Things I like, and want [LWN.net]

Things I like, and want

Posted Feb 1, 2007 11:33 UTC (Thu) by alex (subscriber, #1355)
Parent article: An LWN reader survey

LWN is well worth the money to me. I'm a developer so it's the Kernel pages and Development pages I find most useful. As far as I'm concerned if these expanded to the detriment of the others I'd be happy :-)

More "Hello World with libX/langX/frameworkX" articles would be useful in the Development section. Not trying to replace the documentation of projects but a pointer to how easy/hard it to use something and give a flavour of the sort of thing that can be achieved.

Having said that I usually find the Front Page "State of FLOSS" type articles very informative and easier to keep upto date on the "big issues" than following LT or Slashdot stories over the preceding week or days.

The security articles are usually very interesting athough I only give a passing gloss over the actual advisories. Most people should be subscribed to the security feeds of the their respective distros anyway. It is useful for those big exploits though and seeing if you are affected and if your distro is being slow.

I don't tend to value the news and annoucements. Things like the calender and disrolist are useful reference though.

To me LWN is a developer friendly weekly read with a little FLOSS politics thrown in. Well worth the subscription and I wish it to continue!

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Things I like, and want

Posted Feb 1, 2007 16:48 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

The security stuff *is* useful if you're (as I am) working at security-theatre-prone places which don't keep up to date (because the bureaucracy involved in doing so is too insane): I can use that to force through single specific updates which I judge will be important, eating the bureaucratic cost for that single update where I couldn't do it for all of them.

Of course such places won't let me subscribe to bugtraq or fulldisclosure there (only dangerous attackers use those, they think, so they ban them) and some of these places don't even have email: but they all (so far) let me get to LWN.

(Yes, this sucks, but LWN's advisories list is doing a good job of reducing the suck factor there.)