“At a special awards ceremony held here today, LinuxWorld
magazine announced the winners in the first-ever LinuxWorld
Editors’ Choice Awards. The event, held in conjunction with the
LinuxWorld Conference & Expo, took place on the show floor at
the San Jose Convention Center.
Products from both commercial vendors and from the open
source and free software communities were considered for
awards. Winners and finalists in 17 awards categories were honored
with trophies.”
“THE WINNERS OF THE 1999 LINUXWORLD EDITORS’ CHOICE AWARDS
ARE:
-- Distribution Server Mandrake 6.0 (MandrakeSoft SA)
-- Distribution/Client Caldera OpenLinux 2.2 (Caldera Systems Inc.)
-- Desktop Environment KDE/KWM (KDE)
-- Security Tripwire (Tripwire Security Systems Inc.)
-- Web Server Apache (The Apache Software Foundation)
-- Mail Server CommuniGate Pro (Stalker Software Inc.)
-- Productivity Application/Suite StarOffice 5.1 (Star Division GmbH)
-- Database Management PostgreSQL (Marc G. Fournier)
-- File Storage/Recovery Arkeia 4.0 (Knox Software Corp.)
-- Development Environment/Tools X-Designer (Imperial Software Technology)
-- Programming Library/Tools Qt 2.0 (Troll Tech)
-- Text Editing Emacs (Richard M. Stallman)
-- File Management Coda (M. Satyanarayanan)
-- Communication Netscape Communicator (Netscape)
-- Graphics/Art GIMP (Spencer Kimball, Peter Mattis, and Manish Singh)
-- Entertainment Civilization: CTP (Activision and Loki Entertainment Software)
-- Product of the Year Mandrake 6.0 (MandrakeSoft SA)