Some interesting data. Some of it not too surprising. This is Linux related obviously.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=530202

The polls are closed, the data has been audited and the results are in. Here are the official results for the 2006 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards:

Distribution of the Year - Ubuntu (26.44%)
Live Distribution of the Year - Knoppix (26.22%)
Browser of the Year - Firefox (74.61%)
Database of the Year - MySQL (61.68%)
Office Suite of the Year - OpenOffice.org (89.79%)
Desktop Environment of the Year - KDE (56.58%)
Video Media Player Application of the Year - mplayer (41.93%)
Video Authoring Application of the Year - Kino (27.81%)
Audio Media Player Application of the Year - amaroK (57.07%)
Audio Authoring Application of the Year - Audacity (67.07%)
Multimedia Utility of the Year - K3b (69.51%)
Messaging Application of the Year - Gaim (51.52%)
Window Manager of the Year - Fluxbox (21.44%)
IDE of the Year - Eclipse (34.47%)
Mail Client of the Year - Thunderbird (52.74%)
Text Editor of the Year - vi/vim (38.42%)
Graphics Application of the Year - GIMP (65.60%)
Security Application of the Year - nmap (20.94%)
Windows on Linux Application of the Year - Wine (50.10%)
Web Development Editor of the Year - Quanta (36.34%)
Shell of the Year - bash (89.45%)

A big congratulations to all the projects that were nominated this year. The number of quality projects out there is truly impressive. We once again had a record turnout, so a thank you is also in order for the LQ members who make initiatives like this such a success. For winners, a certificate and site badge will be available soon. As always, the full results will be available at http://www.linuxquestions.org/awards until the nominees for next year are announced.