From: sweh.womble@spuddy.UUCP (Stephen Harris) Subject: Linux Journal -- magazine Date: Sun, 02 May 1993 15:34:50 GMT
In article <C64F54.su@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> papresco@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca writes:
> >Linus generates multiple patches per _week_. And look at the rate of
> >new program or port announcements. I don't think that a paper journal
> >can possible do justice to Linux.
> >
> >To be in the thick of Linux use, Usenet is the price of admission.
>
> Why does everyone have to be "in the thick?" Can't some be casual
> users?
The way I see it, Linux is as close to being standard unix as many commercial
immplentations. If Gnu software ports to Linux as easily as it ports to
SunOS (which it does for 90%+ of software) then it is standard :-)
They only advantage a Linux specific journal could have would be to those
*hackers* who want to be kept up to date. (most normal users would be happy
enough with generic Unix journals - eg Unix World. A *casual* user wouldn't
need/want Linux specific information. Heck, any *casual* user wouldn't know
half of what is talked about in c.o.l :-) ).
And, as has been noted, Linux "state of the art" is moving too fast for a
paper journal to be up to date.
So: good idea, but unfortunately not applicable to c.o.l.
(Just my opinion).
Stephen Harris
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