LinuxQuestions.org announced that voting for the 2005 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards is now open. The Members Choice Awards allow the Linux community to select their favorite products in a variety of categories. Awards will be given out in 20 categories, including Distribution of the Year, Browser of the Year, Office Suite of the Year, Desktop Environment of the Year and Database of the Year. The polls will close on March 16th and winners will have the option of receiving their award at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in Boston. Last year’s winners include Firefox, OOo, and MySQL.
…now I’ve done my voting.
Am I the only person having issues with this category?
After all, isn’t this overly broad?
How can you judge amongst such different programs? I can understand in a “app of the year” contest or something, but wouldn’t it be better to have “audio player/organization” “cd burning” etc separate?
K3B vs. Amarok?! How am I to choose? I’ll take the fact that I can’t as a good sign, however…It bodes well for OSS in general.
Ok, I choose amaroK…just because it’s a killer app for me. It surpasses any similar program on every platform I’ve ever encountered. It’s truly an amazing piece of software, particularly for those of us with gigs of music that keep up with their ID3 tags (if not, you can have…chaos).
Still, I can’t wait to see if there are any surprises…Besides OpenOffice, Gaim, Firefox, etc…
I agree with you amaroK is really a killer app for me. k3B is good, but strictly speaking it is not a Multimedia app (since you can use it to backup data).
I guess they included K3b because it can be used for ripping music CDs and DVDs into a gazillion different formats, as well as easily convert formats or make multimedia CDs and DVDs. Even though I really love K3b, I voted for amaroK as well. Those are two of the programs that I miss the most on my Mac, but hopefully we’ll see ports of them one day. I guess it will be easier when KDE4 comes out.
I bet we are going to see a lot of the same winners as last year. People tend to stick with their favorite applications, and not too many new applications came out over the year.
Not all… I’ve switched a lot this year. For example:
Mandrake (mandriva) –> Arch linux
XMMS –> aMarok
Firefox –> Konqueror
OO.o –> Koffice
GAIM –> Konversation (not really comparable thou, as I didn’t IRC with GAIM)