Linux Journal Announces Winners of Tenth Annual Readers' Choice Awards
October 12, 2004
SEATTLE, WA -. SSC Publications, publisher of the award-winning monthly magazine Linux Journal, is pleased to announce that the winners of the 2004 Readers' Choice Awards Readers visited the Linux Journal web site and voted on their top choices in 26 categories For more information on the Winners Release See The Feature Article In The November Issue of Linux Journal (# 127).
Following Are The First, Second and Third Place Winners in Each Category:
* Favorite E-mail Client: mozilla
2. Ximian Evolution
3. kmail
* Favorite Desktop Workstation: Homemade
2. HP XW8200 Linux Workstation
3. Monarch Athlon 64 System Special
* Favorite Database: MySQL V4.0
2. PostgreSQL
3. Oracle 9i DB
* Favorite LJ Column: Cooking with Linux
2. Kernel Korner
3. Paranoid Penguin
* Most Indispensable Linux Book: Linux in A Nutshell, 3rd Edition, Ellen Siever, et al.
2. Running Linux, 4th Edition, Matt Welsh, et al.
3. Advanced Unix Programming, 2nd Edition, Marc Rochkind
* Favorite Backup Utility: Tar
2. Amanda
3. Arkeia
* Favorite Audio Tool: XMMS
2. MPlayer
3. Audacity
* Favorite Desktop Environment: KDE
2. GNOME
3. WINDOW MAKER
* Favorite Linux Web Site: Linuxfr
2. Slashdot
3. Freshmeat.net
* Favorite Linux Training: Linux Certified, Inc., Linux Systems & NetWork Administration Class
2. SUSE Linux Training
3. TIE: Novell Certified Linux Engineer and Linux Lunacy Cruise
* Favorite Distributed File Sharing System: Bittorrent
2. GNUTELLA
3. Red Hat Global FileSystem
* Favorite Programming BEVERAGE: Coffee
2. Water
3. TEA
* Favorite Embedded Distribution: Qtopia
2. Montavista Linux
3. Bluecat
* Favorite Web Hosting Service: Rackspace Managed Hosting2. Hurricane Electric Web Hosting
3. Serverbeach
* Favorite text Editor: Vim 2. Vi and vi Clones 3. GNU Emacs
* Favorite System Administration Tool: Webmin
2. YaST
3. Kde Desktop Sharing
* Favorite Server: HP Integrity RX4640
2. HP ProLiant DL585
3. SGI ALTIX 3000
* Favorite Network or Server Appliance: Cyclades ALTERPATH ACS
2. Net Integrator, Vmark 1
3. Veritas Storage Foundation, V4.5
* Favorite Portable Workstation: Monarch HorNet 64 Custom System System
2. Linux Certified LC2430 Linux Laptop
3. Emperorlinux Toucan Laptop, VT42P
* Favorite Processor Architecture: AMD Athlon
2. Intel Pentium 2, 3 and 4
3. PowerPC
* Favorite Office Program: OpenOffice.org
2. AbiWord DL585
3. STAROFFICE
* Favorite Programming Language: C
2. Perl
3. C
* Favorite Instant Messaging Client: GAIM
2. Kopete
3. Jabber
* Favorite Graphics Program: The GIMP
2. ImageMagick
3. GQVIEW
* Favorite Linux game: frozen bubble
2. Tux racer
3. Quake 3
* Favorite Web Browser: Mozilla
2. Konqueror
3. Opera
