2016 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Award Nominees
 

In previous years, while soliciting feedback for Members Choice nominees, I have posted the polls but kept voting closed. As this caused confusion on multiple levels and resulted in a high number of "why can't I vote" questions, starting a few years ago we decided to try something new. I am going to post each category as an individual post in this thread. Each post will contain the category name and all nominees. Any feedback, including additions and deletions should be posted in this thread. Please include the category name and your suggestion in each post (ideally one category per post). When it's time to vote, I'll post the polls which will be open immediately when posted. If you have any general feedback on the MCA's, this thread would be appropriate for that as well.

--jeremy

Desktop Distribution of the Year
 

antiX
Arch
BunsenLabs
Chakra
Debian
Devuan
elementary OS
Fedora
Gentoo
Linux Deepin
Linux Lite
Linux Mint
Linux Mint Debian Edition
Mageia
Manjaro
MX Linux
Nanolinux
openSUSE
PClinuxOS
Peach OSI
Peppermint
Puppy
Sabayon
Salix
Slackware
Solus
SolydXK
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop
Ubuntu
Void Linux
Zorin OS

Server Distribution of the Year
 

CentOS
ClearOS
Container Linux
Debian Stable
Gentoo
Oracle Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Scientific Linux
Slackware
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Ubuntu LTS

Mobile Distribution of the Year
 

Amazon Fire OS
Android
Chrome OS
CyanogenMod
MIUI
Plasma Mobile
Replicant
Sailfish OS
Tizen
Ubuntu Touch

Database of the Year
 

DB2
Firebird
MariaDB
MySQL
Oracle
Percona
PostgreSQL
sqlite

Office Suite of the Year
 

Apache OpenOffice
Calligra Suite
FreeOffice
GNOME Office
LibreOffice
Softmaker Office
WPS Office

Browser of the Year
 

Brave
Chrome
Chromium
Dillo
dwb
Epiphany
Firefox
Iceweasel
Iridium
Konqueror
links/elinks
Luakit
lynx
Midori
NetRider
Opera
Otter Browser
PaleMoon
QupZilla
rekonq
SeaMonkey
Uzbl
Vivaldi
w3m

Desktop Environment of the Year
 

Budgie
Cinnamon
Deepin Desktop Environment
EDE
Enlightenment
Gnome Shell
LXQt
MATE
MoonLightDE
Pantheon
Plasma Desktop (KDE)
rox
Trinity-DE
Unity
Xfce

Window Manager of the Year
 

awesome
bspwm
dwm
Fluxbox
FVWM
herbstluftwm
i3
IceWM
JWM
MetaCity
Openbox
Ratpoison
spectrwm
twm
Window Maker
xmonad

Audio Media Player Application of the Year
 

amaroK
Audacious
Banshee
Clementine
cmus
DeaDBeef
Exaile
gmusicbrowser
MOC
MPD
mpg123
mpg321
Pragha
Qmmp
Quod Libet
RhythmBox
Sayonara
Sonata
VLC
XMMS
XMMS2

Video Media Player Application of the Year
 

Dragon Player
DVD-Player (XBMC)
FFplay
kaffeine
Miro
mplayer
mplayer2
mpv
Parole
Totem
VLC
xine

Network Security Application of the Year
 

aircrack-ng
ClamAV
fail2ban
Firestarter
fwBuilder
Guarddog
Metasploit
Nessus
Nmap Security Scanner
OpenVAS
p0f
PeerGuardian
Shorewall
snort
tcpdump
UFW/Gufw
Wireshark

Host Security Application of the Year
 

AIDE
AppArmor
Bastille
chkrootkit
Firejail
grsecurity
Lynis
OSSEC
Rootkit Hunter
Samhain
SELinux
TOMOYO
Tripwire

Network Monitoring Application of the Year
 

Big Brother
Centreon
collectd
Ganglia
GroundWork Monitor
Icinga
mon
monit
munin
Nagios Core
Nagios XI
NetXMS
OpenNMS
Opsview
Pandora FMS
Shinken
Zabbix
Zenoss

IDE of the Year
 

Android Studio
Anjuta
Aptana Studio
Atom
Bluefish
Brackets
Code::Blocks
CodeLite
Eclipse
Emacs
Geany
IDLE
IntelliJ IDEA
Kdevelop
Komodo
Kompozer
Lazarus
Leo
Light Table
LiteIDE
MonoDevelop
Netbeans
Ninja-IDE
Nuclide
PyCharm
Qt Creator
Quanta Plus
RStudio IDE
SeaMonkey Composer
Visual Studio Code
WebStorm
Zend Studio