From: spj@ukelele.GCR.COM (Simon Patrick Janes) Subject: Re: Linux Journal -- magazine Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1993 00:45:23 GMT
hlu@luke.eecs.wsu.edu (HJ Lu) writes:
>In article <C5pr9t.3Kp@fin.uucp> chip@fin.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
>>According to linux@fylz.com (Linux Journal):
>>>Why does the Linux community need a magazine? The publisher of a
>>>technical magazine I was talking to put it this way: "No successful
>>>movement has ever made it without a journal reporting on its progress."
>>
>>Ha! We don't need no steenkin' journal. We have Usenet.
>Not everyone has Usenet access. It is nice to have something in
>printing like FAQ. You don't have to go through 13,000 to find
>your answer. Besides, I can hardly find what I want to buy in
>Computer Shopper. It will be nice to have some ads. It totaly
>depends on what are in a journal. There are things a journal
>can do better.
>BTW, some people pay for Usenet.
What I think would be a great thing to include in the Journal is a "Linux
does it better..." feature, where every week we tackle a common "DOSism"
that people say "They can't do without," and show how it can be done in
Linux. It would even include things that DOS can't do very well now. This
kind of "tutorial" doesn't seem to exist on Usenet, Usenet is very fluidic
and on comp.os.linux its very hard to find some things in the volume.
>H.J.
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