Favorite Web Server
Apache (90.9%)
Rather than offer a Favorite Web Server category, we should just ask“Do you use the Apache Web server, yes or no?” and leave it at that.Apache wins with 90.9% of your votes.

Favorite Linux-Friendly Web Hosting Company
GoDaddy.com (14.7%)
Honorable Mentions
1&1 (9.8%)
DreamHost (9.4%)
Rackspace (7.5%)
Given the variety of hosting companies available today, it's no surprisethat none of them dominated the voting for Favorite Linux-FriendlyWeb Hosting Company. Although the winner, GoDaddy.com, garnered arespectable 14.7%, the real winner was “Other” with a whopping 42.4%.Nevertheless, hats off to GoDaddy.com for its rapid rise inpopularity—it was absent from our last awards.

Favorite Network or Server Appliance
Avocent Cyclades ACS Console Server(15.7%)
Honorable Mention
Guardian Digital Linux Lockbox (12.7%)
As with hosting, the voting for Favorite Network or Server Appliancecategory was diffuse due to the rabbit-like proliferation of usefulproducts in the marketplace. The top vote-getter at 15.7% was the AvocentCyclades ACS Console Server, and following up with honorable mention(at 12.7%) was the Guardian Digital Linux Lockbox.


Favorite Linux Handheld Device
Nokia N800 (43.9%)
Honorable Mention
OpenMoko Neo (23.7%)
In case you hadn't noticed, many of us Linux Journal editors adore theNokia N800. The N800 won the 2007 awards for Ultimate Linux Handheld,and its predecessor, the N770, would have won the 2006 Editors' ChoiceAward for Best Mobile Device, only we were afraid we never talked aboutanything else. Well, clearly our readers dig it too, because 43.9% of youchose it as your favorite handheld. Keep your eye on the newer OpenMokoNeo 1973, which burst on the scene and grabbed 23.7% of the vote.


Favorite Linux Laptop
ASUS Eee PC (34.7%)
Honorable Mention
Lenovo T61p (20%)
Is there any surprise that the ASUS Eee PC got 34.7% of the vote towin the Favorite Linux Laptop category handily? Finally, a company createda laptop with Linux in mind and didn't consider Linux as a second-rateafterthought. It also is nice to see that our readers appreciateLenovo's better-late-than-never but admirable effort to pre-installits T61p with SLED. This helped the device win honorable mention.Hopefully, awards like this will encourage Lenovo and others to pre-installall of their laptops with Linux from the start. If you accumulate thevarious models from our Linux-specialist friends like LinuxCertified,EmperorLinux and R Cubed, they fared well as a group too.


Who Makes Your Favorite Linux Desktop Workstation?
Dell (30%)
Honorable Mention
Hewlett-Packard (12%)
It wasn't surprising to see PC giant Dell win top choice in this category with 30% ofthe vote tally. Dell's product line has become more Linux-friendly over the years, whichshows up clearly in your preferences. HP gets an Honorable Mention for its Linuxofferings, and there were lots of write-ins for various verndors in this category, butthey were too diverse to merit a third place award. And of course, many of you chose ahome-brew solution as well.

Who Makes Your Favorite Linux Server?
Dell (21%)
Honorable Mention
IBM (14%)
Hewlett-Packard (12%)
The majority of voters in this category give their server business to the big vendors,such as Dell (winner of both Favorite Desktop Workstation and Server categories), IBM,HP and Sun. Many readers also like to purchase from the smaller mom-and-popshops—with too many write-ins to list here. And, as with the Favorite DesktopWorkstation category, many readers prefer to build their own servers.

Favorite Green Linux Product or Solution
VMware (42.6%)
Honorable Mention
PowerTOP (16.3%)
Because virtualization is such a fabulous and popular way to improve theefficiency of your servers, VMware landed the top spot in the FavoriteGreen Linux Product or Solution category. The PowerTOP tool for findingenergy wasters on your systems also is popular and won an honorable mentionat 16.3%. Although many readers earnestly consider energy consumption andenvironmental impacts in their data-center strategy, we were surprisedto see the high number of responses like “Hummer” and “I promote globalwarming”. We wonder with concern, “How much good science is necessaryto convince us of the seriousness of our environmental challenges?”

Favorite Linux Book (revised or released in or after January 2007)
Linux System Administration by Tom Adelstein and Bill Lubanovic (O'Reilly) (16%)
Honorable Mentions
Linux System Programming by Robert Love (O'Reilly) (7.2%)
Official Ubuntu Book by BenjaminHill (Prentice Hall) (7%)
Practical Guide to Ubuntu Linuxby Mark G. Sobell (Prentice Hall) (6.6%)
There are so many great Linux books, how can one choose a favorite!Despite the amazing diversity, your clear winner for Favorite Linux Bookis O'Reilly's Linux System Administration by BillLubanovic and LJ regularTom Adelstein. Three other books clustered around the 6–7% mark, one from O'Reilly and two from Prentice Hall. Interestingly, severalof you mentioned that you don't read “analog” printed books anymore,only digital materials.


Favorite Linux Journal Column
Cooking with Linux by Marcel Gagn� (26.9%)
Honorable Mention
Work the Shell by Dave Taylor (15%)
Hack and / by Kyle Rankin (14.1%)

Looks like Marcel Gagn� is going to have to be knocked off beforeanyone knocks him off the award stand for Favorite LinuxJournal Column.Marcel's Cooking With Linux column, where Linux must be fun and one handmust remain free to fill the wineglass, has tickled and informed LinuxJournal readers since its inception more than 100 issues ago. The ever-popularDave Taylor also fared well (15%) for his Work the Shell column,and the upstart Hack and / from Kyle Rankin has become quite popular(14.1%) in its short life.

Linux Product of the Year
ASUS Eee PC (37.3%)
Honorable Mention
One Laptop Per Child (17.9%)
We are pleased to present you with your very own Linux Journal Readers'Choice Product of the Year...drumroll please...the ASUS Eee PC! Once again,we congratulate ASUS for making a great Linux product from the ground upand not as an afterthought. The win is well deserved due to the pureexcitement it has created in our community. And, it's created excitementhere at LJ as well—see Jes Hall's review of the ASUS Eee PC atwww.linuxjournal.com/article/9947, her “Hacking the EeePC” atwww.linuxjournal.com/article/10003 and Shawn Powers' video review atwww.linuxjournal.com/node/1005898. See also “Eee PC Gets anUpgrade” onpage 13 of this issue. We're also pleased to announce that theOLPC wins the Honorable Mention in this category; see Dave Phillips'“Sounding Out with the OLPC XO” on page 46 of this issue.


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James Gray is Linux Journal Products Editor and agraduate student inenvironmental science and management at Michigan State University. A Linuxenthusiast since the mid-1990s, he currently resides in Lansing, Michigan,with his wife and cats.