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> By the way, does anyone know of any BSD magazines, or some good BSD books to buy?
There was a print edition of DaemonNews, but it does not exist anymore (only a few issues were released). It was somewhat redundant with the articles published on the website.
Otherwise, since a few years, there is a BSD magazine in Japan (and it is written... in japanese, of course).
Some folks volunteered to start one in english (see http://www.bsdnexus.com/wiki/index.php/BSDMag).
For you french readers, there is an *excellent* book on BSD by Emmanuel Dreyfus : "BSD : cahier de l'admin" (seconde édition).
In english, there is the FreeBSD handbook for... well, FreeBSD use and administration. For a more technical, in-depth introduction to the BSD kernel there is the devil book, second edition ("The design and implementation of the 4.4BSD operating system", by McKusick et al.) Some programming knowledge is required, though. Else, books by Michael Lucas are considered good (I have not read them myself).
Now, I am waiting for a book on the history of BSD 
(McKusick wrote a book chapter on BSD history, but something more in-depth would be very cool)
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BSD could do with this! I don't know if it needs it, but I think could really do with it. I just hope major BSD success in the future with everything, and not so much Linux. I know at least the bigger vendors at least have FreeBSD drivers, which is great. By the way, does anyone know of any BSD magazines, or some good BSD books to buy?