"Ronald L. Chichester" wrote:
>
> On a lighter note, since we brought up the lack of Storm in Linux
> magazines, I was wondering what people on this list were reading.
>
> I've been a subscriber to Linux Journal for several years. While I have
> liked it (and it is getting better over time) I haven't kept track of
> the other magazines that are out now.
>
> Has anyone done a comparison?
>
> Ron
> ./.
>
Hi
I haven't done a comparison on magazines,but I've done a shopping around
comparison.Don't know how things are in other places,but here in
Vancouver
if you enter in any given store that resembles computers and books
you'll
see RedHat,Mandrake ,Caldera and used to be Corel as well.That's about
it.
The problem I see with Linux magazines is that they're read mostly by
people
with an interest in Linux which doesn't help Storm very much even if
they'll
have a better coverage-IMHO,since somebody who has an interest in Linux
had already picked a distro,and the number of people switching from
other distros
is not likely to count too much on the paying customers list
on_the_short_term.
On today's Linux market you have to come up with something really
flashy/new
to get some coverage,
-maybe an Athlon_optimised distro since Mandrake took the
Pentium.:-) .
-Or be the first distro who ships with a 3d desktop environment,(see
3dwm.org).
-or provide an upgrade distro for half the price with no installer and
maybe
a selected bunch of new_interesting packages ala slink and 1/2 (done by
VA Linux)
-..insert favorite idea here
See Progeny who made a great deal out of Linux NOW which is a decade
old research done at CMU.Yes they will implement it for Linux but point
is
that thay found a project that nobody cared about and get a huge press
on it.
The problems I see with any debian-based distro is that is based on
Debian.:-)
Meaning is very stable and upgrades from one version to another are easy
so people won't buy a new distro just because simply it's too much of a
hassle to upgrade as used to be in the RH land.
So to make it short ,even if I do like Stormix overall,they lack the
new flashy
things every 5-6 months or so to get the press attention,and sticking
with the existing users(us) won't take them too far,just the word of
mouth and occasional
LUG coverage doesn't help a commercial distro in today's Linux "market"
with
about 200 distros around.
Oh well,I do hope Stormix will get out of it's financial troubles and
come out
with a release every six months and I will pay 50Ca$ every year and
about 20 every 6 months for an upgrade with no support.Heck I would pay
now 20Ca$ just
to have then new KDE2 and the few packages needed for 2.4 just so I
don't have to
download them for tdyc.com and the other slow debian mirrors.Considering
the time
spent to download,burn to a CD in a apt-able format I'd rather pay the
money
knowing I can help my favourite distro.
Sorry for the long post.
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