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Some LWN notesSome LWN notesPosted Jun 22, 2006 13:30 UTC (Thu) by job (guest, #670)Parent article: Some LWN notes
I think what's mainly holding LWN subscriptions back now is probably visibility. I regularly talk to people about Linux stuff and when I sometimes mentioned something as being read over at LWN, there's often some raised eyebrows. I'm not sure what the best way to get noticed is, but perhaps getting some of the meatier articles linked to from the popular link aggregators or Linux pages might help.
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Some LWN notes Posted Jun 22, 2006 14:12 UTC (Thu) by tjc (subscriber, #137) [Link] What are the "mainstream" Linux sites these days? linux.com, linuxtoday.com, and linux.org all seem to be languishing, the later for nigh on a decade. LWN and LJ seem to be the only ones worth reading on a regaular basis.
Some LWN notes Posted Jun 22, 2006 20:12 UTC (Thu) by hazelsct (guest, #3659) [Link] How exactly is Linux Today languishing? I find it informative and useful, and the Blazer version makes LT by far my Treo's #1 destination...
Some LWN notes Posted Jun 22, 2006 23:49 UTC (Thu) by barbara (guest, #3014) [Link] Your comment about LT tweaked my curiosity enough to revisit the siteafter many months. Unfortunately it's still a pale imitation of what LT once was a number of years ago. Back in the late '90's and the early part of this decade this was one of the top Linux news sites (plus LWN of course!). Now with all the Microsoft ads up front and centre, it doesn't appear to have much Linux community spirit left. I also notice that community announcements don't seem to be very important anymore, unlike LWN and LXer, my other favourite Linux news source.
LWN on LXer Posted Jun 24, 2006 1:52 UTC (Sat) by grouch (guest, #27289) [Link] Mr. Corbet failed to mention that he was instrumental in an experiment to get more exposure for LWN. One subscriber-only LWN story per week is featured at LXer, as a short "teaser" and a link to the full story on LWN. It allows non-subscribers to get a taste of what they're missing, by way of the subscriber link each LWN story allows.
Linux Today sucks Posted Jun 24, 2006 8:52 UTC (Sat) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link] You are completely right. For those of you that cannot be bothered to visit Linux Today's site: a big sidebar to the right of the front page called "Linux Reference Center" and sponsored by Microsoft offers to download "whitepapers" from the "Get the facts" campaign; they link to the orwellian "Microsoft Global Evidence Management". Very sad.But it can be amusing too. One of the promoted cases is the clothes designer Tommy Hilfiger. Microsoft's Evidence Manager says: After a year of attempting to develop an online retail presence using Linux, Tommy Hilfiger had made little progress. [...] Tommy Hilfiger met both goals by standardizing on Microsoft® software [...] Tommy Hilfiger gains a unified information infrastructure that extends from the companys online presence to its global retail and wholesale operations and upon which new applications that improve business capabilities can rapidly be deployed.Nice evidence; maybe there is more hidden on Microsoft's site, but I have not been able to find it with Firefox on Ubuntu. But Netcraft uptime tells a different story. The site was served on Solaris until the start of 2005, when they switched to an already running Linux system. For six months it worked without a reboot, accumulating more than 250 days of uptime. Then they switched to Windows 2003 server, which has barely surpassed 100 days of uptime since then. No doubt they have other sites. In fact, when we access their site from Spain we are greeted by an OpenCMS system served from global.tommy.com, which is a recent Apache-on-Linux site. But if we go to the USA site, we get the same. So much for the "online presence". What about the "global retail" part? Well, both the German and Austrian online stores are run from Apache on Linux. So maybe the "online retail presence" they wanted to build was yet another US-exclusive. There we can read: tommy.com usa e-commerce re-opening fall '06So their online store is closed for three more months at least. A very good example of "new applications that improve business capabilities can rapidly be deployed". If this is not a Windows success story and it does not convince Linux people to switch, I don't know what will!
Some LWN notes Posted Jun 26, 2006 15:10 UTC (Mon) by tjc (subscriber, #137) [Link] How exactly is Linux Today languishing?There used to be some good discussions on LT. It was a good site in 1998-2000, when slashdot started geting out of control, and before LWN had comments.
Some LWN notes Posted Jun 24, 2006 4:40 UTC (Sat) by skybrian (subscriber, #365) [Link] If you want more attention, you should try to get on digg, reddit, and slashdot. But LWN's emphasis on factual rather than sensational articles probably prevents that.
Some LWN notes Posted Jun 24, 2006 5:12 UTC (Sat) by egoforth (guest, #2351) [Link] Talk about a "best of the comments" section. This sums it up exactly for me and why I don't have time to waste on other sites. LWN does it right.
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