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An LWN reader surveyAn LWN reader surveyPosted Feb 1, 2007 8:19 UTC (Thu) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313)In reply to: An LWN reader survey by pimlott Parent article: An LWN reader survey
good how-to articles don't need to be written by the LWN staff, in fact they are a perfect way to get contributions from others.
the key problem is how to get ones that are in depth enough to be worthwhile without being overly complicated.
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An LWN reader survey Posted Feb 1, 2007 20:45 UTC (Thu) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link] I agree. The problem with non-trivial howtos is that they are necessarily tied to a particular version of a particular distribution.
For instance, I'm in the middle of writing a KVM howto: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/KVM . I'd love to submit something like this to LWN for publication. The problem is, it would take days for me to make it distribution-neutral. And, if it did cover most of the popular distributions, it would probably be incomprehensible. Ever try following code with tons of #ifdefs in it? Now picture that with English...
HOWTOs are great. I'm just skeptical that they could be turned into something worthy of publication on LWN.
(I suppose one solution would be a wiki-type-thing, where readers could translate HOWTOs to different distros themselves. That sounds a little far-fetched though...)
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