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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. [Dead Tree Magazine] Announces [Award]... by xxxJonBoyxxx · · Score: 4, Insightful

    [Dead Tree Magazine] Announces [Award]...


    In the [Dead Tree Magazine] world, you'll usually find that the number of [Award]s a product gets is related to the dollar value of ads that product places in that magazine. "Secure Computing" magazine is still today a classic example of this premise.
  2. Nessus as open source by jmauro · · Score: 4, Informative

    Nessus is a funny one since it's no longer open source.

  3. Re:CentOS? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Actually, RHEL won and Centos just made a copy of the award and changed its name.

  4. 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

  5. Re:CentOS? by RealSurreal · · Score: 3, Informative

    Trademarks. You can use RH code under the GPL but they don't let you use their trademarks.

  6. Re:CentOS? by Kelson · · Score: 3, Informative

    More like disappointing, given that it's RH/RPM based and it's a headache to maintain.

    Huh? What's so headachy about running "yum update" once in a while?