The Linux Gazette is a monthly Linux webzine, which is a part of the Linux Documentation Project, and published by SSC, publishers of Linux Journal. It is a sister webzine of Linux Focus. It was started in 1995 by John M. Fisk, and is covered by the Open Publication License
One way the Linux Gazette differs from other, similar, webzines (and magazines) is The Answer Gang. As well as providing a regular page devoted to questions and answers, questions to The Answer Gang are answered on a mailing list, and the subsequent conversations are edited and published as conversations.
With its motto, "Making Linux just a little more fun", the magazine have always had a finger on the pulse of Linux's open, collaborating and sharing culture.
Fisk transferred the management of the Linux Gazette to SSC (under Phil Hughes) in 1996 in order to pursue medical studies, on the understanding that the publication would continue to be open, free and non-commercial.
In October 2003, the Linux Gazette split into two competing groups; SSC decided to use a CMS, making the Linux Gazette site similar to that of Linux Journal, the company's main magazine. This change was resisted by The Answer Gang--which includes the Gazette's editors and many of its regular authors--who have decided to continue the Linux Gazette in its original form. SSC has attempted to assert trade mark claims over the publication, which have been resisted by the Answer Gang.
See also: Computer magazine
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