今年的结果冷门不多，vi击败Emacs和vim出线算一个。主流产品在各处都更加受到欢迎，比如Eclipse、Firefox、MySQL、Apache、Dell。而竞争激烈的领域包括编程语言（C语言折桂）、脚本语言（Python再次胜出）、内容管理系统（WordPress）和桌面环境（GNOME）。Ubuntu的领先优势仍然不明显。

最受欢迎Linux图书 (2007年1月后出版或者再版)

Linux System Administration by Tom Adelstein and Bill Lubanovic (O'Reilly) (16%)
英文影印版：LINUX系统管理，东南大学出版社

【荣誉入围】
Linux System Programming by Robert Love (O'Reilly) (7.2%)
Official Ubuntu Book by Benjamin Hill (Prentice Hall) (7%)
中文版：UBUNTU官方指南，人民邮电出版社
Practical Guide to Ubuntu Linux by Mark G. Sobell (Prentice Hall) (6.6%)
中文版：Ubuntu Linux实用指南，即将由人民邮电出版社图灵公司出版

最受欢迎Linux Journal 专栏

Cooking with Linux by Marcel Gagné (26.9%)

【荣誉入围】
Work the Shell by Dave Taylor (15%)
Hack and / by Kyle Rankin (14.1%)

年度Linux产品

华硕 Eee PC (37.3%)

【荣誉入围】
One Laptop Per Child (17.9%)

最受喜爱Linux发行版

Ubuntu (37.4%)

【荣誉入围】
Mandriva (13.9%)
Fedora (11.1%)

最受欢迎桌面环境

GNOME (45.7%)

【荣誉入围】
KDE (42.5%)

最受欢迎网页浏览器

Firefox (86%)
Opera和Konqueror都低于5%

最受欢迎邮件收发程序

Mozilla Thunderbird (44.9%)

【荣誉入围】
Gmail Web Client (19.7%)
Evolution (13.4%)
KMail (10.1%)

最受欢迎办公程序

OpenOffice.org (85.1%)
AbiWord 和KOffice只有3%

最受欢迎内容管理系统

WordPress (23.8%)

【荣誉入围】
Drupal (21.4%)
Joomla! (18.9%)

最受欢迎数据库

MySQL (62.7%)
PostreSQL, SQLite, Firebird都未构成威胁

最受欢迎编程语言

C (26%)

【荣誉入围】
C++ (25.7%)
Java (22.9%)

最受欢迎脚本语言

Python (28.9%)

【荣誉入围】
PHP (21.7%)
bash (19.8%)
Perl (17%)

最受欢迎Linux软件开发工具

Eclipse (29%)
KDevelop, Emacs, GNU autoconf 和 NetBeans 也在发起有力的挑战

最受欢迎音频工具

Amarok (40.5%)

【荣誉入围】
XMMS (18.1%)
Audacity (12.3%)
Rhythmbox (11.9%)

最受欢迎媒体播放器

MPlayer (34.6%)

【荣誉入围】
VLC (27.4%)

最受欢迎通信工具

Pidgin (42%)

【荣誉入围】
Skype (17.8%)
Kopete (12.8%)

最受欢迎图形设计工具

The GIMP (76.4%)

最受欢迎数字照片管理工具

digiKam (24.9%)

【荣誉入围】
Picasa (24.5%)

最受欢迎文本编辑器

vi (35.3%)

【荣誉入围】
gedit (15%)
vi是在Emacs和vim中脱颖而出的。

最受欢迎Linux游戏

Frozen Bubble (19.2%)

【荣誉入围】
Doom (12.3%)
Tux Racer (11.7%)

最受欢迎备份系统

Simple Linux Backup (25.5%)

【荣誉入围】
Amanda (16.1%)
Bacula (16.1%)

最受欢迎备份工具

tar (35.4%)

【荣誉入围】
rsync (22.4%)
k3b (15.1%)

最受欢迎语言构造工具

Flex (18.1%)
注意，不是Adobe的那个Flex啊。

【荣誉入围】
Bison (14.7%)
javacc (12.8%)

最受欢迎安全工具

SSH (29.5%)

【荣誉入围】
iptables (19.4%)

最受欢迎包管理程序

Apt (35.3%)

【荣誉入围】
RPM (16.5%)
Yum (14.9%)
Synaptic (11.6%)

最受欢迎系统管理工具

OpenSSH (52.7%)

最受欢迎Web服务器

Apache (90.9%)

最受欢迎Linux友好网站托管公司

GoDaddy.com (14.7%)

【荣誉入围】
1&1 (9.8%)
DreamHost (9.4%)
Rackspace (7.5%)

最受欢迎网络或服务器设备

Avocent Cyclades ACS Console Server (15.7%)

【荣誉入围】
Guardian Digital Linux Lockbox (12.7%)

最受欢迎Linux手持设备

Nokia N800 (43.9%)

【荣誉入围】
OpenMoko Neo (23.7%)

最受欢迎Linux笔记本

华硕 Eee PC (34.7%)

【荣誉入围】
联想 T61p (20%)

最受欢迎Linux桌面工作站

Dell (30%)

【荣誉入围】
惠普 (12%)

最受欢迎Linux服务器

Dell (21%)

【荣誉入围】
IBM (14%)
惠普 (12%)

最受欢迎绿色Linux产品或解决方案

VMware (42.6%)

【荣誉入围】
PowerTOP (16.3%)

来源：turingbook

原文如下：

Back in January and February, we surveyed you, our readers, to find outwhat Linux-based products, tools and services you prefer thesedays. More than 5,900 of you completed the survey, and your favorites are theworthy recipients of the 2008 Readers' Choice Awards. Although some resultsare predictable, many are certain to both interest and surprise you.
In this year's competition, we designated only one winner percategory, with strong contenders receiving honorable mention awards.For instance, in the categories where a cluster of formidable contendersfollowed the outright winner, we designated up to three honorable mentions.However, if one product clearly dominated a category (for example, OpenOffice.orgwith 85% in Favorite Office Program or Apache with 92% in FavoriteWeb Server), and the contenders were barely on the radar, there were nohonorable mentions.
The developers among you will want us to weigh in on how we dealt withlanguages. We created two categories: Favorite Programming Languageand Favorite Scripting Language. See Technical Editor Michael Baxter'sreasoning in the sidebar, as well as the category contents and winners. Please letus know what you think of our approach.
And now, without further ado, we present the 2008 LinuxJournal Readers'Choice Awards.
Favorite Primary Linux Distribution of Choice
Ubuntu (37.4%)
Honorable Mentions
Mandriva (13.9%)
Fedora (11.1%)
In the last LJ Readers' Choice awards, many readerswere “shocked” and“flabbergasted” that the upstart Ubuntu handily took the crown forfavorite distribution. This year, however, there is little surprisethat Ubuntu has won again, garnering nearly triple the votes of itsmost able challenger, Mandriva—supposedly the forgotten distro?Clearly Ubuntu has morphed from the “little distro that could” to the“big distro that did”. How would the results differ if we asked foryour favorite distribution for servers?


Favorite Desktop Environment
GNOME (45.7%)
Honorable Mention
KDE (42.5%)
Clearly independent decision making is in ample supply in our community,because (despite Nick Petreley's anti-GNOME rants over the years)GNOME is your Favorite Desktop Environment. GNOME barely edged outits also-popular desktop rival, KDE. The result makes sense given thatthe GNOME-defaulting Ubuntu trounces all other distributions. However,the fact that GNOME won by just a few percentage points perhaps meansthat many of you use Ubuntu's sister distribution, the KDE-based Kubuntu?

Favorite Web Browser
Firefox (86%)
Given our readers' extreme penchant for tinkering, it's no surprisethat we love Firefox and its ever-growing treasure trove of extensions [see“Must-Have Firefox Extensions”, page 80].Firefox wins Favorite Web Browser with 86% of your votes. But where,oh where, have the very capable Opera and Konqueror gone? Fewer than 5%of you named them your favorite browser. Honorable mention for mostcreative response in this category goes to “All I know is that IE7 isworse than dreadful.”


Favorite E-mail Client
Mozilla Thunderbird (44.9%)
Honorable Mentions
Gmail Web Client (19.7%)
Evolution (13.4%)
KMail (10.1%)
Although Mozilla Thunderbird did not vanquish its opponents as decidedly asits sibling Firefox did in the browser category, it had more than twicethe support of its nearest rival, the Gmail Web Client, to win FavoriteE-Mail Client. We were a bit surprised to see that only about 7% of you are stillusing text-based e-mail clients, such as Alpine (formerly Pine) and Mutt.


Favorite Office Program
OpenOffice.org (85.1%)
OpenOffice.org garnered a whopping 85% of the votes to win FavoriteOffice Program, while competitors AbiWord and KOffice squeaked in a barelyperceptible 3% each. Nor did EIOffice, a program that has received muchpraise in our pages in the past, register more than a few votes. OpenOffice.org hasbecome the de facto default office suite for Linux.


Favorite Audio Tool
Amarok (40.5%)
Honorable Mentions
XMMS (18.1%)
Audacity (12.3%)
Rhythmbox (11.9%)
Perhaps the most feature-rich audio player on any platform, Amarok haswon most of your hearts and minds for Favorite Audio Tool. Meanwhile,the applications XMMS, Audacity and Rhythmbox each have their loyalconstituencies of a bit lesser but similar size, making each worthy ofan honorable mention.