Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 8th Nov 2009 16:09 UTC
OSNews, Generic OSes 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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Been there, read that.
by elmimmo on Mon 9th Nov 2009 01:54 UTC
elmimmo
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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

RE: Been there, read that.
by UZ64 on Mon 9th Nov 2009 03:22 in reply to "Been there, read that."
UZ64 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

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RE[2]: Been there, read that.
by elmimmo on Mon 9th Nov 2009 04:00 in reply to "RE: Been there, read that."
elmimmo 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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