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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. Great business plan! by eln · · Score: 4, Funny

    Look everyone, a tech news aggregator! What an original idea...this will be revolutionary. Can the year of Linux on the desktop be far behind now?

    1. 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.

    2. Re:Great business plan! by tsalmark · · Score: 5, Funny

      Well that was fun, glad I'm not epileptic. From now on I'm reading the rest of the post before clicking on the link.

  2. It's about time... by Stachybotris · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I had just purged the RSS feed for their site from Firefox last night since I got sick of seeing nothing change since January 1st.

    I'm glad to see that they're back up an running, and even more so now that they're providing more than just news. Here's to hoping that the site flourishes and maintains what I've come to expect so far plus more.

    1. Re:It's about time... by Krneki · · Score: 4, Funny

      ... probably they couldn't return from Sleep mode.

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  3. For newbies? by hkz · · Score: 4, Insightful

    When I first became interested in Linux around 2005 or so and wanted to find out more about it, one of the first sites I tried was linux.com. (Hey, why not, I learnt about distros a little while later.) What a mess it was. The new site is a lot better, but I still don't think it has the portal quality that a site with the standing of "linux.com" needs. Where is the elevator pitch about what Linux is, where is the explanation of the ways it's similar to Windows and the ways it's not? Instead we get press releases from the Linux Foundation. Think of the other 95% of the world when you're scaping linux.com, guys.

    1. Re:For newbies? by skeeto · · Score: 4, Insightful

      If you think that was bad, check out linux.org right now. It's probably one of the most worthless websites out there, yet it gets to sit at #1 in search results for "linux" because too many people foolishly link to it.

    2. Re:For newbies? by elrous0 · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Sadly, and all-too-typical problem with OSS sites. An opening page full of bug fixes, version numbers, etc. and not a single paragraph explaining what the OSS app actually *IS* and *DOES*. Too many of these pages (and apps) are written by code monkeys who think they don't need to bring in actual writers or graphic designers.

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  4. 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...

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