I have just finished upgrading everything to WordPress 2.6 as well as upgrading a few plugins. Sorry if you experienced any downtime. Anyway, I am excited to be be on 2.6 now. This video shows some of the new features:

I have just changed the settings on the (relatively few) ads on this site to allow image ads as well as text ads. I am just trying it out, so if you find it annoying, please leave your feedback here.

I am now using WordPress 2.5 on this blog and the Linux News blog. All the reviews of it have been great, but there seems to be little new functionality wise. It is a little prettier and the dashboard has been improved, but I liked the old version of the dashboard, too. Anyway, I am happy that I upgraded.

Also, for other WordPress bloggers, if you have not already tried out the WordPress Automatic Upgrade plugin, it is great! It made the upgrade to 2.5 totally painless.

I am going to be away for a few days soon. I do not know yet if I will be able to get online while I am away, so I am planning on pre-preparing some articles about upcoming releases from smaller distros and explaining what is cool about each distro and what will be new in the upcoming release. If anyone would like to write an article (or a few) to be published on this site along with a link to the author’s website, please contact me here (use reason “other” since I am too lazy to go add a category just for this :-)) or at webmaster@linuxloop.com.

Also, any ideas for article I can prepare in advance would be great!

Thanks!

I have updated the index page to look a little cleaner and have some more up-to-date information. Tell me what you think of it. I am still manually updating it, though. I would love to find a way to integrate the RSS feed from the Linux News Blog into the home page, but I have not found anything I like.