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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.
This is great news indeed. I have been a subscriber of this magazine, which has a broad spectrum of content from clues for the noob geek to the advanced kernel hacks, etc. The authors have an amateur enthusiasm and a truly funny style. Love to have them back!
Linux Journal has been around for a very long time. I have been reading it since almost the beginning. It always has something worth my time. For many it has converted casual users into power users of the OS. Because of that, it has a lot of fans. It is an institution in the industry and needs to carry on doing what it does best... Teaching.
"Trademarks are the heraldry of the new feudalism."
My yearly PIA subscription went through a day or two ago and I considered cancelling the service. If they use some money to fund worthy ventures like this, I feel better about keeping my subscription active.
Linux Journal gave me my first experience programming libSDL, I was bummed out when I heard the news it was shutting down.
The more resources that can educate and bring people into the fold the better! The Linux/FOSS community can be intimidating for the first time user so well written articles can help make the leap less painful.
Congratulations to Linux Journal, for being the first Undead journal, and Happy New Year, best of luck in continuing fine tech journalism
Many thanks to those l33t ha>0rz of PIA for this noble gesture. I wish to subscribe to your newsletter, or just send me a link =]
All the best to each of these parties, for this year
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While this funding may allow the publication to continue for a bit longer, I don't see how they're addressing the much more serious problem: many long-time and serious Linux users are abandoning Linux, while Linux is attracting very few new users.
Reference/citation please.
However: given your A/C status I suspect that you are a shill paid by Microsoft or similar.
Maybe the LJ should focus on some things Linux does well? Embedded operation, IoT devices, for example. I can get an Arduino or Raspberry Pi to do some pretty nice things, quite inexpensively.
Not all computers are desktops.
While this funding may allow the publication to continue for a bit longer, I don't see how they're addressing the much more serious problem: many long-time and serious Linux users are abandoning Linux, while Linux is attracting very few new users.
Reference/citation please.
However: given your A/C status I suspect that you are a shill paid by Microsoft or similar.
Just because he/she/it is AC it does not mean he/she/it is really anonymous. The style is unmistakable. The pronouncements are uncanny. Let us just thank Baghdad Bob, Minister of Information, Iraq for kindly visiting Slashdot.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
I've been happy with PIA's service during the short time I've been a customer. Hearing this, there's no way I'll be looking anywhere else for a VPN.
Thanks, guys, for being a good corporate citizen.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Until they couldn't pay me for about 4 months in a row, and that was about 5 years ago. It's been touch and go for LJ for ages.
Here's one of my articles from about 8 years ago: http://www.linuxjournal.com/co...
The reality is that there aren't enough Linux users around to support something as simple as a magazine!
You seriously misspelled "aren't enough people willing to buy a subscription to something as simple as a magazine!" up there.
The days of subscribing to anything printed on paper is pretty much relegated to us old farts**, and the idea of paying for a digital sub for anything is pretty anathema to the kiddies.
** anyone else recall getting phone-book-sized computer mags in the mail that were half advertisement, or is that just me?
Quo usque tandem abutere, Nimbus, patientia nostra?
Unfortunately the latest issue has an article about systemd on page 1 so it won't open beyond that point.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
"I never paid for it in my life" :)
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
Yeah, it's not like Linux has an overwhelming position of dominance in all but one computing segment.
If all you use Linux for is its desktop, feel free to use something else.
If you haven't noticed, all sorts of news outlets are struggling. I'm not sure why this one should be indicative of anything.
I do not find your perspective to be at all valuable.
Those who advocate genocide deserve every protection afforded by law, and none afforded by common human decency.
While you make a good point about the use of DRM on a publication about free software and freedom, it might help you to know that there has been a recent invention called the 'paragraph' that can really aid the readability of your writing.
I'd love to know what the radio show you host is called, if only to find out if you speak in the same style as you write.
Hmm maybe cups is not the problem here, rather the "cheeper than a new set of ink" prinrter picked up for allmost notrhing at the local elecronics super store (or even cheaper online). I'm not saying that CUPS is perfect, but does anuone realy exspect manufacturers to spend time on CUPS drivers for a product that is low margin as it is?
Unfortunately the latest issue has an article about systemd on page 1 so it won't open beyond that point.
Don't worry, it's still opening, it's just taking a full 30 minute timeout because your reading glasses weren't detected properly.