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I've been writing for Linux Journal since 1996.

Two years ago, we were told (with zero notice) that the magazine was shutting down. This was disappointing on numerous levels, and I wrote about it here:

https://lerner.co.il/2017/12/01/sad-day-end-linux-journal-2/

This morning, I woke up to discover that once again, Linux Journal is shutting down -- this time, for good. I'm sad for myself, but I'm also sad for the many amazing authors and editors with whom I've worked over the years. I've also met a huge number of readers at conferences at clients' offices, and I'm sorry that the magazine will no longer be around to serve them.

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Reuven you helped to turn my Python game from about a 2 to an 8 just by being a LJ subscriber for a couple of years in your At the Forge series. You introduced me to Django which was my platform mainstay for years - I still even support some deployments today. Unfortunately my LJ stash was lost in one of the many moves in my 20s but I do recall fondly looking forward to your articles as well as those by Dave Phillips. Hope you maintain a great presence on the web and keep up the good work.

Thanks so much for your kind words.

wait, i was literally just reading from something else posted on HN about the 'resurrection' of Linux Journal and how they were bought by some company and had a plan for not repeating their previous mistakes ......

i'm confused af at this point. Is it closed or not ???

Closed two years ago. Resurrected a few months later.

Closed (again, finally) yesterday.

Many thanks for your writing, Reuven! I learned so much from LJ over the years, and was proud to contribute a few stories since the reincarnation.

It's my great pleasure.

Reuven - I think we've met briefly at ILUG in 1994-1995 (I just started using Linux at work (SLS then Slackware then RedHat) and it was a lot of fun. Also, support for Cyrillic was all around the place, so I ended up writing a Cyrillic HOWTO :-) It's been a pleasure reading your article and also to observe the slow migration from Perl to Python and so on...

Thanks so much! I remember having to deal with Cyrillic on a project years ago... Unicode has made things so much easier! (And harder.)

Do you think some of the same content might make it to other publications, or will most of the writers stop producing Linux articles?

I'm going to keep blogging and writing my free, weekly Better Developers newsletter about Python and related technologies. (Not the same circulation as LJ, but more than 13k subscribers.)

I don't know about the others, but I hope they continue writing, as well.

Can you please link your newsletter subscription link here?

It's here http://lerner.co.il/newsletter

Doc Searls said on Twitter that the magazine might continue "as a labor of love." We'll see what that means.

Meanwhile, there are two commercial magazines still focused on Linux: Linux Format in the UK and Linux Pro, based in Germany, but also published in the US. I'm planning to submit the stories that were in the LJ publication pipeline to these places, but you probably won't get as much information. The regenerated LJ allowed writers to go much deeper than elsewhere.

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