Nick Rout wrote:
I just wanted to share this, a new electronic, free Linux magazine, promoted as being for linux beginners.
I have downloaded Issue 1, its 14MB of pdf, amounting to 55 full colour pages. I have printed it in B&W on the office printer and it looks OK in B&W.
Although a pdf, it seems to be primarily designed for on screen viewing - t
he pages are in landscape form, and adobe acrobat opens it full screen (hint - hit "esc" to get your normal screen windows back.)
The mag is published by Phil Hughes of SSC, the publisher of the highly respected "Linux Journal" print magazine.
Articles in Issue 1 include multimedia howtos, synchronising Palm PDA's. a tour of the Gimp, and a lot of others. Authors i recognise from previous high quality linux articles include Phil Hughes, Nicholas Petreley, Phil Nelson & Michael Hammel.
I'll leave it to others to decide for themselves whether the magazine is a "good thing" - it is certainly the sort of thing I would have enjoyed having access to as a newbie. The downside is the size of the download and the usual PITA of either reading onscreen or making a big print job of it.. On the upside a brief flick through the articles leads me to believe it could be genuinely useful, and its free! (And there is only one advert in the whole thing, and thats for the mag itself. I do not know if thats something that will change, I suspect it will.)
It seems pretty KDE-centric too, maybe just a co-incidence.
http://www.tuxmagazine.com
PS I didn't mean this to sound like an advert, and I have no association beyond being a subscriber :-)
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