Sempre acompanho a premiação dos melhores softwares do fórum LinuxQuestions.org e gosto de anunciar aqui no site pois permite que usuários que estejam indecisos com alguns softwares possam ter uma base para escolhê-los, gostei bastante dessa lista!

Desktop Distribution of the Year - Linux Mint/Slackware/Ubuntu (22.20%)
Server Distribution of the Year - CentOS (30.74%)
Mobile Distribution of the Year - Android (56.72%)
Database of the Year - MariaDB (34.21%)
NoSQL Database of the Year - MongoDB (44.74%)
Office Suite of the Year - LibreOffice (86.05%)
Browser of the Year - Firefox (57.79%)
Desktop Environment of the Year - KDE (33.57%)
Window Manager of the Year - KWin (20.30%)
Messaging Application of the Year - Pidgin (40.09%)
VoIP Application of the Year - Skype (46.06%)
Virtualization/Container Product of the Year - VirtualBox (49.26%)
Audio Media Player Application of the Year - VLC (30.85%)
Video Media Player Application of the Year - VLC (65.64%)
Graphics Application of the Year - GIMP (65.75%)
Network Security Application of the Year - Wireshark (22.54%)
Host Security Application of the Year - Rootkit Hunter (23.97%)
Network Monitoring Application of the Year - Nagios Core (35.45%)
IDE/Web Development Editor of the Year - Eclipse (17.46%)
Text Editor of the Year - vim (30.30%)
File Manager of the Year - Dolphin (27.70%)
Open Source Game of the Year - SuperTuxKart (12.39%)
Programming Language of the Year - Python (27.74%)
Revision Control System of the Year - git (72.63%)
Backup Application of the Year - rsync (42.75%)
Configuration Management Tool of the Year - Puppet (31.94%)
Open Source Web Framework of the Year - Django (30.00%)
X Terminal Emulator of the Year - Konsole (21.96%)
Privacy Solution of the Year - Adblock Plus (23.99%)
Open Source Cloud Solution of the Year - ownCloud (56.20%)
FTP Client of the Year - FileZilla (58.82%)
Game Distribution Service of the Year - Steam (73.86%)

Fonte: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-news-59/2014-linuxquestions-org-members-choice-award-winners-4175532948/