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Linux Format August 2014 issue

#! is included in magazine article entitled "Roundup... Low Resource Distros" though the article is too short and gets details wrong, like #! is derived from Arch.  Not a good read IMHO.

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Re: Linux Format August 2014 issue

They only make that mistake once and rate #! second (behind ELive but ahead of Manjaro); I didn't think it was that bad...
They should have made more of the #! forums though!

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Re: Linux Format August 2014 issue

lol wow, derived from Arch.... Right. lol

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Re: Linux Format August 2014 issue

Where is this?

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Re: Linux Format August 2014 issue

^ http://www.linuxformat.com/
It's an English magazine, new staff (the old staff left to start Linux Voice --- a far superior magazine), not a bad read...

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Re: Linux Format August 2014 issue

Well, of course #! is derived from Arch! I mean... it has pacman in the repos.

https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/pacman

]:D  8o 

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Re: Linux Format August 2014 issue

^  8o     

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Re: Linux Format August 2014 issue

^  8o     

+1

Well I'll be - I never realized that ARCH was about chasing monsters.

 24 Aug 14 | 16:03:25 ~
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p   pacman - Chase Monsters in a Labyrinth                             
p   pacman4console - a console based pacman game

I can feel the lasers of ARCH users honing in on me now.  ]:D

OK, I'm not going to sign up to read an article.

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73ChargerFan

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Re: Linux Format August 2014 issue

I did enjoy the rest of the issue.  Just this article seemed much too light and was poorly organized.

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Re: Linux Format August 2014 issue

I didn't think it was that bad...

Which one? The first, the second or the third?

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Re: Linux Format August 2014 issue

^ The review; I read it again last night & I think the OP is right --- a bit slapdash...

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Re: Linux Format August 2014 issue

I read this quite often.
Makes you think what else they get wrong...

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Re: Linux Format August 2014 issue

The thing about the magazines is that most of the resources they supply are already freely available.
Linux Format did a feature on systemd that was essentially a reprint of the man page...
Although Linux Voice appears to be better, they did publish a guide to installing Arch (which I had to correct) that was clearly lifted directly from the Arch Beginner's Guide (except slightly out of date).

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Re: Linux Format August 2014 issue

Although Linux Voice appears to be better, they did publish a guide to installing Arch (which I had to correct) that was clearly lifted directly from the Arch Beginner's Guide (except slightly out of date).

^ And without giving any credit of course. Meh. I'd send him a copy of the GNU Free Documentation License (which ArchWiki is based on). Actually, I'm going to do that right now.

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Re: Linux Format August 2014 issue

Don't wiki's tend to have a Creative Commons licence with the condition against using the information for profit, which a magazine would be for?

sounds a bit like those tennis and chess writers in the Times who've been constantly plagiarising tonnes of other papers articles and getting away with it.

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Re: Linux Format August 2014 issue

They only make that mistake once and rate #! second (behind ELive but ahead of Manjaro); I didn't think it was that bad...
They should have made more of the #! forums though!

Behind ELive?!! What??!!!

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Re: Linux Format August 2014 issue

^ Somebody has to be first.  Why not Zoidberg?

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Re: Linux Format August 2014 issue

Whoooop whoooop whooop, *scuttles off into the distance*

Things like that always have a little personal preference, so i think the reviewer just preferred the overall feel, compared to #!. Enlightenment's still quite popular among people *shrugs*

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Re: Linux Format August 2014 issue

Overall and over time (this is not the first review/inclusion of #! in Linux Format) they are fairly complimentary about #!, but err on the side of caution as #! is not always for the beginner in their eyes (e.g. not like Windows enough for a Windows user to easily switch) - hence why Enlightment came out on top.

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Re: Linux Format August 2014 issue

#! is included in magazine article entitled "Roundup... Low Resource Distros" though the article is too short and gets details wrong, like #! is derived from Arch.  Not a good read IMHO.

That was an error and a statement of correction appears in the September issue.  Something about the guy who put the review together being up too late to meet the print/publish deadline.

^ http://www.linuxformat.com/
It's an English magazine, new staff (the old staff left to start Linux Voice --- a far superior magazine), not a bad read...

I wouldn't say it's far superior.  In fact, and I hate to say this because I like the guys over at Linux Voice, I think Linux Format has gotten better since some of the old guard left.

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