That's not a requirement to vote.

I see things I'd disagree with insofar as voting goes. Then again, I didn't vote, mainly because I don't care about the results.

Given the choice, I'll take Oracle's 11g database server over MySQL any day of the week. Of course there are instances of which throwing huge bags of money at Oracle isn't an option, therefor MySQL will do. And yes, I do use MySQL in some of those instances, but prefer PostgreSQL. MySQL does the job, and I can't complain about it.

The poll is a popularity contest, nothing more. I'm sure that one were to poll the business community the results would be dramatically different.

Love the pie charts. I find it interesting that if RHEL and CentOS (which are basically identical distros) were combined, would they be tied with Debian for Server Distribution of the Year.

Oracle badguy?
 

It may be too early to be calling Oracle the Bad Guy, just yet. There were several in-house Sun projects which were killed during the acquisition, and Oracle gave those projects their blessing to fork and continue development, with all of the source-code, elsewhere. So, they could've been jerks about it, but they weren't. I have to give them credit for that. OpenWonderland continues on development it's massive open-source 3D world kit, both server and client, without Cousin Larry interfering. And, since it's Oracle's OpenOffice that I'm using, until LibreOffice makes it into the Ubuntu repos, I have to dance with who brung me and be thankful, not ungrateful, to Oracle about it. As Grandma would say, "It's best to give the Devil his due." :) Ric

Wouldn't have guessed Slackware was so popular.

I wouldn't say Slackware is that popular outside of LQ. It's just LQ is the official Slackware forum so inevitably there are a lot of slackers here.

That's a good point to keep in mind. If you did a nationwide or worldwide poll for "best burger",
almost certainly McDonald's would win by a large margin, and all of the thousands of smaller places
that make much better burgers would get less than 1% each. A poll tells us how POPULAR something is,
not how good it is. Interestingly, in a poll asking about the WORST burger,
McDonald's would again get the most votes, just because that's the name which
comes to mind when you hear the word "burger".

I'd hope Burger King would smash them. As far as big chains go, BK is a Core i7 to McDonalds' 486.

/offtopic

What sticks out, to me, is that every one of these softwares is open source and free.

Except Puppet.

And also, Debian is the most popular server OS? After the SSL vulnerability that they caused by tinkering, going un-noticed for 2 years, I don't trust them to be on a server in an enterprise.

Thats just me though.

I use Fedora Core 14, and it's very good as distribution,

I was thinking of PHP as the programming language of the year ^^

Where or when can be found the 2011 linuxquestions members choices polls?

In this sub-forum, you may need to do a search and restrict it to Linux-News.