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LinuxJournal, Which Ceased Publication Last Month Citing Poor Financial Condition, Secures Fresh Fund From Readers To Resume Operation (linuxjournal.com)
New submitter dataknife2 writes: LinuxJournal announced in Nov 2017 that they were going to cease publication; With some timely intervention by Private Internet Access they are going to be able to continue operation and are currently soliciting feedback for improving the magazine in the future. In a blog post, team at LinuxJournal wrote: Talk about a Happy New Year. The reason: it turns out we're not dead. In fact, we're more alive than ever, thanks to a rescue by readers -- specifically, by the hackers who run Private Internet Access (PIA) VPN, a London Trust Media company. PIA are avid supporters of freenode and the larger FOSS community. They're also all about Linux and the rest of the modern portfolio of allied concerns: privacy, crypto, freedom, personal agency, rewriting the rules of business and government around all of those, and having fun with constructive hacking of all kinds. We couldn't have asked for a better rescue ship to come along for us. In addition, they aren't merely rescuing this ship we were ready to scuttle; they're making it seaworthy again and are committed to making it bigger and better than we were ever in a position to think about during our entirely self-funded past.
They can't do much to get rid of systemd, which has caused reliability issues for many of us, which in turn renders Linux unusable for servers and other serious usage scenarios.-- -see MX linux comment below.
They can't do much to deal with non-systemd Linux distros like Devuan being amateurish, or like Slackware being too archaic, or Gentoo requiring too much hand-holding to use productively. ----Try MX linux, the new MX17 is based on debian stable and has NO systemd. It is definitely not amateurish. See this new review...https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20180101#mx
They can't do much to get rid of GNOME 3, which has ruined Linux as a workstation OS.- I never liked GNOME of any number, so I can't comment.
They can't do much to fix KDE, which has become bloated, slow and awkward to use. ----Maybe, I heard 5 is good. I like xfce, in the above mentioned MX linux. Fast and powerful.
They can't do much to get rid of PulseAudio, which has wasted so much of our time.-----on MX linux, sound works out of the box on most hardware, even on a new Ryzen board with an "un-supported" sound chip. The generic intel audio driver worked just fine !
They can't do anything to address how OSes like Windows and macOS have become far more stable and usable than Linux. ----Yea, I hope they do become more stable. Hooked to the same router, my wife's Win 7 system slows down and has network problems after a few days. MX linux has been up and fast for > 40 days. As for Win 10, too much spying built in, and mac OS, dying on the desktop, but hanging in there on linux powered iPhones.