Posted by: Anonymous
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on July 05, 2008 03:01 PM
Your inventory of topics is impressive, but I would say that it is far too large for a reasonable person to read. In my opinion, a distribution review should be written to assit the reader in deciding the merits/failures of a given distribution/release. You are requesting too many facts, with too little emphasis on analysis.
My personal peeve with most Linux Distribution/Release "reviews" is that they obsess on the writers personal itch (their peculiar application of the OS) OR they obsess on the particular hardware the writer owns (installing a distribution designed for low-spec hardware on a current model core duo CPU is silly, as is the reverse).
I want motivations for writing the review, system requirements, Happy suprises and painful omissions (with screenshots, if applicable), and an assessment of the distributions upgrade/update mechanisims, along with package manager. System philosophy would be nice too, to describe the intended market/user base.
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Way too much info, IMHO
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 24.2.156.64] on July 05, 2008 03:01 PMMy personal peeve with most Linux Distribution/Release "reviews" is that they obsess on the writers personal itch (their peculiar application of the OS) OR they obsess on the particular hardware the writer owns (installing a distribution designed for low-spec hardware on a current model core duo CPU is silly, as is the reverse).
I want motivations for writing the review, system requirements, Happy suprises and painful omissions (with screenshots, if applicable), and an assessment of the distributions upgrade/update mechanisims, along with package manager. System philosophy would be nice too, to describe the intended market/user base.
Ken
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