“That’s how he got into writing ‘Cooking with Linux.’ Linux
Journal listed upcoming themes for their publication and the one
scheduled for September of 1999 was ‘Cooking With Linux,’ but as
the hour approached the idea for what that edition would actually
look like had not really solidified, so Marcel offered his own
suggestion, a mix of both the way he likes to live and the way he
likes to compute, a la carte. The wine, he loves, but if there was
a schtik that went well with single malt scotch he could have just
as easily gone with that, too.”
“He and Sally have their own consulting company called Salmar.
The ‘Sal’ is for Sally, and the ‘Mar’ is for Marcel, just like
Debian which is named after its creator, Ian Murdock and his wife,
Deb. (Eck, on top of all the candy corn all this sweetness is
starting to make me a little sick.) In the interest of serving
Salmar’s customers better by staying on top of the industry, Gagne,
upon realizing there was a Corel representative in his
neighborhood, sought him out regarding the Netwinder.”
“Interested in learning more, he realized nobody had reviewed
it, so he called Linux Journal to discuss it. They were amazed;
nobody seemed to be able to get their hands on a copy. His review
elicited significant response, and the relationship was born. Now
Gagne writes two regular columns for LinuxJournal, one for
SysAdmins Magazine, and individual articles here and there on Linux
and on system administration.”