Customer Reviews:
 Best Mag out there June 17, 2009
Andrew J. Mace (Middleburg, FL)
I agree with others, Best Linux Magazine out there, you will get a lot for you money. But it is a lot of your $$.
The Best Linux Magazine Available September 7, 2009
CarolinaWiccan
I've purchased several Linux magazines over the years and find myself coming back to Linux Format time and again, from the bookstore even, regardless of the the price. But what people I don't think realize is that the magazine is not published in the US. Its published in Britain and is sold primarily there. So when its sold in the states it is, unfortunately, subject to the current exchange rate.
 Best Linux user magazine April 7, 2008
R. Floyd (Chapel Hill, NC USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is, in my view, the best "using Linux" magazine on the market. There's a lot of information in each issue, it's an entertaining read, and the coverage is broad enough that you're likely to learn a fair amount if you read it cover to cover.
The quality is sometimes uneven, though. The "Roundup" feature, in particular, has of late used such narrow review criteria that it feels like looking through a keyhole. The all white male editorial staff that they seem to have settled on can be annoying as well. As others have pointed out, though, the biggest negative to this magazine is the fact that it's only available in paper form with an accompanying DVD and, outside of the UK, an astonishing subscription price. I'd love to keep getting it, but have a hard time justifying to myself a subscription price that's now north of $15 US per issue. When we start talking that kind of money I'd think that I'd rather donate it to open source projects.
 Great magazine, HORRIBLE PRICING!! July 20, 2007
SBJ400 (Mt. Laurel, NJ USA)
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
There are several Linux magazines out there, but this one, Linux Format is probably #1, Linux Pro Magazine is probably #2. However, they are priced ridiculously high...about $150 to $200 per year!!! NOT BEGINNER FRIENDLY!!
It is more than about time the Linux FORMAT started offering subscriptions without the DVDs or even better - an online .PDF version to lower the costs. Until then, I will stick with the MANY online resources and FREE online magazines out there.
Linux is about freedom and being advanced...being cutting edge and thinking outside the box, yet Linux Format continues to "stay the course" and only offer a subscription with DVD. The magazines pile up, the DVDs never see the light of day (how many distros can you possibly test drive in a year for God's sake???) and your money gets wasted.
As far as I am concerned and as much as I love the writing behind Linux Format, I think the executive people behind it are ripping us all off.
from best to better April 3, 2008
L. I. Tobos (Farmington Hills, MI USA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
A couple years ago, this was the BEST source of Linux applications reviews and news from the field. Also with highly interesting tutorials, that you could NOT find somewhere else, for the pro and beginner alike. It was probably worth the high price tag. These days, the magazine kind of repeats itself, reviews of same-o apps from precedent years, most of the time not worth citing for the minor additions from rev. 0.7 to 0.8 and so on.. Also the tutorials seem to have lost some of the insight and edginess from a couple years ago- definitely not worth the price tag; especially with high bandwidth easily available in the States, you are better off sometimes just downloading your own distro's and/or huge apps. Just as a suggestion, in the spirit of yesteryear: why won't they write a cool script to parse the kernel sources, and fetch only what you need for your hardware instead of the huge 40MB plus of kernel sources? Most people would probably care for x86, and maybe ppc, seldom maybe sparc ! They could put THAT on the dvd, and renew the interest (could be fun to do, relatively easy and in the process they could add in some stellar tutorials on how they did it too ...)
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