From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 26 23:04:48 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3393016A4CF for ; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 23:04:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: from tower.berklix.org (bsd.bsn.com [194.221.32.7]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2E7043D66 for ; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 23:04:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhs@flat.berklix.net) Received: from js.berklix.net (pD9E4DF82.dip.t-dialin.net [217.228.223.130]) (authenticated bits=0) by tower.berklix.org (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i9QN4g03052605; Wed, 27 Oct 2004 01:04:43 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jhs@flat.berklix.net) Received: from laps.jhs.private (laps.jhs.private [192.168.91.56]) by js.berklix.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i9QN4el3004477; Wed, 27 Oct 2004 01:04:41 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jhs@flat.berklix.net) Received: from laps.jhs.private (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by laps.jhs.private (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id i9QN4de5011212; Wed, 27 Oct 2004 01:04:40 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jhs@laps.jhs.private) Message-Id: <200410262304.i9QN4de5011212@laps.jhs.private> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org From: "Julian Stacey" Organization: http://berklix.com/~jhs/ User-agent: EXMH http://beedub.com/exmh/ on FreeBSD http://freebsd.org Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 01:04:38 +0200 Sender: jhs@flat.berklix.net cc: Jürgen Seeger Subject: German iX magazine has released a trial 7 Meg free PDF in English. X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 23:04:48 -0000 freebsd-hackers@ readers (& bcc'd 2 local Munich lists, mecc@ & bim@), This isnt FreeBSD specific, but may interest many. http://www.ix.de/en/ has a trial run in English of the German IX magazine. Theyre assesing market for a monthly PDF paid subscription version in English of their paper printed German magazine. Disclaimer/ Suggestion for CT mag: I'm just an occasional customer/ browser of IX mag (lack of time), & English, resident in Germany. What some of you folks in rest of world might really give your eye teeth for, if you ever knew it, & if you were ever given the opportunity, would be an English translation of CT mag, from the same publishers as iX mag. (Heise Verlag), but CT is also only in German far as I know. CT is not yet another PC Soft/ DOS rag, but a decent electronic hardware & software mag, maybe as unique & good as or better than Byte mag was unique & good maybe around 1978/82, before Byte became just another PC software mag among many (well apologies if Byte has improved since, but when last I looked it was (imported to Germany) expensive & no real interest to me. CT is Good, certainly better than anything I've ever found in trips back to England, & would be nice if English speakers had access to it too (though after 19 years in Germany I personaly read either happily in the original :-) The chief editor of iX is quoted below writing to his authors in German about this trial run, (but that's just for reference if you happen to speak German, if not just download the free trial Mag in English, (they ask you to answer a feedback questionaire after you've read the mag.) - Julian Stacey. Unix,C,Net & Sys. Eng. Consultant, Munich. http://berklix.com Mail Ascii; Html deleted as Spam. Ihr Rauch = mein allergischer Kopfschmerz. ------- Forwarded Message via: Benedikt Stockebrand ... From: From: =?iso-8859-1?q?J=FCrgen_Seeger?= Subject: iX jetzt auch auf Englisch Message-Id: Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 18:30:54 +0200 Liebe iX-Autorinnen und -Autoren, iX gibt es jetzt auch auf Englisch. Genauer gesagt: unter http://www.ix.de/en/ steht eine englischsprachige Nullnummer zum Download zur Verf=FCgung. Wir wollen damit feststellen, wie gro=DF das Interesse an iX au=DFerhalb des deutschen Sprachraums ist. Geplant ist eine digitale Distribution (auf PDF-Basis) in Form eines bezahlten Abonnements, die Nullnummer ist nat=FCrlich kostenlos und kann (und soll) frei verbreitet werden. Wir m=F6chten Sie/Euch bitten, potentielle Interessenten auf das Projekt aufmerksam zu machen. Auf der erw=E4hnten Webseite k=F6nnen diese auch Ihr Urteil =FCber "iX international" abgeben, abh=E4ngig von der Resonanz wird der Verlag entscheiden, ob iX k=FCnftig regelm=E4=DFig auf Englisch erscheint. Mit freundlichen Gr=FC=DFen J=FCrgen Seeger Chefredakteur iX