Linux.com Relaunched Under New Management 70
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."
Re:Great business plan! (Score:3, Informative)
It was the year of the Linux desktop five years ago. It's just that 95% of the users are behind the trend.
Re:Great business plan! (Score:5, Informative)
And it messes up your browser (Firefox in my case) too. Check this out:
http://linux.com/distrocentral/download-linux [linux.com]
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.
After seeing this (Score:5, Informative)
and having a soft spot in my heart for them since I discovered Linux in 1995 I still think linux.org [linux.org] and The LDP [tldp.org] are way better then this...
Re:Troll (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.
Re:Great business plan! (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Troll (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?