2017 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 Lite
Linux Mint
Linux Mint Debian Edition
Mageia
Manjaro
MX Linux
Nanolinux
NuTyX
openSUSE Leap
openSUSE Tumbleweed
PClinuxOS
Peach OSI
Peppermint
Puppy
Q4OS
Sabayon
Salix
Slackware
Solus
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

Live Distribution of the Year
 

antiX
Elive
Finnix
Grml
Knoppix
Porteus
RescaTux
Slax
SliTaz
SystemRescueCd
Tails

(Note that this is a new category that we're actively seeking new nominees for. All suggestions should be distributions who's main focus is being a live distribution.)

Lightweight Distribution of the Year
 

antiX
ArchBang
Puppy Linux
Slax
Tiny Core Linux
WattOS

(Note that this is a new category that we're actively seeking new nominees for. All suggestions should be distributions who's main focus is being a minimal distribution.)

Database of the Year
 

DB2
Firebird
MariaDB
MySQL
Oracle
Percona
PostgreSQL
sqlite

Browser of the Year
 

Brave
Chrome
Chromium
Dillo
dwb
Epiphany
Firefox
Konqueror
links/elinks
Luakit
lynx
Midori
NetRider
NetSurf
Opera
PaleMoon
qutebrowser
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
dwm
Fluxbox
FVWM
herbstluftwm
i3
IceWM
JWM
MetaCity
Openbox
Ratpoison
spectrwm
StumpWM
twm
Window Maker
xmonad

Audio Media Player Application of the Year
 

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

Digital Audio Workstation of the Year
 

Ardour
Bitwig
EnergyXT
LMMS
Mixbus
Muse
Non
Qtractor
Radium
Reaper
Renoise
Rosegarden
Tracktion

Video Media Player of the Year
 

Dragon Player
DVD-Player (XBMC)
FFplay
kaffeine
Miro
mplayer
mplayer2
mpv
MythTV Internal player
Totem
VideoPlayer (Kodi)
VLC
xine
Xplayer

Video Authoring Application of the Year
 

Avidemux
Blender
Cinelerra
Flowblade
KDEnlive
Lightworks
LiVES
OpenShot
Pitivi

Network Security Application of the Year
 

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

Host Security Application of the Year
 

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