As you can see, I really like and appreciate this web page. Some stories can use a little more detail. Whatever change you make, please make sure that the page is fast to download and navigate.

Great work!!! The Linux Journal should be so good!!!

I think the LWN is one of the best websites I have ever seen. The text is well written, concise, and yet full of useful information.

Please don't change too much. This site is so close to perfect that I would hate to see too many changes.

Firstly let me congratulate you on doing a fine job. One thing I would like to see more of is the reporting of discussions that take place in usenet. News groups that I think deserve more attention are: comp.so.linux.development.{apps,system} and comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine.

Thanks again. Steve.

No frames, please. And keep the graphics usage light - it's nice that way.
1.more linux news in each weekly. 2. how linux is being used in business. 3. status of linux projects
Not really a chat area, but a way to comment on individual articles along the lines of slashdot.org.

It's an excellent news site, by the way. Incredibly useful, especialy having news from all the major developer lists without having to be subscribed.

I think the page is great. Overall it's a nice balance. Keep up the good work !
LWN is fine, some suggestions: Lead stories are not interesting to me. Maybe an index with brief descriptions of contents in the beginning instead, or just before it.And I like the graphics! Less would be even more :-).
outstanding site. I can't wait for Thursdays. While I'd like even more, more often, if you're in any doubt at all what to do, do nothing -- you're that good.
Great work!
Great Site. I have been reading it every week to stay current on everything. I have enjoyed the content and the evenhanded coverage of events.
I await each week in eager anticipation for the next issue of LWN (though I really ache for it on Monday mornings :-). For someone who hasn't been able to keep up with the newsgroups since comp.os.linux was broken up, your site has been a tremendous wealth of concise Linux news and information. Your selfless efforts are very much appreciated.

As for helpful comments, I would suggest that you forgo the "table" crutch and leave the formatting to the browser. Frames are fine, as long as there's an obvious way to link directly to the content without losing any navigability. Don't leave the frameless out in the cold.

keep up the good work!
Graphics hardware Open GL/GLIDE/Mesa Acceleration which is neither hardware nor software
Thank you.
A great review of the Linux Week which I look forward to each Thursday.
I left the comment about the graphics above blank. One of the things that makes your soooo nice is the signal to noise ratio. Mostly text means I can browse very quickly and I never have to wait long for pages to download. You also refrain from gaudy, hard-to-read backgrounds. I'm wondering how long it be before LWN starts to sell advertising(which I don't have a problem with). It would be really great if you can keep the lean bandwidth approach. I'm not fond of sites that continue to chew up CPU time with flipping graphics, etc.

LWN is doing a great job of keeping me up to date on the many happenings in the Linux community. Weekly is great (I look forward to every Thursday). But you might add a News Flashes page for the more desperate people.

Thank you very much for the work that goes into LWN. I find it very useful and a very important way to stay up to dat with the Linux world.
Well...I was thinking "Once a week?!? That's not enough!" But then...I shouldn't really complain since this is my first visit - which I found to be extremely useful! Also...that comment above would be moot if you implemented the "Daily news updates" thingy...
You Guys are providing a GREAT service! Please keep up the excellent work. My only complaint is that I have to wait a week for the next update, though it is well worth the wait!!
Well, I said it before, LWN is great. How about registering your own domain though?
Between you, slashdot.org, and freshmeat, I can now ignore the wasteland of NEWS. Don't care if it's "ugly". Don't care if there are boring parts (safely ignored and can be of use to others.) One of the few sites I visit regularly
Your doing a great job! I think the frequency of once a week is just fine -- I tend to look at freshmeat and slashdot for the real-time updates. It is nice to have a place to go to for a weekly overview that covers everything. Keep up the good work.
I'd like to see info about slackware in your distributions section.
I think the weekly update is just right --- I don't have time to read some website every day, and once-a-week is frequent enough that the news is still up to date. I tend to get security info from elsewhere (eg bugtraq) which is why I rated the security section low.

A section on major happenings in the non-Linux libre-software world would be keen also; linux tends to be a little insular. (oh yeah, and the graphics/layout really aren't THAT bad... :-) )

Linux Weekly News is just what I want! It's long enough AND short enough to read every week. So please don't change much.
I look forward to your publication each Thursday.
well balanced, complete coverage of issues relating to linux. avoid chat rooms and reader comments sections likt the plague.
Good work!
I've only been reading for a couple of weeks, but IMHO, LWN is great. I check slashdot.org most days - I really should be getting on with my day job! Having all the Linux news condensed into one page I can skim-read quickly without too much clicking and loading of separate documents is excellent.

You're providing a most useful service - many thanks.

I really would like to thank for this great site you put up. It helps me keeping up with all the news in the Linux area without having to watch news groups.

I've been following it since you set it up a few weeks ago and if you can keep it running like this I will for the future to come.

I think the site is perfect the way it is. Don't try to compete w/ slashdot, let them do the chat & dayly news You have a good attitude towards things ( no flame stuff ) that is unique. If you start up w/ chat that might gradually change as you start exposing the site to strong opinions. I really like the way things are digestified, & the fact that w/ with the minimum of graphics, the page loads quickly. You can split the page up into subpages if you want to, but that would meen more overall load on your server.

NO FRAMES!!!!!!!! NO FRAMES !!!!!!!!!!!! NO FRAMES !!!!!!!!

This site is, without a doubt, a Good Thing(tm) for the Linux community. Good job.
Nice site.. Very readable! Please dont go to a frames version. (some of us use lynx, if I wern't at work I would be).

Rember, content before fluff. Also, dont try to be everything.. I imagine that most of your readers read other news pages too (like slashdot)..

I would Also suggest you:

Make the main page a 'splash page' with general site and linux info. And then put all issues in a dir i.e. /lwn/03051998/ and have a link on the main page.. And perhaps a /newest/ with a redirect.. This will make you site more cacheable (and linkable) because the URLs wont change when they enter the archives..

Also, it might be nice if when you have a little blurb with a link (with all the important info in the link) that you wget the linked page and stick it in a dir /lwn/01011998/archive/site.name.com/.. and in the info Say something like 'You can read more at <lnk>blah<lnk>or our (lnk)mirror(lnk). This would make your archives more useful.. (more then once, I've read a news page and tried to follor the links and found them too busy or gone..)

I think Linux Weekly News is very good at what it does at the moment, don't try to overstretch yourselves :) Seriously, I can't think of much that needs changing
Linux Weekly News is pretty good as it stands. My only criticism would be that I'd rather have it drop into my mailbox, than have to go out on the web for it.
tres bon
a section on scientific software would be most welcome. And congratulations on a fine public service
Nice summary of the week gone by...
LWN is a very nice and great work, I love it, really. Actually, I'm unpatiently waiting for it each week and I hope it won't become a daily magazine because I spent to much time reading it ;-) instead of doing real work. Congratulations!!!
I think the HTML layout is too complex -- I think something with no tables or columns would be nicer. However, I would prefer an email version in flat ASCII to any web page.

I also might be talked into helping with a flat ASCII mailing list...

Also, GREAT WORK! Without LWN I would have a hard time keeping up with what's going on in the Linux world and therefore wouldn't, just like I don't keep up with what's going on in the real world. :)

You guys are doing a _great_ job! Don't change anything, LWN is already as close to perfect as can be.
I look forward to the weekly updates to LWN. Keep up the good work.
Great little item you've got here.
This survey is poorly designed. There should be a n/a for certain categories, a larger number of choices for the first section usefulness ranking.

Otherwise, I think Linux news is a great resource. I don't have time or interest to keep abreast of all Linux news. It is very nice to have a compact format to see this in. I like the arrangment, one big page, and I like the frequency, once a week. Please don't add silly gimick features, such as chat areas. Just continue doing one thing very well.

I really like the way your web page is currently setup. I look forward to each weekly update. Great Job!!!
Your ranges are too course. You should have a category between Indispensible/Great and So-so.

Since I found LWN, I look forward to it every Thursday!!

I don't need daily news; there is Slashdot. I don't need software announcements; there is Freshmeat. I don't need articles; there is Linux Focus/Gazette etc.

What I like most is the summaries of what's been going on on various mailing lists and news groups; particulary the kernel list.

Thanks a lot, you're doing a great job!

This is a GREAT site. Thanks!
You provide an excellent resource, do keep up the good work.
Hi, LWN is realy great. It is important that you stay on-line (I will also accept some advertising if you decide, no problem). Some hardware reviewing will be of interest, some kind of comparation with respect to Linux (e.g. SCSI cards, motherboards, etc.). Search engine for LWN archive will be also usefull.

Best Regards

Why not start accepting advertising?
I love this place! I read it every week. And that seems to be the problem. I have to wait a whole week! :) Daily news would be awesome (sort of like those quake freaks at redwood and bluesnews). That's the major change that I'd like to see. Although a face lift would be bad. ;)
This is the best Linux news site so far. I like Slashdot a lot also, but they are quite different and complement each other. I think it is good there really isn't overlap in their approaches.

I'd like to know more about where Desktop Environment development is going, but I could probably find that in mail-list archives or newsgroups.

Thanks for doing this work!

Awesome! Very timely and interesting articles!
You folks do a really great job!
Great job. Very high in information content and well written to boot.
Mirrors to reduce traffic
The Linux Weekly News is a really fantastic source of information. I love it! The Linux community is very lucky to have you.
The format is very nice. Don't change too much!
on the graphics question: X I can't tell, i don't load graphics.

I like the way this information is put together and presented.

Thanks for making lwn!!! I always suffer one week till next release :-)
LWN is great! It gives the right amount of information and does not contain too much useless graphics. I would like an email distribution of LWN in gzipped HTML format so that I don't miss any issues.
I think you're absolutely brilliant. I can't comment on the graphics since I use Lynx, but the layout is very practical even in Lynx.

My only fear is that with the amount of effort put into this project, you'll tire of it. I don't know how you organize this, but it might be possible to delegate each section to different people (i.e. one person to watch the ports/mips scene).

I just wanted to say THANK YOU for a great newsletter!
Not so much a full-blown hardware buyers guide, but just a hardware section with announcements about new h/w that (1) works, (2) could work in theory if someone writes a driver, or (3) doesn't or will never work with Linux for whatever reason (NDA's?). Perhaps also some blurbs about h/w drivers under development.
News on Slackware versions like RedHat etc.
The site is pretty great as is, thanks a bunch!
The frequency of LWN is jut right, if you add the daily news updates...

Otherwise: Great stuff, thanx a lot...

I think LWN is great. I've been visiting since I read about it in Slashdot. Please don't start using frames.
Great page!!
Well more about Slackware would be nice.
WRT the formatting question, I said that I liked one long article, but wanted to specify that I think you're teetering on the edge of too long. Any longer, and I'd vote for frames. This contradicts, though, with my checkbox that states I'd like to get an HTML version by email. Good work though. I really appreciate and rely on LWN.
Great source for timely info!!!!!
I would like to see more reports on other projects, like you did for the kernel, so we get a bit of information about how they are doing....
i already read freshmeat.unreal.org and slashdot.org for daily linux news i like your depth of the articles
Excellent job! Keep up the good work!
these past few issues have been wonderful. it's been a great way to come up to speed on areas of Linux that I'm not familiar with. i haven't read any of the other online newsletters, so i'm afraid i can't make any comparisons. the only danger i foresee is things getting too repetitive -- the cathedral and bazaar, the /tmp race conditions -- but i think you're doing a great job.

thank you for doing this.

Your page is really awesome !
Great site! It lags behind Slashdot.org a bit, though, 'cause it's weekly, but it still has some neat original articles.
Something like "take a command" in LJ. Maybe a tar-ball of the HTML. ps: I'd love to know how to use my X window to "talk" to another X server.
Nothing of great evidence... the only thing i find a bit disappointing (a term a bit too rude) is the "weekly"... :)
I like this page very much, exactly what I need: be more or less up to date with minimal amount of time! Don't do too much, WebWatcher is a better tool to keep the areas of personal intereset current in a thorough way. If you do some HW reviews, please look also for european availability.
You guys have put together a fantastic site. I can't tell you how glad I was to find one site that collects the information that I have to spend a lot of time gathering myself. It has quickly become my single most important site for Linux news and information. One thing you might want to do is join forces(or provide permanent links) to other weekly freeware news zines like Apacheweek. Other than that, I think your site speaks well for the continuing maturity of the linux community in general.
keep on the good work your're one of the best information sources on the web about linux
It's perfect. I love it. Please don't change anything.
Great service ... I'm hooked! What about mirror sites in Asia, Europe, etc.?
Well, let's say a big Thank-you first!
I would have to say "Linux Daily News" would be the greatest improvement I can think of. Great Site! Keep Up the Good Work.

Very nice site. I find myself coming here every week. Thanks for the nice work.
thanks very much for the site. It's great
Great work, love the site/info, the info on the site is a must read for every Linux user. so I don't hope you'll follow Eric "i wana some bucks and look like billy winblow" Allman lead. But then I would concider to pay (my two cents)

keep up the good work!

Have an e-mail or an article in comp.os.linux.announces version of LWN Very good job Thanks
I enjoy your Linux Weekly News although I would really appreciate a tarred version of each weeks edition to be available so that I could archive the previous editions for easy reading. I have emailed you before and Jonathan Corbet responded with the problems but I think this would be a feature a lot of fans would appreciate Keep up the good work
Slackware does not seem to be covered in the Distributions section. Is there just no announcements from Walnut Creek, or a perceived lack of interest from your readers? Please include Slackware news for this regular reader.

P.S. I like the graphics on the site. Small, elegant, and full of "characters".

The loading time seems quite long because you use a big table that needs to be completely loaded (under netscape) before it can be displayed. Except that, your site is really really great. Thank you very much. Another thing: please don't use frame!
You are doing just great! Please keep in mind that some of us use text based browsers, i.e., Lynx. Thank's a lot.
currently i look forward to every thursday to read your excellent summaries of the high daily noise levels. perhaps twice weekly would be more easy to bear the waiting, but not much more than that would be needed. and i don't find your graphics ugly at all. thank you for your efforts!
Personally, I think the graphics are fine. Simple and clean. I say the frequency is not enough, but I don't know if there's enough news to justify more than once a week. I just enjoy reading it. Please keep one big page. That's a big plus in my book. Finally, I'm only interested in news. If you have time to keep up the news and do other stuff then that's fine, but I don't care about anything else.
The graphics are fine, keep it light.

No need to get overly ambitious about adding new features, it's pretty solid and valuable as it is now.

LWN is REALLY GREAT! Thank you for it, and keep on good job! :)
Kudos! You're site is the best, most current source for Linux news on the net.

If you add daily news, it should complement and not replace your weekly edition! You might also consider partnering the software update information with the Freshmeat site, which keeps a great database of such information with download links, and web sites.

And I love your newsgroup gossip coverage! :-)

Thanks!

I have only recently discovered LWN. It is excellent background to using Linux. My only other ways of noting what happens are the newsgroups (unreadably bulky) and HOWTOs of recent date. Well done, good luck and many thanks.
Please, NO FRAMES!
About the graphics question, duh, I have no idea what they look like since I've never loaded them even once.
This is just the second week I'm reading the Weekly News. An I like the way it is... Not a lot of graphics, (slow download) Clean page-layout. Articels at the right lenght....(not to long/small) Every week aan edition. ;)
I appreciate your work very much. You have one of the most informative sites I've ever seen.

Thank you very much for your efforts!

I really like the News about the different distributions, It would be nice if a representitive from each distribution could give a statement as to the activity of the developers. (might be kind of hard to coordinate though)
News on other Free software developments in JAVA
Well, let's say a big Thank-you first!

LWN certainly fits in a niche that was previously empty. I understand that it takes time and effort to put each issue together, but I would certainly appreciate if the frequency was higher.

By the way, the graphics aren't ugly at all, really. :-)

Keep up the good work, folks.

keep up the good work guys, I wish it was daily...
Great page, it is always a pleasure to receive the new LWN.
Sorry, that I didn't change more of the preset tags but I just happen to think that the weekly news are really good as they are now. After missing a week on the web due to vacations it's easy to catch up because lwn.
Perhaps you could give us a choice between "indispensible" and "so-so", e.g., "good".
This page is wonderful, I look forward to reading it every week :)
great site!!!!!!!!!!
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Actually, I think the LWN is just great. I get a good fix of Linux news each week. Together with Slashdot.org, you guys fill my tech needs just right. Keep up the good work.

Sysadmin/Webmaster

It's great - ugly graphics don't matter a bit, it's the content we're here for...
How about a link to the previous articles?
The best page for Linux news. It is simple, complete and make a good summary a what going on in linux dev.
Thanks VERY much for making the Linux Weekly News!

Great site! Since I found lwn I come back every week to find out what I missed reading serveral mailing lists during the week. I think lwn cannot substitute other sources of information, it should (and does) give links to other sites where interesting things appeared during the week.
There might be some way to find volunteers to translate LWN in french (but I won't do it alone).
LWN is a great way of keeping up with what is going on in the Linux world, without spending a lot of time doing it. Please keep up the great work! Thanks, Ian.
I discovered the lwn about three weeks ago, and accessing it has become my thursday morning ritual. I usually do a quick skim, reading the one page releases, and bookmarking links to projects and sites that are new and interesting. Then I spend the next week going deeper into the bookmarks. Come Thursday morning, though, I am ready for more. I think you are doing a wonderful job!! Thanks.
I like it the way it is. Excellent job!
Format: Would be nice to have both one big page or seperate pages. (An e-mail version would take care of this)

I feel I need to stress one thing. Please don't add so much stuff that the current quality suffers. I'd love all the new things/daily updates but would not want it if it starts to be a chore and isn't fun anymore.

I refuse to check any checkboxes that describe the graphics as "ugly" - IMO, the usage of graphics on the pages is just right.
I really like it. Although I try to keep up with the news myself, I often find that I can't because of time constraints. Having all the important news summarized in one place (with links to the details) is really great.

I sometimes find myself wanting the page to be updated more frequently, but the flip side of this is that then I would have to check it more frequently not to miss important news. All in all, the one week period seems optimal in most cases, at least for me.

As for technical contents, I think that the items you are presenting are the right ones (based on my own reading of the kernel lists etc). You do not go into detail, and you do not seem to strive for completness in your reporting, but that is fine with me. Just knowing that something is being discussed (and getting a link to more info) is exectly what I want.

I beg of you not to try to change a good thing too much. I very much like the page as it is, and I think adding too much to it would actually lessen its usefulness.

I did add a plea for a hardware buyer's guide, since this is the one blank spot that I generally find in the Linux information. Having good, solid, recommendations for what hardware to buy would be a boon. My research group are buying Linux systems like crazy, but we often end up having to spend a few days just to make sure that the hardware we want is supported. If I could go to a page to "design" my machine and then just send this to our supplier would be great.

Oh, and please, keep the graphics to about the level you are at now. Your page is very *readable*, and I very much doubt that adding a lot of eye candy would improve anything.

Last of all, I'd like to thank you for your page. The very moment I found it (well, actually, the very moment I had read through the page for the first time) I added it at the top of my Linux links.

I like the site as is. I read for content, and your content is really good. If you upgrade the graphics, please don't make them too gaudy or long to download.
Guys you do a really great job, it looks like a professional magazine, hope you will keep it that way, it helps me and others to stay in touch with latest Linux news and the style, yes, it's allmost "journalistic" not like a "commented LSM" like I see on other sites. Keep on the the good job and yes make it place for a little "can-can" page, and some interviews with my idols ( Linus and co not Denise Richards of coure but if she likes Linux why not :-)

- Romania/Europe

An e-mail version would be real cool, that way I don't have to code my own software to automagically download and e-mail me the page. :) Btw, you're doing great work. -- Jakke Kovala
great site. It's a perfect complment to slashdot.
most of the so-so marks above are not to fault your content; more that i often catch breaking news on slashdot.org or news.com, and by the time you publish it, i've already seen the news. however, i think you do a great job at summarizing. i could do without the list of software upgrades: i run debian and just wait for the maintainers to release new versions (and i think that if i were a maintainer, i'd probably be in the loop on newer versions).

otherwise, i think LWN is totally cool.

I would like to see the Hardware buyer's guide kept simple on the main page but more detail as wanted, like you already do with your current articles. I just want to know about new hardware that would be of interest to Linux folk.

Also, Highlight info on other Unix's like BSD and micro-kernel Thanks for a great service to the Linux community Costa

Please don't make any drastic changes!
graphics - you don't have much. good. frequency - you're the "linux weekly news." what do i expect for frequency?! :)

(all the same, an update every day or so would be nice. and get some advertising, make some money off the thing. it's a good read, well done, and you deserve some cash for it.)

I love this site -- thank you!
LWN is great, I read every release with pleasure.
Thanks for putting up the page. I love it. I've been using Linux since mid-1992 and your page is the best I've seen yet for Linux information.
Hi, As you may have guessed from my "clicking" above, I really think your emag is GREAT! It was a nice surprise when I happened to find it a few months ago. Since then I read it every weekend. For me a weekly mag is just right, because I wouldn't have the time to read it more often (it would just be some "surfing through the headlines"). Also, I really don't see any reason for changing it, but I feel confident that if you do so, it will be even better!

Thanks a lot from a very happy reader. Sweden

I love the lwn... I'm the President of a Users Group and I rely mainly on your site for current events in club meetings.
Daily updates might be nice, but not at the expense of quality. I prefer LWN to other sites (like slashdot) because LWN seems more accurate. slashdot is more of a rumor mill, (which fills a niche). LWN is a very valuable resource to me. Thanks for a great site.
I really appreciate your works!
I like your site. It's one that I check on a regular basis. The format is actually quite good. Perhaps an index at the start of the page would be useful as the page is quite long. However, don't cut the length down... I like getting it all in one shot.

Keep up the great work! It helps me keep track of what's going on in the linux community.

Best regards,

You are doing a _GREAT_ job! I think you might split up the page a bit, but not each section (although, if you do, the leading items should still be on the main page (IMVHO)). I think you might add an extra section to briefly list "need help with..." for larger projects (ie: GIMP, Netscape, wine, dosemu, etc). It would allow hackers without a pet project to find something they might otherwise overlook. Like I have said, great job. Keep up the good work. PostScript: Have you ever created a "link button" for people's web pages? If you have, I must have missed the announcement (unless you forgot to announce it).
This is a great site. I look forward to reading the new issue every Thursday. I do have a suggestion. It seems like you guys, Slashdot and FreshMeat could collaborate. You provide the weekly (more in-depth) coverage, slashdot covers the daily stuff and FreshMeat covers the new releases. This is pretty much how I use the sites now, and I'm sure many others do as well. Though you cover certain releases FreshMeat doesn't, and slashdot covers many non-linux issues. I just had the idea as I was doing your survey and needed something to put in the comment box. ;) Oh, and out of the possible additions I checked above, I think the search engine is by far the most appealing.
I hope you don't change much since there are other sites that handle daily news(Slashdot, Freshmeat). Also, sending email in any form is not a good idea since a lot of linux users are already flooded with emails from mailing lists. Chat area and search engine would be nice, but it should be totally optional. I rather see your resources in reviews of hardware and software since I'm always search for somethings that works with Linux. Please don't take news from Kernel mailing list away since I enjoy that one. I used to be on that mailing lists but couldn't handle the traffic.

As always, thanks for great site,

Thanks for a really interesting page. I don't have the time to read many newgroups, articles, etc. So I appreciate the short paragraphs with links to further information.
I find this one of the best Linux releated sites on the Web. Please don't muck it up with frames or chat areas.
great job! keep the once a week format!!!!! too many places expect you to hit their site every day....
Great site! I have 'urlmon' check it daily for changes. lwn isn't my primary source for the lastest and greatest news but when the week is over, your site certainly sum it up nicely. Keep up the good work!

--bob

Very nice, keep up the good work. One idea for us non-Americans is possibly a European mirror. Shouldn't be too hard to implement, and I'm sure you could find a friendly European to serve it.
This is the best Linux News site I have come across. Keep up the good work!
Your page is the single greatest linux-oriented news page I know of. I'd advise you *against* trying to publish more than once a week, since you probably would have a hard time maintaining the current awesome quality at a higher pace.
The site is excellent. It seems to contain just things that I am most interested in. This is rare in web sites.
Overall, This is a great site!!
I look at lots of site like yours and find yours to be one of the three best I visit regularly. Very well done!
Great site - keeps me up to date.
Great site. I ususally spend several hours reading this site and all the articles you point to. Great job!
Great work, very useful, much better than scrolling through half a dozen newsgroups.
Just that I've found LWN to be one of the most useful Linux and Open Source software resources I've come across in a long time. I've often found news on this site before any of my usual sources (such as Infoworld, ZDNet, and C|NET) reported on them. Thanks, and keep up the good work!
LWN is a great addition to the world of Linux.

This is great! I wait for Thursdays just so I can read it. Sure, by reading slashdot and a few othe rplaces, I get the same info most of the time, even a bit earlier, but it's REALLY nice to have a weekly version that sums it all up, and pouts it all in perspective! Any more often and it loses it point of view!
Keep it up.
The weekly news is terrific. The graphics are fine. Don't go crazy and load it up with big slow graphics. I like the content and timeliness very much. Good work keep it up
Great site. Keep up the good work. This, slashdot, and freshmeat are the 3 sites I visit/use the most. You probably don't need the help, but if you need any Perl work done for the site, I'd be happy to pop into the office some weekends and contribute some time... [No machine at home yet, i'm afraid.. I know.. shameful.]
cool site, cant wait till next thursday
Keep on with your great work. You do exactly, what Linux needs: drawing attention to Linux and its related work.
You do a great job....keep it up I plan to add alink from my page
Great stuff, slashdot.org for up to the min. breaking news, and LWN for a quick weekly rundown!
Excellent Effort. The frequency is great - as is the quality. I like the broad range. Keep up the great work!
Very nice site. Better than a lot of so called "professional" sites.
Linux Weekly News is *great* the way it is. I can't really think of any meaningful way to improve it. It's concise and well-written. I'm not sure there's enough noteworthy news to support an expanded or more frequent version.
I just think that you're the best news site about linux. Clear, consise, informative. Keep up the good work.
Slashdot does the daily and immediate news very well, what I like about LWN is that it seems a more in depth summary of the Linux community for the week - very much like the difference between the tv news and a newspaper. LWN often covers things that I would never have the time to ferret out myself, but that I find very interesting. Keep it up! Oh, and I didn't fill in the graphics area because I disagree with the choices. I like the graphics.
talk about linux and year 20000
Expected times and schedules (such as: "according to rummors, the offical kernel 2.2 is expected in 5 weeks", or: "Netscape to publish the source code on March 29 instead of March 31").
lwn is very cool. thanx for creating this superb zine!
I don't actually have any problem with the site graphics. Granted they are not big, and loud and very professional looking. However they are subdued, convey the required information and do not take away from the excellent informational content of the site. To be frank, when I read sites that combine good content with pretty graphics I pretty much ignore the graphics anyway. :)
It *is* very cool, I read it every week. My biggest wish is for it to come out more often :)
I must say that this page is almost perfect, and is the page for Linux that I have been looking for for a couple years now. I guess the only thing I can ask you to NOT do, is to add frames. I may not be using Lynx right now, but I use it almost all the time, and frames become a pain in the @ss after a while. One thing that might be kind of nice, would be if you would spotlight a LUG every week, letting them tell other LUG's what projects they are doing, this might help give other LUG's ideas of what they could be doing. Not much of an idea, but it is one. Anyway, I think the site is great and I look forward to every thursday just so that I can read this page. Keep up the great work. IMHO this site is still better then slashdot and freshmeat for Linux news.
LWN is fantastic, a professional publication for a professioal OS! Pleas keep up the good work.
Spiffy site! I'd like to see slightly longer descriptions for the released software.
GREAT, i hope your email is flooded with replies!
Hello,

I would like to say that your project is very important and useful. I'm very satisfied with current design, frequency and coverage of your magazine. Maybe it will be nice to have some more coverage in ports section and add section for gcc/egcs development. I think that gcc/egcs are as important as kernel for linux. However, everyone has his/her favorite project(s) and we can also look for news that cover these projects on their specific sites.

Thank you for your outstanding project and I'd like to wish you good luck,

Everything listed is extremely helpful to me in keeping on top of Linux developments.

I love the links to new releases of software, software being developed, etc -- where do you folks find out about this stuff anyway? I sure can't locate so much information.

As far as graphics on the site go, I'm just opposed to the ugly piss-yellow color (which is also real prevalent on www.linux.org). However, the content is EXCELLENT!

Its a great website, I check it every week.
Great job! But please remember a lot of people use lynx and would be devastated by frames. Also, I would much rather receive plain text email each week than have to remember to come to this site each week. Excellent, excellent stuff you're doing. Keep up the great work!
An HTML mailing would allow us to easily put the current news on our Intranet. You're doing a GREAT job. Keep up the good work. Thanks.
I only discovered your site about a month ago, but you have exactly the way it should be. I personally don't see much room for improvement, and I'm usually one who can't see much right with anything.

Keep graphics to a minimum. I hate wizzy sites. Your color scheme is good 'nuf. your presentation style for the page works for me. Of course, best of all, your content is very much appreciated.

I would like to see more reviews and if you could spawn off a software table that'd be good too.

But overall, you have done an excellent job. I always anticipate your next issue, and I've spread the news here about your site to all my geeky-ia64-linux-head-associates.

The page length might be helped if the width were increased five or ten characters....
(Actually, I LIKE the current graphics... Nice and simple)
Keep up the good work
Get the community to target vendors for Linux Ports.
Site is great. Timing is perfect otherwise there wouldn't be enough content. Sometimes I would like more background/detail cos some areas I know about others I don't. This is a conundrum. For example the security stuff I know about but I am sure others would like links to background articles about why a hole is there. Or say this week where your lead on debian leader was a bit short. A link to the relavant 'flame war' posts would be cool. News should be short and pithy....and you educate by providing optional offsite (or longer onsite) articles perhaps. Either way _*GREAT*_ work....I look forward to the new 'news' every week...one place to come and learn all when I'mn too busy...I can still stay up with my hobby :)
This is a great service and has helped cutdown on my sometimes compulsive surfing the Linux newsgroups and web sites to find the latest hot information on Linux.

It would seem appropriate for you to start using one of the bannar ad services to generate some revenue off this newsletter. It can't be free to do the letter and I'd rather put up with ads on the page than have to eventually pay a fee to get the letter. An alternative subscription to get the letter with out the ads should probably also be available.

Keep up the good work.

Kernel stuff is good; as a user rather than a developer this is the only place I can really keep up to date with kernel info.

Summary of discussions and feelings current in newsgroups is also useful.

Thanks for a useful and informative service!

It's excellent - stands out in a crowded market.
I know this one is hard. But I would like to see a buzz section which will just lists the hot topics people are currently talking about on the newsgroups, mailing lists, and slashdot.
When referring to software, and especially in the software announcements, I'd like to see the "open source" free software clearly distinguished from the non-free/proprietary software.

Thanks and keep up the good work!

P.S. Check out SlashDot for a way to make this textarea wrap during input.

I'd love to see the e-mail version of the newsletter. You are to be complimented on your work.
Make your web site more spectacular... Don't be scare to get in the core details (with explanation and references). Target a market, and stick on it, don't try to please everybody.. I think it's part of the linuxer mentality.

I am sure you just can get better.

I like the LWN site a lot. Regarding improvements, it would be cool to be able to get daily news updates via email (plain ASCII). Keep it short, just a couple of paragraphs. And if it is a slow news day, don't send out anything at all. The weekly web site would be sort of like the Sunday newspaper with everything from the previous week (and more) combined in one nicely edited, fat package. Keep up the good work. -- Al
Keep up the great work!!
Wow, what a great site! Totally awesome! Your page perfectly covers what I want to know about, latest gossip distilled from linuxkernel etc. Keep up your fantastic work!
Linux news is really good, just the news and links to additional info if you're really interseted. What more do you need.
Excellent publication! Since I've recently been able to actually start working daily under Linux, I find I can't afford to miss LWN. Your format and contents are fine as they are. Please keep up the good work.
A nice site. Keep it up
Great job. I really enjoy your site. You do a great job of filtering out a lot of the junk and presenting the most interesting and useful news items.

Keep up the good work. this is a great resource.