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Linux.com Relaunched Under New Management

Posted by timothy on from the things-change-almost-always dept.

mikesd81 writes "Linux.com has been relaunched under the direction of the Linux Foundation. The goal of the site is supposed to be a community hub that lets the Linux community participate and contribute their knowledge. An initial look as the site is today makes it look like a news site. Linux Foundation Executive Director Jim Zemlin insists that the plan wasn't for Linux.com to be a breaking news organization but rather as a resource for the Linux community as a whole."

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  1. Re:Great business plan! by mr_mischief · · Score: 2, Informative

    It was the year of the Linux desktop five years ago. It's just that 95% of the users are behind the trend.

  2. Re:Great business plan! by skeeto · · Score: 4, Informative

    And it messes up your browser (Firefox in my case) too. Check this out:

    http://linux.com/distrocentral/download-linux

    Right now it continually refreshes the page while asking for authentication, spawning a new window each second. I managed to escape from it with some careful mouse wrangling.

  3. After seeing this by just_another_sean · · Score: 4, Informative

    and having a soft spot in my heart for them since I discovered Linux in 1995 I still think linux.org and The LDP are way better then this...

    --
    Creationist Textbook Stickers Declared Unconstitutional by CowboyNeal
  4. Re:Troll by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Informative

    I'm pretty sure the people running Linux.com aren't the same people who are hacking on the Linux kernel. So your statement is a false dichotomy.

  5. Re:Great business plan! by jonnycando · · Score: 2, Informative

    Does it to me too....logins one after another unless you can click cancel fast enough to dismiss them. Using Firefox 3.0.1 with Ubuntu 8.04 netbook remix on Dell Mini 9. Guess my Mac would do the same since the website appears to be ahem, faulty.

  6. Re:Troll by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Informative

    No it isn't.

    Yes it is. Kernel hacking and running Linux.com aren't mutually exclusive activities are done by different people.

    Let me make it plain: the money spent on Linux.com would have advanced the interests of Linux better (which is the Linux Foundation's remit) had it been spent on getting suspend/hibernate working properly.

    How do you know they aren't doing that already? Again, you are setting up some dichotomy that doesn't exist.

    Even if it only helped a little. This is the biggest problem facing Linux adoption today, not a lack of discussion about Linux on the Internet.

    BWAHAHAHA. Biggest problem? Exaggerate much?