Just a few words of support. It sounds like you’ve made the right decision. Lockergnome has lost a vaulable resource, but perhaps they should focus on Windows. I hope they’re big hearted enough to give your new venture a plug.

I’ve been in the position of having been asked to provide my services for free as well, and while that is fine for someone at the beginning of their career, when you’ve been around the block a few times, you start to ask yourself the question “Well if I’m doing this for free, why don’t I just do it for myself?” It sounds like this is where your head is now.

Anyway, while you’re planning the new site, perhaps I can give some feedback. I, like a lot of internet users, have a limited attention span. However good a website is, I probably won’t visit it regularly, unless I’m reminded to do so. To that end, I hope you’ll be sending out a newsletter from the new site as well, at least summarizing the content on there.

Enough rambling. Good luck out there.

Jim

Sean

I anxiously await Utime, since Lockergnome has lost a valuable resource. I can only hope that your replacement can do justice to what you’ve started.

Good luck and send us some Uptime soon.

If the invite is still open, I’d like to be an occasional contributor to your new newsletter. You’ve posted my stuff twice in the penguin shell (RedHat 9 Java development – I had to install a new kernel) and my small mini-review of redhat 8. Please feel free to contact me if you would like another tattooed motorcycle-riding GNU/Linux user involved with your newsletter.
-Frank

For the next few weeks, uptime will be available only online. That’s the meat of the concept, as it provides the ability for readers to participate and stay involved. I do, however, plan to build a text-based newsletter version within the next month. It’ll probably mail weekly, as that will parallel the change in content on the site.

I’m sure I’ll be loud about it when the newsletter version is ready. Keep checking in until then.

Thanks, again.

My normal day-to-day usage of GNU/Linux is doing java development and helping other people get up to speed and running smoothly on gnu/linux, (since it’s not officially supported by our company we have to do our own administration, which is fine with me. . I spend a lot of time on the command line, read a lot of the news about what’s happening in the GNU/Linux world, read a bit about the politicking of it, and consistently read magazines on the subject. I don’t get to read many books on GNU/Linux any more, since I am constantly reading up on the latest in the Java world.
I guess I could submit stuff for most of the sections, but I don’t know if I would have enough material to submit on a constant basis. I guess that would depend on your planned publication schedule. You can either blog it here or email me privately to talk about this. I am willing to write about whatever will fit your format the best, just let me know. I am also on LiveJournal, but am willing to move to a different system if need be (that supports movable type-supported feeds and such. LiveJournal doesn’t support them all.). I can also submit articles for you and you can use them as you need to, say if there’s a section where you need an article that week/day/month, you can just grab one from the pile I give you.Anyway, just blog/email and let me know what will fit your plans the best. Worse case I can always just rant on about something totally unrelated.
-Frank

Nothing like rebuilding your life’s kernel now and again.

Fair weather and Open roads,
Kirk