LinuxWorld Conference and Expo

What a week! LinuxWorld
Conference and Expo starts on August 5th, and I wish I could
say I was going - especially since I think I’ve been asked by at
least 100 different people if I’m going - but not this time. Too
busy and too “underfunded.” For those who are going, I’d love to
hear your thoughts during or after the conference. This goes for
anyone attending a Linux-related con. I’m sure your fellow readers
would like to know which ones are ultimately worth going to and
which are mostly just hype.

LinuxWorld’s new print
magazine is premiering at the conference, which is one reason
so many people have asked me about it, since I’m one of the
editors. Be sure to check out the new publication! I’ve seen
preview copies and - I think - it’s pretty cool.

Lockergnome Linux E-Books

Yes, this is a repeat. I only got one response, which of course
could mean that most people just aren’t interested, but I thought
I’d give it one more try!

Much of the content of these newsletters is actually going to be
updated, expanded, and repurposed into ebooks available here
through Lockergnome. My questions to you folks are: what that I’ve
covered so far are you dying to get an ebook about? What didn’t I
cover there that you’d like to see added for the ebook? I’m also
always interested in knowing what you want to see covered here.

Selective Memories

One reader writes:

“When did Penguin Shell turn into a commercial for Red Hat? What’s
wrong with Gentoo? Now a log of your experiences installing my
favorite distro would make some decent reading.”

Hmm, so aside from my covering a variety of distributions and
saying I’m lining up more, making sure to include solutions for
people regardless of what they’re running, and previously running
a press release from an entirely different company (Ximian and
their desktop, I believe it was), a single press release from Red
Hat makes this newsletter a commercial for them? I included the
release because it is a major change in direction for the company,
which makes it interesting to me, and hence I figured it would be
interesting to some readers.

Gentoo is, in fact, in my
list for one of the distributions to cover. However, it’s not
really a beginner’s distribution, is it? So, I didn’t want to put
it too early in the list since the distribution coverage has so
far been in the EGGS section. I’ll probably migrate discussion of
Gentoo, Slackware, Debian, and those babies down to the CHICKS
section.

If you go to my Web
site and look through my list of articles in the LinuxPlanet/LinuxToday.com section,
you’ll find out that Gentoo is one of my favorite distributions.
You’ll also find coverage of my experience installing multiple
versions of Gentoo.

Patience, grasshopper.

Digitally Yours, 
Dee-Ann LeBlanc