Then you can tell people that running Linux is an elemental experience. :)

Tweeks

They most probably died due to internal/reader struggles between their dedicated Solaris and Linux bases. This can be seen back to around 2003 when they started shifting their content from more traditional UN*X/Solaris/AIX/HPUX content over to Linux more and more. At one point in 2003, almost all the articles and readers letters were about Linux and the older UN*X specific content had all but died off. Here in the past two years, it seemed that they tried to force the situation back the other way (maybe to achieve balance?), by hiring a couple of hard core Solaris writer/editors (esp in the reader letters area). In short, it just felt "wrong", like they were trying to hammer a square peg into a round hole. Many folks had started to move over to Linux and they started ignoring that part of their customer base. I've heard that they had some internal struggles around these issues too.

But I'm right there with you. No other UN*X professional magazine existed where every single issue I picked up had between 2-3 articles that were prudent to my job and profession. It's a very sad day indeed.

I'm definitely be opting for the archiveCD, and probably be adding Linux Professional as my next subscription.

A moment of silence please,

Thomas Weeks