Episode: 2076
Title: HPR2076: What Magazines I read Part 1
Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr2076/hpr2076.mp3
Transcribed: 2025-10-18 14:00:52

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Hi this is Tony Hughes for HECK Public Radio. I'm trying to do a show once a month or so and
I was thinking of ideas that might be of interest to the listeners out there.
While there are regular shows on what's on my podcatcher, I've never heard one about what
magazines that people in the HPR community like to read.
With the advent of digital media and subscription service such as Issue, Magster, Google Play
News stand and I'm sure many others which offer both free and subscription content.
I'm sure many of you like me have quite a number of magazines that you regularly read
and some you dip into from time to time.
So this show is about magazines I like to read.
First I'd like to say that to facilitate regular reading of digital media, I feel for me
a 10-inch tablet is the smallest format for comfortable reading.
Although for those of you with young enough eyesight to be able to read small fonts with
no difficulty, you may feel different.
However, my tablet of choice is the 12-inch Samsung SMP 900 which I purchased in February
2015.
My only gripe with this tablet is I'll probably never get Android 6 on it as it's now
over two years since the original release.
While I agree with Apple that the 4 by 3 screen configuration for reading on a tablet
is more user friendly, I cannot bring myself to spend that kind of money or to be tied
into the Apple ecosystem.
So what magazines do I actually read?
First one is Linux Voice.
This is a Linux magazine that was set up a couple of years ago by some of the former
Editorial team from the Linux format magazine after a successful Kickstarter campaign.
Good content for and about Linux and the Linux community and they support the community
by distributing 50% of their annual profits back to the open source community after a
ballad of readers.
They also release issues of the magazine with a Creative Commons license nine months after
publication.
This is the only magazine I currently have a paper subscription to and it also comes with
a DRM free PDF copy for subscribers.
Another magazine which I've already mentioned Linux format is one of the regular magazines
I read on a digital subscription service.
It's similar content to Linux Voice without quite the same community philosophy, but it's
still very good publication.
The next magazine that I've been reading for an awful long time is my Cromart.
This is a more general computer magazine that started in 1985 as a place where you could
buy and sell computers and components, but it's now a more of a regular weekly magazine
format with news, reviews and articles about all things computer and technology related.
As I said in my journey to Linux show, this was the magazine that introduced me to Linux
in the late 90s early 2000s and they still have a regular Linux page and regular Raspberry
Pi and other Linux related content.
My next magazine is the MagPine magazine.
This is the official monthly magazine of the Raspberry Pi community and as you will have
worked out, it's focused on all things Raspberry Pi.
Lots of good content including news, tutorials and reviews of new peripherals for the Pi
and since being brought in house by the foundation, it has a very professional look and feel
about it.
All the content is provided by members of the Raspberry Pi community both from inside and
outside the foundation.
You can get a free Creative Commons PDF from the website or to support the foundation.
You can subscribe to both print and digital copies if you wish to.
The last two magazines I want to talk about are community magazines about Linux.
The first one, the full circle magazine, is an Ubuntu magazine for all things about Ubuntu
Linux and its derivatives.
They carry news of what's happening in the world of Ubuntu and articles and tutorials
of how to use Linux software for both the beginner and more experienced users.
This is a Creative Commons magazine and can be downloaded free from the website in both
PDF and eBook formats.
PC Linux OS magazine is a similar magazine to the full circle magazine and it has similar
content with the aim of helping users of the distro to get the most of it that they can
again, available as Creative Commons PDF from the website.
That's about it for this episode.
I'll cover some of the other magazines that I read in a future episode.
Some of them aren't necessarily Linux or computer related but maybe of interest to listeners.
So for now, goodbye.
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