Linux Magazines

devnull10 · 12-16-2010, 05:34 PM

I always see Linux magazines in ASDA etc but they are all pretty pricey (some £6.50 etc). Are they worth it? I download any software I need so the free discs are not much use to me but are the articles over and above the kind of things you learn by just hanging around on here?

TobiSGD · 12-16-2010, 05:38 PM

I had bought some of them the time I had no internet. But after I "got online" there was no use for those magazines, at least for me. You can get the knowledge and software easily from the net.

mlangdn · 12-16-2010, 06:06 PM

At $14 US, Linux Pro was very pricey. But I couldn't get the software any other way since I was on dial-up. The articles were interesting, but a lot of them are geared towards developers and coders - stuff over my head.

sycamorex · 12-16-2010, 06:19 PM

I made a mistake and bought a subscription to one of the magazines. I don't really benefit from them. All the news/updates are relatively old. I've already read about it on slashdot.org or here on LQ.
Unless you're offline, there's little point in buying them.