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Romance Author Booksignings: April and Beyond

Earlier this month I attended a booksigning by one of my favorite historical mystery authors, Jacqueline Winspear, the author of the popular Maisie Dobbs series. If you haven’t heard about the series and like mysteries set in post-World War I England, you can check out Ellen’s DIK review of the first in the series here at AAR.

The booksigning was held at one of the larger independent bookstores in town. I arrived nearly 30 minutes early and planned to browse before the event. My plans changed when I discovered that nearly every seat in the place (over 100) was already filled with people. I quickly snagged a copy of her book and sat down. By the time Ms. Winspear arrived, people were sitting on the floor and standing wherever possible.

Although I’ve read the entire series, I really knew nothing about Ms. Winspear until this event. I was pleased when she announced that rather than doing a reading from the new book, she would tell us a little about how she came to write the series. Originally from England, Ms. Winspear’s grandfather was shell-shocked in World War I. Even as a little girl she was fascinated by English history from 1913-1950, and in particular, with the history of women during that period.

The idea for the series came to her in what she describes as a “moment of artistic grace.” Stuck in traffic in the pouring rain on her way to work, Maisie Dobbs appeared to her in full 1920s dress in what would eventually become the opening scene of the first book.

Ms. Winspear talked a lot about the lives of the women who were teenagers and young adults from 1914-1918. So many of their fiancés, husbands, and brothers were killed or seriously injured in the war that their prospects were never the same. Plans for marriage and children were forever ended for a large number of these women. Ms. Winspear said that she “wanted to do right by that generation of women.”

Ms. Winspear reads extensively about the time period, including both fiction and nonfiction. She obtained a syllabus from the college Maisie attended so that she could give her the right background. She told us about how women of all ages were used in the war effort and noted that the government found Girl Guides to be more reliable couriers than Boy Scouts, as the boys would get too distracted.  Ms. Winspear commented that reading fiction written during that time helps her “get the voice” for the period. However, she noted that she is a story writer first and foremost, and that the research must support the story but never overwhelm it.

Listening to Ms. Winspear talk sharpened my interest in the time period. I finished her latest Maisie Dobbs – A Lesson in Secrets – within days of attending the signing and am now searching for other post-World War I mysteries or romances. I go to a lot of booksignings, but this was truly one of the most memorable I’ve attended. And I hope that in the list below there’s a similar gem close by where one of you lives.

I’ve found a number of romance author booksignings in the coming months, but as always, I could use your help. Do you know of any authors who are coming to your home town? If so, please let us know about it. If you know of any events that we missed between now and mid-May, please post them in the comments section. If you know of any events occurring after mid-May, please send them to us at aarbooksign  AT and we’ll add them to our mid-May post.

Disclaimer: I found these signings by extensive web searches of both author and bookseller Web sites. They all appear to be free, but please contact the bookstore before you attend an event for additional information. And please let us know if you do attend a booksigning, and how you liked it. A few of the authors on the list aren’t strictly romance authors, but have either been reviewed at AAR in the past, or have appeared in AAR forum discussions.

Upcoming Booksignings: April and beyond:

Kelly Armstrong, April 23, Coles, 1:30 p.m., Argyle Mall, London, ON (other events on the author’s Web site including Alpharetta, GA, and Toronto).

Meg Cabot, April 27, Barnes & Noble, 7:00 p.m., 1430 Plaza Place, Southlake, TX (other signing at the B&N site in Alpharetta, GA).

Molly Jong-Fast, April 27, Barnes & Noble, 7:00 p.m., 150 East 86th St., New York, NY.

Nora Roberts, Kristan Higgins, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Sophia Nash, and many more authors, April 29, Turn the Page Bookstore, 11:30 p.m.,  18 N. Main St., Boonsboro, MD.

Carola Dunn, April 30, Seattle Mystery Bookshop, 12:00 p.m., 117 Cherry St., Seattle, WA.

Debbie Macomber, May 2, Barnes & Noble, 7:00 p.m., 2900 Peachtree Rd., N.E., Atlanta, GA (other signing at the B&N site in The Villages, FL).

Sherrilyn Kenyon, May 3, Barnes & Noble, 7:00 p.m., 567 North Stephanie, Henderson, NV (other signings at the B&N site including Oakbrook, IL, Arlington, VA, and Glendale, CO).

Diane Chamberlain, May 3, Quail Ridge Books, 7:30 p.m., Raleigh, NC.  (other signings on the author’s Web site including Wilmington and Charlotte, NC).

Jen Lancaster, May 3, Barnes & Noble, 6:30 p.m., 555 12th St. NW, Washington, DC (other signings at the author’s Web site including Richmond, VA, Dallas, TX, and Philadelphia, PA).

Wendy Wax and Karen White, May 4, FoxTale Book Shop, 7:00 p.m., 105 East Main St., Woodstock, GA (other events on the author’s Web site including Marietta and Roswell, GA and St. Pete Beach, FL).

Kate Carlisle, Avery Aames, Jenn McKinlay, and Beth Kendrick, May 4, The Poisoned Pen, 7:00 p.m., 4014 N Goldwater Blvd. Suite 101, Scottsdale, AZ.

Jane Porter, May 5, Kenosha Public Library, TBA, 7979 38th Ave., Kenosha, WI.

Colleen Gleason, May 5, Barnes & Noble, 7:00 p.m., Washtenaw Ave., Ann Arbor, MI (other events on the author’s Web site including New York and Grand Rapids, MI).

Leanna Renee Hieber, May 5, Barnes & Noble, 7:00 p.m., 9455 Civic Center Blvd, West Chester, OH.

Anne Easter Smith, May 6, Jabberwocky Bookshop, 7:00 p.m., 50 Water Street, Newburyport, MA (other events at the author’s Web site including Burlington and Ipswich, MA and Glen Falls, NY).

Therese Fowler, May 7, McIntyre’s Books, 2:00 p.m., Pittsboro, NC (other events on the author’s Web site including Denver, CO and Raleigh, NC).

Carolyn Hart, May 8, The Poisoned Pen, 1:00 p.m.,  4014 N Goldwater Blvd. Suite 101, Scottsdale, AZ

Jennifer Weiner, May 10, Barnes & Noble, 7:00 p.m., 301 Main St., Exton, PA.

Jennifer Haigh, May 13, Next Chapter Bookshop, 7:00 p.m., 10976 N. Port Washington Road, Mequon, WI (other events on the author’s Web site including Bethesda, MD, Naperville, IL, and Denver, CO).

Megan Kelly and Eileen Dryer, May 14, Rose’s Bookhouse, 12:00 p.m., 8935 Veteran’s Memorial Parkway, O’Fallon, MO.

Molly Harper, May 14, Joseph-Beth Booksellers, 2:00 p.m., 161 Lexington Green Cir # B, Lexington, KY .

Barbara Ashford, May 14, Barnes & Noble, 2:00 p.m., Town Square Mall, 2443 Vestal Parkway, East Vestal, NY (other signings on the author’s Web site including Colonie and New Rochelle, NY).

Charlaine Harris, May 15, Barnes & Noble, 3:00 p.m., 14709 U.S. Highway 31, North Carmel, IN (other signing at the B&N site in New York, NY).

Sandra Dallas, May 17, Bookworm, 6:00 p.m., 8702 Pacific St., Omaha, NB (other signings at the author’s Web site including Denver and Fort Collins, CO and Oak Brook, IL).

Laura Dave and Emily Giffin, May 19, Barnes & Noble, 7:00 p.m., 2900 Peachtree Road, Atlanta, GA (other events on Laura Dave’s Web site including Greenwich, CT and New York, NY).

Lynn Sheene, May 22, May 22, Bookworks, 3:00 p.m., Albuquerque, NM (other signings on the author’s Web site including Pasadena and Santa Barbara, CA and Houston, TX).

Julia Quinn, Elizabeth Boyle, and Stefanie Sloane, May 31, Third Place Books, 7:00 p.m., 17171 Bothell Way NE, Lake Forest Park, WA (other events on Julia Quinn’s Web site in Beaverton, OR and Silverdale, WA).

Mary Kay Andrews, June 7, Barnes & Noble, 7:00 p.m., 2900 Peachtree Road NE Suite 310, Atlanta, GA (other event in Mt. Pleasant, SC at the Barnes & Noble Web site).

Rachel Gibson and Julia Quinn, June 12, Borders, 3:00 p.m., 965 West Bethany Drive, Allen, TX.

Joshilyn Jackson, June 14, Bookmiser, 7:00 p.m., 3822 Roswell Rd., Marietta, Georgia.Nancy Thayer, June 23, Odyssey Bookshop, 7:00 p.m., South Hadley, MA.

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5 Responses to Romance Author Booksignings: April and Beyond

  1. LeeB. says:

    Thanks for sharing your experience at Ms. Winspear’s book signing. It’s always interesting to find out what inspires authors to create their stories.

  2. Tinabelle says:

    I enjoyed learning more about Ms. Windspear. This series has been popping up on a lot of sites I frequent and I am intrigued. You turned me on to Elizabeth Peters’ Amelia Peabody series and I am forever grateful so I am definitely going to follow your lead on this series, too. I love historical mysteries and this one sounds right up my alley. Thanks for sharing.

  3. Leigh AAR says:

    I have the first book in my TBR pile. I think it is great that you were able to go a book signing of one of your favorite authors.

  4. LinnieGayl says:

    Thanks, Lee, Tinabelle, and Leigh.

    Tinabelle, I love turning people on to the wonderful Amelia Peabody series. I’m so glad you enjoyed it. The Maisie Dobbs books are very different from those, but are simply wonderful. I hope you like them.

    Leigh, I’ll be curious to know what you think about the first book when you finish.

  5. My novella ‘Self’s Blossom’ (Devine Destinies) has recently had a nice review in Miz Loves Books. Is anyone interested in knowing more?

    A romantic, erotic tale of a vivid portrayal of the quest for the inner truth, empowerment and sexual liberation of Selene, a woman searching for primeval abandon and reckless adventure. Intelligent, a university graduate and a successful careerist, Selene became emotionally scarred by unhappy relationships. Riled and taunted through the years by her former college roommate Janice, Selene gave in to the long-term desire to ‘get one back’ at Janice by having a passionate holiday encounter.

    First off, I’d like to make it clear to readers that Selene, for me, didn’t come across as the usual romance heroine. If you expect to like her a lot, you may be disappointed. I, however, loved her because she isn’t your usual romance heroine. I saw her as conceited, vain, totally self-absorbed, and a pure delight for being this way.

    She knows she looks good, knows her workouts have given her a body most women would envy, and the kind of woman she is was portrayed perfectly with this line: Selene had a far better body than the mousy little model in the photograph. While this isn’t something you might expect a romance heroine to think of herself, I loved it because she was made real by Mr Russell creating her this way. We have all thought things like this, perhaps not about our bodies, but about other things—I have a nicer hairstyle than her…I have a better car than her…I have prettier eyes than her—and Selene’s inner thoughts, of which there are many, gave me a glimpse into one of the realest women I’ve ever read. She was human, with, in my opinion, many flaws that might make her distasteful to some, but by God, she riveted me with her self-absorption and brutal honesty.

    She goes on holiday alone, and I liked the way the book showed what was happening now but also took me into her mind, showing me memories and why she acted the way she did. I didn’t feel any sympathy for her at any time, just accepted she is like she is and let myself be sucked in by the way she thinks and acts. She’s a breath of fresh air, a person who has the courage to say what she thinks and damn the consequences, and also to think what she does with no remorse whatsoever.

    The writing is very good, a touch of literary with an almost languid air to it that gives you the feeling it is slow-paced but it actually isn’t. I think it’s the dreamy state it gives you that creates that slow-moving feeling, and this is not a negative in any way. I loved the way it coasted along like that, where her thoughts and memories came into play and showed me Selene’s psyche. It’s a delve into the mind and life of a woman who knows what she wants and plots to get it. Although she plots, it never came across as malicious plotting. She went on holiday to meet someone, to ensnare them and have glorious sex with them—she makes that clear right from the start—and she is going to get it.

    She has a sexual encounter on the beach with a young man—not in her plan at all because it didn’t play out quite as she envisaged—and she knew it was wrong. Not wrong that she had sex, but wrong for her, for her plan, and she walks away afterwards knowing the man is distraught she has gone but…oh, she’s so blasé in that she shrugs it off somewhat and continues on her original mission.

    She meets Hudson, and here is where her plan comes fully into play. She is a manipulator, a master at it, in my opinion, and I adored watching her plan unfold, loved knowing what the next step would be and how she would make things go her way. Selene is, quite simply, not someone I would wish to know in real life, but I thoroughly enjoyed getting to know her in fiction.

    …and make sure it’s your side of the slice that gets the butter.

    Half asleep, she pondered on the aura she projected. She knew how good her body was, toned up by lots of squash and swimming at her health club.

    It was essential for her to have some comparables, some implicit rivals around…

    After it, before it, through it, and finally beyond it, she would be a glistening scale of the purest pigment of a butterfly’s wing, but in pure sensation, outshine all the finest plumage, so carefully, but so abundantly structured, proudly strutting.

    Selene came to the conclusion that she read too much, thought too much, and lived too little.

    Self’s Blossom is not all hearts and flowers. It’s a journey that amazed me with the portrayal of Selene being so herself and human, flaws right out there for all to see. The prose is also mesmerising. Maybe it won’t be so for you, maybe Selene will seem totally different to you, but I really did enjoy this book very much and am very glad to have been given the chance to read it.

    Loved by Miz Love at 21:44

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The Quilterâ€™s Haven will hold a one-hour class on how to make a Dresden plate wallhanging. The class entitled, â€œChristmas in July,â€ is designed to get in the holiday spirit in the middle of summer. The class will be held July 21 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Cost is $45.
A hand quilting class will be held July 26 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Cost is $25.
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The Lighthouse Marine Service, Inc. will hold a safe boating class on July 23 at Kings Point Marina from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information call (704) 587-0325 or e-mail uscgc17@bellsouth.net.

The Democratic Mens Group of Lincoln County will meet Thursday, July 21 at 7 p.m. at Captainâ€™s Cap Restaurant, 1218 N N.C. 16. The theme of the meeting is â€œBe Gutsy, Be Charitable, Be Sincere, Be a Democrat.â€ The primary subjects will be planning for precinct picnics, the 10th Congressional District and honoring the legally mandated secrecy of the nationâ€™s intelligence workers. If there is a successful turn-out, meetings will continue every third Thursday of the month at 8 a.m. at the Captainâ€™s Cap Restaurant.

The Education and Recruitment Committee of Lincoln County Democratic Women will meet July 26 at 7 p.m. in the parish hall of St. Peter by the Lake.

Yoga Classes are held twice each week from 8:30 – 9:30 a.m. on Monday and Thursday at the East Lincoln Community Center. The classes will focus on basic yoga and some pilates. A fee of $20 per month is required. For more information call (704) 483-8980.
La Leche League of West Norman meets at 7 p.m. on the third Tuesday of each month at Denver United Methodist Church. Mothers and their breast-fed babies, and expectant mothers are welcome. For more information or questions please call Caroline at (704) 483-0758.
Westport Baptist Church Womenâ€™s Ministry, designed to help with relationships in a troubling time, meets 6:30 p.m. every Thursday starting in August at Westport Baptist Church, 2372 Lakeshore Road South. The group meets downstairs next to the church offices. For more information call (704) 483-5851.
Line Dancing Lessons at CWâ€™s Music Barn, 393 N. Pilot Knob Road, Denver. Classes are beginner to intermediate from 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. on Thursdays. Cost is $3. For more information call (704) 483-1609.
Kiwanis Club of Lake Norman meets each Thursday at 7:30 a.m. at Longhorn Restaurant, 16641 Statesville Road in Huntersville. Visitors and new members are always welcome. For club information, contact Richard Erckman at (704) 662-6040.
New Beginnings Singles Club of Lake Norman meets 6:30 p.m. the third Thursday of each month at the Golden Corral in Mooresville at exit 36. Meet new people over 40 for fellowship and fun activities. For more information, call (704) 664-5577.
The Computer Users Group of Lincolnton meets 10:30 a.m. the first Saturday of each month at the Charles R. Jonas Library, Lincolnton. Guests and new members are welcome.
Fairfield United Methodist Church, 7960 Fairfield Church Road, Denver, hosts Singing & Sharing at 6 p.m. the last Sunday of each month.
Anyone who wishes to share in Christian fellowship is invited to join this celebration, which has no set format. There is no preaching. Call Rita Lynch at (704) 483-5464 for more information.
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The Lindenwood University Theatre Department will present the stage version of the classic story, “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” at 7:30 p.m. on April 15-19 and 21-23 in the university’s Emerson Black Box Theater.

Tickets are available from the Lindenwood Box Office (636-949-4433) and online at www.lindenwood.edu/center. The box office and the Emerson Theater are located in Lindenwood’s J. Scheidegger Center for the Arts at 2300 West Clay in St. Charles.

The play was written by Dale Wasserman from Ken Kesey’s novel of the same name, which was also made into an Academy Award-winning movie starring Jack Nicholson.

“The play is another view of the novel that is actually closer to Kesey’s original intent although the movie still captures the spirit of the story,” said Larry Quiggins, chair of the Lindenwood Theatre Department and director of the production. “It is definitely one of my favorite stories.”

Set in a dreary mental institution in the Pacific Northwest in 1960, the story follows Randle McMurphy (Jon Elkins), a charming rogue who has opted for time in a mental institution over jail time, befriends his fellow patients, and finds himself in a battle of wills with a harsh, intractable nurse (Emily Heitmeyer).

“This is a story that will shock you in some parts and make you stand and cheer in others,” Quiggins said.

The cast also includes David Schmich, David Moreshead, Brent Nowack, Josh Rowland, Jimmy Krawczyk, Joe Bayne, Cole Rommel, Cassie Ballard, Jason Puff, Adam Martinez, Shane Bosillo, Jaiymz Hawkins, Josh Payne, Parth Patel, Millie Naeger, Laura Gibbons, Jamal Mackey, Marvin Witherspoon, Eric Peters, Yumeho Asai, and Katie Ritter. Lyndsay Hicks is stage manager. Chuck Gallaher is scenic designer, and Keith Baranowski is lighting designer. Donna Northcott designed the costumes, and Sarah Thompson is the sound designer.

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Diversity Spoken in 39 Languages New maps show a part of Bellflower is
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...A set of interactive maps, the combined product of census data and
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...The maps and tables were the product of a year's work sparked by a
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Message 1: Computational Linguistics: Rank Open, InQuira, Inc, San Bruno, CA, USA
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Subject: Computational Linguistics: Rank Open, InQuira, Inc, San Bruno, CA, USA

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Google Chrome in 64-bit Linux Version

Aug 24, 2009

Linux users can now get a 64-bit version of Google Chrome.

Even though the Google browser is not yet in an official, stable Linux version, the free operating system has moved ahead with 64-bit development. Chrome developer Dean McNamee wrote on the mailing list that he now has a 64-bit version running for the last few weeks "after a handful of changes on the Chromium side." The build instructions are on the project page.

Ubuntu users can get a native 64-bit build in Launchpad via a personal package archive (PPA). Windows users will have to be patient, as Chrome developer Mads Sig Ager indicates in a reply on the list: "We have focused on making the 64-bit version of V8 work on Linux and Mac at first." Having it compile on Windows is the next step, which they hope to accomplish "soon."

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The end of an era...

Postby Bazza » Mon Apr 26, 2010 8:39 pm

Hi folks...

Sony to finish Floppy Disc production... ... ydisk.html

RIP Floppy Disc... ;D

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Postby Rhakios » Mon Apr 26, 2010 8:52 pm

I'm surprised that with 70% of 12 million sales in a single country it isn't worth them keeping at least some production capacity. They must be anticipating a significant further fall in demand.

Still, nice for the companies that sell the other 30%, perhaps that'll keep their sales high enough to carry on.
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Postby johnhudson » Tue Apr 27, 2010 8:11 am

I have a significant store of floppies whose contents have been transferred to hard disk/DVD; most of them were purchased nearly 20 years ago and, though a small number of them have failed, they are not failing fast enough for me to run out of them in the near future. I suspect that will be true for most current users.
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Postby towy71 » Tue Apr 27, 2010 8:23 am

I have four of those flip top boxes that hold two rows of floppies, they are all full, then there are the 75 floppies that Win98SE came on and a similar number for MSOffice; none of which have been used in about 10 years. No wonder my little cubbyhole is full to bursting :roll:

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Postby Marrea » Wed Apr 28, 2010 10:39 am

"However, Verbatim, a UK manufacturer which makes more than a quarter of the floppies sold in the UK, says it sells hundreds of thousands of them a month. It sells millions more in Europe."

"Yet what was Sony's best-selling peripheral for its computers in recent years? The 3.5-inch floppy disk drive that connects via a USB cable."

" ...the number of floppies - something like a million a month - that are being consumed in the UK alone."

I have many FDs kicking around from the old days - probably somewhere between 150 and 200. We secretaries used them all the time at work - so convenient for popping your day's Word documents on.

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6. Installing Basic System Software

6.1. Introduction

In this chapter, we enter the building site and start constructing the LFS system in earnest. That is, we chroot into the temporary mini Linux system, make a few final preparations, and then begin installing the packages.

The installation of this software is straightforward. Although in many cases the installation instructions could be made shorter and more generic, we have opted to provide the full instructions for every package to minimize the possibilities for mistakes. The key to learning what makes a Linux system work is to know what each package is used for and why the user (or the system) needs it. For every installed package, a summary of its contents is given, followed by concise descriptions of each program and library the package installed.

If using compiler optimizations, please review the optimization hint at http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/downloads/files/optimization.txt. Compiler optimizations can make a program run slightly faster, but they may also cause compilation difficulties and problems when running the program. If a package refuses to compile when using optimization, try to compile it without optimization and see if that fixes the problem. Even if the package does compile when using optimization, there is the risk it may have been compiled incorrectly because of the complex interactions between the code and build tools. Also note that the -march and -mtune options may cause problems with the toolchain packages (Binutils, GCC and Glibc). The small potential gains achieved in using compiler optimizations are often outweighed by the risks. First-time builders of LFS are encouraged to build without custom optimizations. The subsequent system will still run very fast and be stable at the same time.

The order that packages are installed in this chapter needs to be strictly followed to ensure that no program accidentally acquires a path referring to /tools hard-wired into it. For the same reason, do not compile packages in parallel. Compiling in parallel may save time (especially on dual-CPU machines), but it could result in a program containing a hard-wired path to /tools, which will cause the program to stop working when that directory is removed.

Before the installation instructions, each installation page provides information about the package, including a concise description of what it contains, approximately how long it will take to build, and how much disk space is required during this building process. Following the installation instructions, there is a list of programs and libraries (along with brief descriptions of these) that the package installs.


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iOS 7: I Love It, I Hate It

iOS 7: I Love It, I Hate It

Swiping from left to right to go back is starting to get my attention. It's a natural way to navigate around virtually, especially in Safari. But the new motion has some side effects -- you can't swipe from left to right any longer to delete an email message. I almost cried when I realized this. Seriously. A grown man sobbing over his iPhone. Ok, I don't do tears, but I did swear.

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iOS 7 is available from Apple for free.

iOS7 iPhone iPad

I am simultaneously excited and saddened by iOS 7 on my iPhone 5. My first impression? All over the freaking map. iOS 7 is at once a fantastic and fresh update, while it's also full of maddeningly stupid icons, buttons and colors. It has better customization, a more intimate and lively feel -- and yet, you're stuck with a palette of soft-but-too-bright pastel-ish colors.

The red? That's not red. It's a travesty, and I'm not color blind. Imagine the color palette applied to your car. If you like that idea, iOS 7 is for you. For the rest of us, we're stuck with it, and we have to look at Apple's new colors every day we remain iOS users.

This represents a fundamental flaw in Apple's vision of iOS -- an inability to tone down stupid colors or change them altogether. You would think Apple would know this -- after all, Steve Jobs started the whole thing with the first iMacs. The tradeoff is device-to-device usability. I can look at anyone else's iPhone and immediately know how to navigate, how to use it, and how to show them how to do something. That's important, and I get that there's a trade-off between customization and cohesion among all iOS users -- but Apple is not hitting the sweet spot with iOS 7 customization. Sorry. Not even close.

So what would be welcome? The ability to saturate or desaturate the color palette, to tone it up or even make it all black and white -- just as if you were editing a photo. This kind of setting would give consumers a better sense of control while maintaining a consistent look and feel. Instead of a neonish green color for your Messages, FaceTime and Phone apps, you could adjust the color to make it use a darker, richer green for your Phone app, for example.

Instead, we get a very slight ability to change the tone of your phone through background images. If you set your wallpaper to a photo of a green lawn, a green tone will bleed into the transparent layer above -- the background color for your bottom row of apps will appear greenish. Use blue sky, you get a blue tone. iOS 7 takes the dominant color from your home screen photo and uses it for you. That's cool, but it's just a start.

Still, Awesomeness Abounds

Despite the lackluster controls for color and customization, there's a lot to like about iOS 7. The sense of layers and animated transitions does make your iPhone feel a little more alive. In fact, in some cases the new transitions make my iPhone 5 seem faster and snappier. Mail, for instance, seems much faster than before -- and I'm not sure if this is truly the case or if it's just an illusion based on the transitions among my various in-boxes and messages. Either way, I like it.

Overall, I like the new airy and modern feel of the new font, which seems to be some variation of Helvetica Neue. But then again, this sense of airiness gets taken too far in some places so that "buttons" are now simply text with maybe a thin < or > to indicate direction. Understandable? Pretty much always -- but not always at a glance. The button motifs were cues for your eye to recognize the activity you wanted, and clearly, iOS 7 will force you to pay more attention to your iPhone than you have in years -- and retrain your brain in the process.

The question is, will I learn to recognize the flashlight icon in Control Center? The funky little clock icon in Control Center that doesn't match the Clock app icon? Yes. But I can tell you this: It's going to take more than 48 hours before I can work my phone with the autopilot ease I enjoyed with iOS 6.

So what are the best new features?

Control Center. If you swipe from the bottom of your screen up, you'll bring up the Control Center layer, which sports frequently used controls like Airplane mode, the clock, camera, screen brightness, and WiFi, among others. The basic feature is not new to other smartphones, but it's new to iOS users.

Multitasking. Multitasking in the new iOS 7 is really a hidden gem -- you don't realize how much improved it is until you use it. Double-tap the home button and you'll get a row of active app icons as well a horizontal scrollable thumbnail view of your open apps. Swipe an app thumbnail up, and boom, you close the running app. Tap the thumbnail or the app icon and you'll rise up into the app in full screen. Not only does it look fantastic, it works fantastically well, too.

Camera App. The new Camera app lets you swipe between modes across the full main screen of the app -- so, to switch from photo mode to video mode, all you have to do is swipe. That's right, there's no painfully small little toggle switch to find and mess with while you're trying to capture a moment. You can also swipe to a square photo frame or a panoramic mode. If you want to look at a scene through a filter while you decide to capture it, you can apply a handful of filters with a new button option. All goodness here.

Photos. The new Photos app is one of my favorites now. Before, I used it all the time but found it a clunky pain. The iOS 7 Photos app breaks up all your photos into Years, Collections and Moments. It makes it so much easier to find your photos and videos to edit them, share them -- everything. Plus, you can share an entire moment -- a whole set of photos and videos.

Tap a "share" word (not a button anymore) and you can AirDrop them via WiFi or Bluetooth (cool) or message them or even copy them to the clipboard to paste them into email or elsewhere. Very nice. Oh, and you can create Albums, too, if you so desire. The bottom line is, the Camera app received a massive redesign that simply sings.

iTunes Radio. Built into the Music app, iTunes Radio is a free streaming music service that lets you listen to channels by genre or create your own via artists that you like. It rocks. It's easy to use, works great, and if you hear a song you want to buy, you can snap it up from iTunes super fast. The interface isn't particularly amazing, but the functionality? Love it so far. Groundbreaking? Not so much. But it's a good implementation that's built into your iOS experience.

Safari. While you don't get tabbed browsing on an iPhone 5 -- no horizontal room -- you do get a new page option that stacks the open and recent Web pages that you have visited in a sort of file-folder sort of way. At first glance, it looks clunky and dumb, but after using it, it feels alive and handy. I'm sold.

Plus, when you scroll down through a Web page, the top control bar shrinks and the bottom bar disappears. The quick animation of the move is perfect. And you can now swipe to go back. And use a unified URL/search field. It all adds up to a Safari that will continue to be the most-used mobile browser around.

Features That Will Get Better With Time

There's lots of little goodies tucked away into iOS 7 -- for instance, time stamps for each message in the Message app. If you slide your finger to the left -- a grab and pull, really -- you'll pull the text messages to the left to reveal a list of time stamps along the right side. Teenagers, take note. Sometimes you need a better sense of time than what was shown in iOS 6.

AirDrop may very well turn out to be quite useful with your colleagues, friends and family. Instead of bumping phones, iOS 7 lets you see other nearby phones via WiFi or Bluetooth, and lets you send and receive files. Pretty cool. But you have to remember to use it -- otherwise, you'll just be emailing or messaging through your old-school habits.

Swiping from left to right to go back is starting to get my attention. It's a natural way to navigate around virtually, especially in Safari. I expect to see it used more frequently throughout iOS in the future, as well as in more apps. But the new motion has some side effects -- you can't swipe from left to right any longer to delete an email message. I almost cried when I realized this. Seriously. A grown man sobbing over his iPhone. Ok, I don't do tears, but I did swear.

Then I remembered that you can now swipe from right to left, which gives you a big red Trash button, along with a More button that lets you do things like forward, reply, or move a message. This feature is actually really cool -- I'll just have to retain my brainstem over the next few days to learn to take advantage of it.

Things That Will Take Some Getting Used To

The new Reminders app lost its old leather-bound notebook paper skin, and while the new iOS 7 version is snappy fast, it's full of Apple's new color palette, and the main set of lists seems too bulky vertically. My question is, will I learn to love it? Or ditch it for a third-party app? It's 50-50 right now.

The Calendar app is much whiter -- with smaller text -- and hard to follow and read at first, but it's getting progressively better for me. I'll probably stick with it. The Notes app? No more yellow-lined paper. The new Notes app is white, fast and tidy, but I sort of miss the horizontal lines for lists. I like the blank canvas for notes in paragraph form, though. Win some, lose some.

All-in-all, I've got other quibbles and have found other little delights, too, but the point is this: iOS 7 is a great leap forward. It's free and easy to install, but there's no easy way to go back to iOS 6 if you don't like it. This is one of the sacrifices you make as an Apple enthusiast -- keep up, get left behind or walk away. No matter what, though, when you run into the inevitable misses in color, customization and icons, just know that you're not alone. There are other Apple-loving iPhone-toting enthusiasts out there experiencing some cringe moments, too, even as we enjoy new benefits of iOS 7.

MacNewsWorld columnist Chris Maxcer has been writing about the tech industry since the birth of the email newsletter, and he still remembers the clacking Mac keyboards from high school -- Apple's seed-planting strategy at work. While he enjoys elegant gear and sublime tech, there's something to be said for turning it all off -- or most of it -- to go outside. To catch him, take a "firstnamelastname" guess at WickedCoolBite.com.

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Readers' Choice Awards 2010

The votes are in! Read on to find out how your favorites fared in this year's awards.

Welcome to the 2010 Linux Journal Readers' Choice Awards. We love doing these awards because we get to interact with you, our readers, more than usual. This year, more than 12,000 of you generously took time to participate and share your perspectives on what tools are helping you work and play. We always are fascinated by your preferences and how your usage patterns change over time. This year, we have more categories than ever, so let's get right to the results. Here, ladies and gentlemen, Linux geeks of all kinds, are the winners of your 2010 Linux Journal Readers' Choice Awards.

Best Linux Distribution

Honorable Mention/Runner Up: PCLinuxOS
Third Place: Debian
Fourth Place: Fedora
Fifth Place: Pardus

Times they are a changin' (just a bit) in the distribution department this year. Although Ubuntu in all its tasty flavors remains the Roger Federer-esque champion of Linux distros, the dynamics of this category have changed from the past two years. In 2008, Ubuntu was dubbed the “big distro that did” for “unexpectedly leaving its myriad 'rivals' as mere dots in the rear-view mirror”. Then in 2009, Ubuntu received the “Energizer Bunny Award” for increasing its popularity and becoming untouchable (for the time being). But what a difference a year can make (just ask Tiger Woods). Ubuntu remains in the commanding lead, but it slipped a considerable 13% from of your votes last year. Meanwhile, a feisty, upwardly mobile distro, PCLinuxOS, grew from the single digits to a full 15%, meriting a worthy honorable mention recognition. Ubuntu

Best Distribution for Netbooks/Limited Hardware

Ubuntu Netbook Remix

Honorable Mention/Runner Up: Google Android
Third Place: MeeGo
Fourth Place: Puppy
Fifth Place: PCLinuxOS LXDE

New for the 2010 Readers' Choice Awards is the category Best Distribution for Netbooks/Limited Hardware. This will be an interesting category to monitor as time goes by, but the current leader is Ubuntu Netbook Remix, which got a commanding 36% of your votes. The honorable mention winner, Android OS, was far behind, but it broke the 10% barrier. We predict that this category will become more fiercely competitive in the future. Ubuntu Netbook Remix

Best Mobile OS

Google Android

Honorable Mention/Runner Up: MeeGo
Third Place: Symbian
Fourth Place: Maemo
Fifth Place: Moblin

Last year, Android and the T-Mobile G1 smartphone took home Linux Product of the Year honors, despite being absent from every other category selected by us (point taken, dear readers). One year wiser, we present a new category for 2010, Best Mobile OS, and its logical winner is Google's Android. But wait! Although Android's vote haul was impressive at 66%, the new MeeGo made a strong showing for honorable mention, which is noteworthy in its own right. The upstart MeeGo, a fusion of Nokia's Maemo and Intel's Moblin projects, garnered 10% on its own. Then, add the 7% of you who selected Maemo and 3% who selected Moblin individually to arrive at a healthy 20%. Meanwhile, old-timer Symbian missed the cut.

Best Desktop Environment

Tie: GNOME and KDE

Runner Up: Xfce
Third Place: LXDE
Fourth Place: Fluxbox

The results from the Best Desktop Environment make more intuitive sense to us (and to this KDE fan) than in the previous two bouts, when GNOME edged out KDE by surprisingly healthy margins. In the 2010 battle royale, KDE jiu-jitsued GNOME and gobbled 7% of its lunch (as well as 3% of Xfce's) to even the desktop score from last year. No other desktop surpassed the 3% mark. Gnome KDE

Best Web Browser

Honorable Mention/Runner Up: Chrome
Third Place: Opera
Fourth Place: Konqueror
Fifth Place: Mozilla Seamonkey

In the 2009 Readers' Choice Awards, 87% of you voted to seat the Mozilla Firefox browser comfortably on the throne of Best Web Browser. Meanwhile, Google Chrome was just making its debut on the Linux stage (most commonly in the form of the CrossOver Chromium Project) and began appearing on your “to tinker with” lists. We suggested last year that by awards time in 2010, you should “look for an inevitable battle royale if Google can deliver a polished Chrome for Linux in time for you to give it a test-drive”. Well, folks, that battle has ensued, and the era of unchallenged Firefox supremacy is over. Chrome leaped from a barely perceptible 0.35% of the vote in 2009 to 24% this year. Firefox

Best E-mail Client

Honorable Mention/Runner Up: Gmail web client
Third Place: Kmail
Fourth Place: Evolution
Fifth Place: mutt

In 2009, we suggested the apparently inevitable decline of the desktop e-mail client in favor of Web-based clients like Gmail. It looks like the official LJ Magic 8-Ball was in need of another shake, for Thunderbird handily has won the Readers' Choice Award for Best E-mail Client for the fourth consecutive year. Surprisingly, the previously upward trend for Gmail hit a ceiling (at least for now), and it lost a few points from last year, at the primary expense of Kmail, which came back onto your radar screens to garner a healthy 14% of the vote. Thunderbird

Best IM Client

Honorable Mention/Runner Up: Skype
Third Place: Kopete
Fourth Place: empathy
Fifth Place: amsn

Despite our redubbing of this category from Favorite Communications Tool to Best IM Client, the results changed only slightly. For the third year in a row, the no-protocol-left-behind Pidgin Internet Messenger took top honors—with an identical 43% share of your votes vs. last year to boot. In the honorable mention column, the closed-source but so useful Skype took top honors, dropping a point from 2009 (17% vs. 18%).

Best IRC Client

Honorable Mention/Runner Up: Xchat
Third Place: irssi
Fourth Place: konversation
Fifth Place: Quassel

Although you have plenty of choices when it comes to IRC chat clients, the overwhelming majority of you stay put on Pidgin or fire up the multiplatform XChat for your IRC-based chats—39% of you prefer Pidgin and 33% prefer XChat.

Best Microblogging Client

Honorable Mention/Runner Up: Choqok
Third Place: Jaiku
Fourth Place: Spaz
Fifth Place: Nitwit

This new category for 2010, Best Microblogging Client, also would have the top five entrants in Best-Named Linux Application. The hands-down winners would be Gwibber, Choqok, Nitwit and our personal favorite, Spaz. Despite parity regarding the name-related coolness factor, the generalist and GNOME-based Gwibber easily took the crown for Best Microblogging Client, followed by the more specialist KDE-based Choqok.

Best Office Suite

Runner Up: Google Docs
Third Place: KOffice
Fourth Place: IBM Lotus Symphony
Fifth Place: GNOME Office

No shake-ups here, gang. remains your uncontested choice for Best Office Suite, and no program even passed the 10% threshold to warrant honorable mention. Keep your eye on Google Docs though, because it showed up this year for the first time with 8% of the vote. In this as in most categories, cross-platform capability appears to boost a program's popularity significantly. Are Web-based apps going to take over, or will desktop apps remain dominant in this space? This area will be interesting to watch.

Best Single Office Program Writer

Honorable Mention/Runner Up: AbiWord
Third Place: OOCalc
Fourth Place: Scribus
Fifth Place: KWord

Given that there are many more office applications than office suites, we created this new category (Best Single Office Program) to understand the nuances of our community's work habits better. Although the apps Writer and Calc both performed well, with Writer winning the category handily with 39% of the vote. AbiWord from GnomeOffice also helps you get your work done quickly and effectively. OO Writer

Best Graphics/Design Tool

Honorable Mention/Runner Up: Inkscape
Third Place: Blender
Fourth Place: Krita

This year's plebiscite features identical award winners in the Best Graphics/Design Tool category—GIMP for the win and Inkscape for honorable mention. The only difference from last year is that GIMP inched down a few points and Inkscape up a few points. GIMP

Best Digital Photo Management Tool

Honorable Mention/Runner Up: Picasa
Third Place: F-spot
Fourth Place: Gwenview
Fifth Place: gThumb

The back-and-forth tussle between digiKam and Picasa is looking more and more like a WWE SmackDown. In 2008, the two photo apps were tied for your favorites in the crowded category of Best Digital Photo Management Tool. Then last year, Picasa gave digiKam a royal piledriver and racked up nearly triple the votes of its poor rival. But this year, digiKam had a surprise Diving Bulldog up its sleeve and had enough energy left to pin Picasa to the mat for the win. digiKam

Best Audio Tool

Runner Up: Ardour
Third Place: LMMS
Fourth Place: VLC
Fifth Place: Jokosher

In the Best Audio Tool category, the program Audacity becomes more dominant every year, winning the 2010 award with a resounding 81% of your preferences, up 8% from last year. The popular cross-platform sound recorder and editor has little competition—only 8% of you consider Ardour your favorite audio tool.

Best Audio Player

Honorable Mention/Runner Up: RythmBox
Third Place: XMMS
Fourth Place: Banshee
Fifth Place: Songbird

Your preferences for Best Audio Player this year are consolidating around two favorites, namely the winner, Amarok, and the sole honorable mention, Rhythmbox. Previously, this category was more crowded with contenders. However, Amarok is one of those apps that is riding the wave of resurgence we're seeing in KDE and its related applications. It doesn't hurt that Amarok is one kick-butt music app too. Amarok

Best Media Player

Honorable Mention/Runner Up: MPlayer
Third Place: SMPlayer
Fourth Place: Kaffeine
Fifth Place: Totem

After winning the Best Media Player award for 2009 by a single percentage point, there's no looking back for VLC, which won again in 2010, this time with more than triple the votes of its nearest rival, MPlayer. VLC's attraction could be the fact that it plays nearly any audio (or video) format you send its way, as well as its cross-platform capabilities. If you happen to find yourself in front of a Mac or Windows (or BeOS!) box, you're never far from “the cone”. VLC

Best Bookmark Syncing Tool

Honorable Mention/Runner Up: Delicious
Third Place: Weave
Fourth Place: Google Chrome Bookmark Sync

Nobody works on more machines than a Linux geek, so we're perfect guinea pigs for rating the product in this new category, Best Bookmark Syncing Tool. Your two favorites are Mitch Kapor's Xmarks (formerly Foxmarks) and Yahoo!'s Delicious (er, Firefox's own Weave tool fared well, but its Firefox-centricity may keep it from jousting at a higher level with its multibrowser-capable rivals. Xmarks

Best On-line Collaboration Tool

Google Docs

Honorable Mention/Runner Up: Wikis
Third Place: Google Wave
Fourth Place: Zimbra
Fifth Place: eGroupWare

On the surface, it's somewhat counterintuitive how you love Google Docs as an on-line collaboration tool but merely like it as an office suite. (See the results for Best Office Suite above.) Perhaps it's because you use more for your day-to-day work tasks but use Google Docs when the task specifically calls for collaboration? Despite your penchant for Google's tools, a solid number of you turn to wikis to share information with your dispersed colleagues. Google Docs

Best Cloud-Based File Storage

Honorable Mention/Runner Up: Ubuntu One
Third Place: Amazon S3
Fourth Place: ownCloud
Fifth Place: SpiderOak

For creating a redundant off-site backup copy of your important files, your tendency is to choose the popular Dropbox and Ubuntu One services. Knowing how we Linux geek cheapskates work, I bet you're signed up for the free 2GB accounts—40 separate ones to back up your 80GB drive. Dropbox

Best Kid-Friendly Application

Tux Paint

Honorable Mention/Runner Up: GCompris
Third Place: Scratch
Fourth Place: Tux Typing
Fifth Place: Tux of Math Command

The winner of the new category Best Kid-Friendly Application is Tux Paint, a gleefully fun drawing program for kids. Reading your comments, we also know good number of you have managed to get Linux into your local school, so you've probably installed Tux Paint free of charge for the students to use as a tool for art instruction. On that same install, a sensible companion would be GCompris, a somewhat more diverse set of educational applications for children. TuxPaint

Best Game

Frozen Bubble

Honorable Mention/Runner Ups: Doom and Battle for Wesnoth (tie)
Third Place: Battle for Wesnoth
Fourth Place: Tux Racer
Fifth Place: Enemy Territory Quake Wars
It is beginning to seem that no game will ever knock Frozen Bubble from its lofty perch as Best Game. Bubble has won the title every time. Not only does Frozen Bubble lure you in with its pure simplicity, but those penguins are just too darn cute! Take note though that the Battle for Wesnoth has won honorable mention for the first time ever. Frozen Bubble

Best Database

Honorable Mention/Runner Up: PostgreSQL
Third Place: SQLite
Fourth Place: Oracle
Fifth Place: Firebird

We'll have to do something about the LAMP acronym if you ever give up MySQL, which remains your choice for Best Database three years running. Nevertheless, we've seen a bit of erosion in support for MySQL toward your honorable mention pick of PostgreSQL, which has gained ground every year. SQLite may soon find itself on the board with the heavy hitters if it keeps climbing as well. MySQL

Best Backup Solution

Honorable Mention/Runner Up: tar
Third Place: Bacula
Fourth Place: Amanda
Fifth Place: Simple Linux Backup

Here's one case where we retrenched and reduced our categories, namely combining Best Backup System and Best Backup Utility into a single category called Best Backup Solution. Your choice for champion in this category was rsync, the winner of Best Backup Utility in 2009, followed by tar. Last year's winner and honorable mention in the Best Backup System category, Amanda and Bacula, respectively, also fared well in the votes. rsync

Best Virtualization Solution

Honorable Mention/Runner Up: VMware
Third Place: KVM
Fourth Place: Xen
Fifth Place: QEMU

If we had an award for Most Upwardly Mobile Linux Solution, it just might be VirtualBox. You've been favoring VirtualBox more and more with each passing year, such that a full 55% of you chose it as Best Virtualization Solution this year, which is up an impressive 23% from last year and more than double VMware's result of 23%. Virtual Box

Best Monitoring Application

Honorable Mention/Runner Up: Zabbix
Third Place: Zenoss Core
Fourth Place: Hyperic
Fifth Place: Ganglia

When speaking of upwardly mobile Linux apps, we should include Zabbix in the same breath, the classic monitoring application that could. Coming out of the tiny country of Latvia, the enterprise-class monitoring solution Zabbix went from also-ran last year to contender this year in the category Best Monitoring Application. Of course, let's not forget that 34% of you still favor the winner Nagios. However, Nagios is down 17% from last year's tally. Zabbix definitely is worth keeping on your radar. Zabbix

Best Revision Control System

Honorable Mention/Runner Up: Apache subversion
Third Place: cvs
Fourth Place: bazaar
Fifth Place: mercurial

Your two top picks for the Best Revision Control System are this year's winner, git, and last year's winner (and this year's sole honorable mention), Apache Subversion. In case you haven't done so already, you might want to investigate the origins of git, which was created by Linus Torvalds. The source of its name will give you a chuckle.

Best Programming Language

Honorable Mention/Runner Up: C++
Third Place: Java
Fourth Place: C
Fifth Place: Perl

Despite the tough field of contenders, Guido van Rossum's Python won Best Programming Language for the second straight year. Your votes came down nearly exactly the same as last year, with C++ in second place. Python

Best Scripting Language

Honorable Mention/Runner Up: PHP
Third Place: bash
Fourth Place: Perl
Fifth Place: Ruby

Two years ago, we tried to make our own distinction as to which languages were programming languages and which were scripting languages. We set up an elaborate set of criteria and attempted to justify our position. Well, you didn't appreciate our micromanagement, so we scrapped that idea for good. Now you decide which is which, and you have decided that Python is both the best programming language and scripting language out there.

Best IDE

Honorable Mention/Runner Up: KDevelop
Third Place: NetBeans
Fourth Place: Qt Creator
Fifth Place: vim

Eclipse is batting 1.000 in the Best IDE category, winning both of its two years in existence. You've told us you like how Eclipse lets you work in a lean environment and add and subtract an incredible array of functionality via plugins. Eclipse

Best Open-Source Configuration Management Tool

Honorable Mention/Runner Up: OpenQRM
Third Place: Cfengine
Fourth Place: Chef
Fifth Place: Bcfg2

The new category Best Open-Source Configuration Management Tool turned out to be one of the most crowded fields, yet Puppet Labs' Puppet application managed to pull ahead of the pack. Perhaps it's how Puppet considers each piece of infrastructure as code that has helped you simplify new configurations and helped reduce the time you spend on mundane tasks. Puppet

Best Platform for Developing Rich Internet Apps

Adobe AIR

Honorable Mention/Runner Up: JavaFX
Third Place: Google Gears
Fourth Place: OpenLaszlo
Fifth Place: Mono Moonlight

Adobe AIR seems to be solidifying itself as your choice for Best Platform for Developing Rich Internet Apps, winning the category both this year and last. AIR is trending upward, rising a few percentage points this year vs. 2009.

Best Package Management Application

Honorable Mention/Runner Up: Synaptic
Third Place: yum
Fourth Place: aptitude
Fifth Place: PiSi

Despite your continued overwhelming preference for Ubuntu and siblings, the success of package managers typically associated with these distros is a tad enigmatic. Let's parse it. You prefer Ubuntu's default apt as Best Package Management Application but a full 10% less than last year. At the same time, 8% more of you like Synaptic than last year to give it honorable mention again, so it's reasonable to assume that a good number of the Ubuntu-ite tribe are trying Synaptic and digging it. We can comprehend all of that, but KPackageKit, Kubuntu's default package manager, wasn't even on the radar despite KDE's surge to tie GNOME for Best Desktop Environment. What's going on here?

Best Content Management System

Honorable Mention/Runner Up: Drupal
Third Place: Joomla!
Fourth Place: Alfresco
Fifth Place: Plone

Your narrator had a total blast building a sweet, slick Web site with WordPress, so he's totally in agreement your decision to grant it Best Content Management System for 2010. My experience was positive, and I put together a great design despite nearly no skill in graphic design. We at Linux Journal also gave our vote to honorable mention winner Drupal, the platform we have used for the previous and the recently updated WordPress

Best Linux-Friendly Web Hosting Company

Honorable Mention/Runner Up: Contegix
Third Place: Dreamhost
Fourth Place: 1&1
Fifth Place: Rackspace

Although we have a clear winner for the Best Linux-Friendly Web Hosting Company for 2010,, the reality is that five companies have been jockeying for the title. Although won in 2008, it fell out of the winner's circle in 2009. Then, there's your honorable mention pick, Contegix, which was the winner last year. Companies like Dreamhost, Rackspace and 1&1 also have been in contention every year. Go Daddy

Best Linux Laptop Vendor

Honorable Mention/Runner Up: Lenovo
Third Place: ASUS
Fourth Place: Acer
Fifth Place: EmperorLinux

For years, Dell (at least in the US) avoided Linux-based PCs like the plague. We kept hearing how the market wasn't ready yet. We kept saying “Sheesh, guys, build it and they will come.” Well, now they've built it, and we have come—in droves! Dell dips its influential toe in the water and suddenly gets more votes than anyone for Best Linux Laptop Vendor. We're very curious to know how many of you are buying Dell laptops preinstalled vs. self-installation. Are we right to assume you're doing more of the latter? Our own hats are tipped graciously to Lenovo, who has taken arguably more risks than any other Windows-dominant laptop maker to put out great Linux-based laptops and make them mainstream. Also, we salute the Linux PC specialists who have been configuring our machines since the Precambrian. We hope you don't forget them. Dell

Best Linux Desktop Workstation Vendor

Honorable Mention/Runner Up: Hewlett-Packard
Third Place: System 76
Fourth Place: Penguin Computing
Fifth Place: ZaReason

The world's two biggest PC makers, Dell and HP, are your two top choices for Best Linux Desktop Workstation Vendor. This makes perfect sense, as installing Linux on desktops remains more trouble-free than doing so on laptops. Note that a spunky company, System 76—which proudly peddles Linux machines and doesn't make you enter through some backdoor link, only to find you've accidentally ordered a Windows machine—also did well in the voting.

Best Linux Server Vendor

Honorable Mention/Runner Up: Dell
Third Place: Hewlett-Packard
Fourth Place: Sun Microsystems
Fifth Place: System 76

In the Big Iron category, Best Linux Server Vendor, you gave more votes to IBM than any other company. It makes sense given IBM's long-term business strategy involving Linux. In 2009, Dell was the winner here, and this year, it placed a close second behind Big Blue.

Best Linux Book

Linux in a Nutshell

Honorable Mention/Runner Up: Running Linux
Third Place: Linux Bible
Fourth Place: Linux for Dummies
Fifth Place: Understanding the Linux Kernel

Given the hundreds of books on Linux-related topics, it was a Herculean task for any single book to win the category Best Linux Book. Nevertheless, we asked you to write in your favorite title, and the classic work Linux in a Nutshell (E. Siever, et al., O'Reilly) was your top pick, acquiring more than double its nearest competitor, Running Linux (Dalheimer and Welsh, O'Reilly). We're wondering though, why more of you didn't write in Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary (Torvalds and Diamond, Harper) or The Cathedral and the Bazaar (Raymond, Who needs another copy of the syllabus for official Linux geeks?

Best Linux Journal Column

Hack and / by Kyle Rankin

Honorable Mention/Runner Up: Paranoid Penguin by Mick Bauer
Third Place: Work the Shell by Dave Taylor
Fourth Place: At the Forge by Reuven Lerner
Fifth Place: diff -u by Zack Brown

Choosing the winner for Best Linux Journal Column is just as Herculean as with Best Linux Book, except the problem is not the abundance of quantity but rather extreme quality of each offering. Kyle Rankin's Hack and / column has become the page that more of you flip to first than any other. (Incidentally, Kyle's column has been trending upward for some time—he tied for winner last year.) Kyle Rankin

Best Brand of Video Chipset

Honorable Mention/Runner Up: ATI
Third Place: Intel
Fourth Place: VIA

Before wrapping up, let's get back to some of your favorite gear. This year, we introduced the new category Best Brand of Video Chipset, which was won handily by NVIDIA. Although we as a community are frustrated with NVIDIA's proprietary drivers, we can rejoice in the performance and Linux support, which is better than most. NVidia

Best Linux Smartphone

Nokia N900

Honorable Mention/Runner Up: HTC Nexus One
Third Place: Motorola Droid
Fourth Place: HTC Droid
Fifth Place: HTC Evo

No Linux Journal award show would be complete without a Nokia N-series device, and the 2010 Readers' Choice Awards is no exception. The Nokia N900 takes the award for Best Linux Smartphone. We're not too surprised that you chose the N900 given that it's the most early-adopter phone out there. That's us. The honorable mention in this category is an Android: HTC Nexus One. Nokia N900

Best Linux-Based Gadget

Amazon Kindle

Honorable Mention/Runner Up: Tom Tom Navigation System
Third Place: Nokia N810 Tablet
Fourth Place: Sheeva Plug
Fifth Place: Archos

The device that made reading an e-book a viable option is the Linux-based Amazon Kindle, your winner for this year's Best Linux-Based Gadget. Kindle

Best New Open-Source Project (released in 2009 or 2010)

Honorable Mention/Runner Up: OwnCloud
Third Place: Android
Fourth Place: CoffeeSaint
Fifth Place: rekonq

For the category Best New Open-Source Project released in 2009 or 2010, we asked you to write in your favorites without any prompting from us. Although the responses were numerous, the winner is MeeGo! A little bit of Moblin in your Maemo, or Maemo in your Moblin, this merger of two mobile operating systems is quite exciting. It's fairly new, but will this open-source powerhouse become the next big thing? Your votes seem to imply it, we'll have to wait and see. MeeGo

Best New Commercial Application (released in 2009 or 2010)

Fluendo DVD Player

Runner Up: CodeWeavers CrossOver Office for Linux
Third Place: Nero Linux
Fourth Place: Zenoss Enterprise
Fifth Place: SoftMaker Office Suite

The race for Best New Commercial Application was neither as crowded nor closely fought as the one for Best New Open-Source Project. The hands-down winner was Fluendo DVD Player. Although we Linux geeks hate to pay, the product makes playing any DVD possible, fully functional (and legal). Fluendo

Product of the Year

Honorable Mention/Runner Up: KDE
Third Place: Fluendo DVD Player
Fourth Place: zabbix
Fifth Place: Pardus

We close with the category that requires a drumroll (drumroll, please): the 2010 Linux Journal Readers' Choice Product of the Year. And, the winner is Android! The open-source operating system from Google has proven to be a formidable opponent in the mobile-phone world. Because it's getting Linux into the hands of people who don't even realize they're using Linux, we can see why it's your choice for Product of the Year. We look forward to Android's 3.0 release, which Google claims will support tablet computers as well. Perhaps when version 4.0 rolls around, we'll have androids running Android!

James Gray is Products Editor for Linux Journal

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Anonymous's picture

I agreed with most choices and I'm even going to try git for a while and compare it to SVN.

A) Ccertainly, more software is written in C++ and Java every day than any scripting language.

B) The best RIA is Adobe AIR? The SDK just unpacks and into the current directory if you're not careful. What do you run? Is there an IDE? Is there an Eclipse plugin? And didn't Google even dump Google Gears? The most used RIA products are GWT (Google Web Toolkit) and ZKoss.

C) Linode is by far the best Linux hosting company.

I'm going to have to pay more attention next year and vote.

This is a great list but

Jen from CMS's picture

This is a great list but another great cms to be watching in the coming year is!

Linux distro after windows

Anonymous's picture

If you are planning to switch from windows to a linux distro you should definitely take a look at Pardus. User friendly and easy to use. And most of the features an end user look for are already built in.

Kirby's Epic Yarn really

JohnDMoore3000's picture

Kirby's Epic Yarn really should have been up there too because despite a lot of people thinking it was too easy and/or kiddie it was quite simply one of the most all-round highly polished games on Wii this year and indeed this generation. Human Growth Hormone Supplement

Anonymous's picture

I'm very impressed about PARDUS. there are lots of good comments on the internet. Downloading it now and going to install over ubuntu. i hope i like it and never come back to windows. (sorry for my bad english)

Pardus = simplicity x fast

Anonymous's picture

Pardus really rocks for end users in terms of simplicity! Also Pardus Kurumsal is the centrally managable and configurable version for corporates coming in Feb 2011.

This is "most popular", not "best"

Anonymous's picture

How can bash even be on a list of "best" scripting languages? And ahead of Ruby (and Perl)? Seen as a popularity list it serves some purpose though.

PARDUS? 5th place? i never

Anonymous's picture

PARDUS? 5th place?

i never heard that

it is time to try PARDUS.

Anonymous's picture

it is time to try PARDUS.

The list is very informative.

iFadey's picture

The list is very informative. I learned new alternates in each category :)

What bring PCLInuxOS comes

ajhwb's picture

What bring PCLInuxOS comes first after Debian and Fedora?, for me the order should be:

Ubuntu (Yes of course, we know it's success)
Fedora (Upstream application, strong community, many invention)
Debian (Many developers and solid development)

Strong candidate are OpenSUSE, ArchLinux, Gentoo etc.

you should try PARDUS. just

Anonymous's picture

you should try PARDUS. just give it a chance.

Will check PCLinuxOS...expect changes next year because of Unity

lamapper's picture

I predict that this category will change the most next year. There are very valid and real concerns on the .NET/Mono influence with Unity that both Ubunutu and Fedora have announced they are switching too.

While I wish Unity well, I have been burned more than once with previous Embrace, Extend and Extinguish tactics by proprietary vendors. There is a long list and deep history that should not be ignored by the wise.

.NET, which MONO is closely aligned with and based on will never be open sourced. And the promises made to-date have not been honored completely. In fact the promises made so far offer no assurance and leave the users of this proprietary tool vulnerable to submarine patents.

Yea they said the closed source part of Java would never be enforced either and that finally occurred in 2010 as well.

Smart Linux users have been burned before, while we might wish this new technology well, we will not follow it down any dark potentially blind allies either.

We know anything based on C#, .NET will never be completely open and the proprietary company saying so without backing it up with writing that would prevent any patent issues does not change anything.

Also problematic is the seeming coziness of the ATI GPU with Mono as they have had a checkered past with open source. And now Nvidia saying they will not alter their drivers to work with Unity. Things will remain interesting that is for sure. Even OpenGL's “bind-to-modify” semantics are troublesome. Have they gotten too cozy with C++ and Active X, only time will tell.

Linux and the open source community needs a fully functional non-proprietary Graphic stack (allowing for 3D and beyond) that is not proprietary that works with all the latest GPUs across the board. Haven't you vendors fragmented the hardware market enough gets tiresome!

Thankfully this list gave me a couple of additional options here as well!

All in all a Great list, thank you Linux Journal! I would expect nothing less from you. Oh gEdit is a pretty darn good editor btw.

Go python

Anonymous's picture

Disappointed that Arch did not get the recognition it deserves but happy for Python's success!

I agree with the comment above that we need a best text editor option. I guess vim would have that one but it would be interesting to see the other contenders.

Also, disagree with the comment that said Thunderbird is a joke email client! Granted, I haven't used it for that long, but I just tried it out to take a break from Evolution and it seems to be pretty good.

Same here for Arch and

Anonymous's picture

Same here for Arch and Python. :)

thank you for Pardus!

kimlik66_torontox's picture

i'm truly delighted seeing Pardus ast the 5th, among the best distros!
Until a few years ago i tried all major distros in the search replacing Windows. However, i was soon disappointed with the way all those distros were user-unfriendly, bloated with apps which most user like me would never need to use. Hence, i decided to quit linux, going back to Windows. However, to my delight, almost in the last minute, i discovered Pardus!
I felt in love with it the moment i tried. Very user-friendly. Very lite and speedy. Very polished and beautiful. And it's been two years since i've been using Pardus without a single complain.
I will never return using Windows. Similarly, i don't think i will try using a diffrent distro for a long time.

A separate category needed for lightweight desktops

mayuresh's picture

The gnomes and kdes et al will always rule the desktop space in full desktop category.

There is sizeable following for the lightweight desktop category where the likes of ratpoison, window maker and such desktops should receive attention.

Perhaps lightweight distro could be considered another category where likes of tiny core, puppy and damn small can compete.

pardus really good best

Anonymous's picture

pardus really good best distro ! thanks pardus !

Best Distribution.

David Simpson (au)'s picture

I'm not entirely a Linux newbie, I first installed Slackware back in the mid-nineties, however I have not been involved for some ten years. There have been quite a lot of changes during that time which I checked on sporadically.

I recently upgraded my main machine which left another as a spare so I thought I'd try Linux again. I tried Google Chrome. It wouldn't even reboot to the OS even after several tries. I tried Ubuntu. It worked, sort of. Lasted twenty minutes when I discovered that I couldn't do something easy such as copying a bunch of files to a chosen directory and it wouldn't recognise the chosen password as granting me access.

I tried several others and finally settled on Open SUSE as giving me the options I needed to work smoothly and efficiently So my vote would have gone to SUSE.

Moses's picture

Yes yes, we know it's a popularity contest, not an evaluation of what meets your individual and specific needs for any unspecified project.

When a magazine announces a "reader's best of" list, it's an idiomatic name for a popularity contest. Another example of an idiom is the phrase "terminating an employee," which does not mean killing the employee, but releasing the employer and employee from a contract they share.

No "Best text editor" this

Anonymous's picture

No "Best text editor" this time? Vim is not an IDE.

Dell is NOT a good GNU/Linux company

Graziano's picture

I had a few Dell computers: netbooks and laptops.

Dell computers require non free firmware if you want to use ethernet or wifi cards.

I checked every single Dell laptop on the website and all comes with a Dell wifi card produced by Broadcom or an Intel one.
Both these wifi cards are unable to operate if you don't install the company's proprietary firmware binary only code.

GNU/Linux was born to give everybody freedom and source code. If parts of the machine can operate only with binaries (so no source code and no freedom for the user), how can you say it's the "best GNU/Linux machine"?

Dell also stopped selling their GNU/Linux computers in many countries and deleted all of them from their website (I think after a call from Microsoft).

At least Lenovo ships fully free software compatible laptops apart from bios and wifi (swappale if you buy a libre one like Atheros).

Please next time vote for a REALLY free software friendly laptop/netbook like the Lemote Yeeloong or choose a better name for the category.

Thank you anyway for the very interesting poll.

Is that Gnome 2 or Gnome 3?

Anonymous's picture

In the "Best Desktop Environment" category was there are difference between GNOME 2 and the Shell from GNOME 3?

Stale app development

Anonymous's picture

If we compare this year's winners to previous ones, don't we notice that app development seems to be stale, or is it just stale marketing. The percentages might be different but the Reader's seem to go with what's worked. Is innovation dying amongst this subset of the Pro-Linux crowd?

I agree Thunderbird, GIMP, pidgin etc are the best and easily accessible I know of and have been for a while, but is that a sign of stagnant development???

Anonymous's picture

Nice to see Pardus getting a little public recognition. It well deserves it, by far the best KDE distro out there, and pisi is great.

Pardus is really good, i use

Kutlu Bozkurt's picture

Pardus is really good, i use it.

i have used ubuntu with my wlan and than pardus...
i can really say that pardus is better and faster...

please add "Best open source desktop font" in the next vote

FangQ's picture

Please don't forget, fonts are the most visible elements in a desktop! and they are open-source software too. Please consider adding this new category in your next survey. It will give open-source font designers comfort, so they can keep your nice-looking desktop getting better.

not "best", "most used".

Anonymous's picture

this is, obviously, a "most used" voting. not a "best" voting.
that's obvious when a thunderbird (a joke email client) is the winner and when mysql is ahead of postgresql on the voting.
also, joomla ahead of plone and alfresco? that is a complete joke. lol. c'mon joomla is a joke of a cms.
the biggest joke is ubuntu. it's far from being the best. it's company has very shady practices and the distro is just a brown mac os x/ms windows wannabe. a good linux distro is slackware, gentoo, arch, opensuse, fedora. not ubuntu.

Completely agree. How many

mayuresh's picture

Completely agree.

How many readers of this magazine would agree that Windows is the best OS? If a survey were conducted on "best OS", the "most used" will always influence the results.

Also, how many respondents call something as "best" after having tried out the alternatives. That's impracticable, too.

Nevertheless, the survey does give an approximate idea.

a good linux distro is ???

linuxman's picture

Ok you say the : a good linux distro is slackware, gentoo, arch, opensuse, fedora ?
for who is good ?
For Geeks or for the powerful users ?
Just the opensuse, fedora can used with some simple way .
The new user who want to go away from winblows s ?
the new user can use a good linux distro is slackware, gentoo, arch ?
My answer is not no way , can't use it is not sow simple !!!
If you don't want to come more users to GNU/Linux and FOSS is you choose .
For you is not , for others many many people is it if not the best but very good to promote it like one of the simple Distro for new users .

too bad i didn't participate..

Fakhruddin Darwis's picture

too bad i didn't participate..KDE would win for sure if I did.
We can see that many apps which reached top 5 are KDE native (or at least Qt based).
PCLinuxOS got a runner up while none of the other Red Hat based big distros reached top five ? that is really big news.
Android won the Best Mobile OS but the Best Smartphone is N900.

Link for Krita

Anonymous's picture

Can you please fix your link for Krita? It is, not

I agreed with most choices

Jebblue's picture

I agreed with most choices and I'm even going to try git for a while and compare it to SVN.

A) Ccertainly, more software is written in C++ and Java every day than any scripting language.

B) The best RIA is Adobe AIR? The SDK just unpacks and into the current directory if you're not careful. What do you run? Is there an IDE? Is there an Eclipse plugin? And didn't Google even dump Google Gears? The most used RIA products are GWT (Google Web Toolkit) and ZKoss.

C) Linode is by far the best Linux hosting company.

I'm going to have to pay more attention next year and vote.

Raw data?

Anonymous's picture

Raw data, please.

Video Editors

Scott Randby's picture

I would like to see a "Best Video Editor" category next year.

Best Video Editor

Kever's picture

I will save you some time on that it is in this order:
1.Openshot (best all-purpose easy to use)
2.Cinelerra ( best for special effects like respective)
3.Kino(best for making quick titles)

you forgot the best :

Anonymous's picture

you forgot the best : Kdenlive

JerryHerry's picture

Completely agreed. Best UI, nearly the best backend capability, and best overall package.

KDEnlive rocks!


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Peabody lays claim to top A-Sun track honor

Friday, May 17, 2013
by Ryan Hilgemann

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – After defending his 200-meter dash title at the Atlantic Sun Conference Championships and garnering three other all-conference awards, Lipscomb junior Tucker Peabody has been named the A-Sun Most Outstanding Track Athlete of the year.

The sprinter from Memphis, Tenn., scored 22 individual points at the A-Sun Championships to help bolster his case as the top-performer, which is voted on by the league coaches.

“He had an impressive A-Sun Championships,” Bill Taylor, director of cross country and track and field, said. “He ran the fastest time ever while defending his 200-meter title, running the second fastest time in the 100-meter dash, ran a 46.3 split in the 4X400 relay and got another medal in the 4X100 relay. The 4X4 was a humongous breakthrough for him.”

Peabody claimed the 200-meter dash title in an A-Sun record 20.68 seconds. He took second place in the 100-meter dash in 10.36 seconds, which is the second-fastest time in A-Sun history. To cap the championships off, Peabody came from behind to claim the 4X400-meter relay victory, making a pass in the final 50-meters for the win.

“The way he won the event puts a huge exclamation point on his performances there,” Taylor said. “It is what your superstar is supposed to do. He is supposed to take whatever is handed him and make the best of it. He was impressive and the coaches agreed with it.

Sprints coach Marcus Evans agreed with Taylor that the team came first and it showed in the relay.

“He had a great team effort that he put forth at the championships,” Evans said. “It is evident with the other coaches that he worked hard and had a great meet. We were looking for him to help the team as much as he could and that is exactly what he did. It was a great way to cap off the meet with the come-from-behind win in the relay over North Florida at its home track.”

For the A-Sun competition season, Peabody collected four Track Athlete of the Week honors including three in a row from April 10 to April 24. It was the most captured this season by an individual athlete.

Peabody has qualified for two events at the NCAA National Preliminary round beginning Thursday. He will run the 100 and 200 meter dashes in Greensboro, N.C.


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