Hello,
It appears that Linux for You has finally heeded to complaints and come up with a better packaged media in their magazines. This month's issue has 7 distro ISOs that one can try out. It would be more simpler to simply install virtualbox from your repos and boot the ISOs live into the virtual window. A cheaper, easier and environment friendly way to explore different desktop environments, instead of burning 7 CDs.
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 12:33 AM, Rony gnulinuxist@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
It appears that Linux for You has finally heeded to complaints and come up with a better packaged media in their magazines.
I do know of someone actually e-mailing them and offering suggestions to sort this out. Good feedback always helps.
jtd wrote:
Which distros?
On LFY DVD Distro Dhamaka •gOS 3 “Gadgets” BETA •OpenGEU 8.04. “Luna Crescente” •Dreamlinux Desktop Edition 3.1 •Linux Mint 5 “Elyssa” •GoblinX 2.7 Standard •Pardus Linux 2008.1 “Hyaena Hyaena” •VectorLinux 5.9 Standard Edition
from: http://www.lfymag.com/currentissue.asp?id=13
ps: on a side note, they still don't make the archives available as PDF downloads or, did they start doing that ?
Hi all, I had also asked LFY last year on the bulletin board it has as well as on e-mail that they should have past issues in an archive, say 6 months down the line under a CC-By-SA license.
Not just so we can learn but also it helps technologies or ideas get notability on wikipedia which is also something which interests me (as I'm sure it interests lot of people) but till date nothing seems to have happened on that front. :(
On Wed, 2008-10-08 at 15:13 +0530, shirish wrote:
Hi all, I had also asked LFY last year on the bulletin board it has as well as on e-mail that they should have past issues in an archive, say 6 months down the line under a CC-By-SA license.
Most of all LFY articles are released as CC-by-SA unported 3.0 licence after a month from the date of publication. The new CMS for the website is being worked upon, so hope the archives will be up following that.
Not just so we can learn but also it helps technologies or ideas get notability on wikipedia which is also something which interests me (as I'm sure it interests lot of people) but till date nothing seems to have happened on that front. :(
Not sure it can be merged with Wikipedia as that uses GFDL. Are the two licenses compatible? CC-by-SA was chosen because it's easier for the guest authors to understand.
Best, Atanu
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 11:48 AM, "Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ)" sankarshan.mukhopadhyay@gmail.com wrote:
ps: on a side note, they still don't make the archives available as PDF downloads or, did they start doing that ?
See this thread - http://www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showthread.php?t=93213
On Wed, October 8, 2008 11:48 am, "Sankarshan (সà¦à§à¦à¦°à§à¦·à¦£)" said:
ps: on a side note, they still don't make the archives available as PDF downloads or, did they start doing that ?
Nope. But, people have been working on it basically to get a better CMS up and running. Meanwhile, the content will be made available using some other medium like ePapers maybe within a few months or so.
Best, Atanu
Atanu Datta wrote:
Nope. But, people have been working on it basically to get a better CMS up and running. Meanwhile, the content will be made available using some other medium like ePapers maybe within a few months or so.
Ahh...that'd be nice indeed. Couple it with the fact that assessing, selecting, customizing and deploying the CMS for a magazine could end up being a nice case study for the magazine (if the tool at least is FOSS)
:)
jtd wrote:
On Wednesday 08 Oct 2008 00:33, Rony wrote:
Hello,
It appears that Linux for You has finally heeded to complaints and come up with a better packaged media in their magazines. This month's issue has 7 distro ISOs that one can try out.
Which distros?
GOS OpenGEU 8.04 Dreamlinux Desktop Ed. 3.1 Linux Mint 5 "Elyssa" Goblinx 2.7 Standard Pardus Linux 2008.1 "Hyaeena" Vector Linux 5.9 Standard Ed.
It is a nice mix of different desktops so one gets to see the variety of eye candy.
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shirish