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iX magazine Launches English Test Issue 13

Posted by timothy from the ausgezeichnet dept.
An anonymous reader writes "The German iX magazine is probably the one targeting the most knowledgable audience of system administrators and 'IT professionals.' They focus on Linux, UNIX and Windows NT. For all those who are interested in the magazine but don't understand German, there's now a free English pilot issue available online."
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iX magazine Launches English Test Issue

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  • Highly recommended (Score:5, Informative)

    by doc modulo ( 568776 ) on Tuesday November 09, 2004 @10:04PM (#10773204)
    Sister magazine of C'T (Computer Technik) which is in German and Dutch.

    C'T is the highest quality computer magazine I've read. Proof of German "grundlichkeit" (thoroughness). Not only in-depth but an amazing amount of reading material every 2 weeks. I don't know how they do it.

    Anyway, if C'T is any indication of iX's quality, you should buy it if you're into networking and servers. It may be a bit dryer to read than C'T but that's because I wasn't into servers when I read 1 edition a long time ago. Also comes with the territory of servers I guess.

    At least check out the free edition.
    • There is no question that c't is one of the best computer magazines on the planet in either German or English -- can't speak for the other languages (no pun intended), but I would be surprised if there is anything on the planet quite like them. In fact, I would rate them right up there with the best in terms of journalistic quality: They pull no punches, are thorough, well-written, and you can use their backgrounders as textbooks. These people seriously know their stuff and I for years I have been following
    • They would do well to work on translating c't and not iX into English. Now that I no longer live in Germany, I'd love to get it again.

  • Contents, to know whether the download is worth it (Score:3, Informative)

    by Phouk ( 118940 ) on Tuesday November 09, 2004 @10:40PM (#10773434)
    COVER STORY:
    - SQL:2003: including XML and administration of external data

    TESTLAB:
    - Suse Linux Enterprise Server 9
    - Middcor.Net: .Net cooperating with J2EE and CORBA
    - Server Management: Tatung's TUD 4010 and Fujitsu-Siemens-Computers' BX 600

    REPORT:
    - Programming lightweight, powerful clients
    - Software components in the .Net framework
    - ITIL for better IT

    KNOW-HOW:
    - Schema language Relax NG
    - Jakarta offshoot Slide

    HANDS-ON:
    - Doctype switching decides rendering of (X)HTML
    - Hard disk management under Linux

    Some NEWS, mostly conference reports
    (Siggraph, Linux fair, 60th IETF meeting,
    KDE Community World Summit, CHES 2004 Crypto-conference)

    P.S.: I read iX only from time to time, because it's not my main area of interest.
    But the articles are IMHO of good technical depth and detail, and thoroughly researched.

  • This is dead-tree magazine is worth reading (Score:3, Informative)

    by larkost ( 79011 ) on Tuesday November 09, 2004 @10:54PM (#10773531)
    I have been borrowing issues from a German friend who has them shipped over here to the US, and I have got to say that it is a good magazine. Good solid reviews, and the articles are worth reading. They are linux and MacOS X friendly (but the focus is still Windows), and I did not get the feeling that they were swayed by any of the companies they reviewed (unlike say, CNet...). I would actually consider getting a dead-tree edition of this magazine in print form, which I never thought I would do for another computer magazine.

  • Question of target... (Score:3, Interesting)

    by Kevin Burtch ( 13372 ) on Wednesday November 10, 2004 @01:00AM (#10774184)
    ...probably the one targeting the most knowledgable audience of system administrators and 'IT professionals.'

    I guess the person who submitted this has never seen a copy of SysAdmin [samag.com] magazine.

    Seriously, from everything I've always heard about this magazine, I was expecting something more along the lines of SysAdmin... it turns out a better comparison would be InfoWorld [infoworld.com], a wonderful magazine, but a considerably different market.

    SysAmin is targeted at the hardcore system administrator and system architects, where InforWorld (and possibly iX) appear to be more suited for IT managers _as_well_as_ system administrators and system architects.

    Either way you look at it, I applaud their willingness to finally produce an english language version... I'm sure it will be very popular!
    I, for one, will be reading it.

    • iX focuses not only on administration but tries to cover everything which is to arcane for c't. There are however German magazines targeted at iIT administrators. I'm writing for a quite new one with the ingenious name IT-Administrator [it-administrator.de] . Of course not as mature as SysAdmin but trying hard not to suck.

      • Very cool... have you considered an english version?

        I noticed that some of the texts linked to are in english (like the sed & awk one-liners).

        • Thanks.
          Most of the tidbits featured in our newsletter and on the site are just useful apps an resources from other people. I'm trying to find interesting and useful stuff. If you'd do a thorough research you might notice taht many of the featured apps were featured at Slashdot or Freshmeat shortly before :-)
          However we are not planning on doing English translations because we don't have too much time.
  • I couldn't help but notice that they are not able satisfactorily to explain what a Hrung is, nor why it should choose to collapse on Betelgeuse Seven.

    Must be the babelfish translation.

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