Hal Pomeranz wrote:
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
Well, despite the fact that they'll let people like Quentin submit
articles, I've subscribed.... ;)
Matthew S. Jarvis
IT Manager
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