今年の「Linux Journal Awards」が発表されたので、興味のあるものだけを転載されていただきます。
英語は、わかりやすいものをそのまま、難しいのものを注釈されていただきます。
知らないものがいっぱい出てきて刺激です。
元リンクはここです。

Best Linux Distribution

1. Ubuntu 16.5%
2. Debian 16.4%
3. Linux Mint 11%
4. Arch Linux 8.5%
5. Fedora 8.3%
6. CentOS 6%
7. openSUSE 5.3%
8. Kubuntu 4.1%
9. Gentoo 2.9%
10. Slackware 2.7%
11. Xubuntu 2.5%
12. Other 2.3%
13. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 1.6%
14. NixOS 1.4%
15. elementary OS 1.3%
16. Lubuntu 1.2%
17. CrunchBang 1%
18. Mageia .7%
19. LXLE .4%
20. Tails .4%
21. Android-x86 .3%
22. Bodhi Linux .3%
23. Chakra .3%
24. Kali Linux .3%
25. PCLinuxOS .3%
26. SolydK .3%
27. Mandriva .1%
28. Oracle Linux .1%

Best Mobile Linux OS

1. Stock Android 37.1%
2. Sailfish OS 27.6%
3. CyanogenMod 20.2%
4. Other 3%
5. Ubuntu Phone 3%
6. Amazon Fire OS 1.5%
7. Ubuntu for Android 1.4%
8. Replicant .8%
9. Tizen .8%

Best Linux Tablet

1. Google Nexus 7 35.3%
2. Google Nexus 10 14.8%
3. Samsung Galaxy Tab 14%
4. Samsung Galaxy Note 9.8%
5. ASUS Transformer Pad 8.4%
6. Other 6.4%
7. Kindle Fire HD 4.7%
8. ASUS MeMO Pad 2%
9. Dell Venue 1.6%
10. Acer Iconia One 1.4%
11. Samsung Galaxy Note Edge .9%
12. Ekoore Python S3 .7%

Best Other Linux-Based Gadget (スマホとタブレット以外の装置)

1. Raspberry Pi 71.4%
2. BeagleBone Black 8.1%
3. Other 4.3%
4. Lego Mindstorms Ev3 3.7%
5. Moto 360 3.4%
6. Cubieboard 1.7%
7. Parrot A.R Drone 1.7%
8. Samsung Gear S 1.4%
9. Yamaha Motif XF8 1.1%
10. Nvidia Jetson-K1 Development System .8%
11. Cloudsto EVO Ubuntu Linux Mini PC .5%
12. VoCore Open Hardware Computer .5%
13. LG G Watch .4%
14. RaZberry .4%
15. VolksPC .4%
16. IFC6410 Pico-ITX Board .2%
17. JetBox 5300 .1%

Best Content Management System

1. WordPress 34.7%
2. Drupal 25.3%
3. Joomla! 11.1%
4. MediaWiki 10.5%
5. Other 10%
6. Alfresco 4.3%
7. WebGUI 1.3%
8. ikiwiki 1.1%
9. eZ publish .7%
10. Wolf CMS .4%
11. Elgg .3%
12. Blosxom .2%

Best Web Browser

1. Firefox 53.8%
2. Chrome 26.9%
3. Chromium 8.1%
4. Iceweasel 4%
5. Opera 3%
6. Other 2%
7. SeaMonkey .8%
8. rekonq .5%
9. dwb .4%
10. QupZill .4%
11. Dillo .2%

Best Cloud-Based File Storage

1. Dropbox 30.5%
2. ownCloud 23.6%
3. Google Drive 16%
4. rsync 8.3%
5. Other 7.5%
6. Amazon S3 6.6%
7. SpiderOak 4.4%
8. Box 1.8%
9. Copy 1%
10. AjaXplorer .3%

Best Virtualization Solution

1. Oracle VM VirtualBox 33.4%
2. VMware 22.3%
3. KVM 21.1%
4. XEN 5.7%
5. QEMU 5.3%
6. OpenStack 4.9%
7. Other 4.2%
8. OpenVZ 1.7%
9. Linux-VServer 1.3%
10. Symantec Workspace Virtualization .1%

Best Monitoring Application（システム監視）

1. Nagios 27.1%
2. Wireshark 20.7%
3. htop 12.3%
4. Zabbix 10.5%
5. Other 8.6%
6. Zenoss 6.2%
7. Munin 3.4%
8. PC Monitor 2.8%
9. New Relic 1.9%
10. Opsview 1.2%
11. SaltStack 1%
12. NTM (Network Traffic Monitor) .7%
13. xosview .7%
14. Manage Engine .5%
15. FlowViewer .3%
16. Circonus .2%
17. SysPeek .2%

Best DevOps Configuration Management Tool※

1. Git 39.4%
2. Puppet 17.2%
3. Ansible 8.9%
4. cron jobs 8.8%
5. Subversion 7.6%
6. Chef 5%
7. SaltStack 5.4%
8. Other 4.6%
9. CFEngine 3%

Best Programming Language

1. Python 30.2%
2. C++ 17.8%
3. C 16.7%
4. Perl 7.1%
5. Java 6.9%
6. Other 4.6%
7. Ruby 4.3%
8. Go 2.4%
9. JavaScript 2.4%
10. QML 2.2%
11. Fortran 1.4%
12. Haskell 1.4%
13. Lisp 1.2%
14. Erlang .6%
15. Rust .6%
16. D .4%
17. Hack .1%

Best Scripting Language

1. Python 37.1%
2. Bash/Shell scripts 27%
3. Perl 11.8%
4. PHP 8.4%
5. JavaScript 6.7%
6. Ruby 4.9%
7. Other 2.1%
8. Lua 2%

Best New Linux/Open-Source Product/Project

1. Docker 28%
2. Jolla and Sailfish OS 19%
3. LibreOffice 7%
4. ownCloud 5%
5. Steam 5%
6. Zenoss Control Center 5%
7. Raspberry Pi 4%
8. Git 4%
9. Apache Cordova/OpenOffice/Spark/Tika 3%
10. Ansible 2%
11. Elementary OS 2%
12. OpenStack 2%
13. Zabbix 2%
14. CoreOS 2%
15. Firefox OS 2%
16. KDE Connect 1%
17. NixOS and NixOps 1%
18. Open Media Vault 1%

※開発と操作合わせてDevOpsといいます。