LinuxQuestions.org的注册成员评出了2009年开源系统、软件方面的佼佼者。在这里我仅对各个奖项简单翻译了一下。
2009 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 ninth 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（桌面系统） - Ubuntu (30.13%)
Server Distribution of the Year（服务器） - Debian (24.24%)
Security/Forensic/Rescue Distribution of the Year（系统恢复盘） - BackTrack (43.48%)
Database of the Year - MySQL（数据库） (60.81%)
Office Suite of the Year （办公套件）- OpenOffice.org (90.76%)
Browser of the Year（浏览器） - Firefox (65.21%)
Desktop Environment of the Year（桌面环境） - Gnome (41.96%)
Window Manager of the Year（窗口管理器） - Compiz (23.10%)
Messaging App of the Year（即时通讯） - Pidgin (48.74%)
Mail Client of the Year（邮件客户端） - Thunderbird (53.48%)
Virtualization Product of the Year（虚拟机产品） - VirtualBox (67.43%)
Audio Media Player Application of the Year（音频播放器） - Amarok (38.81%)
Audio Authoring Application of the Year（音频编辑器） - Audacity (77.26%)
Video Media Player Application of the Year（视频播放器） - VLC (46.05%)
Video Authoring Application of the Year（视频编辑器） - FFmpeg (21.94%)
Multimedia Utility of the Year （多媒体工具）- GStreamer (32.84%)
Graphics Application of the Year（图像软件） - GIMP (66.48%)
Network Security Application of the Year（网络安全） - Nmap Security Scanner (29.85%)
Host Security Application of the Year（主机安全） - SELinux (39.26%)
Network Monitoring Application of the Year（网络监视） - Nagios (51.11%)
IDE/Web Development Editor of the Year（IDE/网页开发） - Eclipse (23.28%)
Text Editor of the Year（文本编辑器） - vim (35.29%)
File Manager of the Year（文件管理器） - Nautilus (24.92%)
Open Source Game of the Year（开源游戏） - Battle for Wesnoth (15.45%)
Programming Language of the Year（编程语言） - Python (27.59%)
Backup Application of the Year（备份工具） - rsync (48.99%)
Open Source CMS/Blogging platform of the Year（开源内容管理系统/博客平台） - WordPress (45.20%)