"Freesoftware Magazine" ditches PDF download version: http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/2667
I dont know how true this is, but I definitely do NOT want the pdf downloads to cease in favor of an online only portal.
PDFs are way better, for me at least.
Dave Mohyla is the president and founder of dtidata.com, a hard drive recovery facility based in Tampa, Florida.
TM: Where are you based? What does your company do?
DTI Data recovery is based in South Pasadena, Florida which is a suburb of Tampa. We have been here for over 10 years. We operate a bio-metrically secured class 100 clean room where we perform hard drive recovery on all types of hard disks, from laptop hard drives to multi drive RAID systems.
Since the very beginning, directories (of any kind) have had a very central role in the internet. (I have recently grown fond of Free Web Directory. Even Slashdot can be considered a directory: a collection of great news and invaluable user-generated comments. As far as software is concerned, doing a quick search on Google about software directories will return the free (as in freedom) software directories like Savannah, SourceForge, Freshmeat and so on, followed by shareware and freeware sites such as FileBuzz, PCWin Download Center and All Freeware (great if you're looking for shareware and freeware, but definitely less comprehensive than their free-as-in-freedom counterparts).
Mark Shuttleworth is the founder of Thawte, the first Certification Authority to sell public SSL certificates. After selling Thawte to Verisign, Mark moved on to training as an astronaut in Russia and visiting space. Once he got back he founded Ubuntu, the leading GNU/Linux distribution. He agreed on releasing a quick interview to Free Software Magazine.
I read David Jonathon's article Anybody Up To Writing Good Directory Software? the other day, which got me thinking about software directories in general. As David mentioned, many of the software directories one finds when doing a quick google search are free as in beer, not as in freedom. But what interests me is the software directories that already exist, providing a combination of both free as in beer software, and open source software. Sites such as Freeware Downloads and Shareware Download don't advertise themselves as providing free as in liberty software, but each of them have a good selection of open source software available... if you know where to look.
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A little while ago, while talking in the #drupal mailing list, I showed my latest creation to one of the core developers there. His reaction was "Wow, I am always surprised what people use Drupal for". His surprise is somehow justified: I did create a site for a bunch of entertainers in Perth, a company set to use Drupal to take over the world with Entertainers.Biz.
Update: since writing this article, I have updated the system so that the whole booking process happens online. I will update the article accordingly!
More and more people are discovering free software. Many people only do so after weeks, or even months, of using it. I wonder, for example, how many Firefox users actually know how free Firefox really is—many of them realise that you can get it for free, but find it hard to believe that anybody can modify it and even redistribute it legally.
When the discovery is made, the first instinct is to ask: why do they do it? Programming is hard work. Even though most (if not all) programmers are driven by their higher-than-normal IQs and their amazing passion for solving problems, it’s still hard to understand why so many of them would donate so much of their time to creating something that they can’t really show off to anybody but their colleagues or geek friends.
Sure, anybody can buy laptops, and just program. No need to get a full-on lab or spend thousands of dollars in equipment. But... is that the full story?
It dawned on me the other day, as I was shopping for the dozens of gifts it seems I have to buy every December, that Santa Claus is the most successful open source project in history. (Bridget @ Illiterarty would agree with that). Santa Claus is essentially a marketing development that is embodied by everyone who stuffs a sock, gives a gift, hosts a dinner or wishes Merry Christmas over the holiday season.
When I first started thinking about Free Software Magazine, I was feeling enthusiastic about the dream. I had Dave, Gianluca, and Alan willing to help me, I had established members of the free software community willing to help me out, I had writers volunteering their time and energy for free, and I had a generous offer from OpenHosting for servers, all before I'd proved myself. There was a sense of excitement in the air, and I thought maybe, just maybe, I could make this work.
Old news - move along
Oh let's not start this again.
The post you link is dated 7 Feb 2007 and refers to a very old debate from Issue 16 which has long since been resolved.
Auto-generated PDFs for articles are available. What's gone is the full colour professionally produced print-style PDF of pre-Issue 16 days.
cheers
Ryan
[EDITED: Entire issue's PDFs are gone; however, articles will stay]
Where are the PDF issues?
I don't seem to be able to find them anywhere.
GOne for now
Hi,
I changed Ryan's response to reflect the current situation.
We now have PFD downloads and pring preview for any logged in user. However, we recently upgraded from XML to Markdown in terms of article formats, and I haven't been able to restore the issue's PDFs. I tried and tried - it's just too hard to get HTMLDoc to generate them.
Sorry...
Merc.
PDF Downloads
Attempting to download the PDFs (as I always had done) has been driving me nuts for months! I was beginning to think I was going crazy.
Change the newsletter announcement
I can understand there are problems creating a .PDF for download, but I too have wasted a fair bit of time and sanity trying to download the most recent issues. In my defence, this is because the mail list announcment e-mail mentions "Generated PDFs are available" and to me this implies the whole magazine. Perhaps this announcement could be changed?
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If it isn't broken - don't fix it. But then again, you won't learn as much.
Done!
Hi,
Good point - done!
Merc.
PDF's
So there are no more issues in pdf for download?
how to download fsm
i used to download lots of fsm issues once..
i just downloaded the pdf's of all issues upto 18..
After nearly 2-3 months i have forgotten how to download the pdf version of the issues..
I searched and searched but didn't find out how..?
please any help,..
You can't download issues
Tony's response above explains why you can no longer get PDFs of entire issues. Only PDFs of individual articles are now available.
HTH Ryan
YES
The download of PDF issues of Free Software Magazine is now possible.
Please note that these are automatically generated files. They will get better as HTMLDOC gets better.
Thank you,
Merc.
Tony, are we going to add
Tony, are we going to add PDF capabilities for columns piece as well?
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