It took me a day or so to get an email with the link to the first issue. Let me know in a day or so if you don't get it.
On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 20:14 +1300, Robert Himmelmann wrote: > Is there a way to get the first issue? I can't see a download link and I > didn't get it after registration. Would it be legal if you mailed it to > the interested people? I like the idea but I would appreciate it if they > would use the FDL and make it available for download without subscription. > > 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 :-) > > > > > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
