2006 results for debian-user's favourite FLOSS

Last year (and the year before) I asked debian-user which of the thousands of available FLOSS was their favourite. I 'd like to do the same for this year (on another mail, so hurry not with your picks).

Here's last year's results:

audio editor:
* audacity (8) -> 2005 winner

audio player:
* xmms (9)

• Amarok (4) -> 2005 winner

cd-ripper:
* abcde, grip (6)

• sound-juicer (5) -> 2005 winner

desktop OR window manager:
* GNOME (8) -> 2005 winner

• KDE (6)
• Fluxbox (5)
• Xfce4 (4)

DBMS:
* MySQL (4) -> 2005 winner

• PostgreSQL (3)

development:
* Python (9)

• GTK+ (4)
• GCC, G++ (3)

• X-CD-Roast (4)
• wodim, gnomebaker (3)

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e-mail client:
* mutt (13)

• Thunderbird/Icedove (7) -> 2005 winner
• kmail, Mozilla (4)
• Sylpheed (3)

file manager:
* MC (7) -> 2005 winner

• Nautilus (7)
• Konqueror (6)
• bash (5)
• Thunar, emelFM (3)

finance:
* gnucash (4) -> 2005 winner

ftp client:
* gftp (6) -> 2005 winner

• ncftp (4)
• llftp (3)

image editor:
* GIMP (21)

• ImageMagick (3)

image viewer:
* GQview (9)

• gthumb (8) -> 2005 winner

instant messenger:
* Gaim (11) -> 2005 winner

• centericq (3)

mathematics:
* bc, Octave , gnuplot (3)

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misc utilities:
* grep (19)

• sudo (16) -> 2005 winner
• wget (16)
• ssh (10)
• lsof (7)
• less (6)
• Bash, ls, su, locate,sed (4)

p2p:
* aMule (3) -> 2005 winner

package manager:
* aptitude (16) -> 2005 winner

• apt (13)
• synaptic (7)

pdf-reader:
* xpdf (13)

• evince (8)
• kpdf (4)

spreadsheet:
* OpenOffice.org Calc (14)

• gnumeric (13)

system monitoring:
* top (13) -> 2005 winner

tag editor:
* easytag (5) -> 2005 winner

• ex-falso (4)
• id3v2 (3)

terminal emulator:
* gnome-terminal (9) -> 2005 winner

• xterm, Konsole (7)
• rxvt, xfce4-terminal (3)

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text editor:
* vim (15)

• gedit (9) -> 2005 winner
• Emacs (9)
• nano (7)
• vi (4)

video player:
* mplayer (17) -> 2005 winner

• VLC (7)
• Xine (6)
• Totem (5)
• Kaffeine (4)

web browser:
* Firefox (21)

• Epiphany, Mozilla/Seamonkey (6)
• dillo (4)
• Konqueror (3)

word-processor:
* OpenOffice.org Writer (15)

• abiword (9)
• LaTex (3)
• lyx (3)

(unreleased):
* Gnu Hurd (3)

(great honours):
* Linux (12)

• GCC (11)
• GLibC (10)
• Bash (10)
• Xorg (11)
• Debian (3)

misc:
* games [ nethack (4) ]

• 3D animation [ blender (7) ]
• web-server [ apache (3) ]

non-free:
* pdf-reader [acrobat-reader (9)]

• web-browser [ Opera (4) ]

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