1) Best New Open-Source Project (from 2012-2013) Brackets (open-source code editor) (2013) Everpad (2012) FirefoxOS (2013) Manjaro Linux (2013) MultiSystem (2012) Nemo Mobile (2013) OxForMongo (2012) The Parallella Supercomputer (2013) Pump.IO (2013) Raspberry Pi (2012) Rust Programming Language (2012) TeXnicCenter (2012) WSO2 Stratos 2.0 (2013 - I think) 2) Best New Commercial Application (from 2012-2013) Clipperz (online vault and password manager) (2013) IBM Notes 9.0 Social Edition (2013) Krita Studio (2012) LightWorks Pro (2013) SaltStack (2012) Steam for Linux (2013) VueScan Scanner Software for Linux (2013) 3) Linux Product of the Year FirefoxOS (2013) Jolla/Sailfish (2013?) Krita Studio (2013) LXDE-Qt (2013) Manjaro (2013) OpenShift (2013) Raspberry Pi (2012) Roku 3 (2013) SaltStack (2012) Ubuntu Edge (2013) 4) Best Linux Smartphone Manufacturer GeeksPhone Golden Delicious Computers HTC Huawei Jolla LG Nexus Nokia Samsung Sony Wiko Cink 5) Best Linux Tablet Ekoore Python S3 Google Nexus 7 Google Nexus 10 KDE Vivaldi Tablet Kindle Fire HD Nook HD PengPod Samsung Galaxy Note Samsung Galaxy Tab Ubuntu Edge 6) Best Other Linux-Based Gadget Amazon Kindle DX BeagleBone/BeagleBoard Cubieboard Google Chromecast GTA04 Upgrade Board for Openmoko Gumstix mintBox Parallella Supercomputer Raspberry Pi RaZberry Roku 3 Sony PRS T2 eReader TomTom Navigation System 7) Best Laptop Vendor ASUS CyberPower Dell EmperorLinux Eurocom Lenovo LinuxCertified System76 8) Best Linux-Friendly Hardware Vendor AMD Dell Element14 Eurocom Hewlett-Packard Huawei IBM Intel Lenovo Microway MSI NVIDIA Raspberry Pi Foundation Silicon Mechanics Supermicro System76 9) Best Linux Desktop Workstation Vendor CyberPower Dell Hewlett-Packard Microway System76 10) Best Linux Server Vendor Dell Hewlett-Packard IBM Supermicro Microway 11) Best Android App Aldiko CamScanner Chrome Browser for Android ConnectBot CSR Racking Dolphin Dropbox Duolingo ElectroDroid F-Droid Firefox Browser for Android Google Currents Google Maps imo K-9 Mail Kingsoft Office Kytephone LibreOffice Impress Remote Linux Journal Moon+ Reader My Tracks Nova Launcher Out of Milk PC Monitor Plants vs. Zombies PV Output Subsonic Sudoku SwiftKey TouchDown TTRSS-Reader Tweet Lanes Waze 13) Best LJ Column Joey Bernard's Science Column Zack Brown's diff -u James Gray's New Products Shawn Powers' The Open-Source Classroom Kyle Rankin's Hack and / Reuven M. Lerner's At the Forge Doc Searls' EOF Dave Taylor's Work the Shell 14) Best Brand of Video Chipset AMD Intel NVIDIA 15) Best Linux Distribution Arch Linux CentOS Chakra CrunchBang Debian elementary OS Fedora Foresight Linux Gentoo Kubuntu Linux Mint Mageia Manjaro NixOS openSUSE Oracle Linux PCLinuxOS Red Hat Enterprise Linux Slackware SolydK Superb Mini Server (SMS) Ubuntu Ubuntu Server Xubuntu 16) Best Distribution for Netbooks/Limited Hardware Arch Linux Debian Fedora Foresight Linux Gentoo LXLE Lubuntu Manjaro PCLinuxOS Peppermint OS Puppy Linux Slackware Ubuntu Wolvix Xubuntu 17) Best Distribution for High-Performance Computing CentOS Debian Fedora Gentoo Linux Mint openSUSE Red Hat Enterprise Linux Rocks Cluster SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Ubuntu 18) Best Mobile Linux OS Android CyanogenMod FirefoxOS Gentoo Maemo MeeGo Mer PCLinuxOS Replicant Sailfish OS Tizen Ubuntu for Phones Ubuntu for Android Ubuntu Touch 19) Best Desktop Distribution Arch Linux Chakra Debian Fedora Gentoo Kubuntu Linux Mint Lubuntu Manjaro NixOS openSUSE PCLinuxOS Red Hat Slackware SolydK Ubuntu Wolvix Xfce Xubuntu 20) Best Desktop Environment Cinnamon DWM Enlightenment Fluxbox GNOME 2 GNOME 3 KDE KDE Plasma KWin LXDE MATE Openbox PCLinuxOS Ubuntu Unity Xfce 21) Best Content Management System Blosxom Conary Drupal Elgg eZ publish ikiwiki MATE MediaWiki WebGUI WordPress Wolf CMS 22) Best Linux-Friendly Web Hosting Company 1&1 Blacknight Solutions DreamHost GoDaddy.com LAMP Host Linode Liquid Web Netfirms OVH Prgmr Rackspace RimuHosting Savvis 23) Best Web Browser Chrome Chromium Dillo dwb Firefox Iceweasel Opera QupZilla rekonq SeaMonkey 24) Best E-mail Client Alpine Claws Mail Evolution Geary Gmail Gnus IBM Notes 9.0 KMail Mozilla Thunderbird Mutt Opera Mail Rediffmail SeaMonkey Sylpheed Zimbra 25) Best IM Client BitlBee Empathy Facebook Gajim Google Chat Jitsi Konversation Kopete Miranda IM Pidgin Psi Skype 26) Best IRC Client Chatzilla ERC (emacs) HexChat Irssi Jitsi Konversation Opera IRC Pidgin Quassel WeeChat XChat 27) Best Microblogging Client bti Choqok Gwibber Hotot 28) Best Office Suite Apache OpenOffice Calligra Suite Google Drive LibraOffice WebODF 29) Best Single Office Program AbiWord Apache OpenOffice Calc Apache OpenOffice Impress Apache OpenOffice Writer AUCTeX Calligra Plan Calligra Stage Calligra Words Gnumeric LibreOffice Calc LibreOffice Writer SciTE 30) Best Graphics/Design Tool Apache OpenOffice Draw Blender DraftSite GIMP Inkscape Krita Pinta RRDtool Tux Paint Xfig 31) Best Digital Photo Management Tool Bibble/Corel AfterShot Pro darktable digiKam Geeqie GIMP Gwenview ImageMagick LightZone Picasa RawTherapee Shotwell 32) Best Audio Tool Amarok Ardour Audacious Audacity FFmpeg Format Junkie LMMS Mixxx SoX VLC XBMC 33) Best Audio Player Amarok Audacious Banshee Clementine cmus DeaDBeeF Decibel Audio Player foobar2000 Guayadeque Mixxx MOC MPC-HC MPlayer Ncmpcpp Nightingale Rhythmbox Spotify Subsonic VLC XBMC Xmms 34) Best Media Player Amarok Clementine Daum Potplayer Kaffeine MPlayer mpv MythTV Plex Totem VLC XBMC Xmms 35) Best Bookmark Syncing Tool Chrome Chromium Delicious Feedly Firefox Sync Google Sync SemanticScuttle Tiny Tiny RSS Xmarks 36) Best Online Collaboration Tool Feng Office Google Docs Google Hangout MediaWiki Norton Zone Redmine WebODF WordPress 37) Best Cloud-Based File Storage AjaXplorer Box Copy Dropbox Google Drive Norton Zone ownCloud rsync SpiderOak Ubuntu One 38) Best Linux Game Battle Field BurgerSpace Darwinia FreeOrion Frozen Bubble Glest Half-Life Hedgewars KGoldrunner Minecraft Oolite OpenTTD Scorched 3D Trine 2 Warzone 2100 39) Best SQL Database MariaDB MySQL Oracle PostgreSQL SQLite 40) Best NoSQL Database Apache HBase Cassandra CouchDB MongoDB Neo4j Redis RethinkDB 41) Best Backup Solution Amanda Areca-Backup Back In Time Bacula Clonezilla CrashPlan Dropbox luckyBackup rdiff-backup Storix Symantec Backup Exec Tivoli Storage Manager 42) Best Virtualization Solution KVM Linux-VServer OpenStack OpenVZ Oracle VM VirtualBox QEMU Symantec Workspace Virtualization VMware 43) Best Monitoring Application Circonus FlowViewer htop Manage Engine Monit Munin Nagios New Relic NTM (Network Traffic Monitor) Opsview PC Monitor SaltStack SSH SysPeek Wireshark xosview Zabbix Zenoss 44) Best Revision Control System Bazaar Git Mercurial Plastic SCM Subversion 45) Best Debugger (serial or parallel) Edebug GDB (The Gnu Project Debugger) PuDB (Python Debugger) 46) Best Video Editor Avidemux Kdenlive LightWorks OpenShot PiTiVi VLC 47) Best Open-Source Pen Testing Tool Kali Linux Metasploit Nmap 48) Best Open-Source Forensics Tool dd HexEdit Kali Linux Sleuth Kit TestDisk 49) Best Open-Source Security Tool AIDE BackTrack Linux Kali Linux KeePass Metasploit Netfilter Nmap pfSense 50) Best Linux/OSS Advocate/Evangelist Jono Bacon Eric Christensen Cory Doctorow Dodeimedo Thomas S. Hatch Jupiter Broadcasting Shawn Powers Roy Schestovitz Carla Schroder Doc Searls Richard Stallman Linus Torvalds 51) Best "Worst" Linux/Open-Source Idea Creating a new distro instead of creating a new application GNOME 3 Liberator (3-D printed handgun) Poetterings' ideas Putting GNU in front of Linux The LibreOffice fork Ubunutu Ubuntu's going it alone Mir (Ubuntu's next-generation display server) 52) Best Programming Language ATS C C++ Fortran Go Java JavaScript Lisp Perl Python QML Ruby 53) Best Scripting Language Bash JavaScript Lua Perl PHP Python Ruby Shell Script 54) Best IDE Code::Blocks Eclipse Emacs Geary IntelliJ IDEA JetBrains PhpStorm Kate KDevelop Komodo IDE NetBeans Qt Creator Sublime Text vim 55) Best Configuration Management Tool apt CFEngine Puppet SaltStack Subversion Yast 56) Best Platform for Developing Rich Internet Apps Catalyst Django Dojo OpenShift Qt Ruby on Rails Vaadin 57) Best Package Management Application apt-get Aptitude Conary dpkg Gentoo Portage Nix pacman pkgtool RPM SaltStack Synaptic Yaourt 58) Best RSS Reader Akregator Feedly gReader InoReader Liferea Miniflux Newsbeuter SeaMonkey Thunderbird Tiny Tiny RSS 59) Best File Encryption dm-crypt eCryptfs EncFS GnuPG Gringotts LUKS (Linux Unified Key Setup) Symantec Endpoint Encryption Full Disk Edition TrueCrypt 60) Best Java JRE Openjdk Oracle WSO2 61) Best Java App Server WSO2 Tomcat 62) Best Journaling Filesystem brtfs ext3 ext4 xfs 63) Best File Manager Bash Command line Emacs Dolphin Krusader Midnight Commander Nautilus Nemo PCManFM ranger Thunar Total Commander Zsh 64) Best Text Editor emacs gedit joe Kate Nano vi/vim
