Comments on: Thinking About Covering More Than Just Ubuntu…

By: Christer Edwards

Christer Edwards — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 19:31:05 +0000

@Michael – I’ll write up a formal announcement about it soon, but I have started compiling a lot of my non-ubuntu related notes on a second blog, http://blog.zelut.org. So far there is a fair amount of FreeBSD stuff, but it’ll quickly start expanding with CentOS, arch, etc.

By: Michael Craft

Michael Craft — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 16:48:22 +0000

I say start another blog, and make it about general *nix stuff. I stopped using Ubuntu 2 years ago, it would be nice to hear about other OSes in the *nix family.

By: Dotan Cohen

Dotan Cohen — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:49:19 +0000

I’d like to see you do some Kubuntu articles. Now that KDE 4.2 is _finally_ ready for the end user (KDE 4.0 and 4.1 were not meant for end users) I’d like to see you do a full review of Kubuntu 9.04, and in another post compare it to Ubuntu 9.04.

By: miT

miT — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 21:38:19 +0000

Yes! The more the merrier!

By: nnonix

nnonix — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 07:53:19 +0000

You can post about anything you wish but keep the “other distro” items off the Ubuntu Planet unless of course it’s something that works in Ubuntu as well. NO PLANET SPAM!

By: Aaron Toponce

Aaron Toponce — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 22:20:43 +0000

You knew I was going to comment, didn’t you?

The URL of this blog is “ubuntu-tutorials.com”, so if you want to post some distro-specific tutorials other than Ubuntu tutorials, you’ll have to do it elsewhere, I’m afraid.

However, there is a way that you can pass it off, without anyone noticing. Post generic stuff that works on Gentoo, FreeBSD, CentOS, and Ubuntu. If the tutorial works on Ubuntu, then you could easily keep blogging under this domain, you could post all the *nix stuff you could handle, and you would be satisfying your readers.

My opinion? Keep it generic, rather than distro-specific. Keep it here, and keep it frequent. You’ve got a good blog up, one of the hottest in the Ubuntu scene. I think you’d hate to lose it.

By: pingpongboss

pingpongboss — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 21:19:58 +0000

Go for it. I’ve been a long time Ubuntu user, and just recently discovered Gentoo. Having experience with multiple distros is definately a good thing.

By: toddmb

toddmb — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 21:17:31 +0000

I agree that this blog should continue to be about Ubuntu. However, I can see how related content from other linux distro’s could be helpful here as well, but geared toward Ubuntu.
Let’s face it, the reason we all come here is for the content. And I use both Ubuntu and Mint. So there are Ubuntu cousin distro’s out there.

By: eggyknap

eggyknap — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 16:46:37 +0000

I really need a good resource for running large networks of BeOS virtual machines. Can you help?

By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 16:03:14 +0000

I agree with Conor, dart, and others: you could easily cover a lot of material that is related to Ubuntu without going into specific or exclusive details on other distros. The primary reason I subscribe to this blog is because it is Ubuntu-centric. If you’re itching to write to a much broader audience, I suggest starting another blog.