Taking anything for granted is dangerous, so Jonni Bidwell and Mike Saunders revisit how the free software movement got started to help free us from proprietary tyranny!
300 issues of Linux Format
TIMELINE
Prehistory – Linux Answers In late 1999, Future plc published a one-off magazine. This was borne off the back of the success of the nowclosed PC Answers and PC Plus [the flashbacks! – ed]. All we’ll say is that this was successful enough to launch a monthly magazine…
May 2000 – Linux Format #1 Renaming the title in line with Future’s most successful print magazines, Amiga Format and PC Format, Linux Format was released with editor Nick Veitch of Amiga Format fame and writing talent from PC Plus mag. It came with a CD and was an instant hit.
April 2001 – LXF013 The beginning of a new century called for new media, so the DVD age finally hit Linux Format! On the first LXFDVD you could find SuSE Linux 7.1 and Red Hat 7.0.
May 2001 – LXF014 First a DVD and next an all-new look for LXF! The first redesign of the magazine cemented favourites such as HotPicks, Roundup and Answers. The International Space Station was in the Linux news and AMD64 was on the cards.
May 2002 – LXF027 This issue saw the longawaited results of the reader-voted Linux Format Awards 2001. Mozilla won and Apache, too, while Mandrake picked up best distribution.