2003 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Award Winners Announced

Voting has closed for the 2003 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards and the winners have been decided. The Members Choice awards allow members of the Linux community to choose their favorite products in a variety of categories including Linux Distribution of the Year, Office Suite of the Year and Web Browser of the Year.

Buffalo, NY (PRWEB) January 10 2004--Voting has closed for the 2003 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards and the winners have been decided. The Members Choice awards allow members of the Linux community to choose their favorite products in a variety of categories including Linux Distribution of the Year, Office Suite of the Year and Web Browser of the Year. The polls were open from November 15th to January 10th. Winners will be presented with their awards at the LinuxQuestions.org booth in the .org Pavilion during the LinuxWorld Expo in New York City on January 21-23, 2004.

A list of winners follows, with the percentage of the votes in parenthesis.

Browser of the Year - Mozilla Firebird (38.31%)

Distribution of the Year - Slackware (26.34%)

Database of the Year - MySQL (36.45%)

Desktop Environment of the Year - KDE (55.93%)

Office Suite of the Year - OpenOffice.org (79.51)

Word Processor of the Year - swriter (OpenOffice.org) (66.86%)

Spreadsheet of the Year - scalc (OpenOffice.org) (54.30)

Window Manager of the Year - Fluxbox (28.42%)

Multimedia Application of the Year - mplayer (44.61%)

Cryptography App of the Year - OpenSSH (58.71%)

Web Development Editor of the Year - Quanta (49.26%)

Mail Client of the Year - Evolution (28.05%)

Editor of the Year - vi/vim (38.30%)

Hardening App of the Year - Bastille (60.49%)

Open Source Game of the Year - Frozen Bubble (40.73%)

Commercial Game of the Year - Unreal Tournament 2003 (36.75%)

Windows on Linux App of the Year - Wine (36.42%)

Security App of the Year - nmap (56.45%)

FTP Server of the Year - ProFTPD (45.74%)

Web Server of the Year - Apache (93.56%)

MTA of the Year - PostFix (45.52%)

A full list of nominees along with detailed results can be found at http://www.linuxquestions.org/awards/. This is the third annual LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards. Past winners include Red Hat, PostgreSQL and Mozilla.

Contact Information:

Jeremy Garcia

LinuxQuestions.org

PO Box 1048

Buffalo, NY 14205

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