Updating Full Circle articles in the wiki?

Lloyd Budd foolswisdom at gmail.com
Tue Mar 4 22:33:09 UTC 2008


Hello,

I friend recommended me to check out the
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuMagazine/HowTo/Switching_From_VMWare_To_VirtualBox%3a_%2evmdk_To_%2evdi_Using_Qemu_+_VdiTool

Although, it is a pretty great article, it also suffers from a few
problems particicularly in the intro in terms of the content and
technical writing.

Even the URL structure, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuMagazine/ would
probably benefit from being https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FullCircle/

I'm not sure whether to update the article, copy the content to the
wiki proper or what.

Here are some of the problems I have with the article:

1. Not interlinking to other articles on related topics,
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/VMwarePlayerAndQemu for example.

2. The first paragraph includes "virtualizer" which seems to be a
recently coined term for virtual machine, and specifically used by
VirtualBox marketing.

3. Doesn't describe whether native to GNOME, KDE or another desktop environment.

4. "it is really hard to get working. Believe me" doesn't really add
to the argument of the point.

5. Funny capitalization.

6. There are other reasons to choose VMWare, such as being able to use
physical disks or partitions (dual boot into them).


Thank you,
Lloyd




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