How to write a thorough review of a Linux distribution
Posted by: Anonymous
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on July 10, 2008 03:57 PM
Thanks for the thoughtfulness you put in to making this list. As I understand it, this is meant to be a sort of "checklist" of useful items to put in a distro review. The main point I believe many posters are missing is that you clearly stated that the reviewer would need to look over the list and decide which points were important for their particular review. I understood it to mean that not all of the items were need to be included in any review, so the list is pretty comprehensive from that perspective. In my opinion I believe this list could be useful to reviewers, and quickly perusing over the list would not take very much time or effort at all. Just my two cents.
It my personal opinion, I'm just most interested in the basics of; How easy to install, What features are included/available, Who the distro is meant for (devs, casual users, etc.), And some basic structural info like what kernel is it built on. The only other thing I think many people would want to know is how much of a learning curve will there be for the potential windows converts, as I think this is important to the advancement of Linux in general.
One question I have is how are all the "It's not ready" naysayers going to behave when it undoubtedly IS "ready"? I hope the Linux community will be ready to fight back the inevitable wave of full-commercial heathens and their enormous checkbooks. I just hate it when a great concept gets trumped by selling out it's valuable qualities to the strictly profit motivated. I love Linux, and I'm relieved to say that I just kicked MS off my system, completely, and so far I've found that I can do anything on Linux that I would want to do on Windows. I think this ability would be a major concern to many who would spend any time reading reviews of distros, IMHO.
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Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 98.214.148.43] on July 10, 2008 03:57 PMIt my personal opinion, I'm just most interested in the basics of; How easy to install, What features are included/available, Who the distro is meant for (devs, casual users, etc.), And some basic structural info like what kernel is it built on. The only other thing I think many people would want to know is how much of a learning curve will there be for the potential windows converts, as I think this is important to the advancement of Linux in general.
One question I have is how are all the "It's not ready" naysayers going to behave when it undoubtedly IS "ready"? I hope the Linux community will be ready to fight back the inevitable wave of full-commercial heathens and their enormous checkbooks. I just hate it when a great concept gets trumped by selling out it's valuable qualities to the strictly profit motivated. I love Linux, and I'm relieved to say that I just kicked MS off my system, completely, and so far I've found that I can do anything on Linux that I would want to do on Windows. I think this ability would be a major concern to many who would spend any time reading reviews of distros, IMHO.
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