Recently, I treated myself at a bookshop and bought a copy of Linux Magazine. At £5.99 a copy it's not cheap, even considering the free DVD. The DVD is a copy of Knoppix 4.0, a live distro which I tend to like because I/you can plug it into any machine. I've used Knoppix 3.8.? before and was impressed, but this appears better. Some of the apps are a revision behind, but that's always going to happen. All the standard apps are there and work, but I usually find the games interesting. Klaus Knopper(owner) is the Linux Live God!

I also spotted a flyer in the magazine that gave you the next 3 editions of Linux Magazine for £6. So after reading the fine print several times, I signed up to the offer online. Sure enough, yesterday December's magazine came with a Mandriva 2006 CD. Mandriva 2006, like Knoppix 4.0 offers a live or install option (forgot to mention that). This is quite handy because you can see if the distro works on you system befor installing it. I haven't had time to try it at the moment, but I have had a chance to look through the magazines (Nov & Dec). At first I thought there would be much I didn't already know news-wise as I keep pretty up-to-date with that, but I was pleasantly surprised to read about happenings I wasn't aware of. I'm supposed to contact the magazine after my second cut-price issue to cancel, but I'm considering signing up for a year, and seeing how it goes.

On another subject - my website. I've changed my format, Linux distributions are becoming too much of a commodity to sell profitably. I'm dropping that idea in favour of a Linux/Open Source Advocacy website. Income (half of which will be donated to FOSS projects) hopefully will be achieved by affiliates and advertisers. Therefore the half-completed website is almost back to square-one, but I plan for it to still be posted by Jan 1, 2006.