What type of articles are we interested in?

We publish news, reviews, case studies, HOW-TOs, feature articles, and fact-based commentary directly related to Linux. We’re especially interested in reviews and case studies of Desktop and Enterprise products.

For reviews:

1. We prefer to review released products; we try not to review early beta or pre-beta software, as it tends to be less feature-complete and may give readers an unfair impression. We like to run reviews that coincide with a major point release, such as 1.0 or n.0.
2. We do not expect all reviews to be positive. We like you to call them as you see them.
3. Don’t spend the bulk of the review telling readers exactly what buttons to click on and which keystrokes to enter in order to accomplish particular tasks. Instead, focus on the important things the product can do, and say how well it does them, both as compared to how an ideal product of its type would do them, and as compared to other, similar products a reader might consider as alternatives.

For case studies, be sure to ask the subject why they wanted to make a move away from their existing software, what alternatives they considered, why they picked the application they chose, what kinds of implementation problems they had and how they solved them, how things are going now, any cost-benefit or ROI numbers they can cite, and any recommendations they would have for others who might be considering something similar.

Unless you have something truly unique to say, we’re generally not interested in “A new Linux user’s look at ___” stories or “Here’s a review of [popular Linux distribution that's already been written about a thousand times]” articles. Be creative, not run-of-the-mill!

How to submit?

Before you can submit your articles, please update your entire profile, with particular attention to the Biographical Info part.

Then, send us an email to info@doyoulinux.com requesting permissions to write articles, and attach some example or links to other websites so that we can read some article of yours. We will review your profile and reply to you about your acceptance. If you are accepted, your permissions will be updated to allow writing new articles.

Please be aware that all content in this website is monitored closely and if we find some content that does not correspond to our policy, the author will be advised or banned depending on the severity.

Thank you for being interested in sending us your articles.

DoYouLinux.com Editors Team