Linux Format free to download for 24 hours only

Posted at 11:59pm on Tuesday March 3rd 2009

As promised, we hosted a full high-res copy of the latest Linux Format magazine right now. Sadly, it was for 24 hours only, and you were too slow!

Still, we have some other incredible content you might want to read, not least of which are these five:

Note that the Linux Starter Pack is available only as a low-res PDF. If you'd like to see it made available as a high-res torrent, let us know in the comments below.

Answers to predictable questions

Are you going to be putting this issue online again?

No, sorry - you missed your chance.

I downloaded it. Can I give it to my friends?

Sure. There's no DRM, so you can give it to as many friends as you like.

Is it true the issue is now on The Pirate Bay?

We wouldn't know. We wouldn't recommend you go and search there for yourself. And we certainly wouldn't recommend you download it from there to enjoy the issue at your leisure. Come to think of it, we don't even know what The Pirate Bay even is.

I've searched and searched and can't find this anywhere!

Just post on a forum - over 21,000 people downloaded the high-res PDFs (and thousand more snagged the low-res PDFs), so you're bound to find someone who will share them with you.

Can I buy Linux Format in the US/Australia/Canada/Outer Mongolia?

Linux Format is on-sale worldwide every four weeks. Yes that includes the US. Yes that includes Australia and Canada. Yes, that even includes Wales. Not Outer Mongolia though - sorry! You can find find more information on buying LXF, including information on your nearest stockist if you're in the US, by clicking here.

If you can't find an issue, or if you just happen to feel like saving a huge amount of money, take a look at the price of a subscription - we think you'll be pleasantly surprised, particularly if you're in the US.

Note that all our subscriptions come with free access to over 1200 PDFs from our back issue archive.

Thanks to everyone who helped spread the word about this offer - keep your eyes peeled, because there's a lot more to come...

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Your comments

Thanks!

Jehster (not verified) - March 4, 2009 @ 4:52pm

Must admit I've never heard of this magazine before, much less read it. I'm going to hop on though so I can check it out. Thanks!

شكراً

Anonymous Penguin (not verified) - March 4, 2009 @ 5:08pm

شكراً لكم .. من مصر

Go Linux Format.

Bojan Kovačec (not verified) - March 4, 2009 @ 5:17pm

Thnx.

Thanks!

Anonymous Penguin (not verified) - March 4, 2009 @ 5:58pm

Thanks for the free issue! I live in the US and am ill so can't afford $180 a year for a subscription, or the $17 an issue at Barnes and Noble, but love the magazine and usually end up flipping through it a bit too long at the bookstore when I can find it, gotta thank you for this freebie! Not so secretly, I would also love the option to buy pdfs over the web like many others (and that You Can Code! special edition that sold out would be nice to have too, while I'm at it!), but in another world where I don't have cancer or at least get to remission and could start work again, I'd just buy myself a darn subscription already. Thanks for making not being able to afford your magazine slightly more tolerable this month!

Why the multiple PDF's

Pengeek (not verified) - March 4, 2009 @ 6:41pm

Why couldn't you have made just one PDF?
It's a very messy implementaion with multiple files like that.

I´m also seeding as fast as

Anonymous Penguin (not verified) - March 4, 2009 @ 6:42pm

I´m also seeding as fast as i can!

Digital download would be great

Anonymous Penguin (not verified) - March 4, 2009 @ 7:30pm

Digital download would be great. Here in the land of ubiquitous connectivity I don't need or want CD's or DVD's so I don't understand why they are still in this mag. Should be an option to buy without the media! =)

lzma :P

RealNC (not verified) - March 4, 2009 @ 8:00pm

Next time (OK, there won't be a "next time" but whatever :D) you might want to try lzma instead of zip lol.

Thanks for doing this! This

Anonymous Penguin (not verified) - March 4, 2009 @ 9:27pm

Thanks for doing this! This was a screaming fast torrent for me, using the Rtorrent client (no wussy gui's for me!). I'll keep seeding for till it's over.

Downloading it now.. I'd

Spiro Harvey (not verified) - March 4, 2009 @ 9:56pm

Downloading it now.. I'd have preferred a direct dl as I'm at work, but that probably would have killed their servers and their bandwidth.

Here in New Zealand, LXF is either 3 or 4 months old by the time it hits the shelves (and still costs about NZ$20) or it's air freighted and costs over NZ$40.

The reality for me is that if my news is more than a few days old, it's typically useless, and the articles in print mags tend to be reviews, 90% of which I don't care about.

LXF have online goodies for subscribers to the print mag, but I would like to see an online-only subscription model for Linux mags. Look at LWN.net. Jon Corbet charges a small monthly fee that gives subscribers access to articles in advance. Once they're a couple of weeks old, they are available to be read for free by anyone.

Even if LXF's paid-articles weren't released free later, or not until months later, that would still be preferable. I would pay for a subscription for timely articles. Of course, the news would probably be irrelevant as punters would get it from a million other sites -- your same sources. But if the monthly price was under the cover price, then many people would subscribe.

Thanks Mehall.co.cc for the zip

Deborah (not verified) - March 4, 2009 @ 10:02pm

I am currently between Linux distributions, so thanks for the zip file.

I did install the BitTorrent Windows client and will explore it later.

And thanks Linux Format mag.

Thank you Linux Format

Derek Murphy (not verified) - March 4, 2009 @ 10:44pm

Thank you very much for the PDF version.

I will, however, *buy*the*magazine* when it arrives at my local newsstand, and keep the PDF version to show (on my notebook) to newcomers to Linux.

Why buy what I already have? Because nothing beats print for being able to browse, especially when away from a computer.
Oh, and the magazine will join the more than 100 others I already have. (I just buy from the newsstand, so I've missed a couple.)

Alas, I've never found a PDF reader that allows me to read electronic files the way I do paper documents; dog-ear certain pages, use the inserts as bookmarks, and so on.

Maybe I'm just too old...

Thanks

Andy Savin (not verified) - March 5, 2009 @ 12:00am

Thanks for this.

A nice idea.

As a few people have said already a paper copy still has it's place but for quick reference and convenience a PDF on the desktop doesn't go a miss.

Keep up the good work.

You suck at promoting, but

Anonymous Penguin (not verified) - March 5, 2009 @ 1:19am

You suck at promoting, but this magazine is very enjoyable!

Hi-res :: Yes, please.

Penguin no.44 (not verified) - March 5, 2009 @ 4:43am

I'd love to see your Linux Starter Pack in high-res made available as a torrent.

Thanks in advance!

I'd like to add my voice

Ugly_spud (not verified) - March 5, 2009 @ 8:28am

for a hi-res cersion of the linux starter pack too :D

How can i get it now?

Magesh (not verified) - March 5, 2009 @ 9:58am

How can i get it now?

Re: Can't Find $99/yr Deal

TuxRadar - March 5, 2009 @ 10:03am

Sorry - admin error! Try now - just choose USA from the country drop down.

$99 Deal Works Now

Anonymous Penguin (not verified) - March 5, 2009 @ 5:21pm

OK, I'm your newest subscriber!

Since I'm in a complaining mood, here's one more piece of feedback: the "opt-out" checkboxes in your signup procedure are a little convoluted:

"Linux Format and Future Publishing Ltd would like to contact you with offers and opportunities. Please tick here if you would prefer to receive these messages: by email __ by sms __
If you do not wish to hear from us about other relevant offers please tick here: by post __ by phone __

Our partners sometimes have special offers that we think you will find relevant, please tick here if you would prefer to receive these messages: by email __ by sms __
Please tick here if you would prefer not to hear from our partners: by post __ by phone __"

I suppose anyone who would pay to subscribe to your magazine is probably logical enough to figure out which boxes to check, but I'm always happier when you "Don't Make Me Think!"

Linux Starter Pack & LF Digital Subscription

Future Publishing Fan (not verified) - March 5, 2009 @ 9:29pm

I've been a Future Publishing reader and fan since the old (and good) days of Amiga Format and Amiga Shopper magazines! Unfortunately Future Publishing magazines are no longer available here in Brazil, probably because they would be very expensive.
An option would be to subscribe to it but there is always a risk of missing issues and the usual delay to receive them. So I would like to suggest to you to sell a digital subscription for Linux Format magazine, just like the Linux Journal magazine does, preferably with no DRM (although I would even accept a DRM protection scheme like Zinio uses in their magazines).
Also please make the Linux Starter Pack available in Hi-Res format via bittorrent!
Thank you!
BR,

Thanks guys

Phylum - August 11, 2009 @ 5:47am

Even though I didn't made it to the PDFs, I still have access to tonnes of resources from the links you provided.

Thankyou to LXF team.
I'm going to buy the magazine issues more often!

Linux Format free to download for 24 hours only

Answers to predictable questions

Your comments

Thanks!

شكراً

Go Linux Format.

Thanks!

Why the multiple PDF's

I´m also seeding as fast as

Digital download would be great

lzma :P

Thanks for doing this! This

Downloading it now.. I'd

Thanks Mehall.co.cc for the zip

Thank you Linux Format

Thanks

You suck at promoting, but

Hi-res :: Yes, please.

I'd like to add my voice

How can i get it now?

Re: Can't Find $99/yr Deal

$99 Deal Works Now

Linux Starter Pack & LF Digital Subscription

Thanks guys

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