Well, that is a very good question. For starters, Marcel is an award-winning author and columnist, probably best known for his Cooking with Linux column which appears monthly in Linux Journal.. His best-selling Moving to Linux : Kiss the Blue Screen of Death Goodbye! (now in its second edition) is the premier guide for those wishing to take the plunge into desktop Linux (now released as a fully updated, second edition). His first book was the acclaimed Linux System Administration : A User's Guide". He most recent book is "Moving to the Linux Business Desktop". Marcel's books are published by Addison Wesley.
One of the best known voices of the Linux and open source world, he has written numerous articles (something around three hundred of them) on Linux and open source projects for various publications including Linux Journal, InformIT, Unix Review, SysAdmin magazine, and several others. He also appears regularly on radio (including "Computer America"), as the Linux guy on Tech TV's "Call for Help". Marcel also does the occasional speaking engagement at industry and trade shows, for Linux user groups, universities, and others. He has written about, installed, and taught many open source applications including the Linux desktop environment itself, as well as the popular OpenOffice.org office suite. A long-time systems and network administrator, Marcel is a published science fiction author and editor, a pilot, an avid science and astronomy buff, and a former top 40 disc jockey. He also folds a mean Origami T-Rex.
In real life, Marcel, along with his lovely and talented wife, Sally, run a computer consulting company called Salmar Consulting Inc.. A special virtual prize goes out to everyone who can figure out where the name "Salmar" came from. Anyhow, Marcel and Sally (and their company) were featured on Toronto.Com's website in an article called "Married to Your Job". It's a quick read so check it out.
What else? Oh yeah, Marcel and Sally are (or rather, were) co-editors and co-publisher of Transversions, an excellent anthology of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and poetry. If you enjoy science fiction, fantasy, and horror, then you must get a copy. You can order it online (sort of) from the TransVersions website. Put in your order. Do it now. I'll wait.
Oh, what else? Marcel also wrote and narrated a 1984 television documentary on the Tall Ship Festival entitled "Romancing The Sail". It has been shown on many community cable channels as one of those fillers you always just sail past.
Moving to PCBSD !
Ha ! This could be MY new book in the near future ... Or maybe Marcel's ?!
Just kidding folks ... But really ... PCBSD is the easiest BSD that has come out that I've ever seen .
As a long time Linux user some of us tend to take the dive into BSD at some point . In the past the BSD's like FREEBSD , NETBSD , and OPENBSD have been hard to install and configure . Well now there is PCBSD which is even easier than most Linux distros to install and get up and running . PCBSD is based on FREEBSD with KDE as the desktop gui . Packages are as easy to install as Windows exe packages (programs) . PCBSD's packages are called pbi's . This work just like Windows exe . Just click on the pbi that you downloaded ... Like Firefox.pbi ... And in a few seconds it's installed . There are more and more pbi's to download via the PCBSD website . Programs like Real Player , Open Office and Opera are available as pbi's :0) For all you hardcore BSD fans out there you can also install programs via the "ports" system . PCBSD is a FREEBSD that is all set up for you ! You can use Freebsd programs and documentation if you need to . And as a bonus ... A REALLY BIG bonus PCBSD can run Linux programs via a compatibility layer :0)
For more info check my blog at ...
http://www.uselinuxorbsdforfree.blogspot.com/
The link to the PCBSD website is on there ... Or you can just GOOGLE PCBSD :0)
Take care all !