[GTALUG] Linux Journal, RIP

Lennart Sorensen lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca
Wed Dec 6 12:20:46 EST 2017


On Tue, Dec 05, 2017 at 07:59:16PM -0500, Stewart C. Russell via talk wrote:
> Looks like last month was their last month of even digital publication:
> 
> https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/linux-journal-ceases-publication
> 
> Jason Scott has saved everything he can on archive.org:
> 
> https://archive.org/details/linuxjournalmagazine
> 
> Looks like he could use some help creating tables of contents for all
> the issues, though:
> 
>     So, next bit. I took the table of contents from a page on the site
>     to generate the table of contents here:
>     https://archive.org/details/Linux-Journal-2011-06 - so,
>     unfortunately, this has to be done for each issue. Any brave soul
>     want to do this task?
> 
>     — @jscott : https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/938198975982850048
> 
> I'm sure it would be an amusing SMOP for someone on the list, and
> Jason's good people to work with.
> archive.org's Python interface is pretty powerful, too —
> https://internetarchive.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

That's unfortunate.

Well I decided to buy their digital archive download ($11.99 US).
Every issue from 1994 to 2017 for US$11.99 seemed worth it.

It appears to contain all the articles as html files.

-- 
Len Sorensen


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