O3 Magazine [issues 1 thru 9 in PDF]

This is a first upload attempt for me on KAT, for now just to see if I can do it given my very slow connection and possible non-connectable state.

I used to collect these as they were released, until after a couple-year lapse I tried to resume grabbing them only to find the source site gone.
So though this periodical was free, and the issues are now a few years old, I decided in 2011 to put them up on a private learning tracker, on the chance that others either didn't get some/all of these issues before the publication site disappeared.

More recently I realized that some/all the issues might be accessible via the Internet Archive (Wayback Machine), and verified that most of them are (with some finagling of the target calendar)... except for Issue# 7 it would seem.

I also further discovered, via the IA, that the site appears to have stopped providing PDF's of their material sometime in March 2009... before Issue# 10 was ever released.

(Besides using the IA Wayback Machine method, a blog for the magazine and a couple video channels were still accessible as of 2011, but all links for the actual issues/full stories that MIGHT be found around the web still point to the inaccessible publication site.)

INCLUDED IN THIS COMPILATION ARE ISSUES 01 thru 09
(It now appears that Issue #10 was never completed and released, though the planned cover can be viewed on page six in the 9th issue.)



______________________________________________________
O3: The Open Source Enterprise Data Networking Magazine
______________________________________________________

O3 was an electronic periodical dedicated primarily to open source Enterprise Data Networking solutions. Spliced Networks LLC began publication in November of 2005. The publication 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.

Each month O3 looked at all aspects of enterprise data networking from network level solutions such as firewalls, routers, switching to server side applications such as FreeRadius, OpenLDAP and Apache.

The goal of O3 was to introduce Enterprise Data Networking technologies to small and medium sized businesses, discuss open source solutions for providing those technologies and to provide the technical information on how to deploy and maintain those solutions.

However O3 was not just targeted at small and medium sized business, as the solutions discussed were already deployed at the time in most large businesses, government agencies and educational institutions... just not necessarily OPEN SOURCE solutions. It was seen that even CIOs, CTOs, IT management and staff at larger entities could benefit from exposure to lower cost open source alternatives.

O3 itself was designed, developed and published using open source technology exclusively. Every article in O3 was written in Open Office under Linux, those articles were then imported into Scribus, while graphics artwork was created with the Gimp. Scribus was used to export the completed publication in PDF.

Each month an issue was in production O3 provided a roundup of open source events, as well as upcoming event calendars. O3 also provided an “Open Source Report”, which was a short roundup of interesting open source software that had been released over the preceding month.

Each issue of O3 would normally feature Security, Internet, Web Tech, Business, Networking, VoIP, Network Applications and Network Security columns... all from the open source perspective.



Abbreviated overview of contents:
========================
LightTPD web server reviewed
LISA... Linux Multi-Layer Switching
SNORT... Intrusion Detection
Leveraging Open Source for business
PostgreSQL db server reviewed
SCTP vs. TCP
RAGI... Asterisk/Rails integration
GRSecurity kernal patching suite reviewed
Linux on the IBM zSeries
RTSP uses examined
Levanta's Intrepid-M reviewed
Kevin Dangoor on TurboGears
Yersinia for Layer 2 security testing
Varnish Cache web acceleration reviewed
Yoxel... Agile product mgmt solutions
Dovecot for Imapd/pop3d
Roundcube webmail