Linux Mags?

CobaltCobalt Connecticut
edited November 2003 in Science & Tech
Are there any good linux magazines out there?

I'd like to subscribe to one but I want to know what you guys think.

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  • BuddyJBuddyJ Dept. of Propaganda OKC Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    I pick up Linux Format from time to time. It comes with either 2 CDs or a DVD full of stuff and they have good tutorials and information. Things for n00bs to total wizards.
  • Straight_ManStraight_Man Geeky, in my own way Naples, FL Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    Over here in US, I get Linux Journal. Linux Magazine is also decent. Also, check out a linux online mag called Linux Weekly NEws, they have been reasonably accurate and decent over the years.

    Linux Journal can be browsed on the web, but subscribers get more current news online as well as off. They also have a CD of their pubs from pub year one, in 1994. Probably the most respected of the bunch for those on THIS side of the water. More detailed than a pure n00b would want to start, but talks about core issues in a very readable way and covers details accurately with further info links and contacts.

    "Madman" Hall is involved in this pub, though not as actively as in past-- he likes hands on stuff, came to Florida to help a user group wanting to set up a Community Center LSTP net with old machine clients and a more modern server that happily served desktops also to 20 other boxes. That was co-ordinated by TWO Lugs, SWFLUG and MIALUG (second is in Miami area, first in Ft. Myers\Cape Coral area). Advice, find or start a LUG, Linux Journal will offer discounts to LUG members. LUG = Linux User Group, BTW, and if you want locator sites for same try http://www.google.com/linux (no trailing slash, this is a Google SUBSEARCH MODE call URL).

    On UK side of water, Linux Format is purely the BEST, here Linux Journal is-- importing and shipping Linux Format here is expensive, it costs more than 2.5X the cost of Linux Journal, and Linux Journal typically tells you where to get things on web and not ship CDs that may be outdated on arrival here in US (we get them three weeks to a month later than you folks in UK, typically.).

    John.
  • BuddyJBuddyJ Dept. of Propaganda OKC Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    I pick mine up at Borders in Oklahoma City, Ageek. They seem to get it in on time... its just too bad they only sell the one wiht 2x CDs instead of the DVD.

    The only european magazine I have a hard time getting is Retro Cars. It usually comes in about 3 weeks after the UK street date.
  • Straight_ManStraight_Man Geeky, in my own way Naples, FL Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    That's cool. No Border's in Florida, though when I lived in MI way back they DID have the best tech book section in the area(they were the only people to have books on C in the 80's and had some of the earliest good computerized POS in the area then, IIRC they were in Farmington Hills). Down here, biggest bookstore is Books-A Million, and it is STILL cheaper to buy on the website AFTER shipping than to buy in the store for most books in their system. They get, in store, books from UK about 3 weeks late and ship them in Media Rate, and ditto for magazines. I ALMOST shjipped Linux Format with an international subscription, and might do that in the end, but for US published Mags Linux Journal is best for all-around Linux folks and Linux Magazine is better for those doing more with software than hardware.

    I get 70% of my Linux info on the web.

    John.
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