Linux Format wallpapers

Posted at 4:43pm on Wednesday July 28th 2010
LXF

Updated: We've had a number of reader requests to make available some of the imagery we use in Linux Format magazine. Naturally we're happy to share with you all, so we've put this page online where we'll upload artwork as it's requested.

The URL for this page is fixed so you can come back here and check for updates later. As with our podcast, we're releasing this artwork under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0, so feel free to monkey with it if you want.

LXF117

Download widescreen (1920x1200)

Download regular (1600x1200)

If you're a regular reader of Linux Format and there's a particular cover image you want to have as a wallpaper, send us a shout on Identi.ca or Twitter and we'll see what we can done. Please remember that we sometimes license cover imagery from third parties, and such artwork cannot be redistributed here.

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Your comments

Beauty wallpapers. Thanks.

koosha66_2nd - April 5, 2009 @ 9:20am

Beauty wallpapers. Thanks.

Fantastic Idea

The Pedagogist - April 5, 2009 @ 7:10pm

Brilliant!
Thanks very much for this simple but great gesture!
Well done LXF Towers.

Could you do them in 16:9

Anonymous Penguin (not verified) - April 5, 2009 @ 7:11pm

Could you do them in 16:9 too, my monitor is that Ratio (Sammy 2343nw)

16:9 and an odd resolution

happyfeet (not verified) - April 6, 2009 @ 4:28pm

That Samsung monitor has a pretty weird resolution too - 2048x1152

awesome

Anonymous Penguin (not verified) - April 6, 2009 @ 8:13pm

i saw a link to this on boycottnovell.com (which has THE best Free Software links of any site) and Im not a huge wallpaper guy because I have a ton of nice KDE ones but I figured Id give it a look...

Wow. And in both screen formats too.

Great publicity as well.
Never visited tuxradar or linux format before but it looks interesting..

Good to see! :)

Anonymous Penguin (not verified) - April 17, 2009 @ 1:03pm

Hi guys - it's really nice to see that you've put up this page, as you frequently have nice cover artwork on the magazine!

I'm afraid I don't use either Identi.ca or Twitter, though - would it be ok to make a request here, instead? If so, is there any chance you could put up the cover artwork from either the Christmas 2008 issue (the one with the "Build your own distro" cover), or the April 2009 one (with the "Fix Linux" cover)? :)

Thanks very much, both for setting up this page, and for a great publication in general.

Re: Good to see

TuxRadar - April 22, 2009 @ 5:18pm

We've uploaded the two covers you requested, plus a sneak preview of the cover from LXF119 - it's not on sale yet, but we think it's particularly nice :)

wonderful

YatPundit (not verified) - April 22, 2009 @ 5:39pm

thanks for these!

NetBook resolution

Anonymous Penguin (not verified) - April 23, 2009 @ 10:26am

How about some to fi the resolution of netbooks?

NetBook resolution

Anonymous Penguin (not verified) - April 23, 2009 @ 10:27am

How about some to fit the resolution of netbooks?

Forgot the t in fit.

Nothing special

jacki (not verified) - April 23, 2009 @ 12:57pm

Therefore Thanks

Thanks!

DanielBot (not verified) - April 23, 2009 @ 6:33pm

Love the "Fix Penguin" cover!

Re: linux format wallpapers

honeyjr (not verified) - April 23, 2009 @ 7:03pm

I was just wishing for this as I wanted to use the lxf117 image to have a skin made for my Asus Eee. Since people always notice my netbook, I thought I would promote Linux this way.

Thank you!

Tuxedo

Anonymous Penguin (not verified) - April 24, 2009 @ 9:53am

I enjoyed the Fix Linux cover, the penguin with the hood open. It is now my backdrop at work where I am forced to work with XP. Looks great!

Tux! I love him!

marpank (not verified) - April 24, 2009 @ 4:32pm

Tux! I love him!

Re: Re: Good to see

Anonymous Penguin (not verified) - April 27, 2009 @ 10:28pm

Thankyou so much for uploading these, guys. You've made my week. :D

Nice Wallpapers.....

Anonymous Penguin (not verified) - April 28, 2009 @ 3:05am

Is there any chance these wallpapers (and future ones) will be condensed to smaller screen resolutions (1024 X 768, 1280 X 1024, 1440 X 900)?

Resize? DIY!

Michael (not verified) - May 7, 2009 @ 6:43pm

Folks, why ask others to do for you what you can do for yourself? ImageMagick's "convert" command and GIMP's "Scale Image" will do the trick.

Twitter background

Anonymous Penguin (not verified) - May 26, 2009 @ 10:47am

I was looking for a background for my twitter page & unfortunately all of the above are fantastic for my desktop but they are too large for twitter (no larger than 800k.

Stephen

Anonymous Penguin (not verified) - June 5, 2009 @ 11:10am

Linux format desktop wallpapers are Awsome thankyou

Re: Linux Format wallpapers

bookworm1960a (not verified) - June 7, 2009 @ 6:40pm

AAA
5 Stars
A definite 10
And a big thank you from Va, USA

1680 x 1050

Andorogenous Anteater (not verified) - July 5, 2009 @ 11:04am

Any chance of you supplying these great wallpapers in 1680 x 1050 resolution? Thanks.

GRRREAT!!

Tuxedo (not verified) - July 16, 2009 @ 1:24pm

Me like!! I have had compliments at work for the LXF 'Open Hood' wallpaper that I sported. That wallpaper is now replaced with Tux smashing through what seems to be an MS logo (lxf122). Anyway, great wallpapers again!

Awesome!

TomMan - July 17, 2009 @ 7:19pm

Awesome wallpapers, I have set a slideshow in plasma to flip through them all!

Any more people too lazy to

Muzer - July 17, 2009 @ 8:50pm

Any more people too lazy to use gwenview want to request a crop/resize to a specific resolution of any of the images?

Thank You

Anonymous Penguin (not verified) - July 22, 2009 @ 3:40am

Awesome. Linux rules for sure. Goodbye Microsoft.

Thanks!

Levi (not verified) - July 29, 2009 @ 12:05pm

I love that last wallpaper, fits my M$ desktop well :P.
Plus the one with the light bulb, fits Ubuntu's brown :P.

Wonderful Stuff!

Anonymous Penguin (not verified) - August 12, 2009 @ 10:28pm

I recently picked up a copy of Linux Format in the US and have found it very helpful after installing Ubuntu Linux on my IBM laptop. Still getting used to the Linux way but have been interested in the concept for a while. Good job. Concidering subscribing soon

Thanks

From a newbi thanks

Anonymous Penguin (not verified) - August 24, 2009 @ 8:46pm

From a newbi thanks

Great work!

James (not verified) - August 25, 2009 @ 7:04pm

Was eager to get my hands on these after reading they were available in the mag - they're really smashing! I'm a newbie and I'm loving the magazine, so keep up the good work!

Thanks

The Slack to the Future one

Anonymous Penguin (not verified) - August 28, 2009 @ 2:22am

The Slack to the Future one made me groan. Shame on you guys. The rest are great.

Thanks

menthol_penguin - August 31, 2009 @ 8:50pm

Thanks for the awesome wallpapers, I love them :-)

amazing images

tux (not verified) - September 15, 2009 @ 6:52pm

The wallapers are great! I use them with desktop drapes and they are amazing. My favourite is the fix linux one. Can you do the lxf 108 mag wallpaper. i am asking here a i dont have twitter or identica

awesome, i like the last one

Anonymous Penguin (not verified) - September 18, 2009 @ 10:46am

awesome, i like the last one
thanks for your share

xie xie :)
haha

Thanks

Alex (not verified) - September 20, 2009 @ 8:09pm

Very, very cool backgrounds. Thanks.

I'm going to put a penguin on my Windows machine

KenJackson - September 28, 2009 @ 11:07am

at work. I can't put Linux on it, but I can at least make a statement.

I recommend windows ... For kind < 3yrs...

Suni (not verified) - November 9, 2009 @ 10:03am

I support windows.. If and only if it is pirated. :):)

Windows users please grow faster to Linux :):)

Regards
Suni

Thanks

Happy a Penguin (not verified) - November 24, 2009 @ 12:30pm

Yes, that's it :) This wallpapers wonderful.

Very Nice

Andy (not verified) - December 30, 2009 @ 1:40am

Thanks for these. Easily resizable/croppable to fit my eeePC and my Dell laptop

Would be great to have some

Penguinymous Anonym (not verified) - January 5, 2010 @ 8:16pm

Would be great to have some widescreen resolutions too. Like 1680X1050

Otherwise good wallpapers!

Love the picture quality

Arsenio Oliveira (not verified) - January 6, 2010 @ 2:29pm

I love the picture quality renders windows obselete.Just kidding on a more serious note Linux is REAL DEAL!

Thanks for the new 'papers!

A nony mouse Penguin (not verified) - January 6, 2010 @ 3:08pm

Just great!

Thank you

Anonymous Penguin (not verified) - January 7, 2010 @ 6:46pm

really beautiful

@ The guys who want 1680*1050

JR - January 8, 2010 @ 2:20pm

As 1680*1050 and 1900*1200 are both 19:10 scale, you should just be able to use the provided widescreen wallpapers.

Added info: 1600*1200 is 4:3, so can be used for 1024*768, 1280*1024 etc

TNX

Mintii Penguin (not verified) - January 21, 2010 @ 3:03am

They are pretty !!

Please do them on 16:9

The Morose Penguin (not verified) - March 20, 2010 @ 6:12am

Your wallpapers are great but my laptop's resolution is 1680x945 (16:9) so it's stretched if i use it. Please do them on 16:9 too.

Wow....

DaveS (not verified) - July 28, 2010 @ 9:03pm

Wow....

Aaaaaah.. Linux! ;)

Daemon_ZOGG (not verified) - July 28, 2010 @ 10:19pm

Awesome! Thanks! ;D

Nice!!!

Anonymous Penguin (not verified) - July 28, 2010 @ 10:33pm

Will I be violating any laws if I use any of these images as my background image on myspace?
I love the first one.

Re: Nice!!!

TuxRadar - July 28, 2010 @ 10:42pm

Our licence is pretty clear: please use them however you want to, commercially or otherwise, as long as you attribute them to us. That attribution has been added in the corner of the image (Linux Format), but if that's not visible for some reason then please add a text attribution saying the same.

So, go ahead and use them on MySpace if you want to, just make sure we get a mention for creating the work!

best quality linux

Anonymous Penguin (not verified) - July 29, 2010 @ 6:00am

best quality linux wallpapers

White bits

Tom Walker (not verified) - July 29, 2010 @ 12:24pm

Am I completely wrong to be concerned about having desktop wallpaper with bright white parts? I tend to avoid it for fear of screen-burn.

Is this just me being paranoid? I know for a fact that screen burn is still possible on modern TFTs as we have big plasma screens at work for our 'digital signage' and they suffer from it quite badly...

Looks great- Ubuntu

HDMan (not verified) - July 29, 2010 @ 2:56pm

Gimped the 113 wide to dark purple. Wow great!
Lance

SVG?

Eric M (not verified) - July 29, 2010 @ 3:27pm

Hey guys,

It's pretty clear that some of these are created in Inkscape or something similar. What about releasing the SVGs so it can scale to any size without any loss in quality?

Thanks!

PS Love the podcast and magazine

Re: SVG

TuxRadar - July 29, 2010 @ 3:49pm

As it turns out, none of them were created in SVG - our artists use old-fashioned methods of layering things up, with (very) occasional 3D renders. Even the fancy sky art from LXF129 was done with plain old pixels!

But the company logo?

uomosenzanome - August 2, 2010 @ 5:22pm

Shouldn't they have been released without the Linux Format logo? Or is that Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 too?

Awesome Thank you Thank

Miko (not verified) - August 5, 2010 @ 7:17pm

Awesome

Thank you

Thank You

Thank You

I notice that you've released them under a CC-SA 3.0 licence and then say "feel free to monkey with it if you want." but a share-alike licence means "don't monkey with it". What gives?

Anyway, whatever licence, there still great. Well done to whoever created them. Was it Effy? Great work!

Thank you!

Anonymous Penguin (not verified) - August 8, 2010 @ 8:56pm

Title says it all

Da hora!

Renato Lanzieri (not verified) - September 24, 2010 @ 6:18am

Gostei muito dos wallpapers, muito bonitos!!

Lamers!

Anonymous Penguin 2000 (not verified) - September 24, 2010 @ 2:31pm

You have just taken premade wallpapers and branded them yours!

Re: lamers

TuxRadar - September 27, 2010 @ 10:37am

Er... what? These wallpapers are all 100% original, by us. We're giving them away for free. What's your problem?

These are very sweet indeed

Anonymous Penguin (not verified) - October 1, 2010 @ 11:58am

Awesome, Absoloutely brilliant. LXF, can i have you babies and build a pengiun empire?

Lamers, you suck. You have

Anonymous Penguin (not verified) - October 1, 2010 @ 12:10pm

Lamers, you suck. You have absoloutely no appreciation for the FINER THINGS IN LIFE. Tuxradar, thanks for, um well, EVERYTHING. you guys and girls are doing a splendid effort.

More Tux

Tom (not verified) - October 23, 2010 @ 9:38pm

Fantastic, more please

Thank you!

tkmorris (not verified) - December 17, 2010 @ 6:02pm

Great selection. Thanks a lot, I like them all!

thank you... all of them are

ayshan (not verified) - August 21, 2011 @ 3:46pm

thank you... all of them are nice!

My mail address is

Oscar alias xpenguin (not verified) - August 29, 2011 @ 3:49pm

My mail address is xtremetux@gmx.de so you can see that I'm a Tux freak! Your wallpapers are very tuxy! Thanks for! And now a tip: Why you do not let your big boss named Tux going in a few holidays and show as wallpapers any real penguins from Antarctica? My radicale demand: Jobs for the penguins now! Let they be models! Naturally allowed a Penguin Union with statutes and red flag! We will fighting for the Penguin Rights...
Greetings from a German penguin lover!

Slack to the Future

@n0nym0us P3ngu1n (not verified) - September 3, 2011 @ 2:41am

What? It's got that "Star Trek Next Generation" corny charm to it.

Hatahs gon' hate.

Tuxness abounds!

Dick Holman (not verified) - December 3, 2011 @ 6:09pm

Excellent stuff peeps! Thank you very much. They will be getting spread around a couple of friends Windo$e machines, as they trust me with their sesames, the mad, trusting fools! Ah, the power of the techy! Muwahahahahaha!

On a more serious note, well done for using the 'ReCaptcha' variant. It's such a simple but brilliant concept concept.

Great Idea Please keep up the good work

Tranquile Penguin (not verified) - December 8, 2011 @ 6:31pm

I think all Mags should do this. This is simply awesome! Thanks LXF!

Windows beware!

GrahamW (not verified) - July 1, 2012 @ 10:14am

Brilliant
I'll put them on all the windows machines at work....
He he he

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