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Ten-year timeline part 4: the end and the beginningTen-year timeline part 4: the end and the beginningPosted Jan 31, 2008 1:40 UTC (Thu) by mbcook (subscriber, #5517)Parent article: Ten-year timeline part 4: the end and the beginning
It's hard to believe that I've been reading LWN for so long. Slashdot recently had it's anniversary and I had the same reaction there. I had been reading LWN for a couple of months, maybe a year, when the subscription thing came down. I don't remember if I was reading before all the financial trouble started. I think I was, but I'm not sure. It may have been the reports of the financial trouble that took me to LWN in the first place. I read LWN for a while after the subscription thing happened, having to wait for the content to expire and become free. After a while (I don't know how long) I signed up. Here I am today, having just renewed in the last two months. I love the Kernel page. I've learned so much. That and Kernel Traffic have allowed me to learn so much about Linux. Of course, Kernel Traffic died ~25 months ago... leaving just LWN.
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Ten-year timeline part 4: the end and the beginning Posted Feb 1, 2008 2:35 UTC (Fri) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263) [Link] ___Kerneltraffic and LWN have vastly different writing styles. I actually preferred KT over LWN. ___KT picked up the interesting threads on LKML, and made an interesting read solely based on developer's citations, mostly direct speech. It was an art of taking snippets from everywhere, and pasting it together again in a coherent fashion. This gave it a feel like you were listening to a parliament discussion -- judgement: "raw material". The last KT#335 issue covered 14 threads. ___LWN on the other hand uses the usual "newspaper" style. (This week: mem_notify and the blk rq api.) The Editor makes himself familiar with the topic and then writes down his findings from his viewpoint. Standard (e.g. "cups slow on linux-2.6.24") and philosophical (hypothethical "libata does not power up my usb coffee pad, who broke it?") matters don't get much attention, while really technical things are explained in a way so that people who are not a master of the particular subsystem still get to understand what it's about -- judgement: "pre-chewed". ___Sometimes, there are only two [longer] stories, sometimes there are four stories in the Kernel section of the Weekly Edition (e.g. 2006-01-17) - it kinda fluctuates. (Probably related to LKML I guess, everyone's busy with merging for 2.6.25 right now.) ___I dunno if LWN has the necessary manpower for it, but getting to read something KT-style would be great. Does not need to be a dozen of threads, but maybe two, three threads that did not make it into a "newspaper" article. Spot on: the ext3 feature freeze, er, ext3 freeze feature thread, softpanic v2, and perhaps the ext4 list could have been showcased KT-style for this week.
Ten-year timeline part 4: the end and the beginning Posted Feb 1, 2008 2:38 UTC (Fri) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263) [Link] s/this week/week of 2008-01-24/ s/2006-01-17/2008-01-17/ And pre-chewed was meant to be positive. There are a few areas in the kernel I do not want to tamper with, so reading about it in this form is welcome
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