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- merc, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Hi,
That is not correct.
Every single article is released under a free license.
Bye,
Tony Mobily
Editor - chieffy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8FYI: As of Issue 16 Free Software Magazine is online only and there is no PDF to download.
Here's the table of contents:
* Editorial - Paper is dead - has PDF followed suit?
* Involving the community: my podcast experience - Community and freedom
* Freeing an old game - Relicensing UMoria
* Play and touch-type with TypeFaster - Learning how to type can be fun!
* The free Tron Universe Armagetron - Advanced reverberations
* The lazy user's guide to OpenOffice.org Writer - Create and manage large documents in OpenOffice.org
* Managing your iPod without iTunes - Using free software to unlock your iPod's potential
* Vega Strike - My kind of fun
* Using Metalinks - Simplifying the download process
* Configuring a Linux home internet gateway - How to justify to your spouse adding another Linux box to your home network
* MINIX: what is it, and why is it still relevant? - An interview with Andy Tanenbaum
* Asterisk, the easy way - Undertanding the basics of the Asterisk (the free software phone system)
* A media center based on GNU/Linux - Hacking the living room - uslacker, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7I will miss the PDF version and the magazine itself. I don't have more on-line time to spare.
- thenonhacker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Ironic:
"* Editorial - Paper is dead - has PDF followed suit?"
I _Heart_ PDF version! - gadget00, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6really nice magazine. I liked the PDF version...what a pity :(
- baalzebub, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6i dont like pdf files, i am glad they canceled that, nothing wrong with good old plain text, it is simple and compact and any text editor can easily handle it in either CLI or GUI...
html is ok too... - pvdg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Text files are not a good option; we need a printer-friendly version (possibly of individual articles?), pdf or not.
- chieffy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2That should be coming soon. We would have had it ready for release of issue 16 but work on the new system got in the way, and we didn't want to postpone the issue or work on another PDF issue.
- rclay, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5I am very disappointed at the exclusive on-line format. Normally I download the PDF and read parts of it on my desktop computer. Other parts I print and take with me for later viewing where a computer or internet connection is unavailable. I also let my desktop search software index the PDFs so that I can find articles easily at a later date. Alas, FSM is no longer a useful magazine. I'm not sure if it is a magazine at all.
Your supposition is wrong. Paper is not dead. The answer to your question, "will PDFs follow suit ?" is NO. - hohlermann, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1A print-friendly version all content is now available for subscribers (free registration), along with a more detailed explanation of the justification to end the PDF edition. http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/blogs/so_why_has_the_pdf_gone
- themacmeister, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I was a real fan of the PDF versions (I have all of them to date), This made it incredibly easy to read and print offline. It also made it easy to give to other people. With Firefox having the most unpredictable printing of any software, I humbly request you bring back the PDF format, even if it's only low res images...(1-2MB)
- benliong, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Was there any explanation on why they needed to stop delivering PDF version? I love to have one file in my hand to read when I have no internet connection (i.e., while traveling)
- MikeN, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3I really want to digg this, but I'm just too disappointed that it will no longer be available as a downloadable PDF for off-line reading. I really liked the magazine format in electronic form and the previous 15 issues have found a permanent home on my hard disk and have proved to be a valuable resource. No PDF... No digg.
- jahmodi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Nice and very informative stuff.
- yenster, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2@blueluck
"And this search software won't index anything but PDFs? I'm guessing not."
It can't index something that isn't there anymore. My main problem with HTML-only publications is that when you try to go back a few months/years to re-read something in a back issue, you find it's been removed to make room on the server. With PDFs, at least I can download a single file and not have to worry about the mess of trying to download and archive portions of a Website through my browser (not impossible...I've done this plenty of times, but it's a real mess of broken links, directories full of unimportant GIF and Flash ad files, etc.).
And, of course, a problem with all online publications is that if they happen to get real popular, you sometimes can't read them at all. :)
Other than that, I'm a big supporter of FOSS and interested in seeing the mag once it crests the tidal wave, so to speak. But as the owner of an ad agency which also does publication design and production (along with Websites now and then), I can tell you that PDF and paper aren't going away any time soon, for better or worse. Even good ol' plain text (ASCII) isn't a true cross-platform standard, unfortunately. - phaero, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2I agree, a really good magazine but I hate to read long articles online... Sorry Tony but without a pdf version I'm afraid you have lost one reader :P
- rclay, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1The 86ing of PDFs maybe a ruse, like the "New Coke" which everyone hated, but got lots of publicity for Coca Cola. Eventually "Coke Classic" came out.
- Dan1elle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0why has the pdf has been canceled anyway?
- sirhomer, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2I never understood the purpose of PDF. Maybe like 10 years ago when CSS/DOM didn't exist, but HTML is a much better format for both print and web now.
- galbotrix, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Nice look and layout...hoping for localized editions as well
- wavesound, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Looking very nice!!
Thank you.
Bob - Evic, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Already killed by digg :(
http://www.duggmirror.com/ - SjRaptor, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Dugg for Minix / Andrew Tanenbaum interview
- sirhomer, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1dbl post
- Zeroows, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Great magazine
- blueluck, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2You haven't really listed anything that you can't do with plain text. PDF is occasionally the right format, but it is vastly overused.
"Other parts I print and take with me . . ."
You can't print text files? How strange!
"I also let my desktop search software index the PDFs so that I can find articles easily at a later date"
And this search software won't index anything but PDFs? I'm guessing not. - prudhomm, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2Good job!!
- fannar, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3Great magazine
- Philluminati, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2
Woot.
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