o3 Magazine is a monthly, free-content e-zine about free software

Free software

Free software, software libre or libre software is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with restrictions that only ensure that further recipients can also do...

 and open source

Open source

The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...

. It was started in November 2005.

o3 Magazine is a monthly electronic publication focused on using open source

Open source

The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...

 technology in enterprise / business environments. o3 is published by Spliced Networks LLC. o3 magazine is made by using only open source tools. The publication is produced with Scribus

Scribus

Scribus is a desktop publishing application, released under the GNU General Public License as free software. It is based on the free Qt toolkit, therefore native versions are available for Linux, Unix-like operating systems, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, and OS/2...

, articles are written with OpenOffice

OpenOffice.org

OpenOffice.org, commonly known as OOo or OpenOffice, is an open-source application suite whose main components are for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, and databases. OpenOffice is available for a number of different computer operating systems, is distributed as free software...

 and graphics are created with GIMP

GIMP

GIMP is a free software raster graphics editor. It is primarily employed as an image retouching and editing tool and is freely available in versions tailored for most popular operating systems including Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X, and Linux.In addition to detailed image retouching and...

. o3 magazine claims this fact is evidence of its open source advocacy.

o3 Magazine is currently distributed free of charge in PDF

Portable Document Format

Portable Document Format is an open standard for document exchange. This file format, created by Adobe Systems in 1993, is used for representing documents in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems....

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o3 magazine ceased production from October 2006 until July 2007 as the format, content and direction of the magazine were redesigned. The magazine relaunched on July 14, 2007.

External links

• O3 Magazine (official WWW site including free versions of the magazine for downloading)
• Spliced Networks Launches O3 Magazine (Press)