The readers have voted, and the results are close to what one might expect.
Ubuntu is the favorite distribution; Firefox gets a resounding 86% of the browser vote – Firefox for president! – and OpenOffice trounces AbiWord.
Vi leads the editor race (whoo!) – even though it seems to be competing in the poll against its own improved version, vim...? I'd like to see the raw data from the survey. If they had entered vim -C in the race as well (the -C flag launches classic vi-compatible mode, since you ask), we'd have a real tussle on our hands. Anyway, all that matters is that we beat emacs.
See the rest of the results – games, audio, backup, databases – here.
My money's on git in 2009.
