Yesterday while at a local bookstore I found it refreshing to find 5 different magazines about Linux.  My excitement was quickly reduced to frustration in the crucible of my brain heated by anger when I noticed all but one were at least $15.00!  This is because they all contained CDs or DVDs with Linux installs on them.

Don’t get me wrong.  There was one that only cost $6.00 which is a price I would pay but the others had better articles for me.  The $6 mag was geared toward long time Li/Unix users.  They were talking about modifying scripts and developing applications and some other stuff way over my head.  It would be nice if these other magazine publishers would put out two versions- one with the media and one without.  Most people have a fast enough internet connection to not need the media.  Beside, the media isn’t worth $10 IMHO (in my humble opinion).  I would buy the media online before I would buy it in a magazine.

I would love to install and test the new OpenSUSE 11, Fedora 10 (after all Fedora 11 Alpha is out), the new KDE 4.2.1 XFCE and other stuff but since time is so limited I do occasionally rely on the opinions of others who have done what I could not.

So what happened was that I stood and read the magazines at the news stand and they missed out on a sale because the publication was too expensive.

Do you know of good publications?  If so drop us a line!

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