http://www.amazon.com/Stealing-Network-How-Own-Continent/dp/1931836051 Well, this got me into Linux and Network Security the way no other source could have. Oh, also came to know about Slashdot.org through this book only. The whole culture, basically. ;)

Seeing the current trends in this field, the competition between the major open source OSes(now) themselves and with Windows, will the *BSD variants get even more sidelined ? Guess someone won't be happy about the news.

Talking about that little rant: Good marketing is not possible in the absolute sense until the GPL/LSB/FSF etc. have guidelines for that too. The number of distributions and the huge number of associated opinions about those won't allow for a central marketing theme (for example, Guideline 1. Don't use cheap phrases like "windows-like" on your main description page at least, advertise about the distribution and not if its windows-like with windows wallpapers! Guideline 2. Make them understand things in an easy way, don't go on talking about that enhanced rth1287986 wireless driver that the dev team got working on the front page....and so on...). But then that's one of the consequences of OSS, it gives you the right to do and say whatever you want to...even if it sends out wrong impression or misconceptions about the system. And good service could be achieved by just providing a link for the forums/discussions/mailing list (which everyone does) but filter out the unnecessary stuff, find out the redundant queries and get rid of them, better forum layouts...things like those.