Today I went to the local supermarket to check out their offer of Linux magazines. I found two, "Linux Magazin" and "Easylinux".

To find out if there might be articles of interest in there for me (after all they don't target linux freaks like me), I saw an interesting remark in the "letter to the editor" part of easylinux.

Basically, a reader wrote to the editors along the lines "I've tried Redhat, SuSE [...] before, and now that I have used Ubuntu, there is so much in Ubuntu I will not want to miss again." (Probably referring to apt-get and other benefits of Debian. ;-) e.g. many people like our alternatives management and such things we take for granted...)

What was scary was the reply by the editors, which was basically: "Yeah, we're gonna list them on our distributions list, but we won't go into details on them, since they don't include KDE by default, and we only deal with KDE" (there was also a Gnumeric article in there).

This strikes me as just plain wrong, and somewhat arrogant.

The other magazine, "Linux Magazin" had more technical articles, some of which might have been worth reading. But I prefer electronic stuff for Linux topics, not paper.