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Re: [LUG] Free Linux Format PDF

 

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jon.davey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Tom Potts writes:
>> On Wednesday 04 March 2009 09:15, Gordon Henderson wrote:
>>> On Tue, 3 Mar 2009, Rob Beard wrote:
>>>> Hi folks,
>>> This came up on the Ubuntu-UK mailing list...
>>>> http://www.tuxradar.com/content/linux-format-free-download-24-hours-only
>>> It seems that at midnight you'll be able to download a free PDF of the
>>>> current issue* of Linux Format for free.
>>> Does anyone else here find it a bit weird that it's supplied as a ZIP file
>>> rather than tar.gz (or tar.bz2?)
>> PDF,ZIP, very expensive mag about free software...
>> doesn't sound inaproprietary to me...
>> Tom te tom te tom 
>>
> ..I just downloaded it and apparently it's a torrent file?
> Jon 
> 
> 
i dragged / dropped it into ktorrent,  however despite the good
intentions of linux format people not to have people copy it,  once
downloaded it auto seeds.

perhaps they should have simply had a pdf download.

Paul

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