TUX is great! - But as a digital magazine page numbers should reflect the reader's perception not the designers. In other words if Acrobat thinks page #10 is really page #11, fix it. Include the cover page in your page count and make the readers of your digital only magazine even happier.

-jh

It doesn't work when using Kpdf or Xpdf... I don't have Acrobat on this machine as I find Kpdf is perfectly good for general use... It would help if the survey was also available on this website... also non of the links in the magazine work in Kpdf or Xpdf either... :(

About linux multi-boot,
I agree this is a good subject.
As a 3/4 of a newbie, but relatively competent PC user, having installed zindows many times, OS2 as well,
I found some information about multi-boot on the net, but I agree there is not that much, and not for newbie, or people not clued up with installing OS's

I would consider showing different methods
- w/w disconecting HD / w/w some zindows in place
- with only 1 HD, with more than 1

To your reader with a spare HD: I suggest to disconnec the XP hd,
no risk then for XP (yet :-), and install linux on the spare HD with grub.
CHange the bios set up to boot from the spare HD,
setup grub to launch XP (I suppose it is possible, but I do not have XP so I do not know).
Grub can launch win2000 I heard ;-)
Reconnect the XP hard drive

Some experience
- ban lilo for multiboot learners
- some of the distro on big HD after what 100 Mo? cannot be accessed by grub (I think). I mean there is a distance limitation from the
start of the HD where distros cannot be booted anymore
- Xandros 3.0? has been a bugger and does not want to boot properly (could not finish the install properly)
because it was going to use lilo and not grub, or I could not skip something, anyway not a happy camper
on a HD with already 2 distros + zindows.
Only my experience and having read once it does not coexist well
with other distros
- beware if one cut in two (or three) a parition to install another distro then the grub references
becomes all shifted (and so are the fstab in each of the distro)
vim skills are a must, and it is quite easy to fix, but a newbie would need explanations or warnings

Hope this helps toward what us newbies face when playing around

Congratulations on your magazine.

Here's my advice to make it even better.
I really wish there was an html version of the magazine on your website, optimized for reading on handheld devices (smaller pictures).
That way I could download it to my pda (I have mobipocket but many have AvantGo etc. ) and read it when I have time.
The PDF format is just not the right format for handheld devices.
Many sites are offering areas to connect and download a copy of the magazine to read on handheld devices, and I wish my favourite e-magazine (TUX) would offer such feature.
I think it is difficult for many people to find the time to just sit in front of the desktop or laptop and read. Specific Ebook reading software is much better for that purpose, and most can read html or conversion can be done quite easily.
I don't know what format you are starting from to publish your magazine, but it shouldn't be difficult to publish an html version.

Keep up the good work and.....think about my suggestion.

These issues of Tux are getting better and better. Kudos to everyone putting it together. I wanted to pay special thanks to Mr. Kirsanov for the article on Inkscape. I had been contemplating loading it on my desktop for a few weeks now and after reading the article did so immediately. I'm totally impressed with this app. Adobe is really missing this boat.

I subscribed to the mag when it was first announced. When the first issue came out I was disapointed to find that the coverage was almost exclusively focused on KDE desktop environments (there was one small peek at a program based on Gnome). I quickly realized that this magazine would be of little use to me because it didn't have much interest in the desktop tool I use most.

I would be surprised to find I am alone in this.

Therefore, KDE users will likely dominate your reader base and therefore all votes will largely favor KDE. It's kind of like going to a MSDN convention and asking everyone what their favorite IDE is.

Ideally, instead of favoring one desktop at the beginning, you should have given both major desktops equal coverage, and included some info for users of the minor desktop environments. Then, instead of assumming that KDE is the desktop your readers are most interested in, you could have run a poll or a reader's choice award and tailored the content based on the response. This would have avoided disenfrachising a possibly substantial portion of your user base and would have saved your credibility.

As it is, your reader's choice awards are worthless because you've only gathered data from a narrow segment of the Linux desktop users.

You should rename the rag to "TUX/KDE magazine, the first and only magazine for the new KDE user."

Oh, and is it just me, or does it seem odd to be asking new Linux users which tools are the best? By definition, new users will have little experience with different tools and largely will have only used the ones with prominent icons on the desktop or panel. It's kind of a dichotomy. It strikes me as odd that your readers, new linux users, voted vi to be the best editor.