Linux New Media Award 2004 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Below are the products and names short-listed for the Linux New Media Award 2004. Just thought of sharing the same so that we could see how the FLOSS world looks from the heart of Europe:

Hardware

Favorite Notebook Vendor

Acer global.acer.com/products/notebook/ Apple www.apple.com/hardware/ Asus www.asus.com/products/notebook/ Dell www1.us.dell.com/content/products/category.aspx/notebooks?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs Fujitsu Siemens www.fujitsu-siemens.com/home/products/notebooks/ HP welcome.hp.com/country/us/en/prodserv/notebooks_tabletpcs.html IBM www-132.ibm.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CategoryDisplay?catalogId=-840&langId=-1&storeId=1&categoryId=2035724 Samsung www.samsung.com/Products/NotebookPCs/ Sony www.sonystyle.com

Best Free Project for Hardware Support

ACPI4Linux acpi.sourceforge.net Linux on iPod ipodlinux.sourceforge.net Ndiswrapper ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net X.Org www.x.org XBox Linux www.xbox-linux.org Linuxprinting.org www.linuxprinting.org VDR www.cadsoft.de/vdr/ growisofs/mkisofs for DVD Support fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/

Linux Friendliest Printer Vendor

Canon www.canon.com/technology/ Epson www.epson.com HP www.hp.com/united-states/consumer/gateway/printing_multifunction.html Lexmark www.lexmark.com Kyocera global.kyocera.com OKI www.oki.com/en/products/

Software

Best Newcomer Linux Distribution

gnuLinEx www.linex.org SkoleLinux www.skolelinux.org Ubuntu Linux www.ubuntulinux.org UserLinux www.userlinux.com White Box Linux www.whiteboxlinux.org Yoper www.yoper.com

Best Distribution for Beginners Linspire www.linspire.com Xandros Desktop OS www.xandros.com Fedora Core fedora.redhat.com Suse Personal/Professional www.suse.com Mandrake Linux www.linux-mandrake.com

Best Multimedia Framework

Arts www.arts-project.org GStreamer gstreamer.freedesktop.org Jack jackit.sourceforge.net LADSPA www.ladspa.org MAS www.mediaapplicationserver.net NAS radscan.com/nas.html NMM www.networkmultimedia.org OpenML www.khronos.org/openml/ USound mattcamp.paunix.org/usound/ SDL www.libsdl.org

Best Media Player XMMS www.xmms.org Xine/Kaffeine xinehq.de MPlayer www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/news.html Amarok amarok.kde.org JuK developer.kde.org/~wheeler/juk.html Ogle freshmeat.net/projects/ogle/ Helix Player player.helixcommunity.org

Best Mail Client Sylpheed/Sylpheed-Claws sylpheed.good-day.net Kontact/KMail kmail.kde.org Thunderbird/Mozilla Mail www.mozilla.org Evolution www.novell.com/products/evolution/ Mutt www.mutt.org

Best Database System MaxDB 7.5 dev.mysql.com/downloads/maxdb/7.5.00.html Oracle 10g www.oracle.com/technology/products/database/oracle10g/ MySQL 5.0 www.mysql.com/products/mysql/ PostgreSQL 8 www.postgresql.org/news/223.html DB2 www-306.ibm.com/software/data/db2/udb/ Apache Derby (Cloudscape) www-306.ibm.com/software/data/cloudscape/ Sybase Adaptive Server www.sybase.com/products/databaseservers/ase

Special Award for outstanding promotion of Linux and Open Source*

Institution/Organization Creative Commons creativecommons.org Free Software Foundation www.fsf.org Eurolinux/FFII www.eurolinux.org Groklaw www.groklaw.net City of Munich www.muenchen.de Government of Brazil www.brazil.gov.br China Open Source Software Promotion Alliance Junta de Extremadura (Spain) www.juntaex.es/ OSDL www.osdl.org

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