From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Sep 13 8: 1:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from exodus.ait.co.za (exodus.ait.co.za [196.36.149.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4CC2F37B422 for ; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 08:01:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wizzard [196.36.149.4] by exodus.ait.co.za (SMTPD32-4.06) id A54112D0148; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 17:01:05 +0200 Message-ID: <033801c01d94$02126860$0200a8c0@ait.co.za> Reply-To: "Peter Salvage" From: "Peter Salvage" To: "freebsd newbies" References: <20000913102805.A69843@blackhelicopters.org> <20000913105425.B70024@blackhelicopters.org> Subject: Re: BSD Magazine Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 17:05:09 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org hmmm I remember picking up Issue 2 of a new Linux mag a couple of months ago in the UK, called Linux Format. It was pretty well done, even had a cd with lotsa goodies :-) I think their web site was www.linuxformat.co.uk - maybe you should give them a whirl and see if they're interested? /wiZZ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Lucas" To: "Chris Coleman" Cc: "Ignacio Cristerna" ; "freebsd newbies" ; Sent: 13 September 2000 04:54 Subject: Re: BSD Magazine > On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 10:45:21AM -0400, Chris Coleman wrote: > > We did approach someone last year, but they said the market wasn't ready > > yet. I don't know if it will be now or not. > > I doubt it is, sadly. > > The "real world" (i.e., everything not on the Web) doesn't see much in > print about BSD. This needs to change before we see a BSD mag. > > Remember, publishing houses half dismiss the Web, and half quake in > their boots over it. While DN publishes some very high-quality > pieces, it (from real-world POV) doesn't count nearly as much as the > same number of articles in print would. > > Moral of the story: do things the hard way, submit BSD articles to > print magazines. They're not nearly as nice to work with as the web > ones, but that's what we *need*. > > Also, if anyone does start a print magazine, I want a column. :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message