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   Linux New Media Awards 2006

   Community Spirit

      By Uli Bantle

      Please find a PDF version of this article [11]here.
        __________________________________________________________________

      Community and commercial cooperation is increasingly important in the
      Open Source world. At this year's Linux New Media Awards, we were the
      first to award a prize for the best combination of fire and water. This
      year's awards were presented at the LinuxWorld Expo in Cologne,
      Germany.
        __________________________________________________________________

                                 [12][fig1_s.jpg]

   Figure 1: Open Source icon Jon "maddog" Hall gives the prize for Outstanding
    Contribution to Knoppix creator Klaus Knopper, and Eva Brucherseifer of KDE
         presents the Community and Commerce award to Canonical / Ubuntu.

   Every year since 2000, Linux New Media (found at
   http://www.linuxnewmedia.com) has asked the members of an international
   jury to dish out honors for outstanding achievement in the broad field
   of free software. The jury comprises personalities from the Open Source
   movement, authors, journalists, government offices, and representatives
   of industry. Every year, new award categories reflect new trends. This
   year sees new awards for virtualization and anti-spam solutions.

Bridging the Gap

   In the new "Best Combination of Community and Commerce" category,
   Ubuntu and Mark Shuttleworth's Canonical won for achieving a balancing
   act between community-based development and commercial enterprise.
   Trolltech and KDE were close runners-up. Combinations of
   Novell/openSuse and Red Hat/Fedora were clear losers.

   Many observers expected Xen and VMware to play a leading role in the
   virtualization stakes. In terms of market share, VMware is the king of
   the hill, but Xen has achieved much popularity thanks to integration
   with some well-known Linux distributions. The fact that third place
   went to the LGPL-licensed Qemu emulator was a surprise. Although the
   gap to the second-placed product was clear, Qemu did outpace OpenVZ,
   LinuxVserver Parallels, and User Mode Linux.

Heavyweights

   IBM is turning out to be a serial winner in the Linux-friendly hardware
   category. This is the second time in successive years that Big Blue has
   scored full marks in this category. The runners up were CPU
   manufacturers AMD and Intel. This year is the first time that the
   global chip vendor, Intel, has made it onto the podium, ousting last
   year's third placed contender, HP.

   More dilligence in both CPU vendors' efforts to cooperate with Open
   Source developers is obviously a key factor in their recent success.
   Among other things, Intel has recently published 3D drivers for its PCI
   Express chipsets (see http://intellinuxgraphics.org).

   Ubuntu has also become a kind of heavyweight at the Awards. The jury
   agreed that "Linux for Human Beings" was by far the most user-friendly
   Linux distribution, with Kubuntu, the KDE-enabled derivative, following
   in the second spot. Their closest rival was the Novell-backed openSuse
   project. The jury also took Freespire into consideration; based on the
   commercial Linspire distribution, the free Freespire derivative was
   released just this year.

Specialists

   Live CDs serve a vital role for testing and troubleshooting. Klaus
   Knopper is generally regarded as the inventor of the live distribution,
   and Klaus' committment and service to Linux were more than enough to
   convince the jury to hand him the special award for "Outstanding
   Contribution to Linux /Open Source / Free software." Wikipedia patron
   and mentor, Jimmy Wales, took second place behind Klaus. Third place
   was shared by two institutions: the Mozilla Foundation, and the OASIS
   consortium, http://www.oasis-open.org/home/index.php, which is
   responsible for the Open Document Standard. This can be seen as a move
   by the jury to honor what many regard to be the major topic in 2006,
   the fight for a free document standard. Of course, the Mozilla
   Foundation released Firefox 2.0 in the run up to the awards. Two
   million downloads in the first 24 hours are ample proof of the
   outstanding success the foundation's products enjoy.

            Linux New Media Awards 2006
      Most Linux-friendly Hardware Vendor
   1. IBM                                    23.0 %
   2. AMD                                    17.0 %
   3. Intel                                  14.0 %
          Best Virtualization Solution
   1. Xen                                    38.0 %
   2. VMware                                 35.0 %
   3. Qemu                                   10.0 %
      Best Linux-based Anti-spam Solution
   1. SpamAssassin                           69.0 %
   2. Bogo Filter                            11.0 %
   3. Kaspersky AntiSpam                     8.0 %
     Most User-friendly Linux Distribution
   1. Ubuntu                                 27.0 %
   2. Kubuntu                                13.0 %
   3. openSuse                               11.0 %
   Best Combination of Community and Commerce
   1. Canonical /Ubuntu                      21.0 %
   2. Trolltech / KDE                        17.0 %
   3. MySQL / MySQL Community Edition        13.0 %
      Outstanding Contribution to Linux /
          Open Source / Free Software
   1. Klaus Knopper                          12.0 %
   2. Jimmy Wales                            10.0 %
   3. Mozilla Foundation                     9.0 %
   3. OASIS (ODF)                            9.0 %

                                  The Jury

   For truly inspired results, you need experienced jury members - and the
   best place to find them is wherever Linux and Open Source products are
   in use. The jury for this year's Linux New Media Awards included
   experts from all parts of the Linux community. In cooperation with the
   editorial staff of Linux Magazine and the eight other non-English mags
   published by Linux New Media AG, around 200 people from all walks of
   Linux life cast their votes this year. In a two-stage voting process,
   the jurors chose Linux products, people, and organizations that deserve
   special notice for innovation and originality over the past twelve
   months. The jury included:
     __________________________________________________________________

   Alan Cox is a long-standing kernel hacker who has never been one to
   mince words. Alan works for Red Hat, lives in Wales, and keeps a diary
   in Welsh.

   J.D. Frazer, who is better known by the name of Illiad, is the creator
   of UserFriendly - see his monthly strip in Linux Magazine on page 17.

   Bdale Garbee works for Hewlett Packard Corporation, where he is
   developing a Linux distribution.

   Peter Gutmann is a researcher at the University of Auckland, New
   Zealand, working on the design and analysis of cryptographic security
   architectures.

   Patricia Jung is the inventor and usually invisible hand behind Linux
   Magazine's Linux World News. In her day job she works as sysadmin and
   editor at opensourcepress.de.

   Jon "maddog" Hall preaches for the free OS all over the world. He is
   the Executive Director of Linux International and one of the
   community's most outspoken voices.

   Yuwei Lin researches the social, cultural and economic aspects of Free
   Software at the University of Manchester.

   Frederick Noronha is an Indian journalist, based in Goa, and co-founder
   of BytesForAll. He writes extensively on all FLOSS related topics,
   covering both India and Asia.

   Dmitri Popov is a linguist and full-time freelance writer. He writes
   exclusively about Open Source software; his articles have appeared in
   various computer publications.

   As a developer of the gnuLinEx distribution, Dario Rapisardi is
   involved in the massive Linux migration in the public administration of
   the Spanish region of Extremadura.

   Blake Ross is a 21 year-old software engineer best known for cofounding
   the Firefox project.

   Damien Sandras is the creator and developer of the Ekiga VoIP and video
   conferencing software. Apart from this, he is part of the FOSDEM core
   team.

   Franz Schmid knows the Postscript and PDF formats by heart, which only
   makes sense, since he is the developer behind the free Scribus DTP
   program.

   Tom Schwaller was one of the founding fathers of Linux Magazine and the
   first Editor in Chief of the German language edition. Tom now works as
   a Linux IT architect for IBM.

   Rafael Peregrino da Silva holds a Master Degree in Electrical
   Engineering and was guest professor at the Technical University Berlin,
   Germany. Today he is Editorial Director of Linux Magazine Brasil.

   Artur Skura, a long-time activist in Linux and Free Software community,
   is the Editor in Chief of the Polish language edition of Linux
   Magazine.

   Pia Waugh is the Vice President of Linux Australia. She is passionate
   about FLOSS, and she works closely with Australian Government agencies
   and businesses.

   Warren Woodford has been working on the bleeding edge of technology for
   over 40 years. His most recent contribution to the Open Source
   community is the popular MEPIS Linux distribution.

   [13]Contact | © 2006 [14]Linux New Media AG | Last modified: 2006-11-23
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   [[18]Linux Magazine Spain] [[19]Linux Magazine Poland] [[20]Linux
   Magazin Romania] [[21]LinuxUser] [[22]EasyLinux] [[23]Linux-Community]
   [[24]Linux Events]

References

   1. http://www.linuxnewmedia.com/
   2. http://www.linuxnewmedia.com/Products
   3. http://www.linuxnewmedia.com/Advertising
   4. http://www.linuxnewmedia.com/Contact
   5. http://www.linuxnewmedia.com/Jobs
   6. http://www.linuxnewmedia.com/Press
   7. http://www.linuxnewmedia.com/Press/Press_Releases
   8. http://www.linuxnewmedia.com/Press/Press_Releases/Awards_2006
   9. http://www.linuxnewmedia.com/Press/Press_Releases/Awards_2005
  10. http://www.linuxnewmedia.com/Press/Pictures
  11. http://www.linux-magazine.com/issue/74/Linux_New_Media_Awards_2006.pdf
  12. http://www.linuxnewmedia.com/Press/Press_Releases/Awards_2006/fig1.jpg
  13. http://www.linuxnewmedia.com/Contact
  14. http://www.linuxnewmedia.com/
  15. http://www.linux-magazine.com/
  16. http://www.linux-magazin.de/
  17. http://www.linux-magazine.com.br/
  18. http://www.linux-magazine.es/
  19. http://www.linux-magazine.pl/
  20. http://www.linux-magazin.ro/
  21. http://www.linux-user.de/
  22. http://www.easylinux.de/
  23. http://www.linux-community.de/
  24. http://www.linux-events.de/
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