I am happy and proud to announce what I believe is the best issue I have ever produced, and you yourself can compare it to the first, the second, and the third issue.

Perspective is made using free and open-source software including The GIMP, Scribus, KDE, Okular, and Vim. However as the industry standard is the proprietary format Adobe InDesign, I am required to convert it to this format at the final stage. However rest assured this is nothing more than copy and pasting – I present to you a magazine made (almost) completely with free software.

This issue is special because you can download this magazine in PDF format. Feel free to read it – it includes a lovely front-page article by me, 3 entires into the art pages at the end, as well as a two-page article about open-source nearing the end featuring pictures of KDE and Elephant’s Dream – the open-source movie by the Blender Foundation. Some kid also wrote an article about the history of web browsers, but I was quite shocked to see that one line said “Google Chrome was released as a beta in September 2008 by Microsoft” – I think they meant for Windows. Nevertheless, my job is to bother about the design, not the standard of articles, and I’m happy to say that this has upped the bar – from what I see at least.

Clickety here to download.

Oh, and for the lazy, here is the thumbnail view of the entire magazine.

Thank you for scrolling through, I hope you’ve enjoyed the magazine over the year, goodbye and good luck to whoever replaces me.

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