On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, MJ Ray wrote:
On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 09:14:12PM -0000, John Woodard wrote:
Agreed but who is going to advertise in a Linux specific mag apart from those that that do so here in this issue? I think that Future publishing will struggle with this one purely on advertising revenue, shame.
The thinness of the mag is, I am told, caused by Future policy on the "Answers" series of magazines. The quantity of advertising too.
Is this content v cost of paper then or what?
I liked the stuff on GIMP and the KDE tips, but quite whether the stuff on Networking problems is of help to the majority of readers (desktops or servers, any guesses?) is up for debate.
There have been numerous threads on the uk.comp.os.linux and futurenet.pcplus.linux newsgroups that have been severely critical of the accuracy of technical aspects published in this issue.
There have been several threads elsewhere about this too. The editor and magazine have since parted company, but apparently he was one of the few at Future with Unix (well, Solaris anyway) experience.
I emailed one of guys in ucol who a staffer on the mag some time ago - he said that the first "few issues" were for newbies essentially. This indicates there will be more to follow...
Good choice of distro to put on a cover IMHO, seasoned users will already have their own favoured distro while it's fairly easy to install for the
I would have preferred to see SuSE on there, to be quite frank. I think it's quite easy to install (maybe the SuSE users in the group can confirm/deny that) and the documentation is often streets ahead. Add to that, it normally works!
Actually, that guy on winntmag.com who did the FUD installed SuSE and everyone told him (afterwards) that SuSE is one of the more difficult to insall. All of which is IIRC you understand :-)
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don't go down the route of being a 'we only write about Red Hat' magazine.
I'll relay this to them, but I doubt it's a concern.
It was the first thing that came into me head when I saw the cover CD actually.
Best you give us a working URL first James. :-)
MJR, striking a blow for Open Management [Yeah, my own website team list archives will be open as soon as we start keeping archives. Information wants to be free.]
Providing you get permission from the owners and there is some perceived benefit, I guess so. Quite what that benefit could be from lists on a specific web site's development I have no idea. But let's not start a war on this one :)