> I'd wager Hal has an opinion on them as well. Darn, Quentin outed me. I was hoping to lurk on the thread and get people's honest opinions on the magazine. For those who don't know, I'm the Technical Editor for Sys Admin (which means I review all the proposals and manuscripts for technical accuracy).
Anyway, Sys Admin is as useful a magazine as I and the rest of the CMP staff can possibly make it. We typically run around 8 technical articles per issue on a variety of topics. Issues have a "theme"-- March is Backups, April is Clustering, May is Databases, etc-- with 3-4 articles following the theme and the rest being on other random topics. We also have regular columnists like Amy Rich's Q&A, Randal Schwartz on Perl, Schaefer and Spurgeon on Shell Scripting, and Peter Galvin on Solaris-related topics. Note that the magazine is entirely focused on Unix/Linux platforms-- no Windows at all. Some people like that, some don't. I can probably guess how most folks on this mailing list feel about that... Btw, the CD-ROM they're offering not only has the last 10 years of Sys Admin content but also contains the archives of CMP's Perl Journal publication. It's got a nice little searchable index. I find the CD very useful. --Hal _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
