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Bossie Awards Honor Open Source Software

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the something-for-everyone dept.

The Alliance writes "InfoWorld has announced the 2007 Bossie Awards for the Best of Open-Source Software. Awards were given to 36 winners across 6 categories. Honorees include (among others) SpamAssassin, ClamAV and Nessus in security, Wireshark and Azureus Vuze in networking, and ZFS for storage. Interestingly, they split the operating system winners across two distributions, with CentOS winning for server OS and Ubuntu for desktop."

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  1. Open source awards give awards to Open Source... by happy_place · · Score: 1, Interesting

    "Interestingly, they split the operating system winners across two distributions, with CentOS winning for server OS and Ubuntu for desktop" *Raising hand...* Um... exactly how is that interesting? --Ray

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  2. Re:Open source awards give awards to Open Source.. by Rakishi · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I find it MORE interesting that both CentOS and Ubuntu are not purely community based entities. CentOS is pretty much RHEL which is of course a commercial linux distribution. Ubuntu is heavily backed/sponsored by a private corporation.

  3. And SuSE was awarded best Linux Desktop? by kandresen · · Score: 3, Interesting

    There seem to be some inconsistencies in the awards, under the open source awards, Ubuntu win best client operating system award, but under best platforms, SuSE linux Enterprise wins the Best Linux Desktop award.

    Best Client Operating System Award:
    http://www.infoworld.com/slideshow/2007/09/114-best_of_open_so-3.html

    Best Linux Desktop Award:
    http://www.infoworld.com/slideshow/2007/01/29-2007_technology-7.html

  4. Re:CentOS? by zx-15 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    yum update is not generally headachy, it is only headachy when it breaks