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LWN's 2012 retrospective

sorokin — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 22:05:12 +0000

I have been reading LWN for several month and today I became a paid subscriber.

Jonathan, I just want to say that LWN is amazing. Your kernel articles is very informative and interesting. Good work! Carry on!

LCA

clintonroy — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 05:25:44 +0000

Will definitely miss your kernel report, but am happy to see coverage.

LCA

corbet — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 04:22:26 +0000

Assuming that question is aimed at me, the answer is no, sorry, my travel will be somewhat reduced this year still. So I'll miss LCA for the first time in quite a while. The good news is that both Nathan Willis and Michael Kerrisk will be there, so LWN will be well represented.

LWN's 2012 retrospective

clintonroy — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 02:42:54 +0000

Are you starting off 2013 with a visit to Canberra for linux.conf.au?

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brianomahoney — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 02:12:49 +0000

I second the +ve comments and wish Jon and his crew a Good Christmas and a Good and Prosperous new year.

MFG, omb

LWN's 2012 retrospective

vonbrand — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 18:42:39 +0000

Please don't! Where would we be without our grumpy editor's notes from the trenches... ;-)

Seriously, a happy anniversary. Keep up this amazing work.

Am I a obtuse?

corbet — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 17:35:39 +0000

Information over there. If possible, I'd prefer to avoid an extended discussion of it here.

Am I a obtuse?

a9db0 — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 17:33:26 +0000

Ditto. Ken said it best.

Jon- If there's anything we can do, don't hesitate to ask.

Dave

Am I a jerk?

kena — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 17:15:48 +0000

I don't know what Jon was alluding to, which leads me to one of two conclusions:
1) It's a personal matter which is well-known enough that he felt the need to make public thanks, or
2) I'm a jerk, and have completely missed something.

Note that a combination of numbers one and two is not out of the question.

If it's completely #2 -- and there won't be any stepping-on-toes going on -- I'd like to know what it is, and if there's any way that I, as a lowly LWN subscriber, might be able to offer assistance. I've come to grow quite fond of LWN over the years, and that most definitely includes its staff. If, however, it's a private matter, then please just add my "Jon rocks, and I hope everything goes better!" onto the pile.

Best wishes for 2013 -- one and all.

-Ken

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nix — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 14:27:46 +0000

Strongly seconded. Life has been too nasty to you of late, and we should not allow this to continue. (Obviously a Make Jon Happy Foundation is needed.)

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nix — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 14:26:38 +0000

A harder-to-predict leap-second bug was the bug in ntpd when you have low-stratum servers mutually synchronizing with other servers at the same stratum, and with no servers at a lower stratum, that led to some people seeing a second leap second a month after the first. This was old, old, fairly-well-tested code (as leap second code goes: operators of low-stratum servers generally do tend to test this stuff in advance, but it wouldn't have helped here unless they'd tested it on an entire cluster of servers at once and then examined the state of the leap-second flag afterwards...)

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fghorow — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 14:16:57 +0000

Agreed! Thanks for everything Jon, and may your "rough patch" abate in the coming year.

LWN's 2012 retrospective

jamielinux — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 12:07:44 +0000

Here's to another year of consistently high quality articles, where you don't have to wade through the cruft found on most other tech news websites.

Thanks LWN!

LWN's 2012 retrospective

aryonoco — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 11:22:10 +0000

Thank you Jon, for all your efforts on the free software front and especially on LWN. You run an amazing publication and are a pioneer in many regards.

On a personal level, I hope 2013 is a happier year for you.

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jcm — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 03:58:26 +0000

To LWN! You all rock!

LWN's 2012 retrospective

rsidd — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 03:13:50 +0000

Congrats on the 15th anniversary. Despite your periodic worries about finances, it seems there are enough subscribers to keep you afloat. This is evidence (I hesitate to say proof) that a truly high-quality product that fills an important gap will find a market. I'm happy to have been a subscriber for some years now.