It was actually quite a relaxing week on OSNews, with few big news stories going on. We talked about Psystar, the need (or not?) for ZFS to have an fsck tool, the end of the FatELF project, and the release of Mandriva 2010.0, among other things.
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2005-09-17
I am seeing this "week in review" spreading like a virus in all tech sites. Considering most of OS News readers (and those other websites) visit the site on a regular basis, what is the point (besides cluttering the view with redundant content)? Do people actually find these summaries useful/interesting (instead of annoying)?
Edited 2009-11-09 01:55 UTC
Member since:2006-12-05
I guess it might be good for anyone who doesn't read the sites every day, all week...
Then again, if I missed out on a full week of news, I'd rather just middle-click each interesting article one-by-one (to open in new tabs) and close them when done.
Maybe for people on mobile devices having all the summaries in one page could be good, but is that not what the main page pretty much is?
Edited 2009-11-09 03:29 UTC
Member since:2005-09-17
But I mean, there you have all the past one-line headlines waiting for you to click on the ones that make you tick. I see no point whatsoever.
They might be less irritating if they were marked with a different color or something to make them stand apart. That way I would not even lay my eyes on them. But I keep falling into reading the summary, and then noticing it is yet again one of those digests.
Edited 2009-11-09 04:03 UTC
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I would vote for it, because I personally also don't see a meaning in this story.
It kind of reminds me of the empty episodes most TV Series have when they cannot came up with new stuff. There is always this type of episode where the characters remember their moments on the story so far.
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2007-09-06
I saw on another site where someone had a number of VMs on a drive that got damaged. The Windows drive file checks seemed to repair the systems where the Mandriva fschk failed. when run manually it asked that the partitions be unmounted then scanned them and found no problems yet the system is still chewed.
I haven't seen a driver rot slowly in years and lost the last few drives pretty instantly so I've not been in the same situation. Anyone else have issue with file system related distro repair in the last few Mandriva releases?
I find it rather odd that all the Windows VMs would repair without issue where the Mandriva now boots to a half displayed graphic login (shows white box instead of entry form).
