I am reviewing OpenSuse 11 right now! It is over, but you can still see the replay.

On an earlier post, I discussed the idea of doing a live, interactive distribution review. Well, we are doing it. Here are the details:

I will be using a live distro review. I will be installing and starting to use OpenSuse 11 and posting my thoughts - live. Hopefully others will join me and post their thoughts as well.

The event will be taking place on Friday, June 20 (the day after OpenSuse 11 is released) at 3:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time (12:30 PM PDT.) To find out what time that is for you, click here.

You can find a link to the event at live.linuxloop.com or go directly to the event page.

Please let me know if you plan on coming!

We are doing a live group distro review of OpenSuse 11 on Friday June 20 at 3:30 PM EDT.

Most reviews work something like this: a reviewer plays with a product or piece of software and writes what they think of it. Particularly with something like a Linux distribution where the artwork can be a big piece of it and where one person can have some random issue with their hardware, the old method of reviews does not really work very well. That is why I am planning, if there is enough interest, to try a new type of review. I am planning to live blog an upcoming distro release (probably OpenSuse 11) and while I am installing and playing with the distro, viewers (hopefully you) can also install and play with the distro and give their comments, which can then be published into the live blog.

The idea is that the distro will not just be reviewed by one person, but by as many people as wish to contribute. Instead of publishing a review and then being told why I am wrong, I can be told why I am wrong, or right, in real time.

As I said before, though, this will only work if there is enough interest. If you would be interested in participating in a live, group review of OpenSuse 11 on June 19 or the day after, please vote below. You don’t have to commit, I just want a general idea of the interest level.

As some of you may have noticed, this site was down for a little while yesterday. Sorry. My web host, Lunarpages, had to shut down some servers temporarily, including the one this site was on. I have been a customer of Lunarpages for almost two years now and this is the first time I have seen any real down time, so I am not really concerned and certainly not planning on changing hosts or anything like that. I was also impressed with how they handled the outage. I received an e-mail the next day explaining what happened, which I was very happy to see.

Sorry for the inconvenience. I hope it does not happen again.

Welcome! I set this blog up as a place for readers to have more say in the content and as a place to give a behind-the-scenes look at LinuxLoop.com. Don’t expect daily updates like I do on the Linux News part of this site, though. I will move all the posts on the Linux News Blog marked LinuxLoop.com to this blog, so don’t be surprised when there are a few things from long ago.