3d ago

I bought a Linux Magazine from 2000!

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!

Linux @programming.dev

cm0002 @lemmy.world

3d ago

I [they] bought a Linux Magazine from 2000!

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Red Hat 8/10
Debian 9/10
Mandrake 10/10
Caldera 8/10
SuSe 8/10
Well, that's settled then!
- Mandrake makes a hypnotic gest.

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.

5 pounds for a magazine in 2000 seems incredibly expensive!
- Now it's £8
  
  Damn, it must include a lot of CDs
- 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.
  
  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.

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

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

£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.

Awwww, it doesn't even say "This is the year of the Linux desktop!"
- 25 years later and they’re still saying that!

!unexpectedfactorial@sopuli.xyz

Ahh. 2000.
When Alpha and Transmeta was the future. No more of this Intel and AMD crap.
- It was the year of the Linux desktop!

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

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.

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

How do I subscribe to this?
- https://linuxformat.com/

Open Source? What does it all mean and is it a Good Thing? I am so confused about all of this :(
- What are yiu confused about? Its just an article discussing what it is what it means.
  
  I was joking. I know what Open Source is and I think it is a good thing.

makes me willing to configure my monitor on XFree86

I think we’d all come across that magazine.

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

MS' Ballmer: Linux is communism