Subj : Re: Linux Format PDF
To   : hyjinx
From : boraxman
Date : Thu May 22 2025 10:54 pm

On 22 May 2025 at 07:04p, hyjinx pondered and said...
 
 hy>  bo> I've got quite a few Linux Format magazines, and probably still have 
 hy>  bo> the coverdisks.
 hy>  bo> Linux Format is where my Linux journey started.  With the very first 
 hy>  bo> Format magazine from 2000, where they had Definite Linux 7.0 as the c
 hy>  bo> With just that magazine and the coverdisk, I started playing around w
 hy>  bo> OS I knew almost nothing about.
 hy> 
 hy> Your experience is very much like mine boraxman!
 hy> 
 hy> I pre-date you ever so slightly, with Linux Answers, the godfather of
 hy> Linux Format. It lasted 1 press before becoming Linux Format, IIRC. On
 hy> the coverdisc was Red Hat Linux 9.. or maybe it was Corel Linux .. I
 hy> forget.
 hy> 
 hy> The crazy thing is, Linux Format issue one came out on the 5th May 2000,
 hy> making it exactly 25 years ago. I feel old. Very old.
 hy> 

Ahh yes, it is May 2000.  Wasn't sure of the month, but I bought it on a Friday evening in September.  It probably would have been Corel Linux.  Red Hat Linux was still at 6.2 I think at that time.

What I like, is many of the programs I ran back then, still worked.  Little things like oneko, xsnow, xpenguins, FVWM, xeyes, etc.

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