First-Round Voting in 2005 Readers' Choice Awards

They didn't include pico/nano... I know a lot of old-school unix people are vim/emacs, but for a simple, but powerful command-line editor, you can't beat pico or nano.

Development tool: distcc
Development Workstation: Home Built
Office: Whatever opens the attachments

I couldn't vote for screen over ssh for system administration, but I use it just about everywhere.

-Benjamin Meyer

P.S. I wonder how many people have converted to subverion this year.

Isn't emerge and portage mostly the same thing? they are on the same category

Hiya,

A couple of notes for the vote for several categories:

* Desktop workstation lists the most cheap and the most expensive Dell boxes, but the office workhorse Dell Optiplex is not listed. Listing Dell thrice and other brands only once isn't very fair though. I'd either group Dell together or also add more HP models and the Mac Mini and iMac.

* e-mail client lists KMail and Kontact separately. One could argue that they are the same from an e-mail perspective. The fact that Kontact integrates not only KMail but also KOrganizer, aKregator and many more doesn't change the fact that the mail component is identical. I'd personally list it as "KMail / Kontact" unless you really want the demographic information about which 'form' of kmail is used.

* Instant Messaging lists ksirc, but not Konversation, which is a far more user friendly IRC client for KDE, and likely even has more users nowadays. Please consider adding that option.

* I'm missing a category Linux Certification (LPI 1/2, COMPTIA, RH certified and Novell/SuSE certified should at least be there)

* I'm missing a category Groupware software (Kolab, OpenGroupware, eGroupWare, Groupwise, Lotus Notes, ...)

* Although it probably won't be chosen by anyone I think listing i386 under processor architecture is a good idea for fairness.

* Under server, 'hp dl series' is a specialisation of 'HP Proliant', since it's basically HP Proliant DL Series. If you want that specialisation then you should also list the Proliant ML and BL Series. And although I wouldn't choose them myself I think Dell PowerEdge also belongs there for completeness, and Apple's and Sun's offerings are missing too.

* Under system administration tool I miss KDE KioskTool, the GUI frontend for the Kiosk desktop lockdown framework, (Free)NX from NoMachine for remote desktops and possibly also the 'fish:' IO-slave in KDE to browse filesystems over SSH from Konqueror. Given that emerge and portage are listed one would also expect Apt and given Zenworks and Tivoli one would expect OpenView. Given Nagios I'm missing Big Brother and Big Sister. And then the list is even bigger, so it might be an idea to split the category in subcategories.

* training and linux training are the same AFAICS.

Quite a list of suggestions, I hope you don't mind and can incorporate some (all?) in the survey. :)

-- Martijn

A little typoe here:

media player: Kaffiene

It's spelled "Kaffeine"

I've submitted the ballot with

distribution: ALT Linux

-- did I understand the proposal correctly?

Also, looking at it: is there enough difference between SSH and OpenSSH as tools to differentiate within management section? I doubt.