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Community Spirit NEWS Linux New Media Awards 2006 Linux New Media Awards 2006 COMMUNITY SPIRIT 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. BY ULI BANTLE 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. very year since 2000, Linux New tions of Novell/ openSuse and Red Hat/ CPU manufacturers AMD and Intel. This Media (found at http:// www. Fedora were clear losers. year is the first time that the global chip Elinuxnewmedia. com) has asked Many observers expected Xen and vendor, Intel, has made it onto the po- the members of an international jury to VMware to play a leading role in the vir- dium, ousting last year’s third placed dish out honors for outstanding achieve- tualization stakes. In terms of market contender, HP. ment in the broad field of free software. share, VMware is the king of the hill, but More dilligence in both CPU vendors’ The jury comprises personalities from Xen has achieved much popularity efforts to cooperate with Open Source the Open Source movement, authors, thanks to integration with some well- developers is obviously a key factor in journalists, government offices, and rep- known Linux distributions. The fact that their recent success. Among other resentatives of industry. Every year, new third place went to the LGPL-licensed things, Intel has recently published 3D award categories reflect new trends. This Qemu emulator was a surprise. Although drivers for its PCI Express chipsets (see year sees new awards for virtualization the gap to the second-placed product http:// intellinuxgraphics. org). and anti-spam solutions. was clear, Qemu did outpace OpenVZ, Ubuntu has also become a kind of LinuxVserver Parallels, and User Mode heavyweight at the Awards. The jury Bridging the Gap Linux. agreed that “Linux for Human Beings” In the new “Best Combination of Com- was by far the most user-friendly Linux munity and Commerce” category, Heavyweights distribution, with Kubuntu, the KDE- Ubuntu and Mark Shuttleworth’s Canon- IBM is turning out to be a serial winner enabled derivative, following in the ical won for achieving a balancing act in the Linux-friendly hardware category. second spot. Their closest rival was the between community-based development This is the second time in successive Novell-backed openSuse project. The and commercial enterprise. Trolltech and years that Big Blue has scored full marks jury also took Freespire into consider- KDE were close runners-up. Combina- in this category. The runners up were ation; based on the commercial Linspire 10 ISSUE 74 JANUARY 2007 WWW.LINUX - MAGAZINE.COM Linux New Media Awards 2006 NEWS distribution, the free Freespire derivative was released just this year. The Jury For truly inspired results, you need expe- Dmitri Popov is a linguist and Specialists rienced jury members – and the best full-time freelance writer. He Live CDs serve a vital role for testing and place to find them is wherever Linux and writes exclusively about Open troubleshooting. Klaus Knopper is gener- Open Source products are in use. The Source software; his articles ally regarded as the inventor of the live jury for this year’s Linux New Media have appeared in various distribution, and Klaus’ committment Awards included experts from all parts of computer publications. and service to Linux were more than the Linux community. In cooperation As a developer of the gnu- with the editorial staff of Linux Magazine enough to convince the jury to hand him LinEx distribution, Dario and the eight other non-English mags the special award for “Outstanding Con- Rapisardi is involved in the published by Linux New Media AG, massive Linux migration in tribution to Linux / Open Source / Free around 200 people from all walks of the public administration of software.” Wikipedia patron and mentor, Linux life cast their votes this year. In a the Spanish region of Jimmy Wales, took second place behind two-stage voting process, the jurors Extremadura. Klaus. Third place was shared by two in- chose Linux products, people, and orga- Blake Ross is a 21 year-old stitutions: the Mozilla Foundation, and nizations that deserve special notice for software engineer best known innovation and originality over the past the OASIS consortium, http:// www. for cofounding the Firefox twelve months. The jury included: oasis-open. org/ home/ index. php, which is project. responsible for the Open Document Alan Cox is a long-standing Damien Sandras is the creator Standard. This can be seen as a move by kernel hacker who has never and developer of the Ekiga the jury to honor what many regard to been one to mince words. VoIP and video conferencing be the major topic in 2006, the fight for a Alan works for Red Hat, lives software. Apart from this, he is free document standard. Of course, the in Wales, and keeps a diary in part of the FOSDEM core team. Welsh. Mozilla Foundation released Firefox 2.0 Franz Schmid knows the in the run up to the awards. Two million J.D. Frazer, who is better Postscript and PDF formats by downloads in the first 24 hours are known by the name of Illiad, heart, which only makes ample proof of the outstanding success is the creator of UserFriendly sense, since he is the devel- the foundation’s products enjoy. ■ – see his monthly strip in oper behind the free Scribus Linux Magazine on page 17. DTP program. Linux New Media Bdale Garbee works for Tom Schwaller was one of the Awards 2006 Hewlett Packard Corporation, founding fathers of Linux where he is developing a Magazine and the first Editor in Most Linux-friendly Hardware Vendor Linux distribution. Chief of the German language 1. IBM 23.0 % Peter Gutmann is a researcher edition. Tom now works as a 2. AMD 17.0 % at the University of Auckland, Linux IT architect for IBM. 3. Intel 14.0 % New Zealand, working on the Rafael Peregrino da Silva Best Virtualization Solution design and analysis of crypto- holds a Master Degree in Elec- graphic security architectures. 1. Xen 38.0 % trical Engineering and was guest professor at the Techni- 2. VMware 35.0 % Patricia Jung is the inventor and usually invisible hand be- cal University Berlin, Germany. 3. Qemu 10.0 % hind Linux Magazine’s Linux Today he is Editorial Director Best Linux-based Anti-spam Solution World News. In her day job of Linux Magazine Brasil. 1. SpamAssassin 69.0 % she works as sysadmin and Artur Skura, a long-time activ- 2. Bogo Filter 11.0 % editor at opensourcepress.de. ist in Linux and Free Software 3. Kaspersky AntiSpam 8.0 % Jon “maddog” Hall preaches community, is the Editor in Most User-friendly Linux Distribution for the free OS all over the Chief of the Polish language edition of Linux Magazine. 1. Ubuntu 27.0 % world. He is the Executive Director of Linux International 2. Kubuntu 13.0 % Pia Waugh is the Vice Presi- and one of the community’s 3. openSuse 11.0 % dent of Linux Australia. She is most outspoken voices. passionate about FLOSS, and Best Combination of Community and Commerce Yuwei Lin researches the she works closely with Austra- 1. Canonical / Ubuntu 21.0 % social, cultural and economic lian Government agencies 2. Trolltech / KDE 17.0 % aspects of Free Software at and businesses. 3. MySQL / MySQL Community Edition 13.0 % the University of Manchester. Warren Woodford has been Outstanding Contribution to Linux / Frederick Noronha is an working on the bleeding edge Open Source / Free Software Indian journalist, based in of technology for over 40 1. Klaus Knopper 12.0 % Goa, and co-founder of Bytes- years. His most recent 2. Jimmy Wales 10.0 % ForAll. He writes extensively contribution to the Open 3. Mozilla Foundation 9.0 % on all FLOSS related topics, Source community is the pop- ular MEPIS Linux distribution. 3. OASIS (ODF) 9.0 % covering both India and Asia. WWW.LINUX - MAGAZINE.COM ISSUE 74 JANUARY 2007 11.
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