James Green wrote:
Look what I got less than an hour ago - the Premier edition of the UK's first Linux Magazine: Linux Answers.
It's even managed to appear here in sunny Diss. :-)
It's predictably a little thin, but since there aren't a huge number of
ads
in it, we'll let that pass.
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.
What's rather good about this is that is appears to be breaking a mould in the publishing industry - it *appears* to be fairly well technically proficient, even on the second page giving the reason why they say "Linux" not "GNU/Linux" throughout the mag.
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.
Loads of tutorials (mmm :), RH6.0 and Corel WordPerfect 8 on the cover,
plus
RealPlayer G2 and WINE bundled too.
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 newbie. I do hope however that if they do manage to get the magazine going on a permanent basis, they stick some other distros on the coverdisk and don't go down the route of being a 'we only write about Red Hat' magazine.
Priced 4.99, from Future Publishing.
Par for the course, expect 6.50 per issue if they don't get any advertising revenue. I think it's worth the cover price, roughly the same amount of editorial content as PCPlus for the same cost.
On the whole I am quite impressed with it looking at it from the newbie viewpoint. Couple of goodies on the cover disk, WINE and the wheelie mouse thingy, I learned a few good tips and the open source article was interesting. I'll buy again *if* it gets off the ground, but I fear it won't.
I'll be giving a fuller review on LNC soon.
Best you give us a working URL first James. :-)
Cheers,
BJ
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