LinuxQuestions.org Awards 2005 results :-)

Hiya,

the results of the 2005 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Award are there. Although the announcement: "Among the winners are Ubuntu, Firefox, MySQL and OpenOffice.org." doesn't sound too good for KDE, here's a (only slightly) closer look at the result :-)

The most surprising result: Slackware almost won the "Distro of the year" poll :-) Distro: 1.) Ubuntu (19.5), 2.) Slackware (19.0)

And here are the results (except shell, database, live CD, security, game):

KDE won:

Desktop: 1. KDE (64.9), 2. Gnome (25.7) WebDev: 1. Quanta (44.3) 2. Nvu (24.9) Audio: 1. amarok (41.9) 2. xmms (28.9) File manager: 1. Konqueror (51.3) 2. Nautilus (15.9)

KDE came second place in:

IDE: 1. Eclipse (32.0) 2. KDevelop (31.4) Note how KDevelop lost only by 0.6 percent to Eclipse :-)

Editor: 1. Vi (38.0) 2. Kate (22.5) 3. Emacs (8.7) Well, although Vi won with a big margin, there also a big gap between Kate and Emacs. And from these three Kate is actually the only option for non-geeks.

Office: 1. OOo (84.9) 2. KOffice (11.7) Browser: 1. Firefox (71.9), 2. Konqueror (11.0) Mail: 1. Thunderbird (51.7) 2. KMail (21.5)

The three winners above all have their origins in commercially developed applications, so when they became Open Source, they had a head start compared to the KDE apps, which were developed from scratch by the community :-)

IM: 1. Gaim (52.4) 2. Kopete (23.4) Window manager: 1. FluxBox (27.1) 2. KWin (18.1)

And here KDE didn't score that much:

Video: 1.) mplayer (47.0) 2.) Xine (30.2) Graphics: 1.) gimp (62.0) 2.) Inkscape (11.8)

Alex