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I bought a Linux Magazine from 2000! (slrpnk.net)
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Recently came across this magazine from the Linux Format on a second hand vintage shop and obviously had to go for it! These magazines are still produced these to this day btw. However, when I went to linuxformat.com after receiving my magazine to check out some of their other ones, I saw that they were in fact just celebrating their 25-year anniversary and have put out a digital version of the very magazine I bought - for everyone to view digitally!

Their announcement:

25-years ago in this month of May, back in 2000 (just after the giant Y2K meltdown that flipped every plane upsidedown) Linux Format was first published. To help celebrate and remember this momentous pinnacle of publishing prowess (and while we still have server access) we'll be popping out a few classic issues of Linux Format in PDF format. As we already have it to hand here's issue LXF001 with a very young looking Nick Veitch.

The magazine can be found digitally at: https://linuxformat.com/files/pdfs/LXF001.pdf

Either way, I had no idea of the timing but thought it was a fun experience and worthy to share here. Enjoy a step back into memory-lane!

Have a great rest of your day!

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[–] a14o@feddit.org 33 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Red Hat 8/10
Debian 9/10
Mandrake 10/10
Caldera 8/10
SuSe 8/10

Well, that's settled then!

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Mandrake makes a hypnotic gest.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 21 points 2 days ago

https://www.theregister.com/2000/07/31/ms_ballmer_linux_is_communism/

MS' Ballmer: Linux is communism

Steve Ballmer was the only person to raise the issue of Linux when he wrapped up Microsoft's annual financial analysts meeting in Seattle, although he put Sun and Oracle ahead in terms of being stronger competitors. They of course are 'civilised' competitors - but the Linux crowd, in the world of Prez Steve, are communists.

All the comrades we made along the way.

[–] dutchkimble@lemy.lol 2 points 1 day ago

Thanks for that link, fun to read this! Full nostalgia attack

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Op: I run Definite Linux btw!
Well, it probably still runs, although some recent hardware will be unsupported.

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 days ago (2 children)

5 pounds for a magazine in 2000 seems incredibly expensive!

[–] bufalo1973@lemm.ee 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Now it's £8

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Damn, it must include a lot of CDs

[–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Someone needs to return grandpa to the nursing home, he's off his meds again and blabbering nonsense...

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 days ago

Nothing like cracking open a fresh magazine after leaving empty milk bottles at the door for pickup!

[–] Whelks_chance@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It was pretty niche, most magazine racks in a corner shop would only carry a few of them.

There was a sort of rule at the time, for people with cd burners in their PCs. You would charge people for the 3-4 CDs which e.g. mandrake came on, but wouldn't charge them for the time or software itself. So you'd "buy Linux" from your friends friend for a few quid.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It was pretty niche

That's odd to read; during the very early years of my exposure to Linux, a lot of what I learned was learned by going to my local Barnes & Noble and browsing the 2-3 Linux magazines, primarily this one, they had prominently displayed in the periodicals section.

[–] Whelks_chance@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I mean Linux magazines in general were pretty niche, not all corner shops had them. I had to go to larger newsagents and decide which one had the most tempting cd on the cover that month.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Fair enough.

[–] GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Was that in 2000? My own vague memory was that Linux started picking up some steam in the early 2000's and then branched out to a new audience shortly after Firefox and Ubuntu hit the scene around 2004, and actually saw some adoption when Windows XP's poor security and Windows Vista's poor hardware support started breaking things.

So depending on the year, you could both be right.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Honestly, I don't remember for sure, but probably approximately then.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago

£5 in 2000.. What kind of stuff is in this? Saw it in a shop before and it looked pretty expensive to me. Never really bought magazines.

[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 day ago

!unexpectedfactorial@sopuli.xyz

[–] Chee_Koala@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Awwww, it doesn't even say "This is the year of the Linux desktop!"

[–] ramble81@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago

25 years later and they’re still saying that!

[–] PetteriPano@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ahh. 2000.

When Alpha and Transmeta was the future. No more of this Intel and AMD crap.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

It was the year of the Linux desktop!

[–] drspod@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 days ago

Holy crap I had this issue. Seeing the cover just instantly hit me with the nostalgia.

[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago

Back in 2000, we had RedHat at school. I bought a boxed copy of Mandrake Linux from a software store back then and installed it on my home PC back then because I didn't know how to get it otherwise.

It was a great distro with tons of great applications and graphical tools. Then eventually moved to Ubuntu in 2004 and I've been with them ever since.

[–] Jayjader@jlai.lu 3 points 2 days ago

The magazine coming with a free operating system is something that will probably never happen again. Wild to think about.

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

How do I subscribe to this?

[–] gigachad@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Open Source? What does it all mean and is it a Good Thing? I am so confused about all of this :(

[–] Sunny@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What are yiu confused about? Its just an article discussing what it is what it means.

[–] gigachad@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

I was joking. I know what Open Source is and I think it is a good thing.

[–] American_Jesus@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago

makes me willing to configure my monitor on XFree86

[–] WolfmanEightySix@piefed.social 1 points 2 days ago

I think we’d all come across that magazine.