::. Intelligent Linux Solutions .::

Dear bloggers and faithful followers:

Intelligent Linux Solutions will be 4 months old on March 18th, 2009! This was the first pilot blog produced by Intelliginix, so we decided to sit down and define exactly it is that we are trying to accomplish. Here’s what we came up with:

For starters we at Intelliginix we believe that any blog should have good content on whatever subject it represents, so we chose to define the type of content that will appear here in the future. Our articles will be formated to adhere to specific guidelines to ensure quality content, with a clear writing style that will standardize the look and feel of this site. Here is a general breakdown of the areas that we want to improve in the near future:

Article format

Initially we just started writing articles, but after looking at other choice sites, and doing a little research we decided on the following formats for our posts:

• News – Information about recent and important events. These articles will consist of a brief synopsis of current events relating to virtualization. Events will include news from major software makers as well as product releases, updates, and patches.
• Overviews – An overview is a systematic review and summary of a product or service at a high level that will introduce the product or service and answer the questions: What is the product or service? What the product or service is used for? Who uses this product or service? And how do businesses use this product, and for what?.
• Technical Howto’s – Practical advice on a particular subject; that gives instruction on how to accomplish a specific task. A step by step guide to download, install, configure, and test a product or an on-line service.
• Reviews – These articles are critical evaluations of products. We will compare and contrast feature product with other products and services in the same category. We will do our best to point out the pros and cons of using such products and services, as well as track significant changes to upgrades.
• Tips and Tricks – Research on tools, methods, and techniques that save you time and effort. The things administrators just can’t live without.

Along with having guidelines and methods to conform our content to, this next month we will be re-working our categories and tags so that they make more sense, and comply with our long-term goals.

Authors and Contributors

In order to get great content we must have people in the industry that are knowledgeable, experienced, and abreast of different events. Since the virtualization industry changes quickly, we would like to recruit volunteer writers to contribute to the content of this site. Currently there are 2 people contributing here, and these are the subjects that we want to get more coverage on:

• Hypervisor technology – Facts and features about Linux hypervisors (Type-1, Type-2) from different software makers and online services.
• Network Products & Services – Technical overviews on new products and services that run on Linux and compare and contrast them with their proprietary counterparts.
• Open Source Software Alternatives – Cost effective solutions that are viable alternatives to mainstream computing.
• System Administration Tools – Facts and information on products used to aid the system administrator in managing Linux systems.
• Scripting Tips and Tricks – Useful techniques that most system administrators can’t live without.
• Desktop Products – Quality reviews on software we use everyday on our desktops.

Traffic funneling

We do get traffic, but we could do better. So we made some changes in order to fine tune search engine optimization. These changes will be on-going Our goal is to get indexed properly in all the major search engines within the next month. We plan on contributing to a lot of other blogs so we can get trackbacks to this site.

We are confident that if our short-term goals are met by implementing these few changes, we can can have great success. So far so good for the first quarter! All feedback is welcome.

All feedback is welcome.

Agward Turner – CEO
Intelliginix Corporation