2017 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Award Nominees

anticapitalista · 12-20-2017, 03:44 AM

Live Distribution of the Year - Add antiX, MX-Linux, Puppy, Heads.

anticapitalista · 12-20-2017, 03:46 AM

Lightweight Distribution of the Year - Add antiX. Remove Damn Small Linux since it is no longer developed.

JZL240I-U · 12-20-2017, 03:50 AM

Desktop Distribution of the Year: Add openSUSE tumbleweed.

It is really a different kettle of fish compared to Leap 42.x, at least I really do prefer it since now about 2 years with no real problems due to its bleeding-edginess

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Browser Privacy Solution of the Year: Add uMatrix (much more Detail than uBlock, same author).

Privacy Solution of the Year: Add cryfs (nicely integrated into the newest Plasma/KDE).

Secure Messaging Application of the Year: Add Conversations (one of the few jabber based messengers featuring the OMEMO protocol)

Vector Graphics Editor of the Year: I seem to remember some KDE program here but can't dredge up the Name right now ... <edit> Karbon </edit>.

jeremy · 12-20-2017, 10:38 AM

@JZL240I-U Added all except Conversations, as it doesn't appear to run on Linux.

--jeremy

jeremy · 12-20-2017, 10:41 AM

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Originally Posted by anticapitalista

Lightweight Distribution of the Year - Add antiX. Remove Damn Small Linux since it is no longer developed.

antiX requires 2.7G, which is substantially more than the other nominees. I have added it to the Live category, however (and removed DSL).

--jeremy

JZL240I-U · 12-20-2017, 12:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jeremy

@JZL240I-U Added all except Conversations, as it doesn't appear to run on Linux.

--jeremy

Arghh. You're right, I use it on Android / LineageOS, sorry.

revbish · 12-20-2017, 01:17 PM

Video Messaging App. I use Google Hangouts for all my video telephone communication. I use both Hangouts and MagicJack for voice only communication. Once the initial setup is done, MagicJack works great on Linux, though it does require a very small hardware device.

anticapitalista · 12-20-2017, 01:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jeremy

antiX requires 2.7G, which is substantially more than the other nominees. I have added it to the Live category, however (and removed DSL).

--jeremy

iso sizes of latest releases.

Archbang - 663.7 MB
Elive - 3,028MB!
WattOS - 687MB
antiX - 780MB

Lightweight is not only about installation size or iso size, but how much RAM is needed. i.e. How well will it run on old boxes. antiX runs on old PIII with 512MB RAM.
Similar distros that might also be added are Linux Lite, LXLE, Lubuntu

jeremy · 12-20-2017, 03:33 PM

Elive has been moved to the Live category.

--jeremy

hulyom · 12-20-2017, 04:06 PM

configuration management tool ?
Chef
Puppet
Ansible
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jeremy · 12-20-2017, 04:17 PM

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Originally Posted by hulyom

configuration management tool ?
Chef
Puppet
Ansible
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As mentioned here, that category was rotated out this year. Over the last few years it saw very low participation.

--jeremy

Fellype · 12-21-2017, 06:50 AM

No filesystem category this year?

Crippled · 12-21-2017, 10:45 AM

Network Security Application of the Year

Quote:

Originally Posted by jeremy

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

ClamTK

jeremy · 12-21-2017, 10:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fellype

No filesystem category this year?

As mentioned, it was rotated out as it was not very competitive recently.

--jeremy

jeremy · 12-21-2017, 10:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Crippled

ClamTK

We don't tend to include GUI to existing nominees.

--jeremy