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.
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.
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!
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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.
Best you give us a working URL first James. :-)
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