It is that time of the quarter again, asking the OSNews readers to participate and send articles for publication. We can guarantee that your articles will be read by many thousands of people, as October saw OSNews becoming one of the biggest “alternative” technology news sites on the web. We are already in the Top-5 in the specific of Linux-related news reporting (according to Alexa.com at least). For October 2002, OSNews hit 2.8+ million page views, with an average of 92,000+ page views per day. So, if you want your voice to be heard, please read our (updated) article guidelines and then send your masterpiece over for publication!
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Eugenia Loli
Ex-programmer, ex-editor in chief at OSNews.com, now a visual artist/filmmaker.
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Time to do a write-up of my Hurd install, I guess. 🙂
I did write about what would it take to ensure IBM’s new PPC chip to be successful. Never got around in completing it, it is quite not done… Maybe I would work on it…
The “Guidelines” article I link above explains well what kind of articles we are looking for, but here are a few more specific ideas (please be free to write whatever you want though, the following are just some ideas):
Reviews of Kylix or Delphi or VB or VS.NET or CodeWarrior or KDevelop or Eclipse or any other major IDE you like and you have used and you would like to comment on.
GCC compiler vs Intel CC, feature-wise (not necessarily speed-wise).
Rational’s PurifyPlus review, and maybe a comparison to Valgrind. (there is a demo version of Purify for Linux)
System software reviews, from compilers, to dev tools, to APIs, Toolkits etc.
Tutorials or introductions to new technologies or algorithms. (e.g. a new filesystem, a new fast database algorithm or whatever else that might sound interesting and exciting)
Libranet, Xandros, Crux, QNX, YellowDog Linux, Slackware, Novell, OpenBSD, Plan9, FreeBSD 5.x, NetBSD, Solaris reviews. Some of these, should be reviewed from the server point of view, some not just from that view.
An overview on embedded OSes. Maybe a review of the Symbian or other embedded OSes.
A “pragmatic” review of Win .NET Server. (*Not* a user’s review, but mostly a capabilities, API, performance, stability, security and scaling-wise one. A review from the server’s point of view).
Opinions on everything tech/geek/OS/software.
An article on OSes used by… NASA.
Stuff like that… You get the idea. 🙂
Oh, we also encourage reviews of both hardware and software. They don’t have to be extremely OS-related, just mostly geek-related and exciting/interesting.
Also, you can write feature articles on older OSes to introduce them to the new generation of readers, like RiscOS, GEM, CP/M and a lot of other legendary OSes and/or whole systems/platforms (eg. VAX).
We will be happy to host any such articles.
I think some sort of interveiw with someone from the dawn of computing, like someone might have said “hey did you hear about this thing called a vacuum tube?” or similar and the start of computers and the origins of creating the first OS’s and defining what an OS is/should be in the beginning would be interesting, or just articles on this era in computing. I don’t know if such people are still around or how you find them.
If I wanted to be told how stupid I am, and how much smarter they are I would have gotten married.
besides having 100,000 people a day call me an idiot could crack my fragile ego.
In the graph on http://www.osnews.com/advertise.php , the number of hits went down for June. I noticed something similar with PCLinuxOnline.com in that month (our hits didn’t decrease, but the increase was very marginal). Is this just a coincidence, or is there somethng about June that causes this?
Eugenia, how about interviewing mr. Gassee now, about history and future and what not asking all those questions he was afraid to answer back then?
Actualy, i think this would be interesting. I wouldnt mind knowing if those Amiga 1000’s are still in operation, as i think they were into the mid 90’s!!!! I think they may stil be also.
Apparently the US Dept of Defence still uses Wordstar in some places, so I wouldn’t be surprised.
I’ve just looked at June stats at DistroWatch and noticed a similar trend to what yama has pointed out:
April to May: +41%
May to June: +3%
June to July: +21%
July to August: +13%
September to October: +35%
Definitely something wrong with June =:-)
I’d love to see a longer KOffice 1.2 review and new stuff about the current state of “Linux gaming” on OSNews.
Oh, and I always wonder what “Plan 9” exactly is. What makes it so special. Something about “Plan 9” would be neat.
Has anyone done, or thinking about an article about using RedHat to do actual work? (by actual work, I mean, not coding, or server related work. Basically, boring, office related stuff.) I posted a rather long comment last week, and I thought it could turn into a decent article.
Its pretty techincal, but the “Plan 9 From Bell Labs” document by the folks at bell labs makes for some rather facinating reading.
http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/9.html
Thanks Chris, gonna check it out.
“Reviews of Kylix or Delphi or VB or VS.NET or CodeWarrior or KDevelop or Eclipse or any other major IDE you like and you have used and you would like to comment on. ”
Not to be picky here, but isn’t the focus of OSNews supposed to be operating systems, and not development IDEs?
where in alexa can i find the claim “We are already in the Top-5 in the specific of Linux-related news reporting (according to Alexa.com at least)”..i just want to see what the top 10 are…its not a flamebait..
Not to be picky here, but isn’t the focus of OSNews supposed to be operating systems, and not development IDEs?
We’ve seen articles on IDEs in the past, and operating systems need developers, tool. Frankly, there can only be so much news on actual operating systems, and as long as it doesn’t take away from operating system news it should be fine to expand a bit into related fields. While not all developers actually use IDEs, it’s a good area to expand upon. Unfortunately, I have a feeling that any review of an IDE will be hard to differentiate from a marketing document, short of the individual reviewer’s feelings on how well/poorly implemented a particular feature may be or what features are missing or included but not needed. I could probably do a fairly decent writeup on VS.Net, but I don’t think I could really give people a much better idea of what it can do for them than what MS’ website already has.
and operating systems need developers, tool.
grr sorry for the typo, I really wasn’t trying to call anyone names
I’m please the U.S. Navy is still using WordStar. If it ain’t broke, why fix it? No macro viruses, no embedded username or file pathnames, *very* low system requirements, no upgrade hassles, well-defined standard file format, nice keyboard shortcuts. Mind you, it’s not as good as Vim, but that’s ok.
PainKilleR,
I knew what you meant
I’m a Delphi user and have been since 1996.
I used to use VB and feel that Delphi is a far superior product, so I would not be able to write a non-biased review of it.
Every IDE that I use or test I compare against the Borland IDEs of today.
>June
June is the month that schools are out and people are mostly on holidays. It is one of the lowest months traffic-wise for all sites.
>Not to be picky here, but isn’t the focus of OSNews supposed to be operating systems, and not development IDEs?
No. We are equally on development. Read here why http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=2037 and here:
http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=363
>where in alexa can i find the claim
There are no such claims in Alexa. But I am around a lot and I know which are the big *news* sites for Linux. I spent an evening the other day to check out the ranks of almost all big Linux *news* sites. From what I gathered:
1. Slashdot
2. Linux.org/news
3. Linux.com
4. OSNews (partially Linux of course)
5. NewsForge.com
6. LinuxJournal.com
7. LinuxToday.com
8. LinuxWorld.com
I’m a Delphi user and have been since 1996.
I used to use VB and feel that Delphi is a far superior product, so I would not be able to write a non-biased review of it.
Every IDE that I use or test I compare against the Borland IDEs of today.
I’ve used a couple versions of Delphi (mostly older versions) and VB (mostly VB5, 6, and .Net), and can definitely understand why you (and others) might prefer Delphi. Personally, I prefer VS.Net for the ability to use VB, C#, and other languages together in the same project, especially in cases where multiple people are working on the same software, so I don’t have to port my code to a different language just because someone else is using a different language (note: without using DLLs that is, straight sharing of code instead of just handing someone a dll with some documentation). I believe the newest version of Delphi has some support for this with C++, but I haven’t used it yet to see how it compares. Other than that, Delphi has always been the only IDE I use when I have to update Pascal code, but I’ve been considering whether or not to get one of the Pascal implementations of .Net to see how well/if it integrates with the environment, though I tend to get the feeling that the various projects attempting to do so haven’t gotten to that point yet.
I’ve been a die hard fan of Borland for years, but their pricing policies of late have made it hard for hobby level programmers (I am a professional SW developer by trade, but used Delphi for work outside of the office) to continue to acquire their products.
I am tempted to give C# a try, since I already know Java.
I’ve already downloaded the .NET runtime, the .NET SDK, and the SharpDev IDE.
if this site gets so many page views, across so many differnet os’s, then why not convert to a standards-based, validating layout (even better, a css layout)?
CSS layout? You should be out of your mind. OSNews is written in a way that it renders on all OSes, on all browsers, even the most weird ones. It is the way it is for a very good reason and we have already discussed about it, check the archives. The same code renders on PDAs, phones, old browsers and OSes. No changes anywhere, no special/different pages. Please refer to our archives, do not discuss this here, it is offtopic.
What about book reviews? Would this be suitable material for an article? (obviously, the book would have to cover a technical/computing topic)
Yes, book reviews are also suitable.