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The Linux Journal gets a second wind through the assistance of Private Internet Access (PIA), owner of the Freenode and Soonet IRC networks.
[...] First, the PIA people are hard-core Linux, free software and open-source hackers. They are just as committed to FOSS values as Phil Hughes was when he published the first issue of Linux Journal in April 1994, the same month Linus released version 1.0 of Linux. (Friends and colleagues of Phil's, especially those who worked for him at Linux Journal for many years, know how completely principled he was and still is.) They also want to do right by developers, users, and the whole free and open networked world. That's one reason they stepped forward to save us. [...]
Source : Happy New Year- Welcome to Linux Journal 2.0!
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday January 02 2018, @08:06PM (9 children)
While I rarely looked at Linux Journal, I wish them the best of luck.
Make a New Years Resolution to not cease publication. Make a New Years Resolution to cover things that Linux users care about, such as the extreme rise of the Linux Desktop in 2018.
This year I definitely will not break my new years resolution. I just won't make any. In fact, my only new years resolution is to NOT make any new year's resolutions and that way I can't possibly break my new year's resolution. So there. Oh, wait.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 02 2018, @08:34PM
At this point you're the chicken. Question answered, next up: why does God hate you and ten ways to get back in his good graces.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 02 2018, @09:14PM (7 children)
What did LJ do wrong to get into that situation in the first place? Tons of other Linux mags, many from the UK, still lie in magazine racks.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by insanumingenium on Tuesday January 02 2018, @09:49PM
A few guesses. Lack of corporate overlords to float them through lean times. Lack of desire to accept just any advertising. Presumably lack of sales staff to sell said advertising.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Ethanol-fueled on Tuesday January 02 2018, @10:26PM (1 child)
LJ was fucking rad, and anyway, if you want something printed in professional color magazine format for a niche hobby of super-autists it's gonna be fucking expensive. When I could get my grubby hands on their hard copy I saw that it was as valuable as 2600 or Nuts and Volts.
(Score: 1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 02 2018, @11:22PM
EF can read?
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Tuesday January 02 2018, @10:37PM (3 children)
How many other Linux mags are there? There's a couple in Europe/UK I'm aware of, but not here in the US.
The thing that seemed to do them in was going to online-only: lots of people stopped their subscriptions because they didn't see the point in paying for something that was no longer printed on paper. But they had to do that because they weren't making enough money to support the paper format.
Personally, I used to be a subscriber way back, but I lost interest some after they had a change in editorship, and then again when they went online-only, and I wasn't reading it anyway with too much keeping me busy and the articles just not being *that* interesting. I honestly can't see subscribing to anything these days; I can easily keep myself occupied with free stuff online, and if I want to know some technical information or how-to, I can just google it. Also, to be very honest, Linux used to be a lot more *fun* 15 years ago. It really isn't any more. It's just the same-old-same-old, but getting worse instead of better. It's great for specific applications of course, but for home hobbyist stuff I can just google specific info I need, and general desktop stuff just isn't very interesting now thanks to crap like Gnome3.
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Tuesday January 02 2018, @11:12PM
Which makes general desktop stuff really interesting if it's done without Gnome 3.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 03 2018, @01:49AM (1 child)
So why UK and not the US? Better terms from the post office or advertisers?
Reducing frequency or even going online only is a desperate attempt to remain profitable. But I too have stopped buying once it became easy to ddg most of what I needed to know. Mainstream Linux having become mostly uninteresting due to cancers like gnome and SystemD, the only literature I buy now is about doing interesting stuff with raspis.
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Wednesday January 03 2018, @03:56PM
Well you yourself complain about Gnome and systemd, and I certainly haven't seen any lack of complaining about those elsewhere, so I'm not sure why a Linux mag in the UK is still so popular unlike the US. I really have no idea. Any Brits here? I thought postal rates in the UK were even worse than here, but I don't really know; bulk mail delivery (which includes magazines) is actually really cheap here in the US for a developed country, from what I've read. Remember, the USPS is still a government-owned organization and subsidized, whereas the UK Royal Mail is now privatized, as are the mail systems in other EU nations.