There are some idiots I've encountered in my time but none so crazy as the guy who wants to define what a Linux review should comprise. His qualifications to offer such a definition are perfect - he has never written a review himself but he has read plenty of them.

We only need a couple more experts like this and you can start rewriting the Ramayana. Or maybe the Mahabharata. Who better to lecture on the writing of a novel than a man who has never written one? There is more than a mite of truth in the saying, "those who can't do, teach."

Welcome to the wonderful world of Mark Gregson - whom linux.com, where this venerable sage presented his ideas, described as someone who has "used Linux since 1995 and has tried more than two dozen distributions, sometimes because of what a reviewer wrote."

Reminds me of what the late Oscar Wilde once said - 10 years' experience is one year's mistakes repeated 10 times.

Without further ado, let me cut to the quick and tell you, gentle reader, what you need to know to write a review.