On Jan 16, 2008 1:16 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves lawgon@au-kbc.org wrote:
On 16-Jan-08, at 12:51 PM, Nishit Dave wrote:
are you sure you looked at the magazine before making your comments?
Oh, every issue in the last one year - does that count? Selective issues when they distributed Fedora or Mandriva etc. earlier - do they count? It is easy to cherry-pick, but the day they match even the (now dead) Tux Magazine would be for celebrations. On such fora.
Honestly, there are at least as many reasons to buy this magazine as there are not to, but it is worth a buy being the only Linux magazine in India, and many of the articles you quote are from very recent issues, which means either a) they are mending their ways, or b) there is a lot of enthusiast support. Their history doesn't speak much of it.
I am very much willing to give them the benefit of doubt, and if they are able to continue this improvement and increase the proportion of useful articles to curiosities, it would serve their subscriber base better.
Lastly, the article on Mint was one of the worst on any distro's test drive. Rather self-contradictory, especially when you read that it is an incomplete distro. What was it doing there anyway? Ubuntu enthusiasts would have preferred to receive the latest version on CD instead of this reskinned rehash. I, for one, would have loved to get my hands on Kubuntu.
Enough of this rant, though. It would be better for all concerned to write to the editor.