Linux Journal
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Linux Journal is a monthly magazine published by Specialized Systems Consultants (SSC) of Seattle, first published in March 1994.
Linux Journal publishes articles on all levels of developing and using Linux and the software that runs on it, including everything from how to write device drivers to how to edit photos with The Gimp.
Most articles are fairly technical, and it helps to have a working knowledge of C to get the most out of it. Linux Journal does run some user-level and business articles in every issue, and sections called "Up Front" and "EOF" tend to be less technical. The Linux Journal web site has the entire magazine archive available to subscribers and articles from older issues and some online-only content available to all.
The current Editor in Chief of Linux Journal is Nicholas Petreley.
Doc Searls is one of Linux Journal
Garrick
Sometimes in an article you will see instructions for "Garrick". They look something like this: "Garrick, please kern the double underscores in listing 2." Garrick was a low-level drone that mysteriously dissapeared at the end of the dot-com bubble. Rumour has it, when his stocks took a tumble... well, so did he. However, nobody in the lumbering corporate behemoth that is "Linux Journal" believes that he's really gone. Now, all we see are little notes to Garrick to remind us of him, whilst the staff are soldiering on, hoping that one day Garrick will return from his power lunch with a new nerf gun, ready for a solid bit of copy-work in the afternoon.
Examples:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7426
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7778
http://interactive.linuxjournal.com/article/7108
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