Thanks for All the Fish, Linux Format

posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 29, 2025

Today's hot - albeit saddening - news is that "Linux Format Magazine Ends with Issue 329" and people who once wrote for it (or for other magazines) comment on the importance of this news, with one stating: "Linux Format Magazine ends publication after 25 years - joining Linux Journal, Ubuntu User, Maximum Linux and many other now-dead Linux publications."

The same goes for many "Linux" podcasts.

In Issue 138 (December 2010) there was an article about us and I was on the cover page:

I still have a physical copy somewhere. Tim (from TechBytes) gave it to me. █

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