Myles Braithwaite

Linux Journal’s recent Readers’ Choice Awards showed some interesting results, at least to me. First in the distribution it seems that Mandriva (13.9%) has taken over Fedora (11.1%) for second place with Ubuntu (37.4%) getting a massive lead. GNOME (45.7%) and KDE (42.5%) are about 50/50 in the desktop environment. A suppressing result in the instant messenger category with Skype (17.8%) out performing Kopete (12.8%) but with my personal favorite Pidgin (42%) getting the award. VMWare won best Virtualization Solution.

Also in the developers category it seems that graphic based editors are starting to be at the level as CLI gedit (15%) the default text editor for GNOME did surprisingly while. MySQL won a major victory in the database category but it will be interesting if they can maintain there success. Python (28.9%) won Favorite Scripting Language with PHP (21.7%), bash (19.8%), and Perl (17%) trailing, it is interesting to see that Ruby did get on the board.

My Nokia N800 (43.9%) won Favorite Linux Handheld Device while OpenMoko Neo (23.7%) in second which is interesting because they don’t have a working prototype yet.