The new Linux.com is open for business
Summary: The Linux Foundation has opened the doors on its new Linux.com, a new news, discussion and blogging site which looks a little like ZDNet. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
The Linux Foundation has opened the doors on its new Linux.com, a new news, discussion and blogging site which looks a little like ZDNet.
Not that there's anything wrong with that. Personally I'm flattered.
My point is that the new site goes well beyond simple discussions of Linux. It's heavy into applications, even those which, like Firefox, are best known as Windows apps. It follows the news.
The Firefox story is actually a link from a Linux Magazine article by ZDNet's own Joe Brockmeier. It's a good article.
Zonker has been following the Linux.com story closely, quoting the Foundation's promises in March to make the new site a “community resource… for the community, by the community.”
Question. Which community?
The answer can be drawn either narrowly or broadly. Narrowly, it's about the Linux operating system and applications that run on Linux. Broadly, it's also about open source, the community ethos arising from it, the values of those communities, and the future of the Internet.
These are questions publishers, editors and writers are constantly fussing over. The editor's answer is it depends on what the readers want. The publisher's answer is it depends on what the advertiser wants, what the market the site seeks to serve wants.
It will be fun to see how the Linux Foundation, a non-profit consortium, answers that question over the next weeks, months and years. Y'all are a publisher now.
What do the readers think should be its answer?
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looks a little like ZDNet???
Not that there?s anything wrong with that. Personally I?m flattered."
Well, if that's what you think. You can go out ant take credit for almost every site out there. They all look alike. It's nothing special with how ZDNet looks, or how Linux.com looks. I vent to Linux.com and I didn't see ZDNet. I just saw a design that looks like any other site 2009 would do.
Personally, I believe it actually looks [i]better[/i] then ZDNet
Looks better, loads faster
Looks like zdnet
f150. They both have 4 wheels. linux.com seems less
cluttered. I guess it goes with their utilitarian
nature.
RE: The new Linux.com is open for business
You're a moron LD
Now now that isn't nice
calm down kids
and-run manner. Please don't take it personally,
however. The critic knows you only as bits on a
page, not for the wholesome and loving person
you undoubtedly are.
But it's the truth nt
Now there is sarcasm!
Lol - great reaction
Dana, if you want to know a bit more about Loverock, check out blogs about Windows and Linux. You'll laugh hard at LD's postings. Not because they're funny, but because they're so indicative of a wannabe-(tho miserably failed) Mike Cox.
It may not be nice . . .
SNAP! (nt)
Not nice, agreed. However...
Well I'll second that.
That is incredibly insulting ...
Bad Man
That...
Why repeat it again?
Do not feed the cuisine-challenged bridge substructure symbionts. {http://picayune.uclick.com/comics/pib/2002/pib021218.gif}
Open_Source is on!
Linux distro skills are and will be the most sought after, the site is nice and companies are removing the blinders of we have use to MS because everyone else does.
At least you don't have to worry about Conficker and other expensive issues like you do with Windows.
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