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iX magazine Launches English Test Issue
An anonymous reader writes "The German iX magazine is probably the one targeting the most knowledgable audience of system administrators and 'IT professionals.' They focus on Linux, UNIX and Windows NT. For all those who are interested in the magazine but don't understand German, there's now a free English pilot issue available online."
Sister magazine of C'T (Computer Technik) which is in German and Dutch.
C'T is the highest quality computer magazine I've read. Proof of German "grundlichkeit" (thoroughness). Not only in-depth but an amazing amount of reading material every 2 weeks. I don't know how they do it.
Anyway, if C'T is any indication of iX's quality, you should buy it if you're into networking and servers. It may be a bit dryer to read than C'T but that's because I wasn't into servers when I read 1 edition a long time ago. Also comes with the territory of servers I guess.
At least check out the free edition.
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COVER STORY:
.Net cooperating with J2EE and CORBA
.Net framework
- SQL:2003: including XML and administration of external data
TESTLAB:
- Suse Linux Enterprise Server 9
- Middcor.Net:
- Server Management: Tatung's TUD 4010 and Fujitsu-Siemens-Computers' BX 600
REPORT:
- Programming lightweight, powerful clients
- Software components in the
- ITIL for better IT
KNOW-HOW:
- Schema language Relax NG
- Jakarta offshoot Slide
HANDS-ON:
- Doctype switching decides rendering of (X)HTML
- Hard disk management under Linux
Some NEWS, mostly conference reports
(Siggraph, Linux fair, 60th IETF meeting,
KDE Community World Summit, CHES 2004 Crypto-conference)
P.S.: I read iX only from time to time, because it's not my main area of interest.
But the articles are IMHO of good technical depth and detail, and thoroughly researched.
Stupidity is mis-underestimated.
I have been borrowing issues from a German friend who has them shipped over here to the US, and I have got to say that it is a good magazine. Good solid reviews, and the articles are worth reading. They are linux and MacOS X friendly (but the focus is still Windows), and I did not get the feeling that they were swayed by any of the companies they reviewed (unlike say, CNet...). I would actually consider getting a dead-tree edition of this magazine in print form, which I never thought I would do for another computer magazine.
I guess the person who submitted this has never seen a copy of SysAdmin magazine.
Seriously, from everything I've always heard about this magazine, I was expecting something more along the lines of SysAdmin... it turns out a better comparison would be InfoWorld, a wonderful magazine, but a considerably different market.
SysAmin is targeted at the hardcore system administrator and system architects, where InforWorld (and possibly iX) appear to be more suited for IT managers _as_well_as_ system administrators and system architects.
Either way you look at it, I applaud their willingness to finally produce an english language version... I'm sure it will be very popular!
I, for one, will be reading it.
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I couldn't help but notice that they are not able satisfactorily to explain what a Hrung is, nor why it should choose to collapse on Betelgeuse Seven.
Must be the babelfish translation.
Another thing that should be mentioned is that c't are just about the only magazine in Germany that publishes science fiction short stories. In a country where science fiction is considered to be Trivialliteratur that educated people should be ashamed of wasting their time with, this is especially noteworthy.
However:
Incredable as it might seem, c't has been slowly dumbing down its content and focusing more and more on test and reports instead of the hands-on stuff that made them famous. It used to be that they would lead you through the steps to build your own bloody computer, do cool coding things in assembler (these were the eight bit days), and stuff that would send most of their current readers screaming. They once started a Java course, but stopped it after a few episodes.
Given this hard core background, c't was amazingly slow to take Linux seriously and in fact just about ignored it right up to the point where people like me found it was not worth the price. In the old days, they would have been jumping all over the kernel, explaining all the juicy little techniques to their users and showing them how to change stuff themselves. No go: The Windows crowd is probably just larger and their ads pay more.
It is nice to see that there is an English edition of iX. However, what they really should do is launch a Linux spin-off. I can't believe I am the only one who misses the good old c't, and the Linux community should be easily large enough to make it worth their parent company's time.
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