The Linux News Hall of Fame

Posted by dave on Oct 26, 2004 5:58 AM EDT
LXer; By Dave Whitinger
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Now that the new voting system is in place, we can start running fun reports to find out what the readers here think of the stories that are posted. This "Hall of Fame" report presents a somewhat accurate view of what the Linux community thinks about various news sources, writers and topics.

Soon I will make the Hall of Fame a live application that can be refreshed, but for the sake of my little Opteron server, I will only include the most updated static version here in this story.

Once I have optimized the script, I will post the link to it. Enjoy!

Hall of Fame

Highest rated authors







































































































































































Rank Author Score
1 Dave Whitinger 88
2 Tom Adelstein 43
3 Stephen Shankland 21
4 Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols 18
5 jeremy 16
6 Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org> 16
7 Eric S. Raymond 15
8 Ingrid Marson 15
9 Kelly McNeill 14
10 xiando 13
11 Sam Hiser 10
12 Chris Haney 10
13 Attendee of the Ohio Linux Fest 2004 8
14 Gael Duval 8
15 Danijel Orsolic 7
16 Jo Best 7
17 David Mohring 7
18 Dave Wreski 6
19 Joe Barr 6
20 Martin LaMonica 5
21 Sam Varghese 5
22 Paul Murphy 5
23 Dan Allen 4
24 Jay Lyman 4
25 Brian Jones 4
26 Magnus Grander 4
27 Adam Doxtater 4
28 Ulrich Plate 4
29 Michael Pollitt 4
30 Jeff Reifman 4
31 Dinesh C. Sharma 4
32 Doc Searls 3
33 steve 3
34 Mozilla Links Newsletter <newsletter@mozilla.org> 3
35 William von Hagen 3
36 "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> 3
37 Michelle Delio 3
38 Andrew Colley 3
39 Peter Seebach 3
40 Elliot Lee <sopwith@redhat.com> 3
41 David Mertz, Ph.D. 3
42 Stephen H. Wildstrom 3
43 Sean Michael Kerner 3
44 Gareth Russell 3
45 Linda Geppert 3
46 Marc J. Rochkind 3
47 GweeDo767 3
48 Rupert Goodwins 3
49 Roberto Alsina 3

Highest rated sources







































































































































































Rank Source Score
1 NewsForge 198
2 LXer 111
3 Mailing list 91
4 CNET News.com 82
5 eWEEK Linux 58
6 Linux Journal 36
7 InfoWorld: Platforms 34
8 Yahoo! News - Linux/Open Source 25
9 The Inquirer 24
10 IBM developerWorks 22
11 Press release 21
12 LXer.com 21
13 KernelTrap 20
14 OSnews 19
15 ZDNet.co.uk 19
16 LinuxReviews.org 19
17 mozillaZine 18
18 LinuxDevices.com 17
19 Bloomberg 16
20 KDE Dot News 15
21 InternetNews.com 15
22 Search Enterprise Linux 15
23 Linux.com 15
24 LinuxQuestions.org 15
25 Network World on Linux 14
26 osOpinion/osViews 12
27 Tectonic 11
28 Linux.com: 11
29 Mozilla Dot Org 11
30 The Age 11
31 LinuxBeta.com 11
32 LinuxWorld.com 10
33 Onlamp 10
34 Computer Business Review 10
35 CXOtoday.com 10
36 LinuxPlanet 9
37 Builder AU 8
38 GCN.com 7
39 PR Newswire 7
40 BusinessWeek 7
41 OSDir.com 7
42 VNUNet.com 7
43 DesktopLinux.com 7
44 TechWeb 6
45 Computerworld New Zealand 6
46 ComputerWeekly.com 6
47 InfoWorld 6
48 IT Manager's Journal 6
49 O'Reilly Network 6

Top 50 most viewed stories:















































































































































































Rank Viewed Story
1 48,012 Dispelling the myths of Gentoo Linux, an honest review
2 33,840 Review of Fedora Core 2 test 1
3 25,594 Firefox 0.8 is the release that won me over
4 21,622 "Is Linux more secure than Windows?" - Debian, Mandrakesoft, Red Hat and SUSE answer.
5 12,684 Introducing LXer
6 11,941 The Real Sun versus Red Hat Story
7 11,264 Linux Today founder calls for a boycott of Linux Today
8 10,254 The Tide Has Turned in the Battle of the War
9 9,050 How to Build a Low Cost Linux Desktop Computer
10 6,274 IBM's Open Letter to Sun
11 6,084 New round of releases extends mozilla project's standards based open source
12 4,955 Fedora Core 2 test release 1 now available!
13 4,705 Mozilla Foundation rallies supporters to take back the web
14 4,634 Halloween XI -- Get the FUD
15 4,617 A plea for relief from Microsoft's escalating anti-competitive tactics.
16 3,469 Java Desktop crashes during Sun's CEO keynote at CTIA
17 3,393 Jabber, Inc. Announces Availability of Jabber XCP Version 3.0 with Advanced Security and Authentication Feature
18 3,359 Novell Finalizes IBM Investment
19 3,292 Mandrake Linux 'community' 10.0 released
20 2,789 Is the MSN search engine being used in the battle to kill Linux?
21 2,422 Novell Announces Expanded Commercial Agreement With IBM
22 2,384 The Future of Gentoo Linux
23 2,059 Denying SCO's right to redistribute GPL'ed code opens questions of Open Source compliance
24 1,947 Firebird Relational Database 1.5.1 Final Released
25 1,563 Linux: Millenium Momentum
26 1,362 Presenting FEDORA CORE 2
27 1,262 Quick look at Fedora Core 2 test 3
28 1,150 Putting the Linux Desktop Closer to the User
29 1,114 Novell Announces Evolution 2.0 and Release of Connector for Microsoft Exchange Server Under Open Source License
30 1,005 Sourceforge.net introduces a paid subscription system
31 908 The 2-Minute Guide to tripling SpamAssassin's effectiveness
32 900 Open Letter to LXer.com readers from Tom Adelstein about JDShelp.org
33 893 Internationalized Linux News!
34 821 Software Review: mod_gzip trims bandwidth utilization by 77%
35 812 Should Hardware OEM's Be Picking Linux Distribution Winners ?
36 802 Announcing Fedora Core 3 Test 1
37 781 Fedora Core 2 Test 2 available for x86 and x86-64
38 771 Mozilla Links Newsletter - 15 - March 16, 2004
39 740 Linux certification prep tutorials
40 717 Linux kernel 2.6.6 Released
41 710 Project Looking Glass HOWTO
42 710 Linux kernel 2.6.8 released
43 703 Interview with the founder of LinuxBeta.com
44 698 Announcing Fedora Core 1
45 676 KDE 3.2.3 Release Announcement
46 671 SUSE Security Announcement: gaim (SuSE-SA:2004:004)
47 670 OpenOffice XML 2, MS Office XML nil
48 667 PhoneGaim Enables Direct Phone Calling From Instant Messaging
49 659 Linux kernel 2.6.2 released
50 658 Mozilla Foundation announces security bug bounty program

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