Linux Foundation's Linux.com in 2019: Zero Articles (Nothing Original) and a Terrible, Rookie New Design

Dr. Roy Schestowitz

2019-08-22 17:07:39 UTC
Modified: 2019-08-22 17:07:39 UTC

Summary: Linux.com has become a curated syndicator of news (edited by one single Microsoft proponent); the site has also eliminated its traditional design in favour of something only 'hipsters' can appreciate

EARLIER this week (maybe two days ago) Linux.com had a redesign implemented or at least deployed. We were initially shocked to see what they had done; the page looks like a "small time" blog with nothing but a crude menu at the top; no panes, no sidebars, nothing... the site's pages now allocate more space to the author's self-promotion than to actual 'content' (it's not even original)! What motivated this awful redesign just 4 months after all writers and editors were laid off (and they're not alone)?

Let's look back at the long history of the site and consider what the grossly over-funded Linux Foundation did to it this year.

Linux.com in 1998

Linux.com in 1999

Linux.com in 2000

Linux.com in 2001

Linux.com in 2002

Linux.com in 2003

More of Linux.com in 2003

Linux.com in 2004

Linux.com in 2005

Linux.com in 2006

Linux.com in 2007

Linux.com in 2008

Linux.com in 2010

Linux.com in 2011

Linux.com in 2012

Linux.com in 2013

Linux.com in 2014

Linux.com in 2015

Linux.com in 2016

Linux.com in 2017

Linux.com in 2018

Linux.com in 2019

Linux.com now

Linux.com is all about Swapnil (more about him than the article he quotes from)

Will the Foundation also flush out old articles from Linux.com (maybe some day in the future) to ensure all that remains on the Web is "Microsoft loves Linux" PR? Notice that the above new pick isn't about GNU/Linux and that's not about Open Source, either. It's about Microsoft. ⬆

Microsoft 'Studies' Again? Leon Musolff is Writing Papers With Microsoft.: Even if one can see/find a link to "the study" (in the Bezos-controlled publication), most people won't look any further and just take everything at face value.
Towards GNU World Domination: The FSF led by Geoffrey S. Knauth with his friend Richard Stallman in the FSF's Board [...] Let's encourage people to adopt GNU/Linux. There has never been a better time.
Open Source Initiative (OSI) Promoting Microsoft and Proprietary Software Using Microsoft Operatives: Because nothing says "Open Source" like GPL violations facilitated by Microsoft
Another Site Bites the Dust: "Open Source For You" Becoming a Slopfarm (LLM Slop): What a shame. Another dead site.
Links 23/04/2025: Crackdowns on Dissent, Palin Loses Libel Retrial Against New York Times: Links for the day
Links 23/04/2025: Hard Times and Digital Amnesia: Links for the day
The GNU/Linux Site Formerly Known as "linoxide.com" is Back... as an LLM Slopfarm!: Better for linoxide.com to go offline than to do this
Get Rid of Back Doors, Don't Obsess Over Bounties and Other Corporate PR Stunts (or Needless Reboot Rituals): Security as a term has mostly lost its meaning due to repeated misuse for many years
Richard Stallman to Speak in Oxford University Exactly a Day From Now: outsourced to GAFAM
Links 23/04/2025: "Hiding Corruption" and "The Cost of Defunding Harvard": Links for the day
statCounter Helps Visualise Just How Deep in Trouble Microsoft is (Especially in Africa): Microsoft sabotaged efforts to connect Africans and equip them with GNU/Linux laptops
The Register is Using Linux-Hostile Clickbait in Articles of Linux Proponents: Don't be a "whore" to advertisers, team El Reg
Microsoft Windows in Cyprus Lacking a Future: Most people access the Web there from mobile
Matrix Has a Severe Problem With Illegal Images: If Matrix cannot get the CP problem under control, many projects and people will dump Matrix
Never Try to Justify Strangulation of Women (Not in the US and Not in the UK): Joint post by Mrs. Rianne Schestowitz and Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Links 23/04/2025: Tesla Profits Plunge 71%, Intel Ready to Lay Off 20% of Staff, Microsoft and IBM Layoffs: Links for the day
Microsoft's Most Profound Issue is That People Moved to 'Mobile' and "App Stores" (Microsoft's Presence There is Negligible): Expect a wild ride for Microsoft this year
Google News is Amplifying FUD and Lies About Linux (and OpenSSH/SSH) by Promoting Slopfarms With Machine-Generated FUD and Slop Images: Google should know better
Gemini Links 23/04/2025: Librarians, Anubis, and Refactoring a Gemini Capsule: Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, April 22, 2025: IRC logs for Tuesday, April 22, 2025
Links 22/04/2025: Ending DEI Policies at Adobe, FTC Sues Uber: Links for the day
RMS is Done at KCL, Next Stop is Oxford: The message of RMS has long resonated well in India
US Government Already Bailing Out OpenAI/Microsoft With "Contracts", As Usual, Back Doors You Cannot Remove Becoming 'a Step Closer' on New PCs (Unless Everyone Acts ASAP): The next "logical" step towards digital prisons
Microsoft Devises PR Stunts to Distract From Impending Mass Layoffs and Likely Bad Results Preceding Those Mass Layoffs: A "voluntary exit plan"
Gemini Links 22/04/2025: Deaths, HamsterCMS, and More: Links for the day
Links 22/04/2025: FTC v. Meta Trial and Google Remedies: Links for the day
In Turkey, Windows Down Rapidly While GNU/Linux Grows: Although Turkey is in NATO (but not the EU), it cannot quite trust computer systems controlled by the United States
GNOME, Microsoft, and GitHub: The Lack of Reporting on Abusive Colleagues Contributed to Profound Media Vacuum (or Blackout), Now Resorting to SLAPPs: This lack of morality/courage has helped enable further abuse, lining up more victims
Richard Stallman Has Updated His Article on Why "Free Software Is Even More Important Now": Richard Stallman is about to give a talk here in the UK in a few hours
Microsoft Already Attacks the BSDs as Well (the E.E.E. Way, as Usual): Bearers of bad news
The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is in Trouble, May Soon be Out of Business: Openwashing needs to end
Microsoft's Debt Grew Over 6 Billion Dollars in the Last Reporting Quarter (Before Inauguration), Expect Worse Next Week When 'Results' Are Disclosed and Mass Layoffs Resume: Microsoft is bleeding. It does not want people to notice.
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Monday, April 21, 2025: IRC logs for Monday, April 21, 2025
Richard Stallman Gives Public Talk in London in 7 Hours (Need to Register as Venue Limited to 150 Seats), Public Announcements Begin to Appear: These are not announced weeks or months in advance
Gemini Links 21/04/2025: Remembering Pope Francis, Crystal Simulation: Links for the day
Doing Microsoft's Job. On IBM's Payroll.: today's Red Hat cannot recognise threats even after a head-on collision
Google News is Rewarding Slopfarms, Not Journalism: Don't read junk from chatbots
Teaching GAFAM in Schools is Like Teaching Children to Smoke Tobacco: So suggests an FSF presentation
Richard Stallman, Whose Site is Trusted by Greater Manchester, Has Come to the United Kingdom: He doesn't suck up to the Crown, so he'll never be "knighted"
On Desktops/Laptops in Singapore Does a Fifth of Users Run GNU/Linux?: Probably not, but it's growing fast there
Links 21/04/2025: Fake Ceasefire and Software Patents (Fake Patents) Thrown Out: Links for the day
Companies With Fake Values and a Fake Economic/Financial State (Phony Valuations): It'll all go up in smoke, eventually
Links 21/04/2025: Microsoft LLM Slop (Plagiarism) Going Out of Control, CT Scans' Cancer Problems Was Underrated: Links for the day
4 Years Ago Freenode Crumbled From Within: there are still hundreds of thousands of users online at any given time
GNOME Has a Long History (Over a Decade) Misusing the Code of Conduct (CoC) to Censor (Cull) Legitimate Technical Criticism: This has nothing to do with manners, it's about control (by cover-up)
Microsoft Has Tainted GNOME, Which Has Key People Acting as a SLAPP Front Against Techrights (Trying to Censor the Site by Extortion and Many Threats): One common denominator (other than Microsoft salaries) is GNOME, which was led by an actual professional crank until she quit so suddenly months ago
Homeland of Linux Kernel Turning to GNU/Linux?: Adoption of Vista 11 has been relatively low
According to StatCounter, This is What Linux Adoption Looks Like (Based on Web Requests Visible to StatCounter): How much worse will it get for Microsoft?
Gemini Capsules Still Outsourcing to Certificate Authority Let's Encrypt Now Measured at Less Than 10 (or Less Than 0.3%): In Geminispace, Let's Encrypt is not commonly used
Twisting Microsoft's Failure (Transmitting Malware) as "SSH Backdoors" and a Linux Problem: Somehow we almost always find that those FUD pieces about "Linux" are based on obvious falsehoods
Vista 11 Has Burned OEMs and Some Move to GNU/Linux: When people can finally avoid Windows (there's no reason to attach it to new PCs) there will be a lot more GNU/Linux users out there
Remember That Microsoft Mass Layoffs Are Imminent Because Its 'Empire' is Falling Apart: European politicians take a long, hard look a Free software
Richard Stallman in the UK This Week, Scheduled to Give Two Public Talks (London and Oxford): Those talks do not cover the same topics
Gemini Links 21/04/2025: April, Autism, and ASN: Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Sunday, April 20, 2025: IRC logs for Sunday, April 20, 2025

Linux Foundation's Linux.com in 2019: Zero Articles (Nothing Original) and a Terrible, Rookie New Design

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