[svlug] (forw) Linux Journal, April 1994 - November 2017

[Robert Freiberger]

I'm a current subscriber to Linux Journal, I really enjoy the magazine
format but for the last few years it's been slowly fading away. Linux
Format was another magazine that forked their own print version, then
merged into Linux Pro (which Linux Journal is sending current subscribers
for their outstanding subscription).

Most of the content you can find for free but I really like the writing and
presentation of a magazine. It seems in the UK the sales of magazines are
doing better, or I just assume since they have so many at the bookstore?

On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 6:22 PM Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:

> ----- Forwarded message from Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> -----
>
> Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2017 18:21:30 -0800
> From: Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com>
> To: linux-elitists at zgp.org
> Subject: Linux Journal, April 1994 - November 2017
> Organization: If you lived here, you'd be $HOME already.
>
> http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/linux-journal-ceases-publication
>
>   Linux Journal Ceases Publication
>   Dec 01, 2017 By Carlie Fairchild
>
>   EOF
>
>   It looks like we’re at the end, folks. If all goes according to a plan
>   we’d rather not have, the November issue of Linux Journal was our last.
>   The simple fact is that we’ve run out of money, and options along with
>   it. We never had a wealthy corporate parent or deep pockets of our own,
>   and that made us an anomaly among publishers, from start to finish.
>   While we got to be good at flying close to the ground for a long time,
>   we lost what little elevation we had in November, when the scale finally
>   tipped irrevocably to the negative.
>
>   While we see a future like publishing’s past—a time when advertisers
>   sponsor a publication because they value its brand and readers—the
>   advertising world we have today would rather chase eyeballs, preferably
>   by planting tracking beacons in readers' browsers and zapping them with
>   ads anywhere those readers show up. But that future isn’t here, and the
>   past is long gone.
>
>   There is some hope, we suppose, that a savior might come through; but it
>   will have to be one willing to pick up some of our debt, in addition to
>   our brand, our archive, our domains and our subscribers and readers. If
>   you know anyone who can make a serious offer, let us know. Otherwise,
>   watch LinuxJournal.com and hope that at least our legacy archives (which
>   go back to Linux Journal’s birth in April 1994, when Linux hit 1.0)
>   won’t go away. There’s a lot of great stuff here, and a lot of history
>   we’d hate the world to lose.
>   [...]
>
> Columnist Kyle Rankin also has a valedictory column, here:
> http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/so-long-and-thanks-all-bash
>
> I'm not clear if there i$ a place to $end gesture$ of appreciation.
>
> --
> Cheers,                      Welcome to our special issue on violence in
> the
> Rick Moen                    workplace..., I mean system administration.
> rick at linuxmafia.com                      -- Don Marti, Linux Journal,
> Dec. 2000
> McQ!  (4x80)
>
> ----- End forwarded message -----
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