQL (49.54%)

NoSQL Database of the Year - Cassandra and MongoDB (26.23% each) <- first MCA TIE

Office Suite of the Year - LibreOffice (81.01%)

Browser of the Year - Firefox (56.60%)

Desktop Environment of the Year - KDE (33.01%)

Window Manager of the Year - Openbox (15.90%)

Messaging Application of the Year - Pidgin (53.57%)

VoIP Application of the Year - Skype (59.67%)

Virtualization Product of the Year - VirtualBox (61.13%)

Audio Media Player Application of the Year - amaroK (19.52%)

Audio Authoring Application of the Year - Audacity (77.46%)

Video Media Player Application of the Year - VLC (60.92%)

Video Authoring Application of the Year - FFmpeg (34.32%)

Graphics Application of the Year - GIMP (72.08%)

Network Security Application of the Year - Wireshark (24.35%)

Host Security Application of the Year - SELinux (50.42%)

Network Monitoring Application of the Year - Nagios (64.71%)

IDE/Web Development Editor of the Year - Eclipse (22.14%)

Text Editor of the Year - vim (31.21%)

File Manager of the Year - Dolphin (24.63%)

Open Source Game of the Year - Battle for Wesnoth (18.70%)

Programming Language of the Year - Python (29.48%)

Revision Control System of the Year - git (58.73%)

Backup Application of the Year - rsync (37.35%)

Open Source CMS/Blogging Platform of the Year - WordPress (48.62%)

Configuration Management Tool of the Year - Puppet (54.55%)

Open Source Web Framework of the Year - Django (32.38%)

Media Center of the Year - XBMC (47.76%)



If you have any questions or suggestions on how we can improve the MCA's next year, do let us know. Visit



--jeremy The polls are closed and the results are in. We had a record number of votes cast for the eleventh straight year. Congratulations should go to each and every nominee. We once again had some extremely close races (including multiple single vote winners and our first ever tie). The official results:Desktop Distribution of the Year - Ubuntu (21.83%)Server Distribution of the Year - Debian (31.15%)Mobile Distribution of the Year - Android (69.43%)Database of the Year - MySQL (49.54%)NoSQL Database of the Year - Cassandra and MongoDB (26.23% each) http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ice-awards-95/ to view the individual polls, which contain the complete results. Visit http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/2011mca.php for a visual representation of each category on a single page.--jeremy