Bob Miller wrote:

> > I refuse to read the juvenile, Linux-zealot garbage that is
> > Slashdot.
> 
> No way.  Juvenile Linux-zealot garbage is the best!

I just finished my daily dose of Slashdot, and I want to clarify my position.

Way too much of what passes as commercial tech journalism is nothing
more than reformatted press releases.  But much of the really
interesting stuff is being done by people who don't have PR flacks,
and that's the stuff I want to see.

The amateur/reader-created news sites are a lot better at finding and
printing the really interesting stories.  That's because the publisher
is passionate -- a zealot -- about the subject matter.  The price we
pay is that the content is not sanitized, and the zeal shows through.
For me, it's well worth that price.

BTW, there's another Linux news site I recommend: Linux Weekly News,
lwn.net.  The editor, Jonathan Corbet, is definitely a zealot (and
a kernel developer).  But the articles and the reader comments are
less juvenile than you-know-where.  LWN is also much more tightly
focused on Linux.

-- 
Bob Miller                              K<bob>
kbobsoft software consulting
http://kbobsoft.com                     [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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