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Episode: 2076
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Title: HPR2076: What Magazines I read Part 1
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr2076/hpr2076.mp3
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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
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I was thinking of ideas that might be of interest to the listeners out there.
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While there are regular shows on what's on my podcatcher, I've never heard one about what
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magazines that people in the HPR community like to read.
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With the advent of digital media and subscription service such as Issue, Magster, Google Play
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News stand and I'm sure many others which offer both free and subscription content.
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I'm sure many of you like me have quite a number of magazines that you regularly read
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and some you dip into from time to time.
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So this show is about magazines I like to read.
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First I'd like to say that to facilitate regular reading of digital media, I feel for me
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a 10-inch tablet is the smallest format for comfortable reading.
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Although for those of you with young enough eyesight to be able to read small fonts with
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no difficulty, you may feel different.
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However, my tablet of choice is the 12-inch Samsung SMP 900 which I purchased in February
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2015.
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My only gripe with this tablet is I'll probably never get Android 6 on it as it's now
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over two years since the original release.
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While I agree with Apple that the 4 by 3 screen configuration for reading on a tablet
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is more user friendly, I cannot bring myself to spend that kind of money or to be tied
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into the Apple ecosystem.
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So what magazines do I actually read?
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First one is Linux Voice.
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This is a Linux magazine that was set up a couple of years ago by some of the former
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Editorial team from the Linux format magazine after a successful Kickstarter campaign.
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Good content for and about Linux and the Linux community and they support the community
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by distributing 50% of their annual profits back to the open source community after a
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ballad of readers.
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They also release issues of the magazine with a Creative Commons license nine months after
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publication.
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This is the only magazine I currently have a paper subscription to and it also comes with
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a DRM free PDF copy for subscribers.
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Another magazine which I've already mentioned Linux format is one of the regular magazines
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I read on a digital subscription service.
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It's similar content to Linux Voice without quite the same community philosophy, but it's
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still very good publication.
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The next magazine that I've been reading for an awful long time is my Cromart.
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This is a more general computer magazine that started in 1985 as a place where you could
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buy and sell computers and components, but it's now a more of a regular weekly magazine
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format with news, reviews and articles about all things computer and technology related.
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As I said in my journey to Linux show, this was the magazine that introduced me to Linux
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in the late 90s early 2000s and they still have a regular Linux page and regular Raspberry
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Pi and other Linux related content.
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My next magazine is the MagPine magazine.
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This is the official monthly magazine of the Raspberry Pi community and as you will have
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worked out, it's focused on all things Raspberry Pi.
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Lots of good content including news, tutorials and reviews of new peripherals for the Pi
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and since being brought in house by the foundation, it has a very professional look and feel
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about it.
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All the content is provided by members of the Raspberry Pi community both from inside and
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outside the foundation.
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You can get a free Creative Commons PDF from the website or to support the foundation.
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You can subscribe to both print and digital copies if you wish to.
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The last two magazines I want to talk about are community magazines about Linux.
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The first one, the full circle magazine, is an Ubuntu magazine for all things about Ubuntu
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Linux and its derivatives.
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They carry news of what's happening in the world of Ubuntu and articles and tutorials
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of how to use Linux software for both the beginner and more experienced users.
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This is a Creative Commons magazine and can be downloaded free from the website in both
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PDF and eBook formats.
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PC Linux OS magazine is a similar magazine to the full circle magazine and it has similar
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content with the aim of helping users of the distro to get the most of it that they can
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again, available as Creative Commons PDF from the website.
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That's about it for this episode.
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I'll cover some of the other magazines that I read in a future episode.
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Some of them aren't necessarily Linux or computer related but maybe of interest to listeners.
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So for now, goodbye.
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We are a community podcast network that releases shows every weekday Monday through Friday.
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Today's show, like all our shows, was contributed by an HPR listener like yourself.
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how easy it really is.
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If you have comments on today's show, please email the host directly, leave a comment
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on the website or record a follow-up episode yourself.
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Unless otherwise stated, today's show is released on the Creative Commons' Attribution
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ShareLive 3.0 license.
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