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LinuxJournal, Which Ceased Publication Last Month Citing Poor Financial Condition, Secures Fresh Fund From Readers To Resume Operation (linuxjournal.com)

Posted by msmash on from the hurrah dept.

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.

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  1. Awesome news by hakova · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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!

  2. Re:Bigger problem: we're having to abandon Linux. by Alain+Williams · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

  3. I used to write for them by DougDot · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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...

  4. Re:Oh boy by Hognoxious · · Score: 4, Funny

    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."